Bring on the Flowers

March 8 is
International Woman's Day !

Schedule of a headless chicken

It's Friday, which sounds like a long weekend, but the schedule is:
Go develop film NOW... 4 rolls of 1600 Neopan + 2 hours + freshly mixed gallon of Xtol = Polar bears + old Televisions + nude yoga
I planned to go to a Djimbe lesson (Djimbe is a deep sounding African drum) but decided to use my coupon another time...

Saturday
Contact + print = work in studio = paint a piece of wood gold and stick a few photos on + lacquer seashells + copywork + video
Meditate with friend who knows Dreamweaver...get tutored?

Sunday:
Update my current website and apply for a million and one steady and freelance jobs.


Now: tea and cake with my mommy!

i'm back?

So I am finally getting back into the editing process of my documentary... In the past I would sit down and stare at about two hours of raw footage in my timeline and cry.

(side note - I capture most of my footage to my timeline)

But finally yesterday all my tears were dry and I actually was able to sit down for an extended period of time and start sorting. Now... the sad part is I actually barely am showing any new footage here. It was just too much of a pain to create a "trailer" (it required too much clip movement) at this time and even though most of you have seen this... I think its on the way to being a fluid scene. All the new footage is at the end.


Background for anybody who has no idea what my documentary is:

Virtual Worlds are computer simulated environments. Today millions of people "log on" to these worlds and socialize. I use the word socialize loosely because experience varies depending on you and the other players. Some games require player to player interaction on a larger scale then other games in order to get things done. The most popular virtual worlds are MMORPG'S (massive multi player online role playing games).

My documentary will focus on the different motivations of players, the transcendence's to what is considered reality, technology, money and addiction.

This particular scene is of one of my main interviewees Richard and his fiance Allison. Richard otherwise known as Nighthawk has been running a website since the beginnings of his gaming career and a guild (see social interaction) of 20 friends (according to him at one point peaked at over 150). He is still infamous in the MMORPG world still today.

Richard is an example of a person who uses these games as a vessel, in his case he uses it to compete (he is an avid pvper/pk- "player vs player" or "people killer"). His fiance Allison also "pvps/pks" but unlike Richard tries to take the game in stride. At this time the game they play (World of Warcraft) had recently released their new material which allows users to "level up" and be able to access the new content.

This clip hopefully illustrates the complication..

The Business of Business...

So I'm in the midst of shooting some new still-life stuff but haven't edited through anything so I am not putting that up quite yet...but very soon so wait with baited breath.

What I have been working on lately though is the idea of having a logo, which I think i have settled on, and creating a few examples of a series of business cards. Ideally the new stuff I'm shooting will be the images on the cards so keep that in mind...but essentially I think I like the concept.

I'd love to hear some feedback from you guys, likes, dislikes, things you think I should try changing, or even places you know that do good printing, etc...

That's all from me, folks!

hil <3

look.

The Brooklyn museum is having a crowd juried photography contest:

http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/register/verify.php?i=151&x=f47b97ea68b1f6467a76504c62ff7133

The Whitney is having their 2008 Biennial:

www.whitney.org

I should've posted this on sunday but I guess it's better late than never, right?

I can't say I know for sure if I want to use this video for the show.  I have some that I have begun working on which I feel will be more successful and I will post soon.   I'm embarrassed.  

Hello everyone, I took a few new photographs this weekend using my new slide projector(shown above).... The Telex 4480 Caramate Sound Projector.... it is amazing, I don't know why these things ever went out of style. The slides are projected inside but you can also project them onto a wall, surface etc. For the show I was thinking of having three of these projectors working together. The most amazing thing about these projectors is that they have a tape recorder on the side, microphone attached and headphones. Seriously why don't they make these anymore?

Below is a new photograph I took using this amazing new technology. Please let me know what you guys think.

Here's my related video clip:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXCWf4w_h5s

My Video

Hi all,

So I tried to use slow motion on imovie, but this option is gone on the new version, I then tried playing with the dvd speed and this is what I got. I also added tons of transitions to make it slow down at certain points.

my recent work.

So this is some of the work that I did in Hawaii. The images that I like the most are from a somewhat run-down surfing town on the North Shore. It was not your typical tourist area and is kind of a well-kept secret. The colors look dull on this site so excuse that part. Do you guys like this style as opposed to really perfect and beautiful scenes?

Video of Chair

Hey, this is just a short piece of time lapse of my chair on the rooftop. I haven't gotten a web cam yet but was thinking about camping out on the roof to get footage. It's not really anything now, but I like how the chair's shadow changes with passing of time. That's my boyfriend's dog Mia hanging around up there. I don't know why the video is such a small box, can someone help me figure that out? I guess it looks kind of neat to see a big black frame around it though. Ha ha, by the way I had to speed up this footage in FCP by literally 50000%.