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Jan. 24th, 2010 09:31 pmTHE SAINTS ARE GOING TO THE SUPERBOWL! OMG OMG OMG
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Jan. 7th, 2010 02:13 pm( Avatar ) ( Sherlock Holmes )
( The Lovely Bones )
( It Might Get Loud )
So, yeah, I've seen several movies this month, but none of them hit the spot. I can't even remember the last time one really affected/moved me. Star Trek, I guess.
All of my shows have been on hiatus, and I'm so glad that some of them are coming back next week and the week after. Meanwhile, I've been absolutely wallowing in Criminal Minds, the show with more epic manpain than anything I've seen since Angel Season 2. I've been marathonning Seasons 1-4 out of order on A&E and Ion, and I finally watched all of S5 this weekend. OH THE PAIN! OH THE ANGST!OH MY GOD IS THAT JASON ALEXANDER AS A SERIAL KILLER (laughs hysterically).
I've been listening to the Mighty Mighty Bosstones, and they're good for what ails you.
( The Lovely Bones )
( It Might Get Loud )
So, yeah, I've seen several movies this month, but none of them hit the spot. I can't even remember the last time one really affected/moved me. Star Trek, I guess.
All of my shows have been on hiatus, and I'm so glad that some of them are coming back next week and the week after. Meanwhile, I've been absolutely wallowing in Criminal Minds, the show with more epic manpain than anything I've seen since Angel Season 2. I've been marathonning Seasons 1-4 out of order on A&E and Ion, and I finally watched all of S5 this weekend. OH THE PAIN! OH THE ANGST!OH MY GOD IS THAT JASON ALEXANDER AS A SERIAL KILLER (laughs hysterically).
I've been listening to the Mighty Mighty Bosstones, and they're good for what ails you.
PSA - SOUTHWEST AIRLINES
Oct. 29th, 2009 08:39 amSouthwest Airlines is offering $25-100 fares for the next 72 hours. Here's the breakdown, and we have about 24 hours left:
DALLAS – Southwest Airlines has launched an air fare sale in which some flights cost the same as what other carriers charge to check a bag.
Dallas-based Southwest on Tuesday announced one-way travel as low as $25, based on the length of the flight.
The discount carrier says fares are $25 for travel up to 375 miles. The price is $50 for travel between 375 and 549 miles, and $75 for flights between 550 and 999 miles.
A one-way fare of more than 1,000 miles costs $100.
The fares are available for purchase through Thursday, for travel between Dec. 2 and Dec. 16, or between Jan. 5 and Feb. 10. Other restrictions apply.
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Adventures in Consignment Shops
Sep. 12th, 2009 11:42 pmSetting the scene: Mr Wonderful and I are wandering through a hoity-toity thrift shop in Ridgeland. He points out an *atrociously tacky* ceramic bust.
Mr. W: You see the bust of Homer over there?
Me: Yeah. OMG it's horrible. *laughs*
Mr. W: You think it's for sale?
Me: *wanders closer* Wait a minute. Maybe it's not Homer. Could it be Plato?
Mr. W: Nah, it's clay.
Mr. W: You see the bust of Homer over there?
Me: Yeah. OMG it's horrible. *laughs*
Mr. W: You think it's for sale?
Me: *wanders closer* Wait a minute. Maybe it's not Homer. Could it be Plato?
Mr. W: Nah, it's clay.
New Vid - Wanted
Aug. 19th, 2009 09:54 pmI made this vid for Vividcon, and it premiered at Club Vivid. Short, weird story about making this one. I call it my post-post-post modern vidding experience. I ripped the movie and vidded it, but I still haven't watched it. It looks like magic bullets, but I've been corrected. Looks like magic exploding rats, and no one has corrected *that*. No matter. It was still an awesome, scary vidding experience.
Always, thank you![[personal profile]](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
elynross and 15 of my closest friends. :) Comments and criticism are always appreciated.
Download Wanted - DIVX
Always, thank you
elynross and 15 of my closest friends. :) Comments and criticism are always appreciated. Download Wanted - DIVX
New Vid - Legion, Supernatural
Aug. 19th, 2009 07:52 pm<lj user="ozonebaby"> and I made this vid for Vividcon, and it premiered at the Also Premiering show. We had such fun making it! Thanks always to my intrepid beta elynross and the usual suspects. Comments and criticism are always appreciated.
My name is Legion; for we are many. Score one for the Hell Team.
Download Legion-DIVX
elynross and the usual suspects. Comments and criticism are always appreciated.My name is Legion; for we are many. Score one for the Hell Team.
Download Legion-DIVX
TV Show Meme
Aug. 6th, 2009 09:59 pmPre-VVC nerves!!
I saw this all over LJ this week, so I followed along like a sheep. Pick your five favorite TV shows (in no particular order) and answer the following questions. Don't cheat!
1. Supernatural
2. Angel
3. Buffy
4. Farscape
5. Highlander
( My answers! )
I saw this all over LJ this week, so I followed along like a sheep. Pick your five favorite TV shows (in no particular order) and answer the following questions. Don't cheat!
1. Supernatural
2. Angel
3. Buffy
4. Farscape
5. Highlander
( My answers! )
No good deed goes unpunished
Jul. 31st, 2009 10:45 amI'm trying to learn/teach myself/leech onto someone who knows Sony Vegas. Yeah, sure, I'd like to make a vid or two with it, but my real goal is going for this [fairy dust sparkly] job and being able to say "yeah, I am familiar with Sony Vegas, too."
mresundance was around to help me last night, and before everything I imported went "offline," I got to actually see the timeline. Thanks so much for the help! And you know I'm grabbing you again, right? mresundance learned first-hand that when I say I need someone to start with "this is your mouse," I'm NOT KIDDING. (The subject line of this entry is my acknowledgment of your good deed and the weariness you have experienced.)
I have Sony Vegas 9, which is the latest version? I think? I've been watching the tutorials (for SV7) on Youtube, and the program looks relatively easy although it's totally counter to Premiere, from my observation. Even to the point that the preferred viewing is timeline is on top, the audio lines on top of the video lines, and single-line editing. The irony of it all is that I've patterned my learning onto Premiere, and Adobe may be the most counter-intuitive programming out there. So I'monce again bass-ackwards.
There's another point to wanting to learn Vegas. I am in a rut. I know myself, and if I have to learn a big chunk of something new, it'll jumpstart every creative process I have. So, yeah, personally selfish motive beyond wanting to wow a prospective boss.
I have some questions about Vegas. Can you help me?
1. Can you import avisynth scripts?
2. Does the program work with VOB's, etc., or do I have to convert everything to lossless before I import it into the program? (Before I worked with avisynth, I processed how to build a vid in an entirely different way, much of which included NOT working with gigantic lossless files until I was ready to export, and I think, looking at Vegas, that I'll have to learn yet another way to mentally process how to build a vid.) Bottom line: How do I get the source into the program, and does Vegas use all sorts of source?
3. How to render? Does render mean the same thing that it means in Premiere? Will I be able to see what I'm doing pre-export?
4. How to export? In Premiere, I export a lossless vid and then open vDub and run it through DIVX or XVID for web publication.
5. Can y'all hold my hand and not laugh at my naivete? Okay, never mind. You can laugh.
mresundance was around to help me last night, and before everything I imported went "offline," I got to actually see the timeline. Thanks so much for the help! And you know I'm grabbing you again, right? mresundance learned first-hand that when I say I need someone to start with "this is your mouse," I'm NOT KIDDING. (The subject line of this entry is my acknowledgment of your good deed and the weariness you have experienced.) I have Sony Vegas 9, which is the latest version? I think? I've been watching the tutorials (for SV7) on Youtube, and the program looks relatively easy although it's totally counter to Premiere, from my observation. Even to the point that the preferred viewing is timeline is on top, the audio lines on top of the video lines, and single-line editing. The irony of it all is that I've patterned my learning onto Premiere, and Adobe may be the most counter-intuitive programming out there. So I'm
There's another point to wanting to learn Vegas. I am in a rut. I know myself, and if I have to learn a big chunk of something new, it'll jumpstart every creative process I have. So, yeah, personally selfish motive beyond wanting to wow a prospective boss.
I have some questions about Vegas. Can you help me?
1. Can you import avisynth scripts?
2. Does the program work with VOB's, etc., or do I have to convert everything to lossless before I import it into the program? (Before I worked with avisynth, I processed how to build a vid in an entirely different way, much of which included NOT working with gigantic lossless files until I was ready to export, and I think, looking at Vegas, that I'll have to learn yet another way to mentally process how to build a vid.) Bottom line: How do I get the source into the program, and does Vegas use all sorts of source?
3. How to render? Does render mean the same thing that it means in Premiere? Will I be able to see what I'm doing pre-export?
4. How to export? In Premiere, I export a lossless vid and then open vDub and run it through DIVX or XVID for web publication.
5. Can y'all hold my hand and not laugh at my naivete? Okay, never mind. You can laugh.
Blatant Cry for Help
Jul. 23rd, 2009 04:25 pmAnyone who is using Sony Vegas 9 (or 8, I guess) and has about 15-20 minutes to spare? Will you email me at luminosity.deville AT gmail DOT com or grab me on AIM? I'm Lumsockkpuppett on AIM.
Comcast sucks
Jul. 7th, 2009 11:15 pmAgain.
So, I watched the rerun of last week's The Daily Show with guest Dr. Oliver Sacks. There's a special on Nova about music and the brain. I watched this ep last week when it was originally on, and in a half-asleep state, I flipped to Comcast On Demand and found the Nova episode. This week, I can't find it.
Okay, that's not why Comcast sucks. Comcast sucks because the Help section of On Demand gives me these simple instructions to "press 'Search' and you can find anything by keyword, title, director." Great. No, really. Great. THERE IS NO "SEARCH" TO PRESS! There's Help, Saved Programs, Watch and Go Back. I've been noodling around with the On Demand menu for nearly 45 minutes. THERE IS NO SEARCH.
I've wandered through nearly the entire menu of On Demand. Thousands of items. Did you know that Dickey Betts will teach me how to play "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed" on demand? Me neither! There's a Bollywood section! And gay porn holy crap. BUT THERE IS NO SEARCH FOR FREAKIN' NOVA.
And how's your day? :)
So, I watched the rerun of last week's The Daily Show with guest Dr. Oliver Sacks. There's a special on Nova about music and the brain. I watched this ep last week when it was originally on, and in a half-asleep state, I flipped to Comcast On Demand and found the Nova episode. This week, I can't find it.
Okay, that's not why Comcast sucks. Comcast sucks because the Help section of On Demand gives me these simple instructions to "press 'Search' and you can find anything by keyword, title, director." Great. No, really. Great. THERE IS NO "SEARCH" TO PRESS! There's Help, Saved Programs, Watch and Go Back. I've been noodling around with the On Demand menu for nearly 45 minutes. THERE IS NO SEARCH.
I've wandered through nearly the entire menu of On Demand. Thousands of items. Did you know that Dickey Betts will teach me how to play "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed" on demand? Me neither! There's a Bollywood section! And gay porn holy crap. BUT THERE IS NO SEARCH FOR FREAKIN' NOVA.
And how's your day? :)
Synecdoche, New York aka Oh the HUMANITY
Jul. 6th, 2009 10:30 pmN and I just watched this (very long) film.
Me (15 minutes in): If this doesn't do something in ten minutes, I'm outta here.
Him: Give it a minute. I'm getting the rhythm of it!
Me (30 minutes in): [Totally engrossed, can't look away]
Him (over ending credits): You know what's really heartbreaking? There's not a person we know who would appreciate this film, not one. Okay, maybe your Aunt Peggy.
Me: [mouth agape, jaw dropped]
Charlie Kaufman, my God. Synecdoche, New York makes Being John Malkovich look positively mundane. I think I'm going to have to watch it again.
And I did recommend it to Liza tonight, who, a few weeks ago, made my day by telling me that I taught her how to watch movies, how to look for the metaphor, how to dig deep. :)
Me (15 minutes in): If this doesn't do something in ten minutes, I'm outta here.
Him: Give it a minute. I'm getting the rhythm of it!
Me (30 minutes in): [Totally engrossed, can't look away]
Him (over ending credits): You know what's really heartbreaking? There's not a person we know who would appreciate this film, not one. Okay, maybe your Aunt Peggy.
Me: [mouth agape, jaw dropped]
Charlie Kaufman, my God. Synecdoche, New York makes Being John Malkovich look positively mundane. I think I'm going to have to watch it again.
And I did recommend it to Liza tonight, who, a few weeks ago, made my day by telling me that I taught her how to watch movies, how to look for the metaphor, how to dig deep. :)
