one way ticket to midnight

iadeas eh.. i will write down whats on my mind right now but i will promise u the final product will resemble nothing of these word i will write for you. i stay this because soo far every idea i have had has evolved into something completely different than my original idea. So as for research so far i have looked around my house first of to find recording devices that are not video cameras. Both roommate i live with have macs so thats to internal webcams for starters. I have a digital camera myself with video capabilities or stop motion abilities which is something ive been getting into alot. i do have scanner but its not working sooo well so i might smash it with a hatchet. could be part of my video concept as well. I wet on to do more research i saw a commercial about a crayola light pad type dealeo so i ventured to toy r us to look around for gadgets. i did not find the pad but i did go to the electronics isle .. yeh they do have one of those now... when i was a kid they didnt. and i refuse to get my child and cell phone before middle school .. fuck that i was fine .. but instead of toy trucks and star wars toys like i ejoyed every christmas kids now get ipod and hana montana video cameras. anyyyyywaayyyy theres a whole sections of digital camera web cams and "kiddie" video cameras i was quite unaware you could buy a video camera for under 100 dollar i was tempted i sure love that hana's jams but lucky i wasnt sucked in .. yet .. i couldnt really find much to help but i did walk out with a "color explosion coloring pad" and sponge bob ice cream pop.. soo cynical of toys r us to put icea cream right next to the cash register who is gunna say no to there kid right in front of the employees. As for the conceptual aspect i was thinking about a rotoscoping type of idea but i guess there no telling whats going to happen until the 48 seconds is actually counting down. getting a little taste of being timed to film a scene this thursday with the 3d glasses shoot was kind of intimidating. it was much harder than i thought so as for i will keep writing down ideas and hopefully i can inoperate the object cleverly in my concept. i think the biggest thing im scared of is choking at the last second and settling because of the 48 hour limit. hopefully all will be right in the universe for me.

Okay so im writing this blog post at my house in Text Edit, because our fucking internet is out and they wont send someone here until monday. So im going to try to go to the Connection Cafe and steal internet but incase that doesnt work im going to smash my router piss on it then regroup and make a new plan. As for the actual post here it is.. action... i was really pumped to watch the Yesmen before class. I had heard a lot about it and it was way more that what i had originally expected. the first explanation of the yesmen kind of made them look like a politically driven jackass cast. as a i watched it most definitely more than i expected. they like if the class clown was combined with the valedictorian. the film was genius. I'm not very political and don't really watch too many documentaries unless besides planet earth, but I really found myself enjoying this. I was so blown away at how oblivious the crowd was toward the complete mockery they would make on stage. It just shows far the major corporations can take it. they have now boundaries what so ever and if this film isn't a testament toward the change that need to take place i don't know what is. i really wish i could go on the internet and check out the website so i had more to talk about but i cant because the man is holding me down. I think it would be really interesting to see what the yesmen are up to now and how hard it would be to get involved it the activities they are involved it. Id also like to know if any changes were pressed against them.i guess technically they did not do anything wrong but i feel like impersonating anyone could get you thrown in jail. maybe not elvis. it would be interesting to look up the laws behind all the pranks they pull and maybe do something within the parameters that they did for another type of cause. maybe one that was more prevalent in my life. so over all viewing Yesmen was a nice relaxing ed to the week for me. i thoroughly enjoyed it and i will be going to se the prequel YesMan starring jim carry in theaters in the near future.. . . yeh

d3ar andre 3000.

i fucking hate my internet..my post is written..due to technical difficulties my post will be .

posted..


tomorrow morning when the connection cafe opens.

sorry andre.

copy wrong

these two articles were very interesting but the molotov one especially. I have a background in studio art and i have been painting far longer than i have been into film. And since i have been drawing of painting i have been practicing this same type of decontextualizing images for my own use. i guess in a sense stealing them whether it be from books and more so now a days the internet. i know my favorite drawing i have ever down is pretty much completely stolen from a copywrited image from an online photography website which sells their photos for commercial work. Although most of my work is for my own pleasure and not for sale at first i believed in what joy is saying.
But as i started to read susan's side i started to change my mind almost completely in a 180. The picture she took was during and certain time and place and held a certain meaning. When Joy took that image painted it and gave it a new name under the Riot exhibit it changed i symbolism of the image. i felt forget her argument.
but after hearing that she wanted money for the exhibition of the work if kind of felt like a cope out. she says all these things about how the image meant something different than joys title of "riot" but then it seems to all come back to the fact that she wanted money. i can see the argument from each side and its really interesting to read an article in this format. it reality art has been borrowed and "decontextualized" for ages and mostly likely will be with all the technology at our finger tips, for the rest of time. Some of my favorite bands do this is a musical sense Justice and daft punk take loops from other sources and turn then into a beat. Rap music is essentially only made through sampling. Last night i listen to a headed debate over kayne west by robert barnett and dylan pettengill. I threw in a line from 6x1 trying to make the point that shakespeare borrowed from greek tragedy and the bible haha thanks andre. they didnt really listen to me anyway but in my opinion are should be free to remake over and over again thats how things grown and evolve. Sometimes they grow in a negative way but thats how progression works i guess. i hope this "borrowing" does not become extinct because of law suits and copy-write law because and am an internet guerrilla image stealer myself. long live the molotov man

Basement shows and dirty ho's

this reading was interesting. i remember thinking a lot in class about the idea of adding the grit. adding the human mistake in the synthetic sounds. I kind of thought of this in terms of Hollywood. Im not sure if this is the point he was trying to get across but none the less this is what i got out of it. The grit is the spectrum of experimental methods of film making and the synthetic is The norms of Hollywood. You have to add in the "grit" to make a successful film. Experimental ideas and techniques are often bleeding into Hollywood big production videos. You can make a model and guide lines to produce a "successful" film all you want but its never going to produce 100 percent success. Innovation or grit is a part of the equation. MAybe this is just my corny interpretation of a small part of his argument, but thats what i got out of it.

As for my experiences with the rough theater in terms of music shows i have had a great deal. From middle school through high school I often went to basement or back yard shows. Most of the bands played hardcore music. It was a great time in my life. The basements were always moldy dark and had terrible acoustics. It was as rough as i had ever seen as a 15 year old kid. Kids drinking, people getting bloody noses.
As for experiences with an actually theater type venue when i was younger my friends and i filmed and edited skateboarding videos. This is how i actually got into the production aspect of film. So we would film for months at a time taking trips to philly and NYC since they were only two hours each from my home. Each town around me had their own "Crew".The TRC, LBC, GIMR NQS and so on. and we were all filming and making videos at the same time. After completing a video each crew would throw a premier party invited all of our friends, girl friends, collaborators and such. Those were some of the best parties I have ever been to to this day. Drinking around a TV in back yards or basements on lawn chairs drinking with your friends, Being nervous for your part to come up. hearing everyone yell for you when ur last trick comes up. It really was an awesome feeling

What?

First off id like to say that i desperately want to be a scratch film junkie. id kill a gang member to be one maybe some like head light beating initiation of some sort. and i would like a full on knighting ceremony when i am accepted. i feel like they have a secret warehouse projecting hand painted films all over the walls in a seedy part of town. i guess for now ill just have to sit in my room alone and paint on film and play with bleach.i really am very inspired by them tho im soo impressed by the control they show with their work i was watching some trippy smith and brackage hand painted films in experimental today and they also show this super natural ability to control the uncontrollable. The precision these film makers possess in unbelievable. The scratch film junkies bring in the idea of silhouetting actually film and incorporating it into their reels. I really like how they take ordinary meandering conversation and make it into a sound track... i mean to accompany and abstract image you have to think outside the box for an abstract sound for your film. i remember in intro to production i did the sound track for our first project and thinking it was very strange. it was the intro u a weird indy song loop and in the background i put a dialogue of a guy explaining how " hamburgers were his" favorite instrument of eating" i dont even know what that means but everyone agreed that it works with our creep film about a man being chased by a block of cheese. sometimes unconventional is the answer. ive been realizing more than most of the time it is for me. now im babbling but watching more and more of these films is making me want to be more and more into this vein of film making. now that im thinking back i got into actually film making through skateboarding and skate videos when i was in 7th grade or so. My friend bill got Pinnacle studio 10 and i thought it was the coolest thing in the universe. thinking back on how ridiculously awful that program is makes me giggle like a school girl. but we were always trying to make our movies look like the ones wed buy in the store. one of the first skate videos i bought was Photosynthesis this was a film that actually shaped the entire look for the company Alien Workshop but this was clearly the first experimental film ive ever seen. i didnt know at the time what it was i just knew it looked different it used super 8 and 16mm and split screen shots of out of focus plants cut with skateboarding its cool to think about how these alternate forms of film bleed into main stream im sure there a place for film painting somewhere im not sure how this post got here .. i might have just blacked out for 20 minutes .. what did i just write..