Björk – Pluto
Björk koma fyrir í hylki allur þessi er listrænn frelsi. Hún er einn af minn fágun hetja. ÉG von þú njóta this vídeó. Það minn heili springa og minn sál glóa. Með ást.
Riley Guy – “Skeleton Key” Music Video
Artist: Riley Guy
Song: “Skeleton Key”
Album: Tribe Of The Lost Pigeon
Director: Jimmy Frick
Click here to watch it on youtube.
This project has been in the works since the middle of April. This is the first time I didn’t work on a video non-stop, from beginning to end. It was a lot of hours, but I have no idea why it’s here a whole 2 months later. After we shot it, I predicted it would only take a week to finish.
I took 1,844 images and almost used all of them for the video. To make the photos look better than what they came out to be, I began to individually photoshop the pictures halfway through. That sucked so much that eventually I was forced to learn how to use After Effects just enough to mask out some background stuff (like sheets, and wall shadows). I watched 2-and-a-half youtube tutorials that gave me enough info on how to clean up everything. By the end I wondered how I ever did any semi-complicated video stuff without After Effects, but I was also about to throw my laptop out the window because it could hardly process so many photos and effects.
Last night at 3 a.m., I thought I reached a victorious end, but my version of After Effects wouldn’t let me export the video in a decent format. So this video was close to not even making it out of my computer. Eventually I figured it out, but we’ll save the details for a video-nerd forum.
Now I only need to know how to get this video in non-internet quality onto DVD…
Dreams And Music Videos
Tonight the moon is nearly burning my skin as its full moon-beams shine through my bedroom window.
My dreams have been wild lately. Not completely insane, just super real. I’m settling unresolved issues with people who I haven’t talked to for years. I’m facing imprisonment and capital punishment in foreign countries. I’m experiencing nuclear attacks. I’m living entire lifetimes in minutes.
I guess it works out, because I’m working on a music video for Will’s project, Riley Guy, and need a semi-schizo, moon-inspired neurosis to make this happen and finish already.
I’m running through thousands of photos. It’s not the most fun.
In other news, my production assistant job fell through. The movie isn’t going to be made. Somebody who had money chickened-out on the deal I guess.
“How can I help you finish your own movies,” you ask? Simply go buy stuff!
Thought Trail
Do you ever fly on an airplane and see people who are scared in the air for the entire flight? When turbulence hits, they grip the armrests and throw their bodies erect against their seat like it will help the plane steady out or something.
An idea haunts me that I’ve never quite pulled off; letting go of every petty, useless fear. But I tasted it today, and the nectar has left a sweet, sweet aftertaste.
Best Quality Railrunner Zip Lines Brought To You By Xtreme Enterprises!
Sounds like a promotion doesn’t it? That’s because it is.
Kevin owns a company that sells zip lines. He’s getting a new shipment of product in, and needed a fresh box design done.
Today I spent time with the design. Yesterday, I spent most of the time making the photograph and child model look box-ready (like making the eyes bluer, the mouth smiler, etc.) I just might add a swooping arrow to the design if Kevin is lucky.
If you ever want a high-quality zip line that’s weight-tested up to 3 tons (or even higher, I can’t remember), buy one from Kevin at RailRunnerZipline.com.
At special request, I will autograph the box for you.
Coma Show – Wool Warehouse
The Coma Recovery played tonight at a venue I’ve never been to before called the Wool Warehouse. I expected it to be a real warehouse with a bunch of wholesale stock wool, but it was much more like a hotel ballroom.
The headliner was Earth Crisis. I think around 10 bands played. This show had a clever theme; half of the bands were deemed as “Good” and the other half, “Evil”. Basically every band was placed in the “Good” category unless it was a hardcore band.
It’s been a while since I’ve seen a show like this. The kids still hardcore dance. They still swing the arms. They still punch the ground. They still kick the air. It’s all fun and games until a security guard gets punched in the face and bleeds, which of course really happened.
Come On Ride The Train
The glory of being an artist; a creative soul who commits to something that only leads to a stronger sense of separation… conversations that require alcohol, and nothing is remembered of its most intriguing peaks.
Sometimes I think that a business mind is ideal. The business mind makes money and it never appears to be lost. If it isn’t successful, its on its way.
Feeling is all we have. We can only share it in what we create. But the luck is in if anybody connects to it.
Art is too accessible. It’s unappreciated now. We want information. No, we want entertainment still. I entertain myself with inspirational anecdotes. Most entertain themselves with jack-off humor, pop-culture, or conspiracy theories on youtube. We’re all consumers anymore. We measure our intellect with the quality of genres that our minds devour. We’re all doing the same thing unless we’re creating. Why not create every day? Why not every hour?
This is our destiny, every action we take. This is our life. And we’re facebooking it away with status updates. We’re wishing for trashy ego-supporting connections. We’re wanting to buy stuff that supports our fake identities. We want love, not for love’s sake, but so something/someone will approve of the bullshit we’ve “added” to ourselves… and hopefully they’ll support us for life, so we get married.
And, when everyone else has made that choice, you start to wonder if you’re the only one left who needs to sign up just to see what’s missing.
Vegas, Baby. Vegas.
Climbing with Kevin and Josh in Red Rocks, Las Vegas, NV.
A Not-So-Conventional Las Vegas Experience.
This was pretty gnarly, despite the inviting, warm smiles. We climbed two different rock faces that day. The first climb was a bit wacky for me, so I was nearly set to skip the second climb, a 300+ foot, 2-hour adventure. A big reason I decided to do it is because Kevin/Josh had magical bro-like ways of talking me into it. A bigger reason is that a couple of weirdos showed up at the bottom and wouldn’t leave. Anyway, Click Here to see a video of me on the final stretch.
I guess we were pretty mellow when we finally made our way downtown. But some of the photos I found on my camera were new to me in the morning.
We met a lot of people, but Lana was the one who stuck around. She was from Canada.
We saw Cirque du Soleil (serck-day-so-lay), a famous Vegas show that sells out every night because its one of the most mind-blowing shows anyone will ever see. A kid named Danny hooked us up where we didn’t have to wait in line and paid half the price.
Leaving Vegas: Since everybody is so paranoid about terrorists these days, they’re building a new bridge so cars don’t have to use the Hoover Dam anymore. But maybe the paranoia is worth the architectural acheivement.
Fun Final Note:
I would be so stoked to write all about Las Vegas. But the day I came back, I was offered a new Production Assistant job. Ever heard of Robert Patrick? It appears I might be picking up the T-1000 himself from the airport sometime soon (or maybe just filing his paperwork).
The hours are long, 10-12 hours/day, 5-6 days/week. But its only till July, I think.
Going To Arizona And Drinking Its Spring Water
On April 26th, I left Albuquerque to go to Phoenix, Arizona. I’m still in Arizona, but was off the grid for most of the week; no phone, no computer.
I met up with Josh. This time last year we camped in Kauai for 5 days on different beaches around the island, but this time we took a cheaper approach.
I flew into Phoenix. The next day we drove north for about 2 hours, then hiked 4 miles into a mountain and set up camp next to a gushing spring pumping water out of the ground.
There’s a reason one feels amazing when drinking spring water. Not as in bottled “spring water”, but real, happy water where ecosystems flourish. This documentary talks about mysteries of water, how it is affected by states-of-consciousness, and possibly might make you think about the potential of life itself (cool).
- They said water has a memory of everything that happens around it.
- Even turning on lights can change the structure of water.
- It’s structure is like a nervous system, reacting to outside stimuli.
- Positive and negative human emotions are the strongest level of influence on water
- Love increases water energy levels
- Animals always choose to drink water that has been taken from a spring, no matter how purified tap water is. Purified water is dead, lacking natural energies.
- Fish were introduced to a batch of water that was exposed to very low energy electromagnetic waves. The breed of fish was highly unusual in appearance and behavior. They were all behaving exactly the same, operating by what seemed to be one single collective mind.
It goes to show that humans may act more like zombies under the influence of a low-energy water supply.
Preaching aside… I’ve seen 2 bald eagles since I’ve been out here, watched Kick-Ass, went down a river on a raft, and mountain-biked in amazing Arizona scenery I didn’t know existed.
I also found out that any American has the luxury buying automatic weapons (with proper licenses, of course).
