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When your attention can be completely focused on the audience instead of the method, that's when you know a trick is ready to be presented.
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Magic-wise, I just finished Mysterious Stranger for the first time a few days ago and absolutely loved it. Can't believe I went nearly a decade without having read it.
Non-magic wise, I'd invite anyone here to read The Instructions by Adam Levin. At >1000 pages it's no easy task, but the amount of time you spend investing yourself in the characters and the story will definitely pay off by the time the 11/17 Miracle finally occurs. -
Inland Empire. All three hours of it.
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Sweet. Hit me up at kevin[at]visualmadness[dot]com, perhaps we can arrange something over the next few weeks :)
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If you come to Singapore, then yeah.
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Right now I have a 13" Black MacBook (a BlackBook?), which I'm thinking of selling and replacing with a 21.5" iMac with a 3.06GHz processor and ≥8GB RAM, if only to be able to edit these 720p/1080p video clips faster. And I guess you could count my iPhone 3Gs as a computer as well, but I doubt that's what you meant by your question.
Asides from the issue of non-portability (which I don't mind, since these days I can do nearly everything that needs to be done outdoors on my iPhone, assuming I need a device at all), I haven't really been able to come up with any other cons with regard to getting a new iMac over a new MacBook Pro.
So yeah, if you think of any reasonable advantages (besides portability) for getting a laptop over a desktop, please let me know and I'll take it into consideration. Most of the time I use my BlackBook plugged, in closed-lid mode, into a 20" external monitor with a keyboard and mouse anyway, so that's what made me recently consider whether finally getting an Apple desktop might be a better bang-for-buck situation than the one I have right now. -
It's sad, funny, embarrassing (depending on how many people you're watching it with), and nostalgic to revisit these little video clips, though I try not to get too hung up on them, otherwise I'm just focused on how I was then, instead of how I am now or how I could be in the future, if that makes any sense.
With more recent footage I've been practically merciless when it comes to doing away with what isn't absolutely necessary to the video I'm making (the ability to so easily re-shoot with these Canon DSLRs might have something to do with it), but as for those awkward, half-hour long .AVI sequences of me standing in front of a camera as a 14—17-year-old, eyeing the LCD so I know I'm in frame and then performing and messing up and picking cards up off of the floor (full aware that I'm wasting miniDV tape as I do so) and then re-framing myself and doing the whole thing over and over and over again until the perfectionist part of me feels a twinge of satisfaction and finally decides to move on to the next move that's been jotted down on that folded-up piece of paper — as hard as some of it is to watch now — I find it very difficult to even think about deleting them, because watching these outtakes is almost like flipping through photographs of yourself When You / Were Young (at the rate of 30/29.97 frames a second) and doing silly things and making mistakes but learning from them at the same time, and it just humbles you and grounds you and reminds you of how far you've come in gradually becoming less and less shitty as an artist, y'know? And I think that's important to do every now and then, if only to keep your ego in check (see: De'vo)
Thanks for the question; I appreciate it. -
me sentence you out of The kind to type you but still ability a have understand order of.
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I believe those two are inversely related. I'll let you figure out the math.
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The meaning of life is to give life meaning.
Also, 42. -
I actually don't know/remember what molecule 3.1 looks like. And that's why I hate it.
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I feel compelled to say something witty, but nothing comes to mind that isn't horribly contrived.
As lame as it is to say this, I'd actually try and find out who it might've belonged to first (you know, to avoid getting beaten up later). If no owner is found, I'd then pop by the nearest arts and crafts store, buy a ridiculously beautiful $50 (inclusive of tax) picture frame, then frame the other $50 that I received in change up on my apartment's living room wall. It'd be a good conversation-starter. -
Relatively quickly, since most of that hour of footage is just so bad.
That's the power of editing — to 'turn something bad into something good.' -
Yes, and it will be a while longer. Take that however you will.
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Hahahaha... you're right-er than you know.
In Singapore I buy cards from a gambling-supplies shop in Golden Landmark Shopping Centre [sic] that's owned and run by these two kindly old ladies (or 'Aunties', as patrons of the shop so affectionately call them). Because I go there so often whenever I'm in town, I usually get a fairly reasonable discount, which allows me to stock up on Aladdins so I can sell them on eBay for $$$$$$ in the future.
In California, though, I just cop cards from Dan and Dave whenever I drop by their pad in LA. Sometimes without asking for permission, either.
I'm praying they don't read this. -
Too many. And how many questions about me do the Buck Twins get? NONE.
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It changes depending on the mood I'm in, though more often than not the songs I do play tend to have a strong, solid, steady beat, though not so much that it becomes hardcore trance/house music or anything like that.
For example, right now I'm listening to a lot of El Ten Eleven and Justice (the former if I'm sitting, the latter if I'm standing), and Lemon Jelly's LP/masterpiece '64—'95 is also great for flourishing too. In fact, I'd recommend picking it up right now — once you get past the first track (it's a vocal sample), there's not a single un-jammable-to track on the whole album:
Amazon MP3: http://www.amazon.com/64-95/dp/B000S57GKE/ref=sr_1_1
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Being a cheapskate, I either try to finagle as much mileage out of the stuff I currently own, or I do what I can to save up to buy the most budget-efficient gadget that does everything I need it to do and nothing more[1].
Admittedly, though, a part of me is also always susceptible to what's been nicknamed 'gadget lust'[2] — i.e. even though I can get great stills and video out of my current Canon T2i, a part of me still has my eyes set on either a Canon 7D or even a 5D Mark II, whichever one I can afford when the time comes. And the irony of it all is that I know that even if/when I do get these 'better' cameras, I'll still be packing a chubby for L/Zeiss lenses and follow focuses and rails systems and matte boxes and lighting equipment and bigger Compact Flash memory cards and sliders and dollies and battery grips and underwater housings and ___-terabyte RAID hard drives and Lowepro Lens Trekker backpacks and Final Cut Studio <insert number here> and Vimeo Plus and C47s[3] which, if I were to actually get them, means I would be deprived of the thousands upon thousands of dollars that I could have spent on just *actually making a film* in the first place.
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[1] Part of the reason I recently upgraded to the iPhone 3G and not the iPhone 4, though along with that also comes a list of at least three different reasons, all of which aren't very interesting and don't have anything to do with the question at hand.
[2] Minimal Mac has a few great posts on this — here's one: http://minimalmac.com/search/gadget+lust
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I sooooooo want to give you shit for that sentence, but I'll just give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you're trying to mess with me, or that you're just used to typing that way. Anyway.
The site is not about my 'immense vocabulary'[1]; that's what Ammon Shea's 'Reading the OED'[2] is about. Rather, this site's goal is to do to usage, syntax, and grammar what Cracked.com does for trivial information in general: on the one hand it'll be an ongoing study of language in our modern world and my thoughts on it as a whole, but at the same time there'll be enough relevant examples from pop culture interspersed throughout each post to — hopefully — trick people into actually giving a shit.
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[1] Until last night I didn't know that 'jealousy' and 'envy' were two different things. Seriously, look it up: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jealousy#Comparison_with_envy
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I can't. It's not that I don't have permission, it's just that I'm physically unable to do anything that that kid's ever come up with.
I hate Daren.
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