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Listening to: Sevendust-Disease
Mood: Stressed

This week has been rough in terms of realizing the overwhelming amount of work I’ll have to do for school in the next few weeks. I suppose if I weren’t taking a week off from putting videos on here that that would have driven me insane by now. Simply, this time off is much needed.

Anyways, yeah, the news on the hard drive: it’s shot. It makes that “clicking noise of death” and shows no sign of working anytime soon, even after I performed the infamous freezer trick. Fortunately, I still have the Goldeneye video on my tape so I’ll just have to re-upload it and start all over again.

I purchased a replacement external hard drive this week called “Mybook.”

It’s 1 terabyte (4x the amount I had on my previous drive, I figured if I was going to buy a new drive that I might as well upgrade while I’m at it). It’s too bad my laptop sucks for editing but it’ll have to suffice until I upgrade to a Mac.

As for the “Goldeneye Project”, mark your calendars for Monday…that is, unless I drop this hard drive too…

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Listening to: Black Market Hero-Truth Serum
Mood: Disappointed

In the midst of editing the dubbed “Goldeneye Project” my hard drive took a dive. Rather, I tripped on one of the cables and the drive fell to the ground. Initially, it stopped working but after a few restarts I got the thing kickin’ again.

However, while I was at home the drive got knocked down once again. Now it makes some strange clicking sound every time it’s on. My laptop won’t bring up the files on the drive either which isn’t so great considering that I have all my video files on there.

…so much for having that video done by Monday.

Looks like I’ll be taking a week or so off to get a new hard drive and attempt to recover those files.

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Listening to: Pillar-When Tomorrow Comes
Mood: Retrospective

Earlier today it crossed my mind why I started making videos a few years back. Looking back on them now, they weren’t really all that creative nor were they interesting (well, in my opinion). I just needed that thrill that I couldn’t seem to get elsewhere. Youtube wasn’t around then so no one had ever even heard of posting videos online. It was an eventful time.

I recall that things got really interesting once popularity struck. All within the same week I was mentioned in The Independent as one of the top videobloggers in the world and one of my videos made an appearance on G4TV:

It was cool seeing my site up in the spotlight like that. Unfortunately, I stopped posting and thoughtlessly deleted my blog. Now it’s under someone else’s ownership. But I feel like it was a necessity in a way. I needed to recreate my “filmic” identity and start from scratch again. Low and behold: here I am, working my way up the ladder again.

Just wanted to let that all out.

In other news, we’re already hard at work on another vid. Those of you that thirst for the days of N64’s Goldeneye are going to love this next one. We’ll probably finish shooting it tomorrow which should give me enough time to finish editing it before Monday of next week (assuming I don’t fall into another 12 hour editing session again). Hopefully it all goes well and works out.

That is all.

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Listening to: 10 Years-Through The Iris
Mood: Tired

After 12 hours of editing this weekend I have finally put together what may be perhaps my best video ever. Once again, Star Wars thematics apply. Check it out:

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Listening to: New Found Glory-Never Give Up
Mood: Good

Hey all, thanks for all the comments on the last few posts. It’s been greatly appreciated and definitely motivational for me.

Phong and I are already working on another video. We shot it today during our breaks at work. It’s pretty complex right now but once I get some other shots everything else should start clicking. I anticipate that you will all die laughing just the way I did when I was filming it. It’ll definitely be a fun one. I should have it done by the end of the weekend…once again, assuming I can get those other shots.

Anyways, I have one of my film classes in about 45 minutes so I better make my way over to the trolley so I can make it to class on time.

Keep commenting!

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Listening to: 36 Crazyfists-I’ll Go Until My Heart Stops
Mood: Stoked

Happy Valentine’s Day all! Just a quick note but you guys can now download my videos by simply right clicking “Click to Play” and then clicking “Save As” or “Save Link As” (for you Mozilla Users). It’ll save in .wmv format. Anyways, here’s the synopsis of the newest video: “There’s always that guy at work that you just want to smack in the face for making stupid jokes…this guy is one of them.”

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Listening to: Grand Theft Audio-Slaphammer
Mood: Upbeat

Hey all, I’m working on a video I shot at work last night. It’s looking really good right now with the exception of some of the sound quality. I’m going to have to rerecord some of the sounds tonight so I could post it by tomorrow. To keep you guys satisfied in the meantime, here’s some quick video footage I shot from that audio project I mentioned a few posts ago. Basically, we were trying to replicate a punch in the face using heads of cabbage. This is how it turned out:

Click to play

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Listening to: Darwin’s Waiting Room-Feel So Stupid (Table 9)
Mood: Exhausted

Phong and I were at work having some fun with a lightsaber. Speaking of work, I have it in about 3 hours…

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Listening to: 311-Crack the Code
Mood: Bored

I’m supposed to be recording sounds for my film audio class right now but my partner hasn’t called back yet so I dunno where we’re meeting. Hopefully he calls. Anyways, that video is taking a lot longer to produce than I expected. I have to go each individual frame by frame to make this one special effect work. You’ll see what I mean when I’m finished but yeah, it looks alright. To keep you all satisfied in the meantime, here’s a little somethin’ somethin’ I made like 2 years ago:

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Listening to: Lacuna Coil-Fragile
Mood: Excited

I obviously haven’t blogged in months. I use to blog back when I had a social life but now that that’s nonexistent it has become harder to think of things to write or make videos about. Life’s pretty dull right now. I felt that starting up this site again would give me new life…to be determined?

Anyways, I’m editing a video I shot at work earlier today. It should be done in a few hours.

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