Tuesday, December 4, 2007
11:40 a.m.
Crappin' hell. I suddenly have a cold.
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Monday, November 26, 2007
07:06 p.m.
NBC is auctioning props and wardrobe from their shows which are all apparently coming to an abrupt end from the writers' strike.
NBC auctions
It'd be awesome to own one of the paintings from Heroes... but yeah, they're up to multiple thousands of dollars 6 days before the bidding ends.
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Tuesday, November 20, 2007
01:42 a.m.
I had the PA job that would pay the rent and didn't know it until it was too late. What the fuck?
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Friday, November 16, 2007
12:14 a.m.
Gee I wish I went to UWM. Oh wait, I already did.
And none of these classes were available then.
The Art of Editing
Inside the Business of Film
Character Design and Animation
Introduction to 3D Animation
3D Imaging I
Kudos to them for bettering the curriculum, but I feel swindled.
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Monday, November 5, 2007
01:15 p.m.
Hm.... I think I want to get one of these...
Hitachi DZ-BD7HA
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Tuesday, October 23, 2007
04:16 p.m.
Man. I want to go to this!
Symphony Style '07
Too bad it's so very very expensive.
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Wednesday, October 3, 2007
01:09 p.m.
Things I'm still waiting on:
ChillerTV to announce the finalists
KoolPrint to acknowledge my emails and do something about my screwed up business card prints.
The money from the last PA job direct deposited into my account.
A job through a company across from Bluemark to contact me. :/
People to respond with interest about a new film contest we should enter.
I hate waiting for important things that should have already happened. All but one of those should have come through days and days ago. bleh!
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Wednesday, September 26, 2007
11:18 p.m.
I was mentioned in an article in the Wall Street Journal today! (Sept 26, 2007. Section D) The article is called "Video for Everyman."
Christopher Lawton interviewed me on Monday over the phone.
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Monday, September 24, 2007
02:30 a.m.
On or around Wednesday we'll know whether we're screening for Channel101!
Then on the 1st of October we'll know if we're a finalist for the ChillerTV contest!
I have a big PA gig from Tuesday to Friday that'll get me almost a grand.
And I got to sit in the reserved Filmmakers' section for the Pool screening at the MIFF. Exciting!
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Friday, September 21, 2007
04:34 p.m.
Hi everyone. We are participating in a contest with ChillerTV/NBC for horror films, the winner of which will be screened on Halloween Night. We've entered The Body in Burlap, and hope to get some attention for it. Please, go to the ChillerTV site and vote up our horror movie! - Your friends at Boiling Sky
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Saturday, September 15, 2007
02:55 a.m.
Ugh, the past week I think I've worked more for the least amount of immediate and monetary reward than I ever have.
Up until this week I was at least working two jobs, and then filling my spare time with a dozen other things. Now I'm down to one job because the temporary one ended a month early.
But this week alone I've vacuumed, did laundry, cleaned the guinea pig cage, vacuumed some more, washed dishes, loaded and unloaded the dishwasher, etc etc. All the household chore stuff. And it repeats because as I've been at home most of the week, I'm making new messes. I'm also the only one doing it...
While things are drying or washing or whatever, I've finished editing, color correcting, sound correcting, exported, reexported, reexported, and released Orientation for upload to Youtube. Then I'd spend a day at Bluemark editing, watching footage, cutting up interviews, talking with potential clients who are really weird... and that takes most of the day. 5 or 6 hours. Then I come home, clean some things, eat, start capturing our new short that's going to be submitted to Channel101. Then that lasts until 2 and 3 and 4 am. Hence, the hour of this post. Then much of the next day was spent getting the word out on Orientation, getting people to watch it, posting it here and there.
Going back and forth to the post office to send dvds of stuff I've sold, calling back people interested in the thing I'm selling on Craig's List, emailing about my invoice I haven't gotten a check for in a month, calling and emailing about my business cards that haven't been shipped in a month.
When I'm not at Bluemark editing, I'm at home either capturing the new short, exporting or doing something with Orientation, and then I spent half the day yesterday and until 4am and almost all day today exporting over and over at 35 minute intervals of tests to get The Body in Burlap ready for a special project. I have 7 days to finish editing the new project, two of which are shot because I work all day, and then some of those days I have to go to Bluemark because they're going to start shooting interviews and the project I'm working on is getting back into the foreground, which is really exciting. I didn't get to do the graphics stuff I wanted to do for Orientation because I had to quick finish it so I could start the new project. And none of this is my Senior Project yet, which I still need to finish.
All of this is even enjoyable, which is why I can continue to do it and only make $400 a month. But it's just, well kind of funny and sad that now that I finally get to do what I wanted to do and I can't actually make a living off of it.
Tomorrow I have to work from 10:30am to 6 or so pm, see if I can get into Bluemark and work a few hours, come home, recapture all the footage that fucked up in the batch capture and decided to be 59.94 instead 23.976, and then start cutting it because I'm running out of days already, capture the new footage they're shooting, clean the guinea pig cage that needed to be done today. And then tomorrow it's mostly all that stuff again, minus the guinea pig cage which hopefully would stay clean more than one day. Also, since it's Mitch's birthday party Sunday, I'll probably just end up coming home from work and going there for the rest of the night.
I'm also waiting on responses for an editing job and a PA job so I can make enough money to pay the rent this month.
And now it's 3am and dudes below or next to us or something have started blasting R&B.
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