Archive for March, 2005

Learning is easy!

Published on March 29, 2005 in Text. 0 Comments .

I finally got to spend a few hours with the VX2100… getting used to the feel, the controls, the manual features. It’s going to be a while before I am one with the camera… if ever… but I know that I made the right choice. I went down to Santiago Oaks Regional Park and just walked around and shot some video. On Saturday when we went biking on the same trails as I walked on (on Easter Sunday) the weather was awesome, the sky was an amazing blue spotted with thick clouds… and the wind was blowing in strong gusts. To me… perfect conditions for some great video, especially after all the rain we’ve had. The whole place looks so different from how it was last year. Unfortunately, Sunday was nothing like that. There was no wind, and instead of white puffy couds on a blazing blue sky it was just a grey blanket overcast. So… I didn’t go up the 3 b’s, where I had planned to shoot. Instead, I just hiked around the dam and towards the bottom of the 3 b’s. I shot some stuff, then left. It was fun and relaxing, sort of like the very few times I’ve gone on a lone photo shoot out in the middle of nowhere.

I’ll be creating and posting a vlog with some of the footage, hopefully before I go to Arizona for the weekend. Unfortunately I’m busy reloading my OS and all applications, along with two other computers, one for a friend and one for another friend’s dad. I am also working on a video for work that was due at the beginning of March. Hopefully I will have it done by Friday. Otherwise…

Sin City…

Published on March 14, 2005 in Text. 0 Comments .

I haven’t been looking forward to a movie this much since Kill Bill 2, or before that, Matrix 2, or before that… I don’t remember. Anyhow, I’m really looking forward to Sin City. Apparently Robert Rodriguez teamed up with the writer of the Sin City comic book to deliver a movie that truly resembles the look of the comic. Certain comic book movies have kept some of the feel of a comic book before, and have ad varying success (The Hulk), but none have really gotten the actual look, on screen, of the drawings, on paper, of a comic book. I hate this because I wish I could have been the one to think of and deliver this movie.

Then again, I wouldn’t have been able to pull together such a great cast. I have always respected Robert Rodriguez, even if his movies weren’t great… mostly because of where he came from and how he got where he is. That and the fact that he really is amazingly talented, writing, directing, shooting, editing and scoring some of his films all himself. That takes a lot of talent and probably a lot of Red Bull. But for him to be able to bring together all of that Hollywood talent (and I don’t want to get flak for that statement, it’s not an oxymoron) is pretty good.

I really hope it doesn’t disappoint me (like Matrix II and III).