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April 7, 2010

What I Got

Posted by Robin under art, brain matter, comics, Film Work, Media, Music, People I Know, photography, Work, Writing
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Good lord, I am quite talented at dropping off the face of things.  I haven’t given a proper update on here in a while.

A few things have been happening.  Right now I’m just finishing up an editing gig for the video material for a quiz show.  Most of it has required working in After Effects, a program that I touched once in college, so the experience was an educational one.  I’m also working on an online comic with the INCREDIBLY talented artist Neil Struthers.  This is a project I’ve been trying to get off the ground for a few years and I feel so incredibly fortunate that Neil has agreed to join in on the fun.  Of course, any updates including the comic episodes themselves will be up here once we finish off a couple of them.  Stay tuned.  In the meantime, check out Neil’s Flickr.

Now here’s some things from other people…

- My friend, the very talented Miss Veronika von Volkova recently got together with the wonderful Katelan Foisy and they got up to some wonderful photography-based sexy fun.

- Big Sexy, the comic anthology I mentioned a while ago that explores the many facets of sexuality, is finally for sale and you can get it here.  At$6 for 92 pages I would consider you a fool NOT to purchase it.

- MOON8 created the entire Dark Side Of The Moon album by Pink Floyd in 8bit.  And they’re giving it to you for free.

- An Assortment of Underachieving AT-ATs by Tobias Lunchbreath:

- Mentor and photographer I adore, Lex Machina is having a special Print Sale on one of the photos she took of the League Of STEAM.

- I really can’t wait to see Micmacs, the new film by Jean-Pierre Jeunet (Amélie and City Of Lost Children) Check out the trailer here.

- I REALLY REALLY want a print of this from talented Duchess Caroline Harrison (via her Flickr)

And that’s all for now.  I’m off to bed for a well-deserved trip in to Dreamland.

 

January 8, 2010

Thoughts On The Future, Both Close & Far

Posted by Robin under Media, Music, People I Know, photography, Work, Writing | Tags: , , , , |
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It’s been a very busy week here both with my own stuff and other people’s.  One photography gig, one filming gig, two backstage gigs, one trip-to-Memphis gig and one social media job are all up in the air and I’m wondering which ones will fall down and hit me right on the head.  Pretty exciting stuff!  On top of that I’ve been experimenting with HDR, figuring out Adobe Lightroom (On advice from my good friend and INCREDIBLY talented photographer Lex Machina) and actually feeling like I can write some stories.  Going to be flexing my scripting muscles next week in order to prepare for “Project: Not Telling Yet Ssh” with stunning artist (both in his art and his wit) Neil Struthers.

A thought hit me earlier in the week touching on the topic of what the future might hold for listening to portable music.  I don’t mean anything like the iPod Touch, but the actual experience of listening to music.  The short of it is a device that reads your brainwaves to determine what mood you are in and plays music that you designated to that particular mood before hand (somewhat like the iTunes star system).  Make it colour coded, and when you’re angry your player turns red and plays angry music.  Two additions are that the player could slowly integrate happy music in to the playlist  when you are angry or sad and having the ability to stream other people’s playlist that corresponds with your mood.  So if you’re happy you can listen to what other happy people are listening to. Tastes of course will differ, but it’s fascinating if you’ve ever wondered what music other people listen to when they’re in a similar mood as you.

Anyways, thinking on some more things.  I’m off for now.

 

November 10, 2009

Playing Catch Up

Posted by Robin under Film Work, Media, People I Know, Personal, photography, Work | Tags: , , , , , |
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Wow, it’s been an exhausting couple of weeks.

For the past little while I’ve been working on filming and editing two skits for the special features of comedian Trevor Boris‘ DVD of his stand up show in Vancouver.  It was very exciting to work in a totally different way than I’m used to and I think in the end we made some pretty damn good videos.  The one I’m really fond of is a kind of Office-style mockumentary of a day in the life of Trevor and his work on MuchMusic Video On Trial.  While editing it I was found myself laughing out loud and thus getting some stern glares from the other editors working on their stuff.  I should say right now, huge mega-thanks to Henry Less Productions, my former employers, who were all too willing to let me use one of their editing suites and thus saving me a panic attack.  It was good to see everyone, if only for a brief time (things were pretty damn busy there).  I just transferred it all on to a tape and aside from shipping off the drive and dropping off the camera, I’m done!

So my next job for this week is country musician Diane Chase.  I filmed her CD Launch party early last month and have now been given the OK to go and edit it for possible air on CMT, which will be fun.  I’m also going to look around for my nikon’s charger and start taking some more photos.  Things have just been ridiculous with keeping up with that.

I’ve been asked to speak at a panel on “getting noticed” at some emerging country music artist meeting…thing later on in the month talking about social media.  I’m going to look in to it a bit more, but I think I’m going to do it.  While I’m waiting for that, I’ve decided that I’m going to write a 2-3 page paper on musicians and getting noticed.  Working title is SOCIAL MEDIA: UR DOING IT WRONG.  Of course, when I’m done it will be posted on here for all to see.  And I’ve also been pointed to Kirsty Hall’s blog which is proving to be a DAMN interesting read on the subject.

Also, comic writer Kevin Glover gave me a sample script of his upcoming comic with Amanda Hayes titled The Invisible Skein.  I haven’t finished reading it yet and I can’t give anything away, but I will say this now:  This is reading so damn good and I look forward to it’s release on December 14th.  Anyways, you’ll read more about it on here I’m sure.

And in a more personal kind of note, my 25th birthday is approaching on the 4th of December.  It’s kind of weird… I FEEL like I should be a grown up, but when asked if I wanted anything for my birthday the response was (almost immediately) a Nintendo DS.  There was a little cardigan-wearing grown up in my head saying “NO.  YOU MUST ASK FOR ANY SEASONS OF LAW AND ORDER.  YOU’RE A GROWNUP NOW”.  But still, a quarter of a century…christ.  (And alright you old codgers, feel free to comment with mockery)

Anyways, I should probably eat something before I head out.  My stomach is screaming like some kind of horrible creature that people normally put in basements and feed door to door salesmen to…

 

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