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Revisiting my favorite* of the Sony Bravia commercials. Where did they find such a hill to shoot this thing anyway? … ~:{P *And not just because of Jose Gonzalez (who, apparently, is a Swede). Paint explosions? Plastic explosive rabbits? Please. Although wait – Pyramid? Is this for real? People you, me and we know are at Fenway AS WE SPEAK enjoying the remnants of a massive 1-0* offensive explosion. I am not one of those people, and odds are good that neither are you. So for us, the little people, those who fall outside the Red Sox ticket holders circle of trust, here’s some cool time-lapse footage of Fenway from Tom Guilmette.
A bit from Tom about his technique.
*I have Toronto in my office’s 13-run MLB pool, and I can definitively say that this is their first shutout of the season, giving me a desperately need zero cell. Thanks! Just when you though it was safe to go back in the non-nalgene bottled water… Is the semester over? Not quite, no matter how many times I close my eyes, hold my breath and immaturely wish otherwise. The looming threat of having to grade the remaining avalanche of homeworks may yet send me completely off the deep end. Today’s brief walk around Willard Woods in Lexington was helpful in postponing that imminent demise.
In other procrastination news, gratuitous flower shots. Scrubs rolling through after the little dorks.
A reader submitted soundtrack contribution for SMHB’s graduation party. I’d have posted a youtube video instead if they weren’t both so terrible. Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.  From the most recent DFCI “Inside the Institute“. Of interest to me primarily as in it relates to my sweet baby cranes but also for it’s bizarre choice of dirt to elephant ratio.
UPDATE 1: 10K down for CNHB! 9:42 splits, this is under the low end of her split range (10:00-12:00). She’s somewhere in Framingham now, I think there are fans to see her at mile 6 but I haven’t heard from them yet. UPDATE 2: 15K down, which should put CNHB passing over the gorgeous Lake Cochicuate. SP just called – she and the old people were indeed at mile 6 but managed to miss everyone. I’m planning to leave Longwood here in a bit to walk up to mile 25 – our most aggressive estimates put SMHB there in 90 minutes. UPDATE 3: CNHB just passed 25K, her split finally fell below 10:00. That’s expected, hopefully no IT band issues. I’m heading out to see what there is to see, updates mas tarde. UPDATE 4: Finished! Saw them both! Accidentally stepped on little one’s foot when she came to say hi, SORRY!! UPDATE 5: Photos! What probably my best Bevo ever and one each from Team HB.  All in all, I took somewhere in the neighborhood of 800 photographs yesterday at my first wedding still photography shoot. I had thought there were more, but scanning through them, I think we’re in pretty good shape. Adding in BML’s, we’re looking at 12.5 GB of RAW source material. I’m going to have to formalize a workflow for processing these. I think I’m going to switch from Picasa to Adobe Bridge for this project and others of similar volume. Since these photographs are in RAW, each one will be white balanced, cropped and converted to jpg before dissemination. Also, I think I’m going to end up getting a Noise Ninja license to de-noise some of these ISO 800 interior non-flash shots. Anyway, it was a long day. I was up for 22 hours straight and my right wrist is hurting from lugging around a Canon Zoom Telephoto EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS. A fantastic telephoto lens, but heavy heavy heavy, and not a good lens to have on when you find yourself quickly shooting something in a tight space. I was deleting some crap and found a bit of forgotten source. There were some delirium issues when this was shot. Instead of taking a good POTD yesterday I took this slew of mediocre ones. Overly appropriate audio track stolen without shame from Mediafriend. An improvement (I hope) on An Easter Afternoon. UPDATE: A few people have mentioned having trouble with blip.tv stuttering for them. If that sounds like you, 529 is also on youtube.
A new argument for Chicago over San Francisco.
The light is lasting long enough to get me home but still it’s filtered gray harsh and cold by the threat of unwanted precipitation. Somewhere some warmth or intensity is going to have to be located. If not here, elsewhere, southerly, where this plane is going. To Carolina! Flor-ida! Shreveport, bring on your mudbugs! UPDATE: In an unexpected and sad turn of events, it appears as though the Maniclab Cafe Press store has been shut down, eliminating the one official source of I’M SO PUNK!! stickers. Don’t get me started on the dearth of Soy Based Laser Beams of DOOM. I’ve listened an unhealthy amount of information about critical limb ischemia, popliteal arteries, gangrene, claudication, debridement, atherectomy and through-knee amputation. Fortunately had a few minutes to take some pictures to counterbalance the onslaught of death and leg decay.
Here is Echoplanar‘s 2008 entry into the 48 Hour Film Project Boston. Thanks to the cast (Christopher Player, Nathanael Hevelone, VK, Le Nguyen, Khoa Nguyen, Julie Kong, Troy Turick, Mai-Khuyen Nguyen & Allison Stevens); and crew (Allison Stevens who produced, Nathanael Hevelone who directed and Christopher Player who did foley work & assistant editing; also to the others who worked tirelessly on this but prefer their anonymity). Lastly, we’re extremely grateful to the musicians – Mediafriend and Action Set.  I’m just back from the screening and post-screening celebration for our new short, “It’s OK to Be Afraid”. Overall I’m more or less pleased with how it went. The reception wasn’t wildly enthusiastic, trending towards individual level bewilderment which is just about what we expected. Now we’ll wait and see what happens – I’m not particularly holding my breath for any of the general awards. I’ve had this feeling the last couple of years that the films we make aren’t really appropriate for the 48 Hour venue yet we keep coming back to do them – there’s something about the intensity of the process that’s wholly captivating, even if our end product doesn’t fit into the SNL-lite mode that seems to be normative. Regardless, I’m happy with what we showed from a visual, technical & audio perspective and am more than happy to discuss the plot as I understand it with anyone who cares to. I’ll post the film before I leave tomorrow night – please check back if you’re interested in seeing it. One side note – I just wanted to say that Ben Guaraldi is a good and decent man who went well out of his way to accommodate us by getting us in tonight on very short notice. Many, many thanks to him. Also thanks to everyone who came out and that one dude we don’t know who voted for us.
This feels good. This feels really, really good. It feels (forewarning, heresy) better than the Red Sox winning last year. It feels way better than the Patriots last couple. Twenty years since they last won it under Larry Brown, Mario Chalmers gave us another chance with a game-tying three from nowhere. I started doing the math just (the middle school years are fuzzy) – I moved to Kansas in the fall of 1988, just after the Jayhawks last won. Two decades, two great coaches, too many chances to lose again. Fan-friggin-tastic.  We’ve officially switched our screening for “It’s OK to Be Afraid” to 7pm, Tuesday the 8th. Buy your tickets here! Ancillary benefit to switching- Michelle Barbera and We’re Making a Movie (of The Guts and the Glory fame) is now in our group. Collateral downside- we’re no longer grouped with our Open Screen ?????? Jeff Stern and Stand Up Mandy. Actually know that I’ve checked they switched to Group G on 4/15 anyway – that’ll be worth seeing. I’m really looking forward to seeing whoever can make it out tomorrow. Vote early, vote often, vote without regard towards future political endeavors!!  For the legions waiting with baited breath, we submitted Echoplanar‘s 2008 Boston Film Project entry, “It’s OK to Be Afraid”, ridiculously ahead of schedule today. More details will be forthcoming posts sometime after a) I get some sleep and b) the Kansas/Memphis game tomorrow. The screening is still scheduled for Thursday at 7:00, I’m still unsuccessfully trying to change it. Leave your suggestions go below. Anything used will get a credit. |
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