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Another busy semester another lone journal entry to accompany it.

Been busy at a Public Relations Internship; made 1 study abroad promotional video, 3 university promotional videos (1 is actually locally broadcasting), 2000+ photographs, and 3 press releases.

It's sad cause 99% of those 2000+ photographs will NOT see the light of day. They were photographs I took for a dance conference to be used to judge the competition. I wasn't told about this until after the 1st day of the event when I had to select 20 out of 400 photos to be given to the judges and I only had 5 minutes to select them. I rushed through the 380 mediocre photos to find just 20 perfect photos.

I have all those 2000+ photos and I look through them and think how awesome it would be to put those up here, but that won't happen sadly. If anything I can probably put these up months down the road with a big copyright logo plastered on the center, which is completely contrary to how I want people to enjoy photos. I want people to take them, save them, use them, and enjoy them. But whatever.

Filming is slow as ever. Made one terrible exercise that will not see the light of day, one experimental film that came out fine, and I'm working on one last documentary before the semester is over. The documentary is gonna be tricky to make as I've never been good at anything classical in the sense of film. It's to be a political commentary at the state of the city my university resides in. It's screening will be at the end of the month and I've only got a few minutes of b-roll done.

I envision the documentary to be very negative about this city, but not in a way meant to condemn. I want to inspire small changes in the average person that may or may not create better change to the city, really I don't expect anyone to give two damns about the message of anything I make. I'd be happy if people just understand the complaints of the film, whether people take my documentary seriously is up to them. Maybe those sentences came off a little pretentious, they kind of sound it in my head, but my films have no purpose other than to just simply exist.


Thanks for reading.
Now back to my internship.

I never keep my attention on Deviant Art long enough to do anything productive with my journals or anything. However for the current semester I'm not taking a film course or anything involving art for that matter. I need to focus on my Comm courses and get ready for a future semester where I have to write a theory paper involving communication.

Theory Paper
Really I have no set idea for my Theory paper for my upcoming Theory class in the coming semester. I could do it on how an artist communicates with an audience. I could do it on video game industry communication (although that seems cliched.) Everything is up in the air at the moment.

Short Films
I'm taking a long break from Film-making. I felt I burnt myself out last semester. ONY: Criteria was very close to how I envisioned it coming out, but I would like to take a break because I felt all my might just end up reusing the same themes over and over; I think a year off might allow me to have different ideas for future movies. I do however have a few movie ideas floating in a few files on my Hard-Drive that I may or may not decide to create into a short film.

Either way it's nice not to have to stress with deadlines for the semester.

Team Hat Fortress 2

For the past 2 months I've become a server admin for a small community of gamers. 69.162.90.122:17900 is the IP address for our Team Fortress 2 server. Most of the day it's empty, but most nights it's alive and well. The admins are an okay bunch of people, and rarely ban anyone.

Well most of the photos are up atleast...
Thanks to MortaleRedWolf the photos are now up.
There was issues scanning them though and I had to take them into Photoshop to reduce the contrast vastly.
There was supposed to be included an artist statement, but I didn't want to have it included with every entry. Alot of the statement felt forced to; since it was made for the classroom format. So, here's a small excerpt that helped create the theme.

My primary influence for this subject came during a training exercise with the university's ROTC program. I found myself alone on a hilltop; a long abandoned bunker in the foreground, a valley in the middle-ground, and a vast strain of ridges in the distant. The view was breath taking, but my curiosity was drawn to the concrete structure in front of me. The structure stuck in time and the world moving at double pace; nature slowly reclaiming what was once hers. The photographs I took are relative to that scene I saw months ago. A scene neglected but because of nature's intervention has become beautiful.

E3 2011
I didn't watch all of the conferences, but I'll just talk about the ones I watched.

1. Microsoft
I was hoping for a great turnout from Microsoft. It turned out to be a joke. Their major talking points focused way to much on their Kinect product.

The tech demos for it were also a joke since they had piss poor actors show how fun their games are to play. It made me feel embarrassed to even be watching the conference.
The Disney demos were even worse as their kid actors seemed to have been injected with liquid cocaine to make them inhumanly hyperactive about a mediocre title.
Double Fine's demo for their Sesame kinect game actually had me sold on their product as a kid game. The little kid they had seemed genuinely excited to try it out; he almost jumped the gun and the adult actor next to him had to tell him 'not yet.' Once in the demo the kid had a look of happiness that made the Disney actors look like complete tools.

Fable: The journey look unbelievably boring (ie On rails) in it's announcement trailer.

Even the announcement of Halo 4 couldn't really save Microsoft from a lackluster conference and for that I give them a D- score. They didn't fail, but the only barely came by with a passing grade with the few titles that people were eager to learn about.

2. Nintendo
I laughed when my sister MortaleRedWolf scoffed at the idea of the Wii U and literally a second later accept it with the reveal that it's controller screen can be used as a drawing tablet.
I was already sold on it's idea that it's secondary monitor can be used as the primary source to play games on. My main issue with Nintendo is that everyone of their generation of consoles since the GameCube have concluded in mounds and mounds of shovel-ware products and piss-poor peripheral support. The Skyward Sword demo they had for the Wii U also was impressive and also gave hints of their fabled 'high def graphics.'

The announcement of Lego City also got me curious in the 3DS. The one in-game screenshot they showed hinted at it being an open world game. I would love this to be a current-gen version of Lego Island 1. Nintendo's Super Mario for the 3DS also has my curiosity peaked. One previewer remarked at this is the game he wanted when Super Mario 64 was released.

Nintendo's strong support for their new systems gives them an B+ from me.

3. Sony
I really wished I could've seen their conference. I did hear that they started by addressing the PSN hacking incident at the start without jokes of any sort. I find that pretty classy that they didn't jump around that issue.

I can't realy give them a grade since I completely missed their conference, but I do plan on watching an youtube uploaded version.

4. DICE
BIAS WARNING

I'll start off by saying that I've been a die-hard Battlefield fan since I impulsively picked up the first title when my parents got a XP computer in 2002.
And I've loved most of the games in the series. The console'd spin-off title Bad Company 2 has claimed many hours, but I've always dreamt of the day of Battlefield 2's true sequel.

And boy is this a true sequel.

A+!!!! Score voided due to bias faggotry.

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Wow it's been awhile. I don't have much to show for that much time gone; a few movies, I've gotten back into making signatures, and someday my photographs will grace my page (today is not that day).

I've posted already the first of what I hope is to be numerous signatures to be added to my page. While playing Kingdom Hearts I try to so hard to follow the story line, but it's just a clusterfuck. Little things are completely unexplained which hurt to the continuity of the story as a whole. It reminds me of dreams I have that I actually feel emotionally moved by. I wake up and want to write a script that is inspired by it. As I transcribe what happened in the dream I realize that the plausibility of anything that happened in the dream is absurd. Not absurd like a Japanese style cartoon, but of something that would require the audience to transcend their closed minded thoughts just so they can actually accept what is happening. Even people who accepted art and story style like Super Milk Chan would have a hard time accepting what just happened. That's essentially the Kingdom Hearts story.

As for my dreams being converted into a script. I think I'll just keep those in my head until I find a way to fix the concept behind it.


As for my photographs. Well I've yet to own a sufficient enough scanner to fully show the photos. MortaleRedWolf seems to own a scanner sufficient enough, but the amount of effort to move from my room and hand her my photos would require a monumental amount of energy. Maybe she'll read this journal and say "Maybe I should go to code's room to get said photos in hopes that he'll give me credit for helping him scan such graceful photos."

Or maybe I'm thinking to high of my photos.


As for a last subject to this journal. Here are some of the projects I've worked on in the past few months. Enjoy.

Film: Long Last
Film: Out of Many None

Let me know what you think.

Not really...

I was trying to get my god old scanner to work... After a search for a Win 7 driver (that doesn't exist btw) I just used the generic drivers available...


Scanned an image of a BW photo and then... Imperfections everywhere! The photos looked as if there were scuffs and dust all over them.

I don't want to post these photos looking like this.