Other Mini Works

I figured since others were posting some quick youtubes they've done in the past on their blog I would do the same.

This one is called "Splorin", a short walk on the beach, my friends and I find whats been lost under the snow.
https://vimeo.com/45762082

This one is called "Dub-eggZ" , an idea mentioned at the start of the video turns to reality.
https://vimeo.com/45762086

This one is called "Ssssmore Ssssplorin", another day at the beach.
https://vimeo.com/51979869

Right Now

So right now I am still shooting as much as I can with the cam quarter still and I wish I could throw some clips up here to show you (I may try again to record some clips with my digital camera while the VHS plays on my TV, it was just a little blurry and has a lot of glare on the TV right now. I hope I can post some screen shots of my recent shoots on here like I did a couple posts down.

Anyways, I have been shooting in the basement again. Shooting the fish tank again (one of the fish recently died so I got some [sad] footage of a floating fish). I've recently tried some new things with the camera too. I've been setting up shots then kind of moving on to something not set up.

For instance I had the idea of my roommate eating a banana with a fork. So I had him do that and had the camera sitting on the table cutting his head off so you only see his hands and the plate that the banana is on. Once he's almost done with the banana I moved the camera over to the burners on the stove and filmed close ups of the flames of each burner. I switched the lights off and filmed them more all the while this really creepy, spacey music (that my banana eating roommate made) is playing in the background. This is probably the most noticeable change up I have made in the project so far because it was set up. The other footage seems more observing to natural things but I don't think that its a bad thing to have shots that are set up because the aesthetic is so heavily "home movies-ish" so it's an idea i wanted to explore. I keep wanting to explore different options like I've been recently trying to not film the entire body or the faces of my roommates because I had a few shots that I thought were interesting with just the feet or just the arms and hands in the shots. Creating shots that have unknown characters that still show character in their non full form is interesting to me. Close interactions with the house and the things in the house gives you real intimate look at these people without being fully connected with their persona is what I'm going for I guess...

My project seems to be gaining more and more potential for from every time I have a day of shooting. I guess I'm at the stage right now where I'm starting to think how I would edit all this data I have collected. The first action I would take before transferring it to digital video would be to make a shot list of every single shot I have on the tape then check off the strongest/weakest ones and go from there.

I'll try to get some stills of my 2 latest shoots and put them up later tonight.

Spider!

Here's a news story that I found interesting....it's a short fluff piece Fox did around Oscar time on the ticket ripper at my theatre: Spider! It's kind of funny since I had this as one of my options for the project. Though I wouldn't take it in this fluffy of a direction it still a great profile on him.

Spider at the Movies

Art Bar Gallery Show

 Last Friday I had a show at Art Bar in Riverwest. It was a free Art Gallery with a lot of different paintings, photography, sculptures and video art up. They had the video artist play the videos during the live music. My band is called Slam Dunk. We all wear basketball jerseys except for one of our guitarists wears a referee shirt. Our gimmicks are based around loving Michael Jordan and Bugs Bunny. We were nothing like the other two bands which isn't a bad thing. It was a really fun show and probably the biggest amount of people we've ever played for. It was also our last show because the Ref is moving to Alaska for 6 months to farm and he currently lives in Madison now so it's hard to get practices together. The band that played before us were kind of a mellow bluesy band with a keyboardist singer, bassist, slide guitarist and drummer. The were called The Something or Others and the band that played after us was a jammy, reggae type band who had a beat-boxer/vocalist, they were called Red Light Refugee. Our music is kind of out there...we don't stick to one genre but we have some heavy songs. Here is one of songs called Bed, Bath & Beyonce.

http://slamdunk666.bandcamp.com/track/bed-bath-beyonce