Monday, July 31, 2006

Yeah, punk!

Sorry for the lack of posts of late. I have been holed up in the editing room at school completing the edit for Adelaide Punk. I am happy to report that the film looks great, and even better in reverse! I am going to miss editing it; it was fun. Click the link to read more about it, and to download our fantastic porn groove, "Rick's Sex Mix"!

I am away from school for two weeks as of tomorrow, as I am due to be doing a wee bit of industry work. At least, that's the schedule I was given about seven weeks ago, but I've been unable to reach anyone in the last week to confirm this! If the worst comes to worst, I'll just go hang out at school for the day.

Lots of work still to be done on the film, and there'll be stuff happening even when I'm working: stay tuned!

Tuesday, July 25, 2006

Put it down to the 'Tube...

Following a discussion in class today about the role that YouTube might play in some or all of our projects (though I suspect it's going to be just some), I chanced upon this:
BuzzMachine: NBCUTube

Aha. Somebody in Hollywood has discovered that the internet is a way to find talent and creativity, not just distribution and “interactivity.” NBC has signed a show whose pilot was rejected by Warner Brothers but is a hit on YouTube. This came from Hollywood pros, including people behind Scrubs. So they’re not exactly citizen programmers. But that cannot be far behind. First, the internet is a way to find your audience. Next, it will be the way to find talent.
The Buzz Machine blog also linked to this excellent article from the New York Times.
...Mr. Kirn insisted that the medium would leave a deep imprint on any entertainment that it generates. “The Net is a self-consciously anti-authoritarian audience,” he said. “They are spit-ballers, defacers, vandals, skeptics. It’s a class without a teacher. The movies that will succeed on it will have those properties.”
I initially found this BuzzMachine story linked from Amanda Unboomed, who's busy doing stuff.

Biggup Maxx!

It was great to get back in to the classroom today, despite the broken heater and the resulting cold. I brought in a disc with the photos thus far, and some episodes of The Venture Brothers to fill in the blanks. The show was well received.

Maxx was done editing Stan's film and had a little bit of time on his hands before heading off to work; using a bit of initative, he suggested we take a quick look at Suit Up! In the short time that we had, we managed to cobble together the end of Episode 5. This is a huge relief in that when we go in to do our fine edit, we will now have all 5 completed episodes, as opposed to the only four-and-a-half we managed to complete after the various difficulties and delays during our edit time.

Just before we began, we watched the edit thus far; I am happy to report that I was able to laugh in quite a few bits. It was a relief.

I'm beginning to think about options with regard to music for the show and special features on the DVD. If you would like to suggest a special feature, please leave a comment.

I'm currently doing a bit of editing on The Holiday Project (or Untitled Holiday Project as I've named it on the iMac) but I think I might go home. I want a good night's sleep before we tackle AP's fine edit tomorrow. Yeah, punk!

Things

Didn't get to school yesterday. I was going to head in then something major came up and I couldn't come in at all. Tomorrow's another day, though; I can't wait to get back in the classroom. And Wednesday is soon upon us, when we're going to finish off Adelaide Punk's editing. Excitement!

Look! This post has tags! The Flock browser strikes again.

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Monday, July 24, 2006

Robustness is next to godliness..

I have spent quite a bit of time over the holidays checking out new web services, sites and programs. I have spent a ridiculous amount of time on the computer, and I've got ass-callouses to prove it.

I've now got four web browsers installed on my computer, and I know what my blog looks like in all of them - quite similar, really, though Firefox doesn't always get the colours right. To think that just over a year ago (I think that's right) I had only Internet Explorer installed. Ha!

Still using Firefox 1.5 as my main browser, but have also now got:

Flock is probably the one that I'm the least impressed with, namely because of it's strange and frustrating method of organising my bookmarks. It does, however, have some cool blogging tools. In fact, I'm using its blog-post function to write this very post. Besides, it's beta: things might get better soon. There's a beta available for Firefox 2.0, but I'm a bit hesitant to download it. Maybe I'll do that later.

Now I'm off to school to edit The Holiday Project, and to maybe get a start on some credits for Adelaide Punk.


Edit: Just found this cool article on the differences between the several major browsers, including a new one to me, Maxthon, now downloaded and ready to roll out.

Blogged with Flock

Just a funny little thing...

Some cheeky little scamp has registered the domain name ie7.com and used for something other than Internet Explorer.

And a cool bit of publicity on the streets of Japan.

All over the shop...

I've spent the last few hours checking out/researching a couple of Internet sites and services that are used by hundreds of thousands of people the world over, but that I have not yet got around to, namely Technorati, del.icio.us, Feedster; it's not all good stuff. Basically, I'm just trying to work out what these services can do for Suit Up!

Back to school tomorrow.

Thursday, July 20, 2006

Rowan: Still Life


CIMG2960
Originally uploaded by JCriquet.

Cheers to the lovely people that made it down to BOHO on Wednesday night. It was great to see you (all too brief for some) and I had lots of fun.

Cheers to Rowan, who was a very willing model for my amateur photography.

42 Below - Britain

42 Below - Britain

Some classic viral flash animations from New Zealand's 42 Below Vodka that my dad showed me last year; simply inspired stuff.

Now she has their attention - Los Angeles Times

Article:

When Brooke Brodack, a 20-year-old receptionist who lives in western Massachusetts with her mom and younger sister, started getting fan mail from Carson Daly's people, she figured it was all a joke, that somehow she'd been punked.

But strange things can happen when you post goofy homemade videos of yourself on YouTube.com, the website that the TV industry can't decide whether it should embrace or dread.


Brooke Brodack signed a deal with Carson Daly based on content he'd seen on her YouTube account. Wow.

Wednesday, July 19, 2006

O, for schwag!

I've got a bit of a fascination for merchandise. being a geeky guy, I love buying little bits (or big bits) of official merchandise from my favourite bands, TV shows or movies. I don't get to do it as much as I'd like - which is defintitely a good thing, because who needs more crap? - but it got me to thinking again how much I'd love to put together some merchandise for Suit Up!

I'm getting ahead of myself as usual, but I'm gonna start mulling things over. There's always the Cafe Press option, but if I got something done locally - stickers, say - then I'd have something to put up for consideration to the folks at ValleySchwag.com (who I stumbled upon while searching in vain for flickr merch).

Action figures'll always be the dream, but.

Thoughts?

Saturday, July 15, 2006

Fun with flickr...

I've been playing around with / exploring / researching flickr all day. For information about your flickr account that you didn't even know, check out the flickr inspector.

Thursday, July 13, 2006

Publicity!


CIMG2456
Originally uploaded by JCriquet.

High quality publicity stills are now up on the flickr account. If anyone wishes to use them, they may, but please credit the photographer.

Currently, the photos are mostly stills of each character, though there are a few action stills thrown in for good measure. I didn't take many of them, though. Oops, I did it again.

Unboomed...


For anyone who pays a bit more attention to the blogosphere than myself, this'll be old news, but this has been interesting me for the last hour or so:

Amanda Congdon, host of the Rocketboom video blog that I have mentioned here before, has recently left the program, a move that has been met with rather wide-spread media coverage. I had just figured they were on holidays when they stopped making shows on July 4th, but as it turns out, she's gone. Her Rocketboom partner, Andrew Baron, has stated that she left to pursue her dreams in L.A.; Amanda has since retaliated saying that she was fired from the show.

I love that this has garnered such a mass of media interest. Not surprising, I suppose, for a show that gets at least 300,000 complete downloads per day, but I like when blogs make the news. It echoes what Peter was saying the week before last about the growing importance of blogs in society. I love it.

As Amanda was the co-writer (and co-owner) of the show, it's hard to speculate as to what the show will be like post-Amanda, but if it's still cool, I'll keep watching. And I'll keep my eye out for whatever she's doing too. She's a cool chick; she likes Dr. Katz.

Wednesday, July 12, 2006

Mo' $$$$!!

I've been wanting to do it all year, and it's finally happened! The Suit Up! flickr account has just gone ! Yay me!

Tuesday, July 11, 2006

Quixotic!

To stem my holiday boredom, I have given myself a new project... a project so clandestine that the NSA have got Will Hunting on the case.

But I guess my having told you about it immediately negates its "clandestiny" (no, not a real word).

You can follow the initial stages of the project at it's very own blog, the aptly-titled "Holiday Project" blog.

Monday, July 10, 2006

Halo and headbutts...

So, what's happening with the project over the next two weeks of holidays?

Not a whole lot, really. I do intend to start designing my website, and perhaps to increase my Internet presence in other areas, though that's been a bit of a dead-end thus far. I'm also still chasing the rights to use footage of Halo 2 in the show. The next step after that, I suppose, would be figuring out how to capture some HDV Halo footage!

I've been up all night. This morning my friend Tim and I watched France's heartbreak at the Alliance Francaise. It was an exciting match, but I was disappointed with the result. What was the deal with that head-butt, Zidane? What did he expect to happen after that?

Hope you all had a fun World Cup final.

Let Me Tell You About It


Let Me Tell You About It
Originally uploaded by kitcarson.

Some great photos are up on Stan's blog from the Let Me Tell You About It shoot. Here, Adam and I reminisce about the Suit Up! shoot. Good times.

Thursday, July 06, 2006

Maps Photo Exhibition 2006


Maps Photo Exhibition 2006
Originally uploaded by JCriquet.

Last week, the Cert IV's had their photography exhibition opening. Wine was drunk, prints were sold, and there was a chick there that looked just like Karen O. All in all, great stuff, guys!

Editing


Editing 2
Originally uploaded by JCriquet.

Well, our three days of rough editing is over... but the rough edit ain't!

In the end, we got four and a half of the five episodes assembled. And we would've got the lot done too, if weren't for that ruddy slow computer, the problematic capture... oh, yeah, and those pesky kids. :-\



Lazy director
Originally uploaded by JCriquet.

Tuesday, July 04, 2006

YouTube: The Office ‘Make Your Own Promo’ Contest

YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.
YouTube have teamed up with NBC to offer a contest allowing fans of the show to make their own 20-second promo for the US Office.