Lazy Sunday

Oh but the title does tell all! I started the day by finishing off the research for the interviews I have coming up this week. Did a little food shopping and then decided to relax. It was just so nice outside I decided to go hang by the pool. Then I thought...wait, bring the video camera. At first, I was going to video the dogs (seen in the background in some of the shots) but then decided to put a little something else together. The title is of course stolen from Chris Parnell and Andy Sandberg and, oh yea...I can't rap. Like it or not, here it is...

Finally!

Worked for hours on Friday on what will be my last greenscreen project for a while. When I went to post it on 12seconds.tv, their uploader was down. Kind of frustrating since the topic was focused on where my head was at that day. Anyway, it looks like the uploader is working so we'll see if I can get my latest work to "take".

I was going to tear down the greenscreen yesterday but didn't. I don't know what's stopping me!

Tell Me How You Really Feel

So, I've written before about how Julie thinks I'm nuts with all this video stuff. Well, today I convinced her to help me put my latest creation together. She as totally against it until she saw what the idea was. When you see it, you will understand WHY she agreed to participate!

Enjoy and please share with your friends!!!

Quick and Dirty

Shot some footage on the way to the lake yesterday. These guys (longhorn and buffalo) are sure to appear in a few 12 second movies! I stopped and Sams today with Julie and embarrassed her by bringing in the video camera to shoot the meat. She's convinced I need therapy (me too!). Anyway the video is in the "12 seconds of caracappa" window on the right or, can be seen at www.12seconds.tv/channel/caracappa

Enjoy! Please share with friends and comment...

Creative Block?

I'm stuck! I can't seem to be able to get the creative juices flowing. I've got an idea for a new 12 second film but, it won't come out of my head. I'm going to forget about it for now and see if that helps. Kind of frustrating....

Anyway, have a nice Memorial Day!

Not Easy!

Spent a lot of ours with this latest test. Downloaded demo compositing software and whipped the thing together so I could publish it. Have lots of issues that I need to figure out like why I lost alignment of the two videos when I did the composite. Going to take some time to dig into this further and decide if this inexpensive compositing package will do what I need (I think it will) and then run some further tests. Still need to decide what I'm going to do about a more powerful video editing package but, that will come next.

Oh yea, I still need to find a job! Latest vid is on http://www.12seconds.tv/channel/caracappa

Quick Update

Made a real quick trip to the North East over the weekend. Saw Dom off on his trip to Israel where he will be in a Kibbutz for the next 6 months. He was so excited and I am very happy for him.

I've been trying to get my head around a next project since I left on Friday. I got an idea and went to Toy Joy (what a freaking great toy store) to pick of a few odds and ends. I spent about 4 hours preparing and capturing what I consider a test sequence. I still have tons of clean up to do so I decided to call it quits for the day so I can go work out.

I'm learning just how complicated all of this can be. To realize my ideas, I need more software that I don't already own or even know how to use. Without going into details I'll just say that I may be biting off more than I can chew! We'll see. I'm trying to see if I can "borrow" some software and learn it quick enough to pull this most recent project off. If not, I'm going to have to scale back and rethink the complexity of these projects.

Anyway, it's still fun and it's keeping me out of trouble!