Or rather, bis später. Yesterday/today I hopped the pond for a 6 month jaunt over in Germany; a 1.5 hour plane ride to Dallas, a 10 hour plane over Greenland to Frankfurt, and then a 1.5 hour train ride to Würzburg. So 36 hours after getting up ‘this morning’, I’m going to bed..
I’ll post more, including pictures and all, once I get more situated, but for now a quick panorama of the Frankfurt-Flughafen Hauptbahnhof (airport maintrainstation):
On Wednesday, I had the opportunity to help shoot two videos for a well-known local poet, Levi the Poet. Before the shoot I had heard of him, but hadn’t really heard any of his work. I had no idea what to expect, so at first, I was a little thrown off by his style and delivery. However after listening to him finish his second take, I was completely sold. His message is gritty but awesome, and his raw and unapologetic approach are so refreshing in the politically correct world of today. I’m so glad that I have the chance to help Levi out in the production of these videos.
Since Wednesday I’ve put many hours in the editing room, and it’s paid off in the form of the quickest video turnaround I’ve ever pumped out: one day for a 6-minute video. It’s still a rough cut though, and will be headed for color grading, motion graphics, and final sound equalizing. That job will go to two other very cool guys I met, Scott Wells and Asher Barrett. The video is scheduled to be finished sometime next week, so in the meanwhile enjoy a couple iphone pics from the shoot and the edit:
Update:
Here’s the links for the two finished videos.
http://youtu.be/D5BRb9uzhRE
http://youtu.be/B28zpGQNm5k
They both turned out pretty well I think, and it’s awesome because they already have a combined 60,000+ views in just a few weeks. Glad I could help out Levi..
Late last night, after much technical difficulties, Drew and I finished the edit of Jesse and Lindsey’s wedding, from last weekend. While our footage wasn’t necessarily top notch (dark lighting…), I think that in the end we were able to produce a pretty good video. Tell us what you think!
Today marked the 10th day that I’ve been working as an intern on the Blue Flower/Flor Azul project with artist Federico Muelas. It’s been a lot of fun–usually it doesn’t feel like work, and I’ve been learning a lot. Federico is a really awesome guy, who has a great sense of humor and is just all around a joy to work with.
The project itself is basically a huge b&w LCD screen, of sorts. It’s hard to describe exactly because it’s a new technology that hasn’t really been used before, so this could potentially become a big deal haha. It’s apparently going to be the most energy efficient “screen” in the world, because it uses ambient lighting as it’s primarily light source. I don’t know a whole lot what I’m talking about, so if you want to know more about the piece itself, go check out Federico’s website: www.federicomuelas.com.
Here’s a panorama shot I took with my phone from the 7th level of the scaffolding:
A couple days ago I brought my Canon and tripod to capture some time-lapse shots of the day. I had the dual motive of wanting to capture the action up there on the scaffolding, and to try out the intervalometer function on the new MagicLantern firmware I installed on the camera. Turned out to work pretty well:
A final cool bit of information is that the project was featured in the Albuquerque Journal today, with just a brief spotlight on and description of the work. (It was pretty funny when the journalist came up on the scaffolding for questions and pictures because he was extremely afraid of heights ha)
Overall, this project has been a blast and all the people I’ve met through it have been awesome. We’ve got about a week left on it, and I can’t wait to see it completed!
Here’s a few screencaptures from the wedding of Jesse and Lindsey Maestas in Los Lunas, New Mexico, that Drew and I shot on Friday. It’ll be a little while before we finish a final edit–we shot over 40GB of video! So this’ll have to do as a little teaser until then.
