The author missed the point some of the depth cues from Biker that left him feeling the movie was a little shallow, as shallow as Biker himself seems. With all that his biggest problem with the movie was that some parts were more interesting than others which is pretty high praise. It is great to have in a highly trafficked news outlet pay so much attention to Biker Fox and it is great for the Slamdance as well.

Ashley Raines did a show on Thursday at Ida Red. This was the second show that I recorded with my new Zoom H4n. I recorded the vocals on one track and the mic’d instruments on another and then also recorded the room with the built in mics of the H4n. It is so much easier than trying to do the room sound from the camera and then trying to sync it all up afterwards.

If you want to see all these videos you should subscribe to the Ida Red podcast but you could also check out the Ida Red YouTube channel.

On the right is a picture of my H4n with it’s red wig. It works very well in keeping the wind noise to a minimum. It is nice to have a huge amount of video and audio gear that is all black and grey and have this bright red mop pop out.

It is the CoutourHD and it just came out. I was lucky I started looking right when this camera came around because the next closest camera is horrible.

Rocking pretty hard.

You can check out his Will Crum and see what you think. He will soon be on an Ida Red podcast.

Will Crum at Ida Red, originally uploaded by elvisripley.

Update: That was quick. They are scheduled for Ida Red on April 17th.

ReUpdate: They are really into it but had to reschedule.


My Boombox



Without their robot costumes.

Living on Video (6 of



A music video.
Satellite


Tinted Windows.

They are great.

So anyway the Coen brothers made a clean coal commercial and it is pretty nice. I really like the frozen poses the spokesman does. The coal is also a little like Mr. Sparkle.

my Real D glasses

Over the weekend I saw Coraline in 3D. I thought it might have been my first chance to see the digital projector at The Tulsa by Cinemark but I ended up going to AMC Southroads. I have seen a few movies there but this was the first 3D movie I have seen there. It was really amazing and uses a different system from the IMAX where I see most of my 3D movies. Because this was the first digital 3D movie I have seen it also was the first Real D movie I have seen and it really was just about right.

Coraline is based on a book by an author I have always liked, Neil Gaiman. He writes mostly adult science fiction but occasionally will write a children’s book that is always well received. He is also kind of a creepy guy as you can see form his video on Koumpounophobia. What could be creepier than just dumping buttons on the ground?

I knew going into the movie that it would be creepy and maybe scary. I was really surprised that there were so many children there. It was almost all parents with their children. Children in the 5-9 range were probably most of the audience. This move is really amazing. The animation is incredible and so is the 3D but that doesn’t really matter because the story was so fantastic. It is wonderful looking and the world feels wonderful but then it gets really creepy and then it freaks out hard, too hard for little kids. I am not sure who would think that giant spiders stealing children’s eyes would be alright to watch but I guess it worked out. There wasn’t any crying so I guess it all worked out just fine. They theater did get completely silent when the ghost children showed up.

With this newer 3D technology it makes me really look forward to Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland and really really look forward to James Cameron’s Avatar along with TR2N coming next year. Avatar will be the first of the big 3D movies in December but 2010 will really be the year filled with ultra budget 3D movies. Aliens vs Monsters and the Toy Story rereleases will have to help me get by until then.

Update: I forgot. There is a great song by They Might Be Giants that plays a key role in Coraline’s alternate world with her Other family. It is really nice treat and if John Hodgman did sing well he would probably sound like They Might Be Giants.

Over the last few years I have tried coding my own blog, then WordPress, then Textpattern, then Drupal, then Movable Type. Coding my own was hard. I used WordPress for the longest amount of time but never really thought it was that special. Textpattern was clean and simple but I wanted something full of features. When I moved to Drupal I thought I had really found something amazing. It can do so much, pretty much anything. I loved the theme song and that it had a theme song. I started customizing the install and adding all sorts of modules to make it do everything that I wanted it to do and it was so awesome. The problem I had when I moved from WordPress originally to cleaner or more powerful solutions was that I didn’t feel like posting as much stuff. It might have been harder because it was so powerful or maybe it felt a little bit more grown up so I wasn’t as interested in posting simple stuff. I tried to fix that by moving to Movable Type.

Movable Type is very clean and super fast loading which is nice but I had the same problem that I was less interested in posting stuff. I have looked at the menus and I am not sure what is different but it still feels like posting stuff is just enough out of the way that I wasn’t interested in getting stuff up.

6 years ago from last Tuesday, in the comments for this post WordPress was created and since that is what I had the most success with I thought I would try going back. For all the reasons I switched from WordPress (nothing special, not powerful enough, too slow) those have kind of gone away. It is still a little ordindary, still not the most poweful and still kind of slow but it is and has been improving steadily for the last few yeas. If there is something in another blog publishing tool or CMS that is good enough to switch for, it will end up being in WordPress soon enough anyway. At least that is what I am starting to learn.

As I sit here at Dan’s house working on his laptop and getting his camera ready to go for Santa Fe I just wanted to get back online to my account and finish this post because it is easier and more engaging than the software I had used before. Because this tool (WordPress) is built for blogging that is what it tries to do best. I set up my mobile posting through Flickr like it used to be. I haven’t even thought about just putting one picture up in a long time. It was probably because I got hit in the head so hard.

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I was at a sushi party/lesson a couple days ago and here is a video of me eating a vegan roll. It sure was something special. Cucumer, jalapeño, radish sprouts, avocado, rice and nori all rolled up and dipped in some soy sauce with a little wasabi.