Two Birds, One Stone... Update

Last night, Carl and I wrapped principal photography for our final in MCJ115! I'll post pictures soon.

Big thanks to Brendan, Nicole, Christy, Tyson, Lisa, and Delanie!

We'll be editing it through next week and have it up on Monday Dec. 15.

Now to get to work on my other finals...

YouTube HD?

I just noticed today that my HD videos that I"ve uploaded to YouTube are showing up with a "Watch in HD" link under them.

Very interesting.

So give these videos a watch and compare them to the Vimeo counterparts:
http://ping.fm/Cn9jm
http://ping.fm/BKcvt

I think I still like Vimeo's interface more.

I'm going to test and see if I can embed in HD.

Stress Balls.

I am totally freaking out.

I have projects and tests and performances this week and I'm not really prepared for any of them.

I have to study for and take an online quiz for my very unfun history class today.

Tomorrow I have a script read through for my video project on Saturday.

Wednesdays are always pretty busy because I give guitar lessons.

Thursday I might have a job interview with an online radio program. And Jared and Gaby are moving into a new apartment and my brother Brandon and I are supposed to help them move in.

Friday is a Jazz Band concert at school. I'm not super prepared for it and need to spend time on my parts, but I don't have a lot of downtime to just woodshed guitar parts...

Saturday is the video shoot which will take all day. I hope all goes well for this.

And if I make it to Sunday, I'm golden.

I also have writing class and history finals to prepare for and those two classes I'm doing the worst in this semester and I really need to pass those classes.



But I had a good Thanksgiving. How was yours?

Little Big Planet

I haven't gotten the game yet, but it looks like Sony already pulled some of the really cool user created levels that infringed on some copyright...

Selling some stuff.

My dad and cousin and I are selling some stuff. (click on images to see eBay page)

I'm selling a 40gb 4th gen iPod hard drive.


My dad is selling a Firewire recording interface.


And my cousin is selling Rock Band for Xbox360.
Message her at http://ping.fm/cNYUK

Message me for details.

Twilight

Twilight was entertaining. I'm going to leave it at that. I haven't finished the book so I don't want to say much more without putting my foot into my mouth.





The midnight showing was fun. There were a lot of screaming fan girls. They were kind of annoying, but I still got my laughs.

The manager came into the auditorium and was doing a little schpeal about how everyone should be excited. Then he said something to the regards of, "I'm sure everyone here is a fan of the books..."

And all the girls in the started screaming in their fandom induced pandemonium. Just as the screaming lulled but before the theater manager continued I shouted, "WAIT, THERE'S A BOOK!?!"




It was pretty funny. You would have to have been there.

Trailer?

A few months ago some friends of mine were in a little play called Star Spangled Girl.

The show was pretty awesome, but I just stumbled upon this little promo they made for the play:


Genius? I think so.

Conclusion

I have come to the conclusion that I like pumpkin pie only with whipped cream.

So the question is; do I really like pumpkin pie, or do I merely like whipped cream?




































































Oh, and I have tickets for the inauguration speech, but no means to get there or stay a few nights yet.

Woah.

I haven't updated here in almost two weeks. Feels strange...

But I've been really busy. Tomorrow we start shooting the final for my video class. I wrote a detective story/film noir. Hopefully all goes well. I'll definitely be posting that when it's finished. There have been some setbacks on the actual shooting times, but it should work.

Thursday night/Friday morning, Nicole (and maybe Carlos) and I are going to see the midnight premiere for Twilight. I haven't finished the book and will probably be the only person in the audience who doesn't know what will happen next. Oh well.

I'm on my congressman's list to get tickets for Nicole and I to go to the January 20th Inauguration Ceremony, but if we do actually get the tickets, I have no idea where we are going to stay in DC. Absolutely everything is booked up... All I can find are fucked up people selling their reservations for rooms on eBay. "Oh, I booked a reservation and I know someone wants this room: You are bidding on the reservation itself, not the actual price of the room, starting bid $300." Assholes.

Hopefully it all works out.

Wish me luck.

Documentary: Unbreakable Glass

The second project for my video production class was a documentary.

I'll admit, Carl did a lot of the heavy lifting on the project and I just kinda just showed up and did what he told me to do...

But nevertheless, here's the final product:


Unbreakable Glass from Carl Merriam on Vimeo.

Click on the title to watch in HD.

Okay, I've got to finish the package that we're turning in tomorrow.

I hope we get an A!