I'm back (at least for this week)

[Boingonut]

Well now that school is over I once again have time to post and not just lurk! For this week at least I know I have nothing going on which is something that I am having trouble adjusting too. Next week, welll...I might be starting a whole new film project that will keep me busy most of the summer so that should be fun. Anyway I just wanted to let you guys know what is going on in my life now before I become super busy again!

Mostly for the last 3 months I have been working on my film, I spent many nights in the basement of CalArts slaving over a flatbed editor. I had to compleatly re-splice my film when I spliced it all together backwards the day before I had to present it (live and learn I guess). So I was up all night the day before I had to show it in class re splicing the damn thing! It sucked big time! The film is a project for a class I took that you learn to prossess your own film and some of the film I did not prossess right and so it turned out weird but at the same time kind of cool. But lucky for me I was able to make it work in the loose naritive of the film. Oh and the film is about the state of mind a person goes into while having a seizure. So for the last 3 months my hands have smelled of devoper and fix or have been cut by razor blades from editing (no wonder everyone uses a computer to edit now, all you have to worry about is tired eyes!).

I also have been trying to get a new 16mm motion picture camera. I decided to get an Arriflex 16 BL. After nearly getting riped off 2 times on ebay I found one that was not a scam. The BL is a great camera for a student like me. You can have a crystal sync motor on it so you can sync sound to it and it is blimped so it runs quite unlike the Arri S or Bolex. It is not high speed like the SR's and it can't be updated to super 16 but it will be a nice camera to get me through the rest of filmschool without haveing to wait to sign up for a camera from the school cage. And the coolest thing about it is it looks like a full on motion picture camera! So in a nut shell it is a great camera! The one I bought is coming from Miami so I can't wait to get it. I also bought $500 worth of film (about 2000 feet, or and hour of film) so I am looking forward to shooting it!

I have had other little projects as well. I have this Disneyland think I have been doing with my Bolex (also a 16mm motion picture camera). I just got the work print back from the lab or shoots I took about a month ago and it is looking really good, it has about 2 times the amont of color in it then my old video shoots that I made with my 3ccd camera. I also have this stream of awarness film where I have taken 5 b&w single shoot disposable cameras and I have been taking random shoots of things I notice or am interested in in an effort to capture what my everyday expeince is like. I am going to then going to prosess the 35mm film from the single shot cameras and lay them down on 16mm print film and make a one minute film out of it all!

I am glad to be done with school but I really want to keep myself busy as an artist since I have never felt more creative then I do now so I want to try to get as much as I can out of it!

So yeah, thats it, all that I can think of at the moment anyway!