Health & unwellness
remember that cold I referred to last week, it’s still here. It’s got to the point of annoyingness, so I will try another tack, sleep really early- tonight try 22:30!
I’m with Cold
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Monthly Archives: Jun 2005
Sun
19°C, 6/10 cloud; W wind,
WOW it’s nearly half-past nine, and there is this orange blob on the horizon, just by the Cathederal. Have a look, it’s all squashy and flat along the bottom.
who isn’t guilty
So Jackson is found not guilty
Is that just because the prosecution is of poor quality? I can’t help feeling that actually both parties are guilty, M.J. of the charges that he himself admitted to in that TV program, and the prosecution for pursuing him for his money. MJ has suffered physically, but are we supposed to be sympathetic? The US jury says it’s OK for a 46 year old man to sleep with young boys, but from this side of the atlantic- we here can be sacked for merely touching a child on the shoulder. Another and probably separate issue, arises when MJs fans offer fanatical unthinking support. Fine- so he makes pop music that appeals to large numbers, but what are we to think of in the debate about role models for young black males? Here is a man who has spent vast sums of money concealing and removing traces of his racial origins. Why is it that he still has black fans amongst the crowds at all? He clearly does not think it is good to be black, it’s to be avoided at all costs it would seem. I realise that he is hardly a "normal " person and is not representative, but that doesn’t explain the worship he receives from those fans.
read here: BBC
Jutland
18°C;NW gusty;3/10 cloud;occasional drizzle
New book, tricky one to decide which to get as there are so many. Only read the intro’ so far, but it already contains some juicy words:
"Flens"= flay, or slice up
"Stygian"= as in River Styx, a watery route to the isle of the dead. Heading towards the Isle of the Dead, but who takes them there in the greek myth?
Not a lot
Not much to to report right now, more when I am over this damned virus.
Or at least the stuff I am thinking over is not suitable for this arena. That’s a shame really because this is a good medium for clarifying my thoughts. Also that wouild move this space away from the aim of logging progress of various artworks.
Hopefuly tomorrow I will feel alert enough to start that new painting, and finish the 3 that are lying around in this room. I’ll do a bit, and probably more video editing. Who ever thinks that graphic work on computers is quick ( because the computer does it all) is plain wrong.
Despirately need something to read having just finished one book.
This whole entry is all tweenish
Karaoke … How?
Finished:Capture
All the main video clips are loaded, 15.8 Gigabytes in all. They are saved without compression, or at least as DV AVIs. The last Kareoke part will be the toughest to edit, it needs some colour space correction too. Got time to put together any animation elements now, but should really keep that to a minimum. Hmmm.. I wonder what applying gimmick effects to the kareoke section will do- maybe it’s a bad idea- but may as well play with it to see.
– Still light at 22:15; 20°C, light NE wind, 6/10 coud cover. Much grass has been cut. The headcold is no better today.
Premier rough cuts
22°C, 0/10 cloud, :. perfect
Doing more selection during the capture stage of that video, then shove it all in the timeline with Automate to Sequence maybe that’s a good way to do it, at least I get an idea of how long the whole thing is. Currently it’s an hour, waaaay too long, but I can see where to make cuts, there are quite a few quirky moments that could be left out.
How much can fit onto a single-layer DVD anyway?
Don’t paint:
-when you aren’t 100%
You really have to be alert, there is no point painting when you are ill, hungry or just tired. Last night’s work needed some repair today. There is one effect that is troublesome now though- adding a thin glaze over fairly dry paint causes a repellant resist effect, the liquid seems to be repelled by the dry layer. Adding a body layer seems to solve it but that can be a step backwards.
Remember how annoyed I was in the 1980s when it was suggested to me that I should" use drugs for inspiration in my art". I was livid- how crass is that?
Below is stage 2 in a painting of my feet. It has linseed layers even though the whole thing is is tonal. There is a lil feeling in teh gut that tells me "this is wrong". Perhaps those tonal thoughts are really excised now, unlike college days. .
, 19°C,no wind, 0/10 cloud;deep green landscapes everywhere
capture video
that cold is here to stay for awhile. No cycling today
So instead:
Taking a break from editing the school trip video, the end of the first tape seems a good point. Actually I’m not really editing it as such yet, still capturing to the computer. It al looks good so far. There is plenty of footage as well as some excellent music to use.
definitely the best way to get into Adobe Premier.
more later
Firewired
YEP! 
It works, edited a test video now and am ready to do the tapes from Japan. So it was a faulty firewire card, now I have to come to trerms with the feeling of stupidity because I didn’t do it before.
We’re probably off to a concert tonight at the Birmingham Symphony hall, – not exactly sure what it is though.
Micycle 