JOURNAL: koronoru (Kevin Oronoru)

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  • So, it's posted 2003-11-05 15:18:35 Now, we'll see if anyone likes it. 
  • Ungrateful wretches! 2003-10-19 12:10:19 Argh! I busted my butt working to get my new Excel Saga/FLCL video ready in time for the local anime club to premiere it at their show this weekend, and then they did not show it. I am pissed off.

    In fairness, it wasn't directly anyone's fault that they didn't show it, and I think they had been planning to before unforseen circumstances arose. They'd been planning an activity for the show, not enough people signed up, they had to cancel that and cook up a different activity at the last minute, the different activity ended up running over time because they hadn't had time to debug it properly, they didn't have time to show any extra stuff like AMVs. I would have been a lot more annoyed if they had shown other, non-member-created, AMVs and not mine, or (even worse) random non-anime Flash animations. At least this way I can tell myself my video was probably the top choice below the cut. But still, geez! Getting it done on time was not easy and involved some personal sacrifices and now I feel that that effort was wasted - I might just as well have taken it slow and had it ready way early for the next show, if I'd know they weren't going to show it this time.

    So now I wonder whether I ought to upload the video and let the world see it (I had been figuring it would be cool to let the anime club have the world premiere), or wait and see if they show it at the next show two weeks from now. 
  • The soul of a new machine 2003-07-22 12:37:42 I haven't done any video editing in a while - busy with other things, and also I de-installed my DVD drive so that I could move it over to the new computer. Then some of the parts for the new computer took longer to arrive than I expected, and there was Fun with the motherboard, and so on, so I've been DVD-less for more than a month now. However, things are looking up. I have all the critical electronic parts of the new machine assembled now and it all works. I was up until 2 last night doing the initial Linux installation; tonight I'll proceed further with that. It's complicated because I want to do it all cool and special-like with RAID and Reiserfs and stuff, and I still don't have the cabling to connect all three IDE devices (two hard drives and DVD-ROM drive) at once, so I can either read the install disc or write to the main discs, not both. The solution is to install into a small extra partition on one hard drive, take the system down, re-arrange the cables, then build the RAID and install onto that, then wipe out the extra partition and build another RAID over top of it. In the mean time, I still only have one screen/keyboard/mouse combo (well, okay, I have spare kbs and mice but no really good ones) so one of my first orders of business was to get networking up so I could plug into one computer and talk to the other over the network.

    So this project is keeping me busy, and away from the editing, but I am having fun, and when I'm finished I'll have a very nice editing system - lots of fast storage, stable OS, excess CPU power, and so on. 
  • Happy Mothyre's Day 2003-05-11 11:08:40 My new video is now uploading to the Dangling Carrot, and should be available for download very soon. 
  • Begin primary ignition 2003-05-08 16:09:18 I've got _Mothyre_ fully sequenced now. That means I have video for all of the time of the song; no more placeholder graphics. I may go back and touch it up a little, but it'd be cool to premiere it on Mother's Day, so I probably won't do too much in the way of extensive editing. I've listened to my custom shorter remix of the music so many times now that when I listen to the original off the CD, it sounds strangely re-arranged. I'm not going to credit CTRL-A in this one because the bastards never acknowledged my previous videos.

    I finally got mplayer to actually work on my computer, and that was sort of eye-opening. Now I can finally watch a lot of the videos from other people that I've been downloading and saving. Also, I can feel more confident about DivXing my own work because I can actually see the results. I downloaded and watched a couple of trythil's videos, since he seems to be using a lot of the same technology I'm using and I thought it would be fun to compare. It's sort of cool that his style is *totally* different from mine.

    I watched "Farm Sluts", probably making me the last person on the entire Interweb to have seen that movie, and was disappointed. Everyone was raving about how funny it was, when it came out, but frankly I thought it was more sad than funny. I mean, look, the movie is about how a guy's life gets totally destroyed, and then he tries to kill himself several times and eventually succeeds. Oh yeah, that's real funny. Ha fucking ha. 
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