that is enormously pleasing, having gone round to floopy's to play the tape in the camera, with it telling me when each shot was taken... then back to here to fix my file which is supposed to know all about all the film shots... then to find what was wrong, fix it, find another problem with the same file, fix that, then find yet another problem and fix that until finally it all adds up and i'm happy...
i love that...
off out to spski's in a bit for a leap day party x
Friday, February 29, 2008
too much footage
and it was going so well...
yesterday was mental as well as monday and tuesday, this life is pretty hard the moment,
so anyway, i was looking at my dawn project footage and i noticed a folder marked 17th january... so i had a look and inside were shots i took on that day for the dawn project, on a DVD camera belonging to hammersmithwork... shots i hadn't counted before, and yet without these shots i was happy that i had enough weeks, accounted for all the shots...
but no... and i still don't really know what's going on, it was very dark around that time so maybe i'm thinking one of the other shots is a main dawn project shot...
oh dear...
in other news i cycled all the way to the school in langdon park today, i go there to support one of my students who is on placement there, it took me just under an hour and it's a great ride, mostly on waterways, 1stly the river lea and then the limehouse cut, i love cycling x
yesterday was mental as well as monday and tuesday, this life is pretty hard the moment,
so anyway, i was looking at my dawn project footage and i noticed a folder marked 17th january... so i had a look and inside were shots i took on that day for the dawn project, on a DVD camera belonging to hammersmithwork... shots i hadn't counted before, and yet without these shots i was happy that i had enough weeks, accounted for all the shots...
but no... and i still don't really know what's going on, it was very dark around that time so maybe i'm thinking one of the other shots is a main dawn project shot...
oh dear...
in other news i cycled all the way to the school in langdon park today, i go there to support one of my students who is on placement there, it took me just under an hour and it's a great ride, mostly on waterways, 1stly the river lea and then the limehouse cut, i love cycling x
Thursday, February 28, 2008
working
on saturday i went out and bought a GB of RAM and 500GB of extra hard drive, got them both home and neither of them worked, £100 not yet working...
floopy was round and after awhile he came into the room and lent his magic presence and magically the drive started working,
the RAM just wasn't having it, so on monday i had a mad day of floating back and forth in this great city and i was passing close to the shop where i'd bought the RAM (well, i'd bought it at a computer fair but the people i bought it from have a shop is kensal green), so i popped in and changed the RAM, got it home and it didn't work...
went off to continue my mad day... tuesday also mad, not quite as mad as monday but i was much the worse for wear by tuesday so it wasn't until wednesday that i tried to work it out again, went through the steps i'd been through before...
and magically it worked...
so i went about moving all the dawn project footage from floopy's camera onto my new drive, i even managed to capture directly onto the new drive via my old computer and the network but it lost a few bits so i went back to capturing on the old computer and moving it over later,
and guess what? this morning i went out for week 51 of the dawn project (i know), came back, plugged the camera in, and it's already over in the new drive, just an hour or so after the shot...
this pleases me immensely...
rehearsing tonight with T's band after hammersmithwork... mental day again..
oh and i've begun a beginners film making course, tiny 6 week thing, very local... x
floopy was round and after awhile he came into the room and lent his magic presence and magically the drive started working,
the RAM just wasn't having it, so on monday i had a mad day of floating back and forth in this great city and i was passing close to the shop where i'd bought the RAM (well, i'd bought it at a computer fair but the people i bought it from have a shop is kensal green), so i popped in and changed the RAM, got it home and it didn't work...
went off to continue my mad day... tuesday also mad, not quite as mad as monday but i was much the worse for wear by tuesday so it wasn't until wednesday that i tried to work it out again, went through the steps i'd been through before...
and magically it worked...
so i went about moving all the dawn project footage from floopy's camera onto my new drive, i even managed to capture directly onto the new drive via my old computer and the network but it lost a few bits so i went back to capturing on the old computer and moving it over later,
and guess what? this morning i went out for week 51 of the dawn project (i know), came back, plugged the camera in, and it's already over in the new drive, just an hour or so after the shot...
this pleases me immensely...
rehearsing tonight with T's band after hammersmithwork... mental day again..
oh and i've begun a beginners film making course, tiny 6 week thing, very local... x
Sunday, February 24, 2008
yr2wk36 hammond, rhodes & voice improvisation
this organ has been making me happy all week, i've begun 3 or 4 new tunes recently with the help of this lovely software beast x
Thursday, February 21, 2008
lunar eclipse
when i was in hotel full of cops, we played at a festival that was celebrating a total solar eclipse....
me, B & J, J who was in the band and B who we lived with.... we were sat on a little rise somewhere in the festival and smoked, while, under a cloudy sky, we noticed a very slight dimming of the light...
that was our eclipse...
then last year at some point me & dinah were @ floopy & T's where they used to live near crouch end, the camera had only recently been bought (the one i borrow for the dawn project) and we were in their garden filming it... but before it happened a big old sky full of clouds came over and that was that, i think we did a zither instead...
so this brings us to tonight, i'm awake, it's 3:45 am, the moon will be just about to become visible again, taking a couple of hours to be full again...
and once more... clouds x
what are you gonna do?
x
in other news i'm trying to write something for M, whose band i've joined and who has some chance of getting signed...
it came from playing on the lovely virtual hammond organ that i have in this here computer...
and i want to be rocky, but it sounds very calm and laid back when i play it, now i'm straying from the chords i've got into another section and it's coming over all funky... JTQ almost...
oh... the challenges of writing something that i want to be something... rather than just letting it go where it wants to go...
hard life (not) x
me, B & J, J who was in the band and B who we lived with.... we were sat on a little rise somewhere in the festival and smoked, while, under a cloudy sky, we noticed a very slight dimming of the light...
that was our eclipse...
then last year at some point me & dinah were @ floopy & T's where they used to live near crouch end, the camera had only recently been bought (the one i borrow for the dawn project) and we were in their garden filming it... but before it happened a big old sky full of clouds came over and that was that, i think we did a zither instead...
so this brings us to tonight, i'm awake, it's 3:45 am, the moon will be just about to become visible again, taking a couple of hours to be full again...
and once more... clouds x
what are you gonna do?
x
in other news i'm trying to write something for M, whose band i've joined and who has some chance of getting signed...
it came from playing on the lovely virtual hammond organ that i have in this here computer...
and i want to be rocky, but it sounds very calm and laid back when i play it, now i'm straying from the chords i've got into another section and it's coming over all funky... JTQ almost...
oh... the challenges of writing something that i want to be something... rather than just letting it go where it wants to go...
hard life (not) x
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
8000th
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glenside, pennsylvania,
our 8000th visitor was looking for longcat encryption when they stumbled across this place...
well even though you're gone now mr/mrs/miss/ms 8000 i'm glad you passed by x
Saturday, February 16, 2008
ghosts of CM past & yr2wk35
this was recorded on tuesday but it's been such a mental week that i've only just got it done... i think it's lovely...
off tonight to celebrate unclefilmo's 40th, it's been awhile...
and then yesterday, on my way to south bermondsey to rehearse with the band currently called perfectly elastic people i bumped into an ex-student of mine from CM, name or R... it took me a little while to remember him as he said hello just after i'd got on the train and i'd just had to wait 10 minutes with the keyboard on my back to buy a ticket (oh south london rail network... when will you embrace oyster pay as you go...?)... but once i'd worked it out he was not much different to how he'd been, a young man now as opposed to the teenager he'd been before...
and then on my way home from south bermodsey i got an answerphone message from one GS who trained to be a teacher with me all those years ago.. i have yet to ring him back... he is truly lovely...
two people from my teaching past i haven't seen in years... nice x
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
rehearsing showcasing
it's been a crazy week, from friday onwards, rehearsing with a new band then gigging at the Marquee Club, then more rehearsing towards tomorrow's showcase in front of a producer and a music industry type...
all this on top of a mountain of marking i've become expert at avoiding and of course the dawn project which rolls into town tomorrow morning quite possibly very misty or that's what i'm hoping...
also improvised with G on tuesday, probably the one person (other than me) who has played more often than anyone else in the collaborative improvisations...
but my life is too mad to allow space for editing video so it will have to wait a little while before it goes up...
x
all this on top of a mountain of marking i've become expert at avoiding and of course the dawn project which rolls into town tomorrow morning quite possibly very misty or that's what i'm hoping...
also improvised with G on tuesday, probably the one person (other than me) who has played more often than anyone else in the collaborative improvisations...
but my life is too mad to allow space for editing video so it will have to wait a little while before it goes up...
x
Sunday, February 10, 2008
Saturday, February 09, 2008
presleep
about to sleep, up tomorrow morning for a rehearsal with M's band, playing @ the Marquee Club in covent garden tomorrow night, we're headlining, sometimes a dubious pleasure but we'll see...
and it's the last night they're open, we'll be the last band to play on that legendary stage...
and my improvisation is as yet un-edited which drives me a little nuts...
x
and it's the last night they're open, we'll be the last band to play on that legendary stage...
and my improvisation is as yet un-edited which drives me a little nuts...
x
Monday, February 04, 2008
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