thisdarcy (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} thisdarcy) wrote,@ 2005-07-06 18:41:00 |
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reeling
i don't think i can really start this entry until i make mention of the fact that london has officially won the bid to host the olympics in 2012. now hopefully everyone can shut up about it until i leave town in the fall of next year.
i have my reel! i spent monday and tuesday at the community channel's production office cutting together the clips aaron sent out to me on their final cut pro hd powerbook machine. final cut is nice, it looks really pretty, but i still think premiere pro has a few more things going for it. it was interesting to cut on a different program though, and damn well fun to be editing again. also, it was nice to be in a chilled and happening professional production environment. never been in one of those before. i'm going back on monday to do an output to DVD. but for now i have my miniDV master, and 6 VHS dubs. exciting!
live8 was last saturday. me and a big gang from work got boozed up in a park just outside the festivities as they were coming to a close. we called it 'making our own fun' and we think its something that's gonna catch on. that's when i met sara cake and sam nearly. it wasn't until days later that i learned those weren't their real last names, and somewhere in the fog of my memory i think i may have been the one to make them up in the first place. drinking!
next day wimbeldon came to a close, with federer taking his third straight. watching that guy play tennis is unreal. total containment of human emotion until the moment he made the match point when, in an instant, he collapsed and exploded. cool to think that was happening only a couple of miles away from my flat where i was watching it on tv. what was even cooler was that i was watching tv at all. see, a few days earlier, in a moment of pure idiocy, i dropped a full bowl of cereal on sadie's tv. after cleaning and drying it as best i could, i tried turning it on. after maybe a dozen tries where it would kind of start to turn on then give up, it eventually stayed on but the volume would just shoot right up to full blast. you could hold the down volume button down and it would struggle its way down, but as soon as you let go it would shoot right back up again. then turning it off would take several tries as well. i thought i was screwed. i actually wrote a note and avoided sadie for a couple of days. finally she called me to say she wasn't mad and that she was going to get her insurance to cover it, and i voluntered to pay the deductable which was FIFTY POUNDS. i was glad things were ok and that i didn't have to buy a new tv, or move out, but still, 50 quid down the drain didn't exactly make my day. then sunday rolled around and the rain kept me indoors and i was bumbed because i couldn't watch tv, but i decided to try it again anyway, and like magic it just worked, and its worked ever since. i call this a 'happy ending' and i hope its something that's gonna catch on...
on a bleaker note, the weather here has been piss lately. its supposed to turn around at the weekend. it better - i've made plans with my skateboard!
somebody please tell me that pret a manger is not owned by mcdonald's.
i don't think i can really start this entry until i make mention of the fact that london has officially won the bid to host the olympics in 2012. now hopefully everyone can shut up about it until i leave town in the fall of next year.
i have my reel! i spent monday and tuesday at the community channel's production office cutting together the clips aaron sent out to me on their final cut pro hd powerbook machine. final cut is nice, it looks really pretty, but i still think premiere pro has a few more things going for it. it was interesting to cut on a different program though, and damn well fun to be editing again. also, it was nice to be in a chilled and happening professional production environment. never been in one of those before. i'm going back on monday to do an output to DVD. but for now i have my miniDV master, and 6 VHS dubs. exciting!
live8 was last saturday. me and a big gang from work got boozed up in a park just outside the festivities as they were coming to a close. we called it 'making our own fun' and we think its something that's gonna catch on. that's when i met sara cake and sam nearly. it wasn't until days later that i learned those weren't their real last names, and somewhere in the fog of my memory i think i may have been the one to make them up in the first place. drinking!
next day wimbeldon came to a close, with federer taking his third straight. watching that guy play tennis is unreal. total containment of human emotion until the moment he made the match point when, in an instant, he collapsed and exploded. cool to think that was happening only a couple of miles away from my flat where i was watching it on tv. what was even cooler was that i was watching tv at all. see, a few days earlier, in a moment of pure idiocy, i dropped a full bowl of cereal on sadie's tv. after cleaning and drying it as best i could, i tried turning it on. after maybe a dozen tries where it would kind of start to turn on then give up, it eventually stayed on but the volume would just shoot right up to full blast. you could hold the down volume button down and it would struggle its way down, but as soon as you let go it would shoot right back up again. then turning it off would take several tries as well. i thought i was screwed. i actually wrote a note and avoided sadie for a couple of days. finally she called me to say she wasn't mad and that she was going to get her insurance to cover it, and i voluntered to pay the deductable which was FIFTY POUNDS. i was glad things were ok and that i didn't have to buy a new tv, or move out, but still, 50 quid down the drain didn't exactly make my day. then sunday rolled around and the rain kept me indoors and i was bumbed because i couldn't watch tv, but i decided to try it again anyway, and like magic it just worked, and its worked ever since. i call this a 'happy ending' and i hope its something that's gonna catch on...
on a bleaker note, the weather here has been piss lately. its supposed to turn around at the weekend. it better - i've made plans with my skateboard!
somebody please tell me that pret a manger is not owned by mcdonald's.
