Category Archives: story
Clearing Cobwebs
I’m actually not allowed to blog, there’s too much else in the queue, priority one, hurry the fuck up and get it done sort of stuff. So let’s just keep this a secret, just you and me… k? Where have … Continue reading
Posted in Daughter of God, desire, organization, plan, real life, research, story, time, upkeep
Tagged madness, random update
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Almost and update
Well Howdy do? Been a long lick since I’ve checked in and offered an update on my cini-state. Standby for bullet points. Clambored onto Vine today. Posted ~10 videos, perhaps a dollop or two of genius among the lot. Tighter … Continue reading
A Dogged Determination
I thought I’d already begun a post on the almost obsolete topic of unfinished projects. It’s been on my list to finish that post, but I guess I never started it. Well, here we are anyway. Since posting Illustrated Revelations … Continue reading
Posted in Daughter of God, health, people, plan, real life, research, story, time
Tagged bus, David Allen, DOG, Getting Things Done, serendipity, wheel
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Illustrated Revelations on an Art of Self
The outcome for 1/1 – 1/2 is to publish a clear and fun compendium and quick reference for the driving objectives of 2013. Let’s begin with thinking about thinking. How do introspective sessions connect and coalese, how do I bind … Continue reading
Posted in Around Lake Michigan, Daughter of God, desire, health, organization, people, plan, practice, production and post, protocol, real life, research, Science Fiction Musical, story, upkeep
Tagged alternate universe, chaga, DOG, driving force, earth, fuck mother, george galloway, glimmung, goals, hack, Lena Maude Wilson, mantak chia, master ru, money, objectives, pkd, polymath, projects, swami bua, tantra, teachers, to do, wordpress
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Progress
Good lawd, what a ride. It’s November now and peddle to the metal. Today I am going to finish revisions on the team and tasks document. Roto artists are providing a constant flow of results. Money is definitely thinning out … Continue reading
Posted in budget, Daughter of God, research, story, technique, workflow
Tagged focus, hologram reshoot, joe, post, roto, storytelling
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Music to repair cars by
Ben Woody rocks. As a summer intern for Trickster Pictures, Ben rotoscoped for DOG with zen-like concentration and produced a slew of personal bliss projects for YouTube. Towards the end of July, he proposed making a time lapse of his … Continue reading
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Tagged After Effects, ais clamps, auto body, ben woody, camille frixen, chapel pond, dan kelly, danny fox, deer, fauxgrass, gopro, maple grove, paint, precision collision, reagan frixen, tim mckay, time lapse
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As you May Know
I’m proud of my FBI record. To clarify, I’ve never worked for the FBI. What I mean is that the FBI has a file on me. Not only do they have a file on me, but it’s secret. That’s why … Continue reading
Asad 8-30
Having safely landed his ship on the surface of the strange planet, Micro Mizako secures the bridge with a flick of his mighty gauntleted wrist. All systems spin down in a satisfying whirr of mysterious technology. Not mysterious to Micro … Continue reading
Airplane! dubbed in Spanish
Here’s my story a day for yesterday, written in the whee of this morn. This is a true story. A man lies in a vaporous clawfoot bathtub watching the movie Airplane! – dubbed in Spanish. He doesn’t speak Spanish, but … Continue reading
As tor yaday
Or, a story a day. The domain name is being squatted by the by. I love squatters because they make the search for useful domains so much more interesting. I was searching on a bunch yesterday, found some cutsie doozies. … Continue reading
Fukushima in the USA
Arnie Gunderson – 23 plants in the USA identical to Fukushima, 2 near Chicago, Dresden and Quad City neither are on Lake Michigan
Posted in Around Lake Michigan, budget, plan, production and post, research, story
Tagged Arnie Gunderson, fukushima, nuclear power
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Prop and set injections
She’s approaching the boat, passing boutique shops. Haute and Tea Room. Haute was couture for ladies and now features clothing strewn every which way, stylish gowns half hanging through shattered windows, fluttering in the morning breeze. Tea Room sign has … Continue reading
Posts to post
I’ve been blogging in my mind for the last couple of months, here’s a sample of the topics I’d like elaborate on soonish. First, a crisis of confidence. Gosh, why blog at all? With the explosion of FB, a personal … Continue reading
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Tagged animation, ben woody, cows, doug michels, dragon frame, farm, flag of earth, h16, hello world, hobie, james allegro, james weston schaberg, Jeff Gibbs, nuclear power, patrick kelly, rosie, seti, shack
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Posted in ideas, plan, production and post, Science Fiction Musical, story, technique
Tagged animation, ben woody, dragon, ideas
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Cutting glass
Ben and I do DOG daily (have you met Ben Woody?) but my early evenings and weekends are dedicated to acquiring old Hobie 16s cheap – usually with soft decks and other structural issues. This is long range planning for … Continue reading
Posted in Around Lake Michigan, budget, production and post, real life, research, story, technique, workflow
Tagged ben woody, deck, fiberglass, hobie, hull, rotozip
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Artist reference May 2012
Introduction x Daughter of God is a narrative short originally shot in 2006, now moving steadily through VFX towards a completion by summer of 2012. Though roto artists will be repairing some continuity and production gaffs, we are mostly adding … Continue reading
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Tagged assignment, cell, communication, compensation, completion, contractor, DOG, roto, team, text, VFX, workflow
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Today is the first day…
…of the rest of your life, Geritol. Use only as directed. Welcome back to the DOG progress report. Editorial on the first and second act is (dare I say it?) done. There are some weld edits which require a deeper … Continue reading
Progress on Gerry’s cabin
Gerry’s cabin or Act 2 is very close to it’s final iteration. The length was cut from 9:00 minutes to 8:15, 45 seconds. We lost some lag and tuned the performance by splitting several two shots. My first foray into … Continue reading
Interns and the last test of Version 1.0 2012
Trickster Pictures has two interns through the TBAISD Career-Tech Center’s Film and New Media Program – Cameron and Micah. They’ve been learning how to rotoscope using both After Effects and Mocha and will hopefully be able to contribute to DOG’s … Continue reading
Testing V 1.0 2012 script revisions
I’m now cutting a rough test of the script revisions, with some basic effects and visualizations. So far so good. Having tried with the narrator voice, it’s too heavy and preachy. Interwoven with other audio it’s doable. The shortwave audio … Continue reading
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Tagged backstory, editorial, flashback, inventory, rough cut, story, surveillance, taoism, taoist, trope, VFX
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DOG – script revisions
The plan is to revise the DOG script based around existing live action and VFX elements, adding new elements only when absolutely needed. It’s faster to rewrite than it is to edit. Unfortunately, Final Draft doesn’t have a very robust … Continue reading
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Tagged Daughter of God, deletion, DOG, inventory, notes, rationale, revision, script, technical, VFX
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And so, DOG
Recent posts explore the motivations behind finishing / not finishing Daughter of God. Dedicating an hour to daily introspection makes sense, meanwhile the urge to edit builds. If finishing is really so important, why don’t I just finish? Rather than … Continue reading
Posted in Daughter of God, plan, production and post, real life, research, story, technique, time
Tagged completion, episodal, length, notes, review, strategy
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Another DOG milestone… missed!
I’ve overrun the rescheduled inventory deadline, after only getting in about 30 hours in the last 6 days. What else was I doing? Some M3 business on Wednesday, the usual training, eating, sleeping, maintaining social ties, fixing things… Below is … Continue reading
Posted in Daughter of God, people, plan, production and post, real life, research, story, technique, time, workflow
Tagged a unit, Alan Watts, Ann Loeding, b unit, canada, eiji sumi, Faisal Azam, Final Cut Pro, inventory, milestone, objective, plan, prickles and goo, projection, test screening, tight, wide
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DOG notes August 1-15, 2011
As I dive back in, there will inevitably be tangential ideas and inspiration. These I’ll write down for later review, deep storage… edit (tools) image placeholder or describe what’s seen new script index cards image cards qualities humor / backstory … Continue reading
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Tagged adr, notes, to do, variation, versions, VFX
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3 flavors of DOG
Let’s talk 3 versions. There’s a working 3:30 minute core, ready to get sleeky. The 2011 approach to the final cut is to cut to the core and add back in. Story support – what’s worth adding to deepen, reveal … Continue reading
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Tagged festival, flavors, grail, length, motion graphics, short, sweet spot
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ECL interviews DK – 3:30 milestone
A transcription of pro tem Producer El Carne Loco’s interview with Director Dan Kelly regarding Daughter of God’s first milestone completion in 2011. ECL: Regarding the 3 minute version, what do you feel was accomplished, did it meet your expectations? … Continue reading
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Tagged blonde, dan kelly, director, el carne loco, Faisal Azam
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DOG resurrection
She’s back! Daughter of God is in the house. 3:30 minutes The first objective was to post a micro version of the story (~3:00 minutes) by Wednesday 8/10. Between Sunday 8/7 and Wednesday 8/10 I was able to dedicate 11 … Continue reading
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Tagged accelerated narrative, creative direction, dan kelly, director, DOG, dramedy, edit, editorial, el carne loco, Faisal Azam, producer, recap, sleek, uncle joe, vision
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DOG post-production meeting
After updating the archive’s catalog the last couple of days, (40 terrabytes worth), I was finally ready to crack the DOG project this morning. Upon reviewing the major sequences, I had a series of epiphanies. Inventory Cataloging the possibilities will … Continue reading
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Tagged 3 movies, deliverable, DOG, edit, editorial, epiphany, Faisal Azam, inventory, milestone, nyc, production, script, sfx, story
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The aesthetic and what’s next?
So we’ve pre-released the sfx reel and shared a little history. Now what? There are 4 sheets of newsprint in the backroom covered with to dos, here’s the jist. Two archival and non trivial projects are in the queue for … Continue reading
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Tagged avenues, constant vigilance, good enough, kiss, perfection rejection, serving story
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Canyon Princess
Premise “Up on the canyon edge, there’s a ship that sails the sky. They say it carries a thousand ghosts who once ate black gold and lived as gods. Big waters brought it here before my grandmother was born. We … Continue reading
Posted in Daughter of God, people, plan, production and post, projects, real life, research, SFX reel, story, technique, workflow
Tagged aleister crowley, bricks, color correction, cruise ship, Daughter of God, Dave Crowley, kiss, roto, san juan, tracking
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Uturnpike’s drift
Premise Mysterious rows of snow covered cars snake into the distance. What happened here? Was a neutron bomb exploded nearby? Were the drivers raptured away by the returning Messiah? Why are the cars bumper to bumper in both directions? Unturnpike … Continue reading
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Tagged 3D, ae, cars, dan kelly, documentation, DOG, Jeff Gibbs, low level, mocha, patrick kelly, pennsylvania turnpike, planar tracker, the road, tracking, uturnpike, viggo mortensen
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Commando Kill
Premise CK is a black ops super warrior run amok. His self determined mission is to bring down technical civilization by crashing key elements of infrastructure. He’s forever skulking around power stations and military installations, tossing precise sabots with economy … Continue reading
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Tagged 3D, bear lake, blender, box truck, brad kinnan, catastrophe, character, chinese, cigar, city of milwaukee, clouds, commando kill, composite, concrete, epa, fire, halloween, hazard, industrial, infrastructure, live action, mandarin, manistee, missile, msu, no smoking, penske, rocket, ron brown and sons, roto, sabot, sabotage, signage, super warrior, translation, us 31, vector, vixia hf s100
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Climate Change and digressions
Premise Climbing high above a menacing mega-weather system, the VIP passengers aboard the Execu-jet attempt an escape to gentler climes, anticipating warm backrubs and frosty cocktails. Hubris! Even the mighty kerosene sucking turbo engines cannot forever loft such a heavy … Continue reading
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Tagged activist arrogance, ae, After Effects, boondoggle, california, cherry capital, climate change, container ship, convenience, environment, environmental debt, excess, genarts, global life support, hollywood, jamaica lynn weston, james weston lynn, james weston schaberg, Jeff Gibbs, jet, jet flight, Jonathan Kelly, landing gear, life support system, lightning, local growers, patrick kelly, privilege, right livelihood, roto, sapphire plugin, stabilized, stabilized footage, strobe flash
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R and D for Science Fiction Musical
Gosh, it’s nearly midnight, but I’ve gotta write a report on the recently initiated R and D for the Trickster Pictures project, Science Fiction Musical. James Weston and I are making narrative dance projects by recruiting talent from Mykl Werth’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Crystal Lake, dan kelly, erin louise hoagg, ice, james weston, panasonic hds-tm700, patrick kelly, tiffany ingalls, vixia hfs-10
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Party theory
What is a party anyway and Why do I keep having them? These questions are surprisingly sticky, fraught with dangerous revelations and dark discoveries. With not a little trepidation I turn my attention to look, to document, to understand. Though … Continue reading
Posted in people, production and post, real life, research, story, technique, Uncategorized
Tagged apocalypse, beat, dragons, flow, party, partyest, partyst, phenomena, production, rhythm, sustainable civilizations, terrorist, trickster pictures, what, why
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Integrity trap
Yet another iteration of a mistake I’ve made before. Perhaps by sharing the shame with my imaginary audience, I’ll find a way to uninstall the pattern, permanently. Some years back I had this terrific collaborator, let’s call her L. She … Continue reading
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Tagged clandestine, collaborate, collaborator, collective, dance, documentation, friend, friends, integrity, invisible line, machiavelli, manipulate, manipulation, performance
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The clean shaven look
I did it. Redesign and radical simplification of http://ondesire.com has been implemented. There’s more to come but the major scaffolding is in place. Here’s the landing page. Pretty sparse eh? The idea is push some of the complexity deeper into … Continue reading
Posted in Around Lake Michigan, software, story, technique, workflow
Tagged blog, bounce rate, design, fred oeflein, landing page, movies, navigating, ondesire, overwhelm, structure, tamarack software, views
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Bounce rate rebounds
Jonathan, Luke, Steve and I were looking at analytics for ondesire.com last night. After posting the Premise page on Friday, bounce rate shot back up to 40%. The point of looking at bounce rate is to see how effective the … Continue reading
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Tagged analytics, bounce rate, dan kelly, Jonathan Kelly, landing page cross post, lucas kelly, steve kelly
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Flyboy via iPhone
Just finished reading Jim Munroe’s FLYBOY ACTION FIGURE COMES WITH GASMASK as a text file on the iPhone. Good times! Check out his other story downloads at http://nomediakings.org. Scrollariffic!
Deconstructing doom
Jonathan has been questioning the veracity of the doom assertion in the ALM / artifact premise. A premise or pitch is a shorthand introduction to a project – typically delivered in less than 15 seconds (and often in an elevator). … Continue reading
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Tagged ALM, alm guide, Around Lake Michigan, artifact, consumer, dan kelly, delusion, disconnection, diy, doom, elevator, Jonathan, Jonathan Kelly, pitch, premise, survivable, sustainable, toxic consumer culture
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Meeting 10-03-06 ondesire landing page
We’ve had two dream team meetings, in Brooklyn (Faisal, Erica and Dan) and yesterday in Beulah (Steve Elrick, Melonie, Jonathan, Lucas Kelly and Dan). Inviting collaboration and contribution was the focus of Saturday’s meeting. Components of the ask package for … Continue reading
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Tagged androgenous, artifacts, blog, confuse, dan kelly, definitions, erica velis, Faisal Azam, future sustainable civilization, Jonathan Kelly, lucas kelly, media, melonie, music, steve elrick
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Faisal’s world
Faisal dropped off his edit of DOG. In the spring of 2009 he had offered to bring out the “David Lynch ambiance” while simultaneously loping off “atrocious performance”. He felt that DOG depicted a quirky, off kilter world that was … Continue reading
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Tagged ALM, Daughter of God, david lynch, DOG, edit, Faisal Azam, feature, short, working cut
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ALM guide – inherent
There was another way of doing things once, a way that has become marginalized and almost forgotten but perhaps not quite totally annihilated. A way that isn’t self destructive. We all know the legend… the native people of several continents … Continue reading
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Tagged alignment, battle of krojanty, behavior, invader, lineage, nazi, polish cavalry, tank
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So far on ALM
We’ve been writing and writing. What has all this writing accomplished? Here’s what we know so far. Objectives for the project are identified The story centers around the guide character – his motivations, experience, starting point and transformation Several character … Continue reading
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Tagged ALM, character development, cutaway, guide, objectives
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Shut up about the xroll already
Holographic scenes are trembling moments of pure gestalt. Put them in a sequence and call that a movie. Perhaps an alternate sequence reveals more. If you play it backward you hear, “I buried Paul.” I’m imagining a burst of experience … Continue reading