Read a lot of ultimately pointless posts about politics on a video editing forum, strange times indeed.
Went to the opening night of the Sydney Film Festival, saw a great movie, Ten Canoes.
Watched The Making Of Deep Throat, hm, there's a movie that could start an interesting discussion.

Bob.

bought my first digital video camera
ordered sattelite internet
went to son't T-Ball game.

:)

Edited an elementary school musical while running back and forth outside to refinish my rather large deck. All that with company over to boot. I really enjoyed it. The weather was great in New York this weekend (for a change).

John

Now the making of deep throat that sounds interesting---obviously Linda Lovelace could not do commentary because----well you know.

Transferred the entire Super8 movie film collection from the inventor of the famous Harley-Davidson motorcycle faring.

Hadn't used my old Workprinter film -> video transfer unit in awhile. Makes me appreciate my 16mm film -> video invention. The Workprinter operates at 4 fps; my invention works at 24 fps. Both are discrete frame capture devices, like the Rank Cintel.

Today, I begin work to edit 19 cans of 16mm film that I transferred last week.

drank beer
played Quake
revised TV script

Went to Vloggercon in San Francisco...

Edited and Posted via Laptop my video podcast:

http://www.neo-fight.tv

Best,

Benjamin

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Rested up from 6 straight days at Walt Disney World and Universal Studios. And now I need a vacation....

After finishing a very complicated and difficult all-night project at 4am, I hopped in the car with my wife and drove to Yosemite.

Hiked to all the cool waterfalls that currently look about the best they have ever looked, due to hefty amounts of water from snowmelt.

Extra nice also because I was just cleared to exercise again after more than 6 months of weekly physical therapy to fix a sports injury.

Saw the movie "Cars" which was a blast. I can't remember when I last saw an audience have such a good time...

That movie really was a labor of love, recommended!

Friday :beat up Michale Moore
Saturday : kicked some Rush Limbaugh @$%
Sunday: no, I aint touchin the religion subject.

rather normal weekend

beat up Micheal Moore on Firday?

why?

WHY?

WHHYYYYYYYYY?

wh...y?

why didn't you do this both on Thursday and Firday?

"why didn't you do this both on Thursday and Firday?"

LOL - No kidding there sure is enough of him.

OK OK - I'm done - I just sat infront of both my screens and worked more or less - now that summers in full swing I'm gettin about 3-5 miles of biking a day - assuming it's not raining or blowing like a tornado out. Man - I'm sure glad I got a new bike instead of a scooter - 1/10th the cost and no licensing (required in my state)/Gas, not to mention all that great fresh air and exercise.

Dave

i'm assuming on wednesdays you read my Quake mod review to see what to play that weekend, right? :)

Taped my daughter's High School graduation on Friday. Edited it added still pictures and a cinescore background for entertainment at the party Saturday afternoon.

Received rave reviews and was the proud dad.

Tried to finish off Elite Force 2, some Neverwinter with my bro, dropped off clients promo pics to him - he was very happy.

Oh and the usual alcoholic beverages. Oh yes, captured 11 tapes of my friends trip to Brazil.

.......about that capturing job. Gotta say, a secondary computer with an external hard drive is great for these kind of tasks.

uploaded videos to my MYSPACE.

Taped my daughter's High School graduation on Friday. Edited it added still pictures and a cinescore background for entertainment at the party Saturday afternoon.

Received rave reviews and was the proud dad.
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Now THAT's cool.

John

Is the weekend over already? Where did it go? Krunch Time! I got three projects stacked up and I’ve been pulling my hair out all weekend. The first is a graduation video yearbook/photo montage for this Friday night. Each year I do a video yearbook for the 8th grade class at my kid’s school. This year, my son is in the 8th grade. (suffice it to say, the pressure is ON)

The middle of the video is about 120 group pictures of the kids. The parents gave me about 200 pictures to choose from. Then my wife added OUR pictures. (to really appreciate this you have to understand that my wife is a shutter bug and takes pictures of everyone’s kids not just ours and she also is the editor of the school yearbook so she has pictures of every event that ever took place for the past 8 years.) When I opened the picture scanning folder there was 805 pictures! YIKES!!! There is no way I’m getting 805 down to 120.

So now I’m thinking of creative ways to get more pictures on the screen faster. We’ve got it down to 480 pictures and I’m beat mapping them to the songs and doing side-by-side rapid fire and anything else I can think of to get them all in, in the allotted time. It will be shown at the graduation Friday night. Tonight I have to crop and re-scale all the picture because her new camera is 8 mega pixel and they are way too large to just drop on the Vegas timeline. (a little prep work now makes for faster renders later)

If I get that done early (yea right), I have to finish editing the play that the 8th grade did last week. They put on Disney’s Aladdin Jr. and my son got the staring role of Aladdin. ;-) So the 8th grade class is expecting me to show up with both DVD’s on Friday night.

The third project is a short movie that I shot as part of an after school Video Workshop that I ran this year at the school. The kids in the workshop wrote the script, played all the parts, worked as crew, and I helped them do the shooting. There are 112 takes to assemble not counting special effects and there is no way this is getting edited by their Friday graduation. I’ll have to invite them back over the summer for a screening party.

BTW, all of this is volunteer work (for free). Somewhere in there I actually manage to work two jobs, play with the kids, and watch Mythbusters (ya’ just gotta love that show). ;-)

~jr

I'm guessing there's a lot of word of mouth on this film.

All jokes aside, the original is still the most profitable movie ever made, $25K to shoot, I think the total return was over $300M.
Distributed by the The Mob (quite literally), major efforts made to stop it screening that just didn't succeed as there was no visible distributor. In the end the FBI arrested the male lead on some bizarre conspiracy charge, he was convicted and looking at doing 5 years except Nixon lost the presidency, thanks to another deep throat.
The law used to prosecute is still on the books.
Linda enjoyed the fame for a while but never got any real money out of the movie. She went on to denounce the movie claiming she was coerced, well actually worse, she said she was bing raped on camera. She got a fair amounf of media attention when she teamed up with a strange coalition of the moral right and the feminist movement but decades later went back to the porn industry. She recently died in a car accident.

Bob.

that movie was a starting point for many men. today, porn is literally america's number one industry. surpasses hollywood by the billions. i used to be caught up in it in my youth because hey, all the fellas were watching it. but realized how bad it was for anyone to watch. not saying that 'im holy', just it plays with your mind in so many ways.

the promotion on porn is so subliminal, it's criminal. the way how it's being portayed on national tv now, like friends, drew carey, girls gone wild ads (i can't watch comedy central without one of these ads running 50 times an hour), just tv being overly provocative, kids get a hold of the message and run with it, thinking it's all about the impression and scoring in the bed. can anyone remember when they were a kid seeing a woman's rear end during prime time? on A&E (this was on basic cable), there was a movie that intro'd with a couple doin' the wild thang. shot at the foot of the bed, sheet barely covering the 'penetration' area. but you could clearly see her okole (donkey). HOW DOES THAT GET THROUGH, EVEN AFTER JANET'S .000021 SEC EXPOSURE???????

i know, it aslo has to do with parenting, but c'mon, how many times did you get away with things when you were a kid. we ALL knew how to sneak things past our parents. think now of the internet, portable dvd's, mpegs, ipod video, mobile phones. this crap can be distributed to our children in so many ways, enslaving another generation to this filth. i'm sorry if i don't share in the nistolgia of 'deep throat', but it's because of that film, marriages are in trouble, myspace.com is flooded with predators, there are more pedafiles then ever before, child porn is shared like baseball cards, just people thinking that perversion is a normal thing.

okay. enough ranting. sorry, off topic.

Not really off topic at all,
well maybe this belongs in another thread but what the heck.

I certainly agree that said movie isn't worthy of much nostalgia but as a piece of history it is kind of interesting, not the movie itself. To be honest all I've seen are the excepts in the doco and it's pretty much what I expected, appallingly bad, perhaps it's only redeeming feature is it has a story, as a work of erotic art, you gotta be joking!

But the twist is of course it became hugely popular and profitable because it was banned. Going to see it was the thing to do, not because it was porn but simply because it was anti-establishment. As you've rightly noted today what it started is now very much part and parcel of the establishment.

I'd also very much agree with your comments about children today, I truly feel for them. When I was a teenager there were plenty of outlets for our rebellion, be it fast cars, soft porn under the bed or even the odd bit of weed. Today all those things are given to teenagers, what we saw as a way to stick it to the establishment is now used by the establishment to exploit teenagers.

Bob.

what we saw as a way to stick it to the establishment is now used by the establishment to exploit teenagers.

well put.

all i can do is pray and focus on how to get my children to see beyond the hype... and buy a security camera and a shotgun!! lol