|
(see all photos) |
Sun, Nov 14th, 09:54pm
HO HO HO, the new videos page is done! If there was a video you had a strong reaction to, maybe you could re-watch it and then write a response.
Thu, Nov 11th, 02:49am
I just got back from dancing at Rififis with dalas, William, and British Laura Hintz. William and I were dancing and fighting at the same time and he ended up slapping my face and literally breaking my glasses. I'd been wearing this frame for the past 4+ years when he, Marta, Mom, Eric and I went to the Hunt Valley Mall and bought them. On the cab ride home I said "guys, look" and tossed the cracked frames out the window, saying goodbye to an era of emonerd Lodwick who always has the same dumb ass glasses on. Will I get lasik and never wear glasses again? Will I make a video that more than 800 people in the world relate to??? Stay tuned to blumpy.org to find out.
Sat, Nov 6th, 01:22pm
I showed my four latest vidblogs at a weekly art event called LVHRD. Every week on Monday they send you a text message with details of the location a few hours before the event begins. It was fun seeing a roomful of people watch the videos on a big screen since my target viewer is a dude at his desk with headphones on.
I'm finally starting to approach the work habits that I've fantasized about for years. The past three days saw me pulling longer, better shifts. I think it has to do with being at the end of a few projects, including the transfer of Campus Hook to the servers of the company that bought it from us.
Ok, I'm going to work on the Videos section now. I love you.
Thu, Oct 28th, 04:14am
It's a step in the right direction, but it's a baby step; maybe a step in place where your foot doesn't actually move forward. Futurekitchen is in this folder.
There is one thing about humans that I just can't wrap my head around, and that is LARGE BUILDINGS. They seem like something God or nature created, not other dudes. Almost every human I meet has serious issues, so the idea of a bunch collaborating and creating something as permanent, deliberate, and perfect as a skyscraper is just mind melting. Fortunately, the parking lot across the street got torn up and is being replaced by a 14-story building. I'll see the progress every day, starting at 7am, the time they start working and making a noise that sounds like a twenty foot cyborg butt-fucking an Applebee's. My dreams all end weird these days.
Right now, New York is not being able to say "no" to the seventh consecutive night of drinking gin and tonic with cute, driven people. It's making Ricky lock your pot in his safe so you can actually finish the "funny" video you started a month ago. It's telling three or four people a day, "Josh does accounting and ad sales, Ricky's the editor, I do programming, and Zach's the designer." It's drinking too much coffee every day, just like your parents used to.
Sat, Oct 16th, 07:58pm
I took my first-ever real business trip on Thursday and Friday. I was in Baltimore for almost exactly 24 hours. I went with Josh, Ricky, and Zach to tour G&G; Outfitters, the facility that prints our shirts, and SureShip, their sister company, which handles our shipping. At the facility, someone said I reminded them of John Lennon, and then two hours later on the train, the cafe guy started singing "You say you want a revolution..." when I approached the snack bar. I DON'T LOOK LIKE A BEATLE. Anyhoo, the G&G; facilities were exciting and the guy who runs it, Doug Gardner, is a total pro. It's good too see someone managing 120+ employees to remind us how much less experience we have than other business people.
I was able to have some excellent conversation with some of the key players in my family for my brief stay in Baltimore. Anna, Eric, Mom, and Grampi and I all had dinner together at Mom's house in Timonium, MD, which is north of Baltimore city. Mom cooks better food than she did when she and Dad first split up in 1991 (?). Dad is a chef and never makes anyone else do any cooking.
Ray Raposa is here in NYC from San Diego and we're working on his music video. I think I have some solid ideas and I'm eager to see what happens when a project like this isn't left entirely to chance. We're going to finish his phase of the shooting tomorrow and the rest of the shooting, with dalas and Aba, on Halloween weekend. Ray and I are both pretty bad at pool, I've found. I also have to finish Future Kitchen with dalas tomorrow. We've been taking way too long to finish it - it's just a three minute short. My goal is to have that in the bad and on this site before next weekend.
Haha, "goals".
Tue, Oct 12th, 09:01am
I guess something I've been resisting is turning this into a "New York blog" but I realized this morning I have no other choice. Living here right now and running an Internet company means busy days and busy nights. The diffence between day and night is I'm on caffeine in the day and alcohol at night. Another difference is Night is where all the important stuff happens, and where all the fun happens. Day is basically the structural supports that keep Night from collapsing. Night always tries to destroy Day, but Day prevails because secretly that's whose side I'm on.
Another thing is the friends issue. We've made lots of new friends since we moved here on July 1st, 2004, but I haven't made many. Almost everyone new is "Jake and Ricky's Friend" or "Josh and Zach's Friend" or "The CV Guys' Friend". This isn't necessarily bad because a) it's probably temporary, b) The CV Guys getting closer and tighter as a group is an important long-term goal of, I think, all four of us. One thing that helps is the number of times two or three or four of us have been asked, "Are you a band?". I don't think they ask because we look like rockers; they ask because we're comfortable with each other and seem united towards some goal. Usually when you see young guys out during the day, they're not sitting close together, chatting comfortably.
Tonight Kara is coming over to work on the Castanets video with me. I think that she is the art director for the video. Saying that sentence just now was a big step for me because I'm finally starting to admit that other people's help is exactly what my videos have been lacking. I consider myself "good" at exactly one aspect of videomaking: editing. This conflicts with my weird, old, quiet belief that anyone else's involvement in a video makes it somehow dishonest or "not mine".
Mon, Oct 11th, 09:15am
I'm doing pre-production on my second music video, for my friend Ray's band, Castanets. It's likely going to star dalas, a new girl I'm friends with named Aba, and Ray himself. Usually when I make a video I get in over my head with complicated ideas and lots of weirdness, but this one is going to be simple. Maybe that's the theme: it's a straightforward, simple, obvious video. My goal is for anyone to watch it and be able to say, "I am not confused right now," and be telling the truth.
Wed, Oct 6th, 05:54am
Most mornings, I get up shortly before 9:00, at which point I start working in our office. Today I got up at 7:30 and took some time to let my brain warm up. I ate a relaxed breakfast, and worked on a new version of my website some more. What's on my mind lately is finishing one personal project (FutureKitchen), and one business project (BustedTees.com 2.0).
Sun, Sep 26th, 10:19pm
We shot the new short, FutureKitchen. We had two wonderful actors, a set, props, lights, a script, and a good microphone - all the things you need to make a film that pushes the boundaries of amateurism! We also captured the footage, and dalas and I are going to work on editing it this week.
I kind of realized that the amount of work I put into my website is directly proportionate to my social success in the real world. So I think I'm going to make that a priority now. That's really all I need - time for videos, time for my websites, time for my real job, and a party I can get really drunk at once a week.
Also, I uploaded a lot more video to the videos folder.
Thu, Sep 23rd, 10:27pm
Yesterday dalas and I worked on a project with Michael Berkman, who works at Spike TV. It's a pilot for an interstitial series; ie, something that would air in 30-second chunks between breaks in a movie broadcast. It's called "How To Win At Everything".
It was a good experience for many reasons. I'd talked to a lot of TV producers over the years about possible projects, but I'd never actually done anything with them. Actually making a real, watchable video is so much better than just talking about one. I'll post that video here after we edit it.
Also, dalas and Josh got me motivated to upload more of the old videos. They're kind of unsorted right now, but at least you can look through them (even the embrassing ones I should hide)! Videos are here.
I'm feeling good and productive. In this one-week span I will have released a new vidblog (#014), shot that project with Michael, shot the first short for our other, independent TV pilot (this Sunday) and uploaded a bunch of old videos. That really helps explain why I don't spend any time with girls anymore!!!
|
|
|
|
