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Life is but a Taco…

Tue, 06 Jul 2010 16:00:54 +0000

MPLS.tv created the credits for the Soap Factory’s 10 Second Film Festival and did it so well this opening credit won the award in the ARTHOUSE category, and features the Mayor of Minneapolis, Chris Cloud:

the stars of the show

Mon, 05 Jul 2010 19:00:46 +0000

Meta and Frankie Hula @ Lofto Relaxo

Special thanks must be given to two of the smartest, sweetest and cutest girls on the planet, Meta and Frankie Hula, for their pivotal role in ‘sticks‘, thinfilms‘ winning entry into this year’s 10 Second Film Festival curated by the Soap Factory:

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’sticks’ at the 10 Second Film Festival

Mon, 05 Jul 2010 16:20:05 +0000

The crowd at the 10 Second Film Festival

The crowd and judges went cuckoo for “sticks” at the Soap Factory’s 10 Second Film Festival last night – the announcer and the crowd of thousands continued to chant “sticks” long after it screened, especially after I neglected to claim the win (until later) because I couldn’t hear anything! Gee whiz, what can a fella say but thanks to the Soap Factory, Chris Cloud, Dan Huiting, and Kevin Albertson from MPLS.tv, the local celebrity judges Barb Abney from 89.3 The Current, Chris Pennington, and Robyne Robinson. Yet another thousand reasons why Minneapolis is the greatest city in the universe : )

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“Lars can eat carrots really fast” was a crowd pleaser, too, and when i didn’t hear the call to claim the award for ’sticks’ evidently they chose this as the next winner, which i didn’t go up for either because i STILL couldn’t hear anything! : P

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Ghana!!!

Sat, 26 Jun 2010 22:55:35 +0000

chillin @ lofto

Sat, 19 Jun 2010 06:29:48 +0000

there was no magic moment when meta and frankie hula met they just became sisters:

pups chillin @ lofto

Effective venting lessons

Tue, 15 Jun 2010 00:56:11 +0000

the steelpan gets a new coat of paint

Fri, 11 Jun 2010 06:05:18 +0000

Steelpans may be the friendliest instrument of all – unless you can think of one that’s any friendlier…?

This particular steelpan is not full-sized but still has an incredible sound. It’s tuned diatonically and is a magnet to even the slightly curious. Something about it makes it less intimidating than it is friendly.

It’s not an instrument to be used in every song or arrangement but anytime it’s played it injects the space with its festive mode. It has an easy feel to it, played with small, wooden mallets with rubber tubing on the ends for tips. An old pal showed me how to swirl various sized metal balls around the inside to make a hypnotic sound.

From Wikipedia:

The first instruments developed in the evolution of steelpan were Tamboo-Bamboos, tunable sticks made of bamboo wood. These were hit onto the ground and with other sticks in order to produce sound.

Kubrick vs. Scorsese

Thu, 10 Jun 2010 17:26:01 +0000

pixelier: antes y dispues

Thu, 10 Jun 2010 16:01:20 +0000

Bergey made some things that inspired me to start tinkering with stills digitally and call it pixeliering, which is a meager attempt at adding an element of painting to digital images:

Click on that first image right there to see before and after examples larger and more in charger:

This is cool and I like the way the digital mixes together with the analog. These are very time consuming to make so I only have a few of them to show but this is one of my favorites, so far:

conforming 24p

Mon, 07 Jun 2010 11:12:35 +0000

Even though the 5Dmkii has the capability to capture at 24p natively, it’s still a cool effect to capture @ 30p and conform to 24p:

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meta: listening

Mon, 07 Jun 2010 00:23:52 +0000

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