Halloween

Tonight is the north Halsted Halloween parade.  This is my Halloween thing.  I haven't been to a single party or other cellebration as of yet.  Been chillin it a little bit.  

Anyways I plan to break out my YouTube gear and head over and capture some video of the goings on. I was considering wearing my pirate costume but I'm think I'll just be myself.

The YouTube Guy.

Chicago's Lakefront Bicycle Trail

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race - H. G. Wells.


After I did the time lapse on the Sunrise video I had the idea of mounting the camera on my bicycle and snapping photos while I rode. So that's what I did for this video.  I'm pretty pleased with the video although the tilt bothers me a little bit. I'll have to watch that on the next one.  


For the bicycle sound I flipped I used the bicycle that I have up in my apartment. I flipped it over and put a microphone by the rear hub.  I tried several versions of the sound track. In my first attempts I tried to simulate the sounds of footsteps and I had a bike bell.  All of that was too much, so I simplified things and just recorded the sound of the chain and the occasional coasting hub.


Also, I tried different timings for the still photo. I started with one photo a second, but that was too slow.  At half a second per photo it was kind of like a bike riding kind of fast.  But the total video length was upwards of three minutes.  Way too long for a YouTube video.  So I cut it down to 0.01 seconds per frame, which was a low as I could go. It's kind of a fast ride, but it keeps your attention.






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Sunrise

Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one - Vladimir Nabokov.

I love Russians. It's all about death.

I kind of slept in. Till like 6am. I was up till like 10:30 last night, working on that ShutterLog video.  I swear to god that thing kicked my ass. I can't tell you how many shots were out of focus. Either because I was shooting a long shot on macro, or a close up without the macro. Then there all the shots that had no sound cause I didn't turn on the microphone. 

But in the end I re-shot all of the narrative in my apartment from a high angle. I had a pink gel over the lamp, with an orange shirt, and it turned out fucking great.  

So I was up at six. When I pulled up the blinds I couldn't tell if it was cloudy or not. Only one way to find out. I got dressed, grabbed my bag and tripod and headed out the door. 

I walked over to the park and set up my tripod. I was encourage by the orange poking through on the horizon, but still wasn't sure about the cloud cover. I couldn't see any stars.

 I pointed the camera toward the dawn and started snapping, not video, but stills. I recorded a couple of clips of video but mostly it was stills.  I snapped about one every ten seconds. Doing in in exact time lapse sort of thing. When people or animals entered the frame I started snapping faster. As the minutes passed I realized there was a gap between the clouds and the horizon.  The sun would be poking through.

The time lapse worked.  I'm pretty happy with the video.

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Done With Film

I created a  video for submission to the YouTube ShutterLog channel.  Basically ShutterLog is a collection of short videos of people handling their vintage analog cameras. So I decided I needed some film to load into my camera. I went over to Wolf Camera and explained I need a cheap roll of film.  Maybe something out of date.  The guy goes over to the box and hands me a throw away camera. I'm like this is not a roll of film.  The guy say's, break it open and there's a roll of film inside.  I'm like cool.


So the next day I'm talking with this fella at work.  He says now that was a great video. Probably cause I wasn't yapping away the whole time.  He says it would be great to compare photos from the cheap camera and from the good camera. I'm like bingo!  Great concept.  So I go back over to the camera store and get a couple of Fuji throwaways with good film.  That night I start shooting a new video, breaking open the camera, close ups, long shots, the whole deal.  I check the light meter and see I need a new battery, also a few of the close ups are out of focus so I need to redo those. Plus I need a new sync cable for the Minolta.


The next day I'm back at the camera store buying more throwaways and a lens cap. They don't have a sync cable, maybe I'll pick one up later.  Then it's off to the Radio Shack for a battery for the Minolta.  I get the battery, go outside, and then it hit's me.  Freaking light meter still doesn't work. Oh, and the mirror for the viewfinder is stuck.  And I have no freaking sync cable. Done. Quit.


Now I remember why I love digital cameras. None of the above. And all just shooting and posting.



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October Snow

 

It's going to be a long cold winter - David Moskow.

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Minolta SRT 102 - w / Cannibalized Dakota Freeze Frame ll 400 ASA Film

This video was created for submission to the YouTube Shutterlog channel. ( http://www.youtube.com/user/Shutterlog ) Basically ShutterLog is a collection of short videos of people handling their vintage analog cameras. So I decided I needed some film to load into my camera. I went over to Wolf Camera and explained I need a cheap roll of film.  Maybe something out of date.  The guy goes over to the box and hands me a throw away camera. I'm like this is not a roll of film.  The guy say's, break it open and there's a roll of film inside.  I'm like cool.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNGpW3rq-TQ

90210 - Beverly Hills

Don't blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive - John D. Rockefeller.












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YouTube Gear

A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop - Robert Hughes

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The Change Jar

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants - 


Benjamin Franklin




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Wicked Chicago Wind Storm - Remix

Every wave, regardless of how high and forceful it crestsmust eventually collapse within itself - Stefan Zweig 

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Wicked Chicago Wind Storm

Every wave, regardless of how high and forceful it crests must eventually collapse within itself - Stefan Zweig
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The Garfield Park Conservatory

A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust -Gertrude Jekyll 

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Garfield Park Conservatory

Yesterday I brought my camera to the LP Conservatory. Yesterdays video turned out to be more about love and love lost than the conservatory. But that's ok. Some things just evolve.

Today I plan to bring the camera out to the Garfield Park Conservatory. I'm thinking I'll ride the train, red line to green line. Back in the spring the Conservatories roof got blown off in a storm, hopefully they have that fixed by now.  Also in the spring they recovered a bronze sculpture that had been stolen 50 years ago.  It ended up in ohio, of all places. We'll see if they have back out in front.

The Senses

Every gesture is a gesture from the blood, every expression a symbolic utterance... Everything is of the 
blood, of the senses - Henry Williamson 
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The Aragon Ballroom

The great thing about rock-n-roll is you realize the top of the mountain is big enough for more than one band - Paul Stanley 






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Chicago Film Festival

Madame X 

Madame X, is a Cross Dressing, Indonesian Superhero Movie. Destined to be a Cult Classic, this movie Rocks!

Aming who is a famous cross dressing Indonesian celebrity, thanks to his daring, cross-dressing role in a top rating TV show, pitched the Madame X idea to producer Nia Dinata, who is known for directing Arisan! (The Gathering), which featured the first gay kiss in Indonesian cinema. Nia bought the idea and signed on director Lucky Kuswandi to direct Madame X in 2009.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtUXHANanMU&feature=player_embedded

Wed Oct 12, 1:45pm , EFMADA1 – $5
Fri Oct 14, 10:15pm , EFMADA2 – $13/$10
Sun Oct 16, 4:10pm , EFMADA3 – $13/$10

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Occupy Chicago Day 12 - Moskow Day 2

I'm heading back down to Occupy Chicago at Jackson & LaSalle tomorrow = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiA2rpqr07E

Occupy Chicago

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another - Gandhi.





















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Saints & Sinners - Al Capone's Final Resting Place

Mt Carmel Cemetery is the final resting place of Chicago's Bishops and Archbishops. It is also the final resting place of a number of notorious gangsters including Al Capone.

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The Statues of Lincoln Park

Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.  - Michelangelo 

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