From Twitter this morning “getting rocked by one thing and another. open your heart to a few things in life and your eyes get open just after. stories to tell soon” (@mahawkins)
I had the chance to tour Uganda for 5 days at the beginning of June. Amazing time. It’s been on my heart everyday since I got back. It’s left a lasting impression.
Our first day there we picked up Huldah from the police department. She was abandoned at the front of someones property. Left there for anyone to find her. I had the chance to bring my video camera into the police station. You could say that place sure felt corrupt walking through it. If they wanted my camera they could have taken it and I could have done nothing about it. Pieta, aka Mamma, just walked straight through the front door to a back room where two ladies and man had Huldah waiting for us. Huldah was dressed in a blue baby outfit and her diaper on backwards. Huldah and her story has left a lasting impression on my life.
Here’s a picture of her. Absolutely beautiful.
Recently I recieved an email from the team leader we had with us in Uganda. He works with Hungry for Life. He was emailing us to let us know that one of the twins that Noahs Ark was caring for (they have over 100 kids they care for) had passed away. I may have briefly met this little girl. She was sick while we were there and was one of the little ones under quarantine. Nevertheless she left a lasting impression.
I’m weighing a lot of things in my life right now. Where I want to go. What I want to do. I have valued weight in which to weigh it with.
I love ideas. I love the idea of an idea. I love them a lot.
I get a lot of ideas. 90% or more usually go to the crap hole, but other then that I think I occasionally find a decent one.
I think I’m going to write more about how I work from coming up with ideas, to the idea itself to seeing it brought it to life. I think it will prove more useful for me then it will you, but I’ll start working on that none the less.
Ideas can suck. They can get you excited, passionate one second and annoyed, frustrated and disappointed the next.
Ideas are balloons above your head. Some need to be popped, others need more air… or maybe that’s your head…
In the last month here I have had ideas I’ve held on to for a long time – year in fact – just start taking flight. New doors are opening my friend and they bring more ideas. I have never felt more excited and scared about the future then I do right now. The potential is astronomical! That’s probably what I love about ideas – the potential. I’m a potentialist. I love potential. My wife is a realist. We sometimes don’t see i to i. That’s ok. It keeps me balanced, even though my scales tend to dip to the ideas side of life. I don’t think I’d have it any other way.
A while ago I mentioned something on twitter about a stupid bear on the back of a camper/RV. That brought an idea I never knew could come to me but it did. I think that idea will see the light of day far before my idea of creating a robot slave that will automatically beat every punk kid on NHL09 on XBOX LIVE for me. Jerks.
Anyways, processing ideas is under way. It might be a one part series or a 5 parter we’ll see!
Recently I had the chance to film a commercial for Chilliwack Ford. It was great filming the 15 second spot that they wanted. It was to focus on two vehicles, the Fusion & the F-150.
I had the chance to put it together today and send the draft to the client and I wanted to load two videos online for you. The reason being is to show some comparisons. Footage taken straight from your video camera usually needs to be touched up, usually A LOT. Unless you have some great skills and can do some work in production itself, most color correcting will happen in post. It’s just the way it works. So below you will see my first draft and then another video showing the comparison of the original footage next to the color corrected footage (oh and a sky replacement as well). You might notice as well that the draft has a few different cuts in it then the comparison does. Those were last minute changes I wanted to make.
For the color correcting I used a new product for the first time, it’s called Magic Bullet Quick Looks. Its the simpler version of the Magic Bullet Looks all which you can purchase from red giant software.
I think my blog is a priority for work, but I sure haven’t shown that this week. Work has been a priority on top of some more work.
Couple things going on around here that I haven’t mentioned to many people and for good reason. I’ll be sharing more about some new ventures and opportunities that I’ve been striving after.
Speaking of striving, quite a few people have been coming by my blog and looking for my review on the movie One Week. I used the quote from Ulysses in that review and a number of people have been looking for that quote, that quote is, “To Strive, to Seek, to Find, and not to Yield.”
To review some of the stuff I’ve been shooting I figured I would put together a collage of the things I’ve worked on. I thought it was a great idea and then I put it together and I thought to myself… “That’s It!” It doesn’t look like much but it’s been a lot of work. Hope your week is going well.
