Category: Art

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Ramona Falls – I Say Fever

Ramona Falls “I Say Fever” from Barsuk Records on Vimeo.

“I Say Fever” – the first video from the Ramona Falls debut album Intuit. Directed by the ridiculously talented Stefan Nadelman, winner of a 2003 Sundance prize for his 22 minute film ‘Terminal Bar’, a prolific animator in the commericial field and the mastermind behind the Menomena Evil Bee video.

Ramona Falls is Brent Knopf’s first solo venture, but he has an extensive musical resume as part of trio Menomena (an indie rock band from Portland, OR, that’s snagged plaudits from such tastemakers as Pitchfork Media and the New York Times.)

Directed and Animated by Stefan Nadelman
Produced by Tourist Pictures
www.touristpictures.com

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ON TIME

ON TIME from Bianca Bodmer on Vimeo.

A travelling salesman selling the future in his suitcase.

Project developed for Berlinale Talent Campus 2008.
Shot and edited in 48h.

Screenplay by David Bradley Halls, directed by Ted Chung. cinematography by Bianca Bodmer, music by Elena Titova and edited by Vincent Schmitt.

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New Grooveshark!

If you are a fan of online music at all, you should be checking out the new Grooveshark. The site has gotten a new redesign, which has gone a long way toward exposing their features in a much more user-friendly manner.

You can search Grooveshark for songs or albums or artists, you can upload music to their servers, and you can click the “Radio” button to get a Pandora-like automatic playlist.

Check out Grooveshark today!


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Evernote and Celtx sitting in a tree

Celtx has long been my favorite script-authoring and script-project-management tool of choice. Every Newsbleep episode (that was formally written) was written in Celtx. Actually, pretty much every script I’ve ever written I’ve done so in Celtx. I’ve worked with the product for a while now, and I’ve had the benefit of seeing it grow, most of which I’ve welcomed with open arms. That is, until recently.

The release of Celtx version 2 resulted in one particularly significant change; online project sharing and management would no longer be free. This service, which had previously been called “Project Central”, became “My Studio” and was only available at the price of $5 a month or $50 a year. With a sigh, I said, “No, thank you,” and began looking for alternatives.

Enter Evernote. I was first introduced to this product through its iPhone/iPod touch application. Essentially, it’s a digital notebook. The features that I’ve really come to enjoy about it are its ability to share and publish notebooks, its ability to index text within images, and the host of native applications available. Evernote is perfect as a memory tool. I can capture a thought, idea, or todo item on my work pc, modify it online through the web interface, star it on my iPod touch for the drive home, and finally file it or delete it when I get home.

Like Celtx, Evernote has a subscription-based “Pro” plan. For months, the free version of Evernote’s services was more than enough for me. I honestly didn’t see much of a need to upgrade for the way I was using it. Then we began moving, and I found that I had exceeded my monthly limit and needed to sync some notes. So, I upgraded for the year.

This brings me to why I’m writing this post. One of the features that a pro Evernote account gets you is the ability to drop any type of file into a note. This includes .celtx files. Boom. I now have just as much access to my Celtx projects as before, but I can also use Evernote to add collateral notes, images, pdfs, and more. Anywhere I have Evernote, I’ll have this script. Any changes I make to it will be synced to all my Evernotes. If I want to publish the script, I can just publish the notebook it’s in.

I’m still testing this arrangement out, but so far it works like a charm. If you’re looking for a “My Studio” replacement, Evernote fits perfectly for me.

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Office Magic

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A number of weeks ago, I moved into an office. It’s an office that had had a curse of departing WebWorkers cast upon it, but I saw no fear in it. My only concern was the “stomach lining” wallpaper. I didn’t like it. In particular, I wanted smooth walls upon which I could hang my project folders. What I had inherited was a topographical map.

My original goal was to strip all the wallpaper and paint the walls beneath. Time, and resources, however, were a concern. After doing some testing in a discrete corner of the office, I discovered that the wallpaper was both easy and fun to tear from the walls. I soon found my discrete corner a ravaged half-wall. I had to come up with a decoration style that made sense with this. Eventually, I decided to take the large prints I had had done for my apartment in Madison, and I would treat them as if they had been hiding beneath the wallpaper all along.

It worked pretty well. I put up two New York and two France photos. Actually, they were this one, this one, this one, and this one. It was a pain to get the photo to hang seemingly without assistance, so I opted to add some artist and functional bands of tape across each one. Time will tell how long everything holds up.

I have more plans for the office. One wall, in particular, is lacking full appreciation. I’ll add more pictures when the time comes.

Do any of you have a unique work space?