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[According to a newspaper article I read this morning in the Metro - the tide has changed in California, 52% of the voters polled by telephone supported same-sex marriage opposed to 41% who still opposed it. So, yay! Our call in campaign worked! Although to the 41% that still opposes it? Apparently these people are a little backwards, so we need to be very patient with them, speak slowly, write at a third grade level and they might some day begin to understand a concept higher than tree pretty! fire bad! (smiles evilly)
Wales took pity on my music collection and lent me about ten CD's which I'm importing into my itunes library and onto my ipod, where I'll make little playlists for myself, assuming I can figure out how. Writing this while I'm doing that, more or less. Turns out do not have the patience to make playlists, so did a very lame job regarding it. But did import all the tunes - now have 18.5 hours of music to listen to, not that I will, but still... yay me.]
Saw two flicks this week that made me appreciate film editing, a craft that I tend to pooh-pooh most of the time. It's certainly something I've 0 patience for - scanning lots and lots of images and selecting the correct ones to place into a film. Film editing for the curious is basically what vidding is. People edit film images and creat videos from the sliced pieces of footage they have cobbled together from various sources - sort of like a multimedia collage. [Don't like vids very much, and rarely if ever watch them anymore, but won't annoy you with my reasons why, to each their own, after all. Are they permissible under copyright law? Like everything else - it depends on the vid. Most of the Buffy vids probably are not permissible under copyright law but Fox isn't doing anything, because the show is over and well who cares at this point. No one is making any money off of them. If you are? Go find a copyright attorney to advise you, otherwise, don't worry about it.]
Anyhow...the two films I saw this week could have used a really good editor. Sad really, considering who was behind the helm, Richard LaGravese and Stephen Spielberg/George Lucas, hardly amateurs in the film editing, production and direction department.
( Review of Indiana Jones & the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull - cut for potential spoilers and length )
( Film Review of PS: I Love You - cut for potential spoilers, although they are either vague or provided early on in the film, and length )
Wales took pity on my music collection and lent me about ten CD's which I'm importing into my itunes library and onto my ipod, where I'll make little playlists for myself, assuming I can figure out how. Writing this while I'm doing that, more or less. Turns out do not have the patience to make playlists, so did a very lame job regarding it. But did import all the tunes - now have 18.5 hours of music to listen to, not that I will, but still... yay me.]
Saw two flicks this week that made me appreciate film editing, a craft that I tend to pooh-pooh most of the time. It's certainly something I've 0 patience for - scanning lots and lots of images and selecting the correct ones to place into a film. Film editing for the curious is basically what vidding is. People edit film images and creat videos from the sliced pieces of footage they have cobbled together from various sources - sort of like a multimedia collage. [Don't like vids very much, and rarely if ever watch them anymore, but won't annoy you with my reasons why, to each their own, after all. Are they permissible under copyright law? Like everything else - it depends on the vid. Most of the Buffy vids probably are not permissible under copyright law but Fox isn't doing anything, because the show is over and well who cares at this point. No one is making any money off of them. If you are? Go find a copyright attorney to advise you, otherwise, don't worry about it.]
Anyhow...the two films I saw this week could have used a really good editor. Sad really, considering who was behind the helm, Richard LaGravese and Stephen Spielberg/George Lucas, hardly amateurs in the film editing, production and direction department.
( Review of Indiana Jones & the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull - cut for potential spoilers and length )
( Film Review of PS: I Love You - cut for potential spoilers, although they are either vague or provided early on in the film, and length )
