( I messed around with some cheap acrylics recently... )

I participated in the BALTIMORE 48-Hour Film Project this past weekend. I'm starting to really get the hang of this stuff!

I had to write a "rockabilly" style piece for this one, which was quite a challenge as I hadn't picked up a guitar in probably a year & a half (it was a miracle the strings didn't disintegrate upon impact. I was convinced the two-inch layer of dust was holding the whole thing together).

I quickly discovered some limitations (e.g. that I've become so ungood at playing guitar that I can really only get a decent sound if I play three strings at a time and mute the other three). I ended up recording a "lower three strings" part and an "upper three strings" part. I used rubber bands and toilet paper to fashion the mutes. Hehhh...

This project went quite differently than the DC version, as I basically just met with the producer twice, got a copy of his desired music style samples, and never met any of the actors or other crew. I haven't even seen any footage, as my team was running behind schedule in the last few hours, and we decided the swiftest way to approach final mix-down was for me to upload all the sounds and music over FTP for them to work in themselves. That was the only disappointingish part for me.

And I still have no idea if we made the deadline!

Back to the plusses though, I've been suggested as a sound-designer/scorer to an NYU film student who's working on his thesis film (pretty exciting!). The film's story sounds quite intriguing, and the sound should be a wonderful challenge for me, and a great resume-building opportunity.

It feels great to put my gear to use again, rather than continue to use it as a place to pile laundry. :)

I never posted the actual finished result of our DC 48 Hour Film Project!

chrispiers was the star! He did a fantastic job!
qrissy wrote and produced the music!

I've volunteered myself for the Baltimore project too! This shit's fun. :)

This past weekend chrispiers & I were part of a team that participated in the 48-Hour Film Project ( http://www.48hourfilm.com/dc ), I was the sound designer & musical score writer (Chris was the lead actor).

They're screening our film tomorrow night starting at 7:00pm at AFI Theatre in Silver Spring, and you should come seeeeeee it!!!

Tickets go on sale at noon today through this site: http://www.afi.com/silver/new/nowplaying/events.aspx#48hou

We are team: "Film Junkies", & we drew the genre "Spy", so I got to write spy-themed music!

I signed up for Artomatic again.

krizsa made me do it. :o)

I am hungry for fried chicken and cake.

Introducing... ( Bulimiasaurus & Tyranorexic Rex! )

Finally.

( Apparently Gandhi and Ben Stiller have a love-child! )

Now that I've successfully completed the latest main occupier of my time at work, I've moved on to a new challenge! I am now scouring each state in search of people engaging in various activities...

( Here's what I meeeeeeean! )

My weekdays are endlessly exciting.

On slow days at work I've been collecting individual image files of each of the fifty United States via Google Image Search, and fitting them together like a puzzle ...to test if I know 'em all, and where they go, ...and how they're scaled relative to each other. My other super-exciting goal was to make sure I got each image from a unique web source.

( Here's the result! )


Whoop. D. Do.

:)

( Qrissy's 2007 Survey Deally )

Last night I dreamed that I was soooooo thirsty I was stealing the neighborhood kids' waterballoon fight amo and drinking out of them (because it was all that was nearby (in the dream)). I woke up extreeeeeemely thirsty, but alas, I've run out of drinkable water again (only had 3 Heinekens).

Needless to say, I was a little tipsy on the bus-ride in to work today. So...

Note to self #1, stop running out of drinkable water at home!

. . .

Note to self #2, post more LJ entries of substance!

A few days ago, I dreamed that I was preparing all my loved ones for my death. My “loved ones” were all pretty vague in the dream, I don’t remember any one-on-one interaction with anyone in particular. I was mostly immersed in attempting to convey what was to happen, and was somehow aware of exactly how much time I had (a little less than a day) to remain in my present form. Somehow all this insight (regarding souls, and the “shape” they take after death) was just present in my mind, and I was focused on attempting to explain it as best as I could with the relatively short time I had left.

So I sat down to write a recipe for creating a new Krissy (assuming the need should ever arise).

In the dream I had an incredibly clear grasp on what was to become of my soul, and what was to become of the energy that operated my body… The concept of my “body” began to feel completely abstract, and the “words” I was using to describe where I was “going”, I couldn’t even form in English or with any type of “human language” really. The recipe took on this crazy mathematical formula, that attempted to tangiblitate where my personal sensory perceptions were to be found, and the process by which my personal reactions and functions in response to those perceptions were to materialize in some type of everywhere that isn’t even as structured and contained as the universe.

Obviously, all this that I was suddenly “aware of” and trying to explain in my dream, I can’t do justice to in a regular old, mortal, human, earthling, live-journal entry.

I hope I dream it again, so I can try to write it all out more gooder-like.

This is what happens when I attempt to compose "filler text" faster than I can type. :)

GO PATS!!!!!!!!!!

Apparently there is a corporation called "Analex". My company just acquired a contract w/ them. I haven't even bothered to Google it, because I just know in my heart of hearts that Analex is neither a distributor of fine suppositories nor international servicers of butt plugs. I would venture to guess that it's ...uh... Jeez, I really can't even fathom.

I find it painfully amusing to think that at some point in time somebody thought to himself, "hmmm... what to name my new enterprise... ummm... Analcorp? no... Anex? hmmm... nah, probably already taken ...Analsolutions Inc? Nahhh.... Analmax? Hmmm... getting warmer. ANALEX! YES!"

And then... they started hiring people! And people looked through the classified section of their morning papers and saw "Work for Analex! Analex needs bookkeepers! Analex - Dock Workers Needed!" and they CIRCLED THE ADS and actually thought to themselves "What a great job opportunity! I can't wait to get to say I work for Analex!" ...

AND THEN... THEY GOT ALL DRESSED UP IN FANCY CLOTHES AND WENT TO THEIR JOB INTERVIEWS AT ANALEX!

The world's gone mad.

Last night during that bit of cockeyed lucidity between awake and asleep wherein my consciousness was at its keenest (or absurdest (open to debate)) something, that now (fully "awake") seems slightly morbid, crossed my mind:

A year or two ago, I'm certain, I would have absolutely crumbled if my mom or dad or brother were to have died. I don't think I would have recovered well. I don't think I would have been very strong through it or coped well at all... I probably would have lapsed into relying on vices to pass the grieving time and perhaps spiraling into a deep well of self-defeat.

At this point in my life, I think I would handle it alright (not that I want it to happen of course... I'd prefer for it not to happen for at least another 25 years... I think I'll finally be ready by then... err, I hope I will). I simply can see myself getting through it, and being healthy-minded at the end of it all... coming back around and still being "me".

I was just thinking how I guess I have a tighter grasp on the fact that I'm going to be okay, and I'm going to continue to be me... no matter who I lose throughout my lifetime. It's kind of scary but oddly comforting too.

I'm thirty years old, and I've never had a close loved one die. I've been extremely fortunate.

- - -

Dear fates, this is not an invitation for mayhem. Thank you.

(1) Go to http://www.careercruising.com/.
(2) Put in Username: nycareers, Password: landmark.
(3) Take their "Career Matchmaker" questions.
(4) Post the top twenty results.

___________________________

1. Sign Maker
2. Musician
3. Composer
4. Project Manager
5. Comedian
6. Physicist
7. Biomedical Engineer
8. Set Designer
9. Graphic Designer
10. Civil Engineer
11. Meteorologist
12. Exhibit Designer
13. Magician
14. Clergy
15. Artist
16. Electronics Engineering Tech
17. Architect
18. Astronomer
19. Animator
20. Illustrator

...

Clergy huh?

The Uni-pedal Hopping Kitty-Clops