Month: August 2004

Yeesh, Exhausted

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It’s time to take a step back. Almost every minute I’ve spent online in the last few days—and that’s quite a few minutes—has been spent working on this new project. If you read my other site, you’ve heard about it. I won’t discuss it in detail here, but I want to get the site to a point where I can invite others to begin visiting and adding information. Hopefully, I will reach that point by next Monday, an arbitrary deadline I’ve set for myself. We’ll see how that works out, because I can’t continue to neglect other things, like laundry and deciding what to do with the next few months of my life.

I’m not even sure if this project will pay off. It has the potential, but for some reason things I do these days don’t seem to draw people in “mass” quantities like they used to.

The Anticipation

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There’s a certain level of anxiousness between the time a new domain name is purchased and the time it is completely activated and propogated. You know the anticipation is too much when every few minutes, you type the new URL into the browser, hoping something other than an error page will finally pop up. And you hope, that when something finally does appear, that it will be what you intended to be there.

De La Guarda

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I got home a little while ago after seeing De La Guarda in New York. It was a very cool show. If I can remember all the details by tomorrow, I’ll write a nicer review and post it on my other website. (Go there. Leave comments.)

DVD Authoring

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Do I have any readers familiar with DVD authoring? The programs I use are the ATI TV recorder and Sony Vegas/DVD Architecht. I digitized a recording from a videotape last night, and it runs about 1:35. It’s split into three files, one for each act of the play. However, the files add up to five gigabytes—more than will fit on a DVD-R. However, the DVD should fit two hours of video.

I didn’t see any place in Sony Vegas where I could change the MPEG-2 compression settings. I’ll have to look again when I have more time, but if anyone has any suggestions, feel free to let me know.

In case you’re wondering, the video I am trying to write to DVD is Noises Off, the play I did my senior year of high school.

Aggglllll

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Here’s a little bit of high school nostalgia. My fall play performed at my high school during my junior year was The Good Doctor by Neil Simon. The play is a collection of short scenes, each telling a different, unrelated story. Here you can view Bryan perform in The Seducer and me perform in The Drowned Man.

Tomorrow I’ll also put up The Sneeze so you can see M-D in the funniest scene of the play.

I would upload the scene called The Arrangement so you can see Darren’s paternal tendencies as they were early on, but unfortunately the video tape was not long enough to record the entire scene. The files are all QuickTime movie files, optimized for streaming on a 100 kbps connection. You can also save the files to your hard drive rather than stream.

You should also take note of Kelly Hutchinson who appears in The Seducer. You may know her from such films as Catch Me If You Can, TV shows as Strangers With Candy and Law and Order: SVU, and the Broadway stage in various roles.

UPDATE: This just in! See M-D get soaked in The Sneeze!

Drum Corps, the Motion Picture

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I got back a little while ago from a movie theater where Drum Corps International quarterfinals was being shown live from Denver, Colorado. There were some technical difficulties in the beginning, which is to be expected for a first ever event like this (a “cinecast” is what they called it), but it turned out to be a great show. I’m debating buying a few tickets to next year’s championships in Foxboro, Massachusetts right now… and figure out who I’d be going with as next summer draws nearer.

This was a pretty good year for drum corps, with some interesting shows, including The Cadets’ Jethro Tull and The Cavaliers’ James Bond—not your typical fare. I amazed myself by pretty accurately predicting some scores and placements after the corps’ performances (and you can ask Stacey for verification of that statement).

By the way, that photograph of The Cavaliers is from tonight, courtesy of DCI. Isn’t the internet great? Favorite (ironic) quote of the night:

A “backstage” interview with a member of The Cavaliers following their performance of the James Bond Show.

CUTE GIRL: So, I probably shouldn’t ask this, but how exactly does one become a “Bond girl?”

CAVALIER: I’ll show you later.