Life update – November 7, 2009
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Film did not got in the short film competition, im thinking there may have been a chance that is was removed due to breach of the rules or that its was just not very good, I would have liked to have gone down south for a day out but think I got a lot from doing all this work in the film so may be next year I’ll get other people who really want to enter something.
Im now one day away from starting my 2 weeks holidays and for the first 4 days it will be nothing but Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 but for the remaining 10 days I will be in Nepal, I have a friends wedding to go to but thought I would take a little longer over there and have a little break. I am really looking forward to the change in life for a week or so, I think it will be a unforgettable time.
The World of apple, Macbook pro to be more specific keeps getting better and better. The thing that had hit me in the past few days is the power of this thing, not just one thing but every component is very quick. I ran a screening for a friend last night from my mac and lets be honest running a video is not very demanding. To get the equipment set up I had to run a virtual windows 7, at the same time I my desktop running 1440×900 and my extended desktop running at 2048×1080, then I opened mail and it did not even slow down.
So I can see most people running macs through Tv’s or home projectors, I get to play with some more high end stuff, last night for this short film I had my mac plugged in to a £4000 scalier which was plugged in to a £35000 NEC2500 putting a 2048×1080 image on a screen 35 foot wide with 15 fLB on screen. We are the Avatar trailer of my mac as a test and it looked as good as what we get from our digital servers.
Im also now loving my new 3Gs, its just a nice quick update, I think the camera takes a much better image and even the video looks good.
As for word its been a few hard weeks, a nightmare of a film festival for 3 days did take a lot of attention but the rest of the building still needs running so I think they way im feeling now looks as if I ran at 150%. How ever much hard work it was it was still interesting and challenging and its nice to have a challenge every now and then. We ran Digi Beta, Beta Cam, Beta CamSR, 35mm, dvd, Blu-ray and some stuff in NTSC making things more complicated. The problems did not come from the different media but in the frame rates everything was set at, as the player was a loan and not through us we could not play 23.98 and 24 fps, so any tape in this frame rate would not play or go out of sync, its just hard when you care about what you put in screen.
So apart from feeling knackered from a very busy week, I have the flu and have only just started to feel better from the jabs for Nepal. I could do with starting to feel better before I do the midnight at Game for MW2,
Friends moving on July 22, 2009
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I just hate it when friends move on, not for them for me. It hasn’t happened too often but a few times in the past few years. I’m talking about friends who you just know and have something to say once or twice a week but friends who you see 5/6 times a week. The people who you talk to and would trust.
We its here once again, I have worked with him for the past 5 years, its not like he is going to be moving a few hour’s drive away, its a 17 hour flight! People say it wont be the last time you will get to see him and I have to say they are right but not by much, I think due to the distance it just feels shit but I understand why he is moving.
If you think about it you love your family but you don’t get to pick who they are, you friends on the other hand are the people you get to pick, and normally its by chance that you meet or get on, that’s what I like about it, nothing is forced or predetermined it’s just fate
Still crap tho
Holidays August 2, 2008
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Good afternoon one and all,
So I have a week off, had to take some time at some point and seeing as I have about 3 weeks left I thought now was as good a time as any. So what I’m I going to do? Well apart from playing on some new Xbox 360 games I go the other day looking a flats would be one of the main things, got about 13 booked in for Monday and another 4 on Wednesday, I hope to find a new place to live out of that list but if not I have some time to have another look around.
Got a really nice email of my boss, his boss and then his boss for all the work I had put in over the last week and the problems at work, you know I never expected it but I cant tell you what a good feeling you can get from something so simple as an email, I think its just the fact that tease people took time out of there day to say thanks, its nice.
To leave you with something I spotted walking round the other day,
Can this be called an ‘Action Figure’ hahaha, this is just not right.
Day off July 12, 2008
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Decided to have a easy day, I did miss the first day of the Summer in the park but I do intent to go tomorrow. Anyway why I’m here, after doing a little searching in the wonderful internet and catching up on some blogs I came across what I would see as an international recognising of my blog, no not the guardian or anything like that but something better, The Manchizzle! I don’t know if you know of the blogger and if you don’t where have you been, and here is what she had to say.
‘Next is Booncunian, who calls himself “The Manchester blogger.” Here is a guy is really into the new Batman movie. I mean, like, REALLY into the new Batman movie, to the point where I’m wondering if the studio is paying him to write about it. If not, man, you’re missing a trick there.’
Yep I have missed the trick, I could have made a mint, having a look over the last few posts I would have to say she is right, very right. Well I will have a long wait until the next batman movie so lets hope I can move away from the subject of batman, I do say this wearing this t-shirt:
The First Post as Boon March 9, 2008
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I would like to welcome you to my new blog, this blog is has come to life as my old blog had run to the end of its life (funkymonkeyman). To be honest I’m not too sure what will change regarding what I would like to talk about and I’m not sure anything will change. It was just time to change things a little. Well as you may have seen I’m now using a new blog so there will be some changes over the next few weeks so please be patient.
