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To those who may have been confused by some back & forth scheduling - The Monkeytown gig for April 3rd is back on!  Can’t wait!!!  We’ll be on at 7:30pm sharp!
This place is one of my favorite intimate multimedia venues. The front room is a bar with sketches drawn out across the walls, and the back room is lined with low couches amongst 4 huge video screen walls. The bands/djs play in the center of the room and the video images dance around you 360Ëš. They have an amazing selection of beers & an awesomely unusual list of food fusions. Absolutely awesome little place. Please come check us out on the 3rd!
I recently started digitizing my last batch of footage from my little San Francisco excursion, and while I have some personal criticisms for the way it came out, I am also seeing a lot of good useable stuff as well that I’m excited about. Macro shots of grassy fields, waves under the golden gate, colorful San Fran architecture, street traffic, sunshine through the tall trees and some hot dukati shots, thanks to my good friend Adrian who lives out there and offered to model for me. Thanks Adrian!Â
Last year I was really inspired by Pipilotti Rist, who created a huge video installation at the MOMA. A lot of her work was seen from a sort of bug’s eye view, and I took that inspiration to do a bit of that style filming on my own at all the beautiful parks in SF. Looking forward to cutting some of that up this week and integrating it into my footage library.
I’d also really like to create a new reel for the hollydanger.com front page, as it is supremely choppy and outdated at this point. The page itself is also unfinished and in limbo, waiting for me to add my entire portfolio to it, and link over here to this blog! Cliche to say, but there really aren’t enough hours in the day. Last night I just finished my 3rd round of package designs for a canadian musician that I’m working for. Things are looking really great, but I’m afraid of how many hours I sit slaved to these machines working on projects! I have a full time 9-5 job during the week editing videos, then I come home to freelance work & VJ stuff on the side. There are barely any hours left to sleep & eat.
Thank god I love to do this stuff, I just wish that I had ways of doing it all faster so I could do more of it.
This week I’ll be receiving my new video controller in the mail!! Â I splurged last week and bought the OHM. I should be receiving it in the next two days. Perhaps just in time to learn how to use it, and give it a try at the Monkeytown gig on Apr 3rd. I think I’m also going to drop the dime on a new laptop to make sure everything runs smoothly. It’s about time for a full round of upgrades!
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3.21.09 Cutlery House of Love show // Photo by Jeff Schram
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Thanks to all of you who came out to the first Cutlery/Danger collaboration show this past Saturday! The House of Love did an amazing job of setting up a huge screen that wrapped around the back wall and made for an incredible backdrop behind the band. Huge props to James for making that happen. I was still feverishly cutting my clips down until an hour before the show because every last clip that I had collected had it’s own special meaning for each song. I realize that planning a show, finding the raw footage, cutting it up, and compressing it is becoming a hefty load of work to fit in the spare few hours I have each day, but it’s all worth it in the end when a show feels like it was put together purposefully. At least to me it does! I don’t rely heavily on effects on the fly, but I do spend a good deal of time choosing my clips and messing with them in final cut & after effects before the shows.
For the Cutlery, after seeing their first live show I envisioned a particular color palette for the entire evening. Mostly high contrast sepias, mixed with black and white photographs, railroads, travel, 1940s starlets, starry nights, and muted dreamy footage. I’m looking forward to our next show, where I’ll probably have a better collection going, and hopefully a new laptop that doesn’t freak out when I play large clips. I found my little old powerbook choking a few times, and while you probably can’t really tell in the audience, I could tell, and I didn’t want to see it happen again.
To sample the Cutlery’s tracks online, you can listen to them here.