I just launched a new website designed to help the completely uninitiated with all their technological woes. The idea is to answer anyone’s questions about anything from computers to home theaters to working with ITunes and more. So spread the word, and if you have any questions or need any help, head on over to http://www.afrowhitey.com and drop me a line!
I’m in the final stages of my grad school application, so there won’t be any posts for the next week or so, which basically means there won’t be any Favorite Video Friday this week or next seeing as how that’s pretty much all I’ve been posting lately. Wow, that was a long sentence. Are you as exhausted as I am? Anywho, here’s an awesome video I found on FilmDrunk today to tide you over during my hiatus. (You reader users will have to click through to my actual site, for some reason this video won’t show up in reader)
Why do guys with long hair always like to dress like Knights and play with swords?
My last post was May 23. It is now July 21. In retrospect, 2 months doesn’t seem that long, but I have been very busy. I originally stopped writing things here because I was trying to finish up 2 screenplays I was working on and get them sent out to the Slamdance screenplay competition before the June 2 deadline. As it turns out, Fat Camp just needs more time, so I only ended up re-submitting Nice Guy. It made it to the 2nd round last year, but I made a lot of changes since then, hopefully it does better this year.
I then went to Jackson Hole, WY to do some filming for The Pink Garter Theatre and have been working on those various videos pretty much since then. A promo reel can be seen here. I also did all the video portions for Singin’ in the Rain. It was a lot of fun. There were some trips to California after that, which spawned some other video projects (a clip of one can be seen here), some of which I’m still working on. I then went to Yosemite National Park and did some filming for Megan’s family. All I have left to do for the Pink Garter now is put together the recordings of their 3 shows for their archives, so I decided I’m allowed to write again while I work on all these other video projects.
What’s on the docket now? I wrote out an idea for a new web series, SamSpace, which will hopefully be up by tomorrow, and I have 16 movies in my Movie Review Queue. If any of my 15 or so regular readers are still reading, is there anything in particular that you’ve missed in the past 2 months that I should make sure to bring back?
You may or may not have noticed the little link at the bottom of my site, “Tripod Productions, LLC,” for the videography business I run with a friend of mine in Northern Virginia. We do videography for anything from sports to weddings to special events. We’ve been in the initial stages for the past year, building our website, working on contracts, and acquiring necessary equipment, but we are now officially up and running.
I am also pleased to announce, as you can see from the title of this post, that Tripod Productions, LLC now does video transfer as well. This means we can convert old home videos to professional DVDs. We primarily do VHS to DVD transfers, but we are able to work with whatever format a client may have. Each DVD is custom-made to the needs of the client, but packages are based around a $20 per 2 hours of tape price range.
Check out the website, more samples and reels are on their way, and pass the word on to your friends and relatives. To place an order, just shoot me or my partner an email with your needs and we’ll get to work right away!
I rolled this out once already, but then my brother‘s server crashed and I lost both this post and my first review. I can’t complain though, he’s giving me free server space and technical support. Besides, it was a lot more detrimental to him. His websites are one of his main sources of income.
Anywho, when I first wrote this post, I went on and on about how because I have a film degree, people are always asking me what I think about this movie and that. I whined about how I never have an answer right away because I’d rather not just say it was good or bad; how I prefer to look at what the movie was trying to do, and whether or not it was successful in its aims. I pontificated about how I sometimes sit for hours after a movie as I reflect on how the different aspects of a film affected me as a viewer. The bottom line, however, is that I watch a lot of movies, I need more regular content on this site, and I need to write more, so I’m going to start posting reviews to movies I watch throughout the week, whether on DVD, Laserdisc (yes, I own a Laserdisc player and yes, it is beautiful), or in theaters. You can find them all in the menu above (click the little button) under the category, Movie Reviews.
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