Journal, Opinion and Rants!
I’m heading out to Lexington Theatre in Los Angeles for Carlos Alazraqui and friends show. Sean Corvelle will be the host for the evening. We’re planning to spend the rest of the evening somewhere in Downtown Los Angeles after the show.
Getting ready to capture Jill-Michele Meleán show on the camera tonight at the Irvine Improv.
I will be using at least two cameras for the whole show. More info to come.
Separating from the “news” and personal opinion, that’s why I’m posting this on the blog part of 37prime.com.
Jason Calacanis is an attention whore.
For sure that Calacanis is not getting that much followers on Twitter as much as he hoped. I, Cringely picked up Calacanis’ tweets as story. Calacanis’ failed attempt at humor does show his true character, nothing but an attention whore. The only smart thing Calacanis ever done is selling Weblogs, Inc. to AOL for millions of Dollars. Since then Calacanis has been living large on the payout.
There I said it.
I don’t have any Blu-ray players and I’m buying “Up” Blu-ray. It comes with the DVD version for a much lower price compared to others.
I paid $19.99 for the set.
Amazon is selling the “Up” Blu-ray+DVD+Digital Copy (4-disc) set also for $19.99 this week. This price won’t last long.
I don’t have SyFy channel on my TV. New episode of Stargate Universe is on tonight. I’m going to watch it on Hulu.com.
New Sourh Park episode titled “Dead Celebrities” premieres tonight. It spoofs “The Sixth Sense” and takes on the high profile Celebrity deaths in Summer 2009.
On Monday May 4th, 2009 I had a remote recording session with Carlos Alazraqui and Cedric Yarbrough. Some might ask why I put Carlos before Cedric. The answer is pretty simple. Alphabetically Carlos Alazraqui comes before Cedric Yarbrough; be it by the first name or the last name.
We recorded a simple video using a Polycarbonate MacBook built-in iSight straight into iMovie ’09. Carlos and Cedric recorded their parts while I was 40-something miles away. Yes, we were using iChat to set-up, edit and encode the video.
After the video was done I uploaded it to a server so it can be downloaded by someone in the East Coast.
That was a great use of technology.
There are tons of stupid advertisements I wanted to rant about lately. There are Burger King’s, Microsoft’s, Carl’s Jr.’s, Verizon’s, AT&T’s, etc. There are also advertisements that I like because they are actually witty and funny.
There’s no good point of discussing the stupid advertisements because that’s what the ad-creators want us to do. In general it is common to bend the truth in advertising, but some are taking it too far. Selective facts are presented to make the argument.
Smart consumers can spot all the inconsistencies in those ads.
It is unfortunate that these ads are nothing but ego strokes to the companies.
End of this rant.
I think I have enough for tonight. I’ve been color correcting the video clips for a while now. I can’t really make the colors of the videos from three different cameras to be exactly the same. They are close enough.
I’m going to email Carlos some test footage for him to review.
Wednesday evening, I still am editing the video of Carlos Alazraqui’s stand-up from December 2008. I was brave enough to produce a three-camera shoot with three completely different cameras.
Tomorrow, I’ll be heading to The Ice House Comedy Club in Pasadena with more gears to capture another show with Carlos Alazraqui and Jill-Michele Meleán. This can only mean that Final Cut Pro will be my best friend for the next few weeks.
Impression Off with Carlos Alazraqui and Jill-Michele Meleán
