03-25-08 mind map
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How to do it all?
investigating the rationale behind this document
Structure Exploration
structure commentary 08-03-06–08
i see a problem with this mindmap app, because I want to fold the entire contents of structure exploration into a new thought, which is this one I am typing right now… What I’ve learned is that my mission is layered according to how deeply each directive is in conflict with the dominant culture and prevailing perspective of other humans.
Would i kill for a forest? For an ocean? I can imagine it. That statement does not make me a nice guy, a good guy. I acknowledge the darkness. Consumer robots are eating the earth, would i wipe them out to save the earth? I’ll bet I can find a way of killing the consumers without ending their lives.
Kill the consumers. What’s great about me is I am crafting my vision in my forties, it’s based on 45 years of experience. I’ve known wealth and it’s ravages, and have developed decent coping strategies. So I’m armored against being sucked into the borg. They’d have to throw a lot of hot and affectionate young women at me, super messed up and crafty ones. that’s their only hope of ever stopping me…
Would i kill for a forest? For an ocean? I can imagine it. That statement does not make me a nice guy, a good guy. I acknowledge the darkness. Consumer robots are eating the earth, would i wipe them out to save the earth? I’ll bet I can find a way of killing the consumers without ending their lives.
Kill the consumers. What’s great about me is I am crafting my vision in my forties, it’s based on 45 years of experience. I’ve known wealth and it’s ravages, and have developed decent coping strategies. So I’m armored against being sucked into the borg. They’d have to throw a lot of hot and affectionate young women at me, super messed up and crafty ones. that’s their only hope of ever stopping me…
here’s a little thought, what if the idea is to wreck the earth through over population which leads to environmental collapse and war, meanwhile robots are perfected and deployed to return the ravaged and depopulated earth to a paradise for the owners. how about growing up in that utopia, owners paradise?
This is a lame idea and sort of adolescent in it’s scope. but there may be a gem in there somewhere.
This is a lame idea and sort of adolescent in it’s scope. but there may be a gem in there somewhere.
Something else random. I realized today that writing down all my ideas is like trying to catch extra breaths in tiny bottles. The universe is always open to me and ideas are the air i am surrounded by. All I have to do is open my consciousness to imbibe the entire universe.
what is cool about mindmap app is that i can look at ideas branching and make connections – even if they cannot be easily represented graphically. That would be level two, to then comment on the patterns one sees emerging and build patterns on top of those, to encapsulate whole branches and have them come back down to a single conclusion. note to MM developers.
looking at the structure some more 08-03-09
what am i is one of those life long questions, the purpose of a document whether it’s in mind map or something proprietary
but this sort of question is never conclusively answered, and so the purpose of a document about it is to explore and discover. that document is never finished but ever growing and becoming more complex and interesting.
so if we base a document on that, it will be highly transitorybut it seems things flow from that, like mission, business plan, how to do it all because those things are somewhat more definable, in fact these are the sorts of questions we use to explore the territory.
but this sort of question is never conclusively answered, and so the purpose of a document about it is to explore and discover. that document is never finished but ever growing and becoming more complex and interesting.
so if we base a document on that, it will be highly transitorybut it seems things flow from that, like mission, business plan, how to do it all because those things are somewhat more definable, in fact these are the sorts of questions we use to explore the territory.
also these things could almost be worlds unto themselves, or at least they could point to documents that would be more fixed in content and scope. thought is set play, there are these fuzzy sets and we are constantly making distinctions about how they relate to each other.
looking at v.02 structure
what’s interesting about this is that mission and roles are interdependent, two ways to organize the same data.
Therefor, we immediately run into the issue of duplication and confusion between whether something belongs to one category or another, when in fact they belong to both at the same time.what i am imagining is a mind map where ideas or concepts are connected to multiple origins and or destinations, and the connections between the ideas becomes the vital ( i accidentally wrote viral) visualization.
Therefor, we immediately run into the issue of duplication and confusion between whether something belongs to one category or another, when in fact they belong to both at the same time.what i am imagining is a mind map where ideas or concepts are connected to multiple origins and or destinations, and the connections between the ideas becomes the vital ( i accidentally wrote viral) visualization.
this sort of planning process is only relevant if there are consistant injections of reality, testing it in the world. I could project this extravagant document based on limited knowledge and vague desire, but life is not a manipulation of symbols, the best i can do is write poems that point, attempt to document in an impoverished way the actual experience, experience cannot be touched by words, only pointed to.so there’s no point in writing an owners manual, i cannot replace my life with a plan, rather the plan is a work of art, to record, point to, comment, play with the media toys and make magic. to explore creation and LANGUAGE itself, this toy that we have established to enhance the human game. if we keep in mind that symbolic language like writing is a derivation and an abstraction of speech, and that speech is a derivation and an abstraction of presence, of touch and sight and feeling the energy of the universe in the incarnation of a fictional other, then we’ll do something really interesting and worthy, I think.
and the dan kelly way is to say everything 3 times, because there are different viewports on the data, different personalities within and each of them must understand it in their own way, each of them are more often talking to each other and not so much to the other person in the room. We can turn this into a excercise, a mediation, say everything three times and listen to it sink like a stone tossed on the pond. let the words loose their meaning and ripple into silence so that the words vanish and all that’s left is what they pointed to, after all.
in conclusion… we should work on this document more because it’s a process of unfolding like any worthy practice. I feel the difference exploring all this. this document will be really powerful when consistently informed by experience, the results of tests, documenting miracles, taking the ideas and driving them around the block.
what is a dan kelly?
synonyms / roles
self educator
Film immersion
why
what we are currently doing is this thing called filmmaking. it’s a meta practise in that it gathers together just about all of what we want to be, in fact it’s a container for “everything”. as such it includes the ‘ready for anything’ principle.
What’s powerful about this is that rather than pondering ‘doing it all’ and ‘superhumanism’ in abstract terms, becoming my idea of a filmmaker (just describing my idea of a filmmaker) involves meeting concrete objectives that basically take my breath away, that kind of scare me even. To achieve a certain image requires a radically competant fully alive presence.
So this becomes the lever that moves the moon. A conceptual framework that bootstraps our perfect self into existence. Out of the shadows and on stage.
Four essential practices are involved – technical fluency, creative juice, robust physicality and conscious design. In defining these four essentials I project a map of possibilities, and extrapolate new reality.
so now i’ll say it the third time, for sake of the charm. Ideas are templates for energy. We are coding up the operating system under which the applications will run. A fortunately composed idea projects energy on to the holographic reality hypercube and then… things happen, objects coalese, sexual exploits are enjoyed, attractions are sparked, adventures unfold, love abounds. I am the ultimate idea.
the premise
knowing what we don’t know, that’s the best beginning. not knowing what we don’t know is risky in the extreme when manifesting an objective. imagine a library full of unread books. how do i decide which books to read first? which books are most applicable to current questions? which are dependent on prior knowledge? how can i avoid books that are interesting but esoteric? this is self education, to know (identify, catalog) what we don’t know. informed ignorance. diy film school is a comprehensive catalog of what we don’t know about how to make the films we want to make. once we know what we don’t know, we can decide what we most want to know and find other folks who want to know the rest.
the premise
projects
finishing dog
dog comprehensive to do list (assessment)
Here is a list of everything left to do. Once identified each item has a priority assigned, and method and time assessment.
(1) organization
where the hell are the files? consolidate and duplicate
uncluttering P2 originals
we are keeping all original P2s, and here is the organizing principle. going through each folder, we name them “no name A1”, “no name A2”, and so on. if we find a duplicate of A1 say, we name that duplicate “no name A1-2”. Then, once we verify that A1 can be imported without a hitch, we can discard all of it’s replicants.
ADR lessons
god even in adr steve was mumbling and blurring over words. how important is it that the audience can understand the dialogue? clarity, in this hasn’t happened to me in a long time, i didn’t give him direction to ennunciate! i did ask him to bring up the volume and somehow that squeaked it through. the point is, why go to all the trouble and effort to miss it at the moment of truth?
one of the pitfalls of ADR is the robot like performances resulting from the repetition and the long sensory deprivation of the booth. how to keep that fresh? break it up over the day, watch for fatigue, physical and mental excercise and teasers, singing, wierd surprises, vulnerability.
try and “get it” three different ways. first sync with a copy take, then clear enunciation, then variations on emotions, and so forth. then I’ve got variety in post to make the ADR take fit the moment, because it is changing things.
always point the camera at the screen, takes can be evaluated rapidly in FCP without referring to the audio application
leave enough room before the target line so that the talent has time to breath and prepare before and after delivery
keep the surround clean and organized. a clean and organized work environment is essential for sustaining quality work
don’t talk in detail about other actor’s performance in ADR. for instance, i told carmen that steve wasn’t totally there and wanted to the process to end. this may have set up low expectations, if he didn’t really try then why should i, what does he know that i don’t know? maybe this is a waste of time and so on. rather set high expectations, he did very well, and i am convinced you will be able to reach the same high level of performance and professionalism (dedication, focus, access to creative resource, patience, perserverance)
loop on a small section of the performance, one or two lines. the length of the loop will vary depending on the experience and memory of the actor. the loop should not have a long leader or footer, as this creates boredombut it should also be long enough that an actor can catch their breath and reset their moment before the section repeats. the section could be composed of up to four tracks – one track for the original material that is targeted for ADR, two for any cue material (the preceeding line from another actor) three for an optional timer, trigger or dot sound (a brazilian clave works well) if an appropriate cue doesn’t exist or the section includes long pauses between words and four the recording track. use a recording system that allows the actor to see the video and hear their audio, while looping and creating a new take for each pass of the loop. play back the performance and give the actor a chance to sync with it. some direction might be helpful, but let them listen and match as best they can first. then after they’ve acquired the rythym and sense of the line, mute the original performance (track one) while the recording continues. make sure to set it up so that the cue is still audible (track two) or if there is no cue then the timer (track three) is plainly audible.
setting up the session before the actor arrives so that cue and original performance are on seperate tracks, the timers are in place and the loop start and end points are marked is helpful to keep the session super productive. i didn’t do this for carmen or steve, because i didn’t know how.
do not rely on actors to be motivated. motivate them. keep them working, keep the technical aspects, housekeeping and geek drudge out of their face. their enthusiasm is a precious resource, there is not endless amounts of it, especially when they are locked in a dark booth. so keep the energy up by letting them focus on the work.
(2) required repairs
includes cognitive interupts, image flaws, continutity
picture cut final, then sync sound lock, then foley, then effects, (effect before foley, but foley we can do immediately)
edit – credits and length adjust, tighten door opening, right after her reflection blink
act I and act II
edit act II – in g’s cabin, awkward and foolish lasts longer?
solution – difficult because c starts a dramatic and distracting head movement towards the end of his line, so we split the frame and show the back of her head from earlier in the take. i used the last few frames before her head bobs, then on the head of that cut away until the difference between her head position earlier and later was very small
edit act II – g’s closeup with erection confession… the jump cuts in his closeup are there to match my audio edit of his delivery, acceptable for now, possible to smoth with AE?
edit act II – with a jump cut waiting for “that doesn’t sound so good is 3 seconds shorter. the jump cut is 50% noticable. the choice is to cut it closer and leave the jump and perhaps smooth it in AE, or just leave the extra 3 seconds of wait in there.
edit act II – bed, your serious right? can she do a little more getting under covers before we have hos reaction, then his short reaction might make more sense, he’ll have something to react to
edit act I – joe’s phone responses could come a little quicker, unless we figure in the static then they’ll be about right
opening montage final
opening montage challenges
the opening… basically i don’t have a clear idea how to make 2 introductions work, one narrator and one theme song. unless the first one is very dark and harsh and the the second is light and fluffy, but what to do about images? I have enough for one or the other o think. a strategy could be to leave both of these for the motion graphics section.
audio
foley roster
human
motion graphics
act II
mg act II – long hallway, flickery reflections in picture in background of hall detract from the shot
act I
mg act I – the door is slightly ajar, light is coming through, black along the seams both as she opens and when they are talking with it closed
mg act I – continuity, christina’s dress tag (near shoulder) is invisible on first approach, then visible
mg act I – scratch on window as christina wears hat
same scratch joe
“poeple everywhere would realize”
“got this handled”
same scratch joe
“poeple everywhere would realize”
“got this handled”
or the bra scene, could we do something sort of like the impact scene from clockwork orange? several moments in there – what? flashback
mg act I – “believe me it’s important” when christina turns back, room gets darker… why check original files
mg act I – c rises up, cut to mirror. she’s in darkness, she could be a little more in the dark there then emerge into the light… naw
mg act I – what’s the plan for the water through the window? mask with orange filter to match tungsten interior light
mg act I – c, “that means I got to find a boyfriend?” no tag on dress… is it mostly out or in, check all scenes
length what’s the standard length we are shooting for 26:40
the opening… basically i don’t have a clear idea how to make 2 introductions work, one narrator and one theme song. unless the first one is very dark and harsh and the the second is light and fluffy, but what to do about images? I have enough for one or the other o think. a strategy could be to leave both of these for the motion graphics section.
rationale and strategy 03-15-08
rationale and strategy 11-25-07
(11-25-07) two objectives to finish by year end are 1) accounting / taxes up to date and 2) complete DOG. DOG has the higher priority, but they are interdependent. Once DOG is reassessed and underway and we feel that completion by year’s end is realistic, we can do a couple of hours of accounting everyday, that way everything will be steadily coming to closure. There are 30 days in November and 5 days left, then 11 days until we blast off to Swiss. So that’s 16 days. In that time I want to wrap the demo reel, assess DOG, configure a traveling ADR rig, record UJ and perform a fine edit. That’s a lot.
Then there’s the 8 days in Swiss, and 11 days until year end. Minus 4 days for travel and 2 days for holidays, plus another 2 days for random fun. So there’s really 11 days left to complete the two objectives or 22 days total.
If I am efficient and focused, these goals can be reached, but that means we have to clear our plate immediately, and get rid of the extras that are floating while also maintaining marketing. two marketing efforts are dance and the general reel. We’ve got to keep the reel straightforward for now, stay focused on what the reel is supposed to do, create work.
edit.artisthouse.com
Dan Kelly’s editorial benefits from a broad spectrum of disciplines.
The editorial process benefits from a fortunate balance of technical and aesthetic competancy.
Being good at a lot of things defines the creative professional
The editorial process benefits from a fortunate balance of technical and aesthetic competancy.
Being good at a lot of things defines the creative professional
the operating principle
rant
what guides this unique force poised to transform human conscoiusness. I can only use my powers for good. here’s how i define good. I am not about selling product to consumers. what would the world look like if we transformed consumers into consciousness. what has to be done to humans to make them into happy consumers.Dan Kelly started artist house as a sort of amplification device for consciousness. The principles which drive consumer culture must be dismantled, they are sucking the life from the majority of earth’s inhabitants for the benefit of the few.
Consumer culture is
My work is informed by four principles – technical competancy, the desire to transform global consciousness, an unique aesthetic creative sophisitication and an intuitive fluency with the cognitive process.
The Artist house aesthetic, what means for your project.
Our way is not for every project. Most decent post houses are staffed by technically savvy and well organized editors with access to the most productive hardware and software tools. Beyond this baseline, budget becomes the deciding factor for who to work with.
a war machine, constructed on the 3rd floor of a brooklyn brownstone. destined to do battle and defeat consumer culture. That’s what I am building.
it doesn’t matter what my philosophy is, I am looking for allies with funding, folks who are profitably doing good work. is there a parallel economy or life web that is not consumption based. definition of consumption – the squandering of non renewable resources for the profit of the very few. The promotion of slavery as a lifestyle, the occusion of self interest and the obscuration of outcomes to sustain an absolutely destructive behavior. something like that. To consume burn use up what is in limited supply. The way of nature is to replenish and cycle resources, not to elliminate them. Consumer culture takes elemental resources and combines them into things that cannot easily be unbound, consumers dig up what the earth has buried and poison what the earth has purified. they kill themselves and their children. consumption is imposed upon us for the benefit of a very few and it would be one thing if we slaves were just forced to support the master, but in the process of supporting the master we also kill ourselves and our children. That to me is the double pain. Why would the masters wish us to kill ourselves and our home, for their children must live here too, unless they have the means for moving on. That’s why I suspect that the masters are not terrestrial in origin, the outcomes of this imposed system clearly demonstrate a disregard for outcomes, as if the outcomes don’t apply to the masters. This planet and everything on it are resources to be consumed.
grand visionary
violations are crimes against the poeple and the earth. violators will be documented and neutralized by whatever means nessisary. This means that global people sign on to a declaration that is in their own interest, becoming a citizen of the earth. Affirming their allegience to the earth nation over and above any other nation as defined by the laws. a landless nation, a web nation, or in fact the entire world as nation, we claim the earth for the poeple of earth. it’s an interesting mind experiment, because what if the earth citizens signed on to this document, then the citizens would consider themselves earth people residing in the alien nation
polymath
how to do it all
why do it all?
why do it all?
vision
the natural slave aristotle – what’s the condition of most of the human beings, have they been taught to be natural slaves?
freaks – the definition. the default human is slavery friendly, to be born a freak is to be at constant odds with the established and accepted. it feels at first terrible to be a freak, because we can’t fit in, we are without a community, we are outside the family and the culture. If however, we can find the nipple of our sponsoring diety, we survive and prosper, eventually becoming strong enough to not only notice our relationship to the oppressor, but to be effective in toppling it. hail freakoskos. jesus was a freak.
filmmaker
script ideas
forgotten gods
like the heechee, humans are hiding out. they used to be some pretty bang up beings in the cosmic drama, but they ran afoul of something and needed to hide out, they needed a safe house. how about an obscure little planet at the rim of a non descript galaxy? here humans pretend vigorously to be clever apes, they pretend not to be god so as to be left alone. for if it were known that they were god, then there would be hell to pay. my ball aches.
no story, race relations
Two doctors in the ward of the hospital one black, one white walkin toward a patient’s room.the white doctor – thanks for coming, i think you’ll find this case interesting
entering, “ok howard tell the doctor about your feelings…”
“Well Doc it’s like this. I think that like so many other white guys, i have this incredible need to identify with black people and make some kind of personal reparations… you know… for slavery. it’s really bothers me and see that’s driven me to this wild fantasy scenario, about the masters of earth and how the race thing is this sort of divide and conquer strategy implemented by non terrestrials, off worlders. I don’t like to say extra terrestrials because there’s no extra about them, they aren’t better than us, they are just greedy colonizers and empire builders, ragtag conquistadors lording it over tiny planets in out of the way corners of the galaxy, exploiting them for all their worth. All human beings are slaves, to keep us from ganging up on the masters they split us and make one skin the field bosses… and the only reason they didn’t use eye color instead of skin color is because skin is easier to see from far away. There’s all this imposed hierarchy – the men over the women, the light skins over the dark skins, the humans over the other animals, authority over experience. the dark skins maybe are naturally stronger and more noble than the lights, smarter even. so they make them the lowest, they get the worst treatment. they tell the white skins they are better. there’s this whole system to subjegate the planet, keep everyone down, one against the other. what do you think doc, can i be cured, is there hope?”
black doctor, fatherly – “sure son, you’re gonna be fine…”
black doc takes the white aside… lethal injection, under my authority. this is a virulent meme that spreads like wildfire through the population, you were right to keep him isolated. orderly?”
a hundred short scenes, glimpses.
king lives
alternate earth breaking through to our universe, where martin luther king goes fully radical and anti-capital and the assassination in memphis never happens, MLK goes on as the presidential candidate and the race issue implodes, revealing the alien occupation. the agents of the alter earth are black and beautiful, coming through the gateway to trigger some dramatic shift here. perhaps because mlk survives there, something opens up here that is desirable to them. or perhaps our earth is one of the few where the information is still available in a somewhat undistorted shape.
human being
here is what sustains
our abundent energy
and keeps us looking
and feeling good.
This is for myself.
our abundent energy
and keeps us looking
and feeling good.
This is for myself.
human game – cultivating auspicious qualities
creative juice
creative juice flows from two things combined
success, objectives achieved
the juice is an urge or spark that makes me want to do things. the spark glows all by itself,
but at some point we must provide fuel to sustain and brighten the spark. that fuel is success.
success has two parts, completion and effect. effect could be the appreciation of an audience, a crucial lesson learned, a change of awareness or simply income. success is needed to keep the spark going. artists die because they never noticed the effect they had on the world. optimism acts like an octane increasing additive, it stretches the success farther. conversely, pessimism reduces the effectiveness of the fuel. optimism alone is not a fuel
but at some point we must provide fuel to sustain and brighten the spark. that fuel is success.
success has two parts, completion and effect. effect could be the appreciation of an audience, a crucial lesson learned, a change of awareness or simply income. success is needed to keep the spark going. artists die because they never noticed the effect they had on the world. optimism acts like an octane increasing additive, it stretches the success farther. conversely, pessimism reduces the effectiveness of the fuel. optimism alone is not a fuel
technical fluency
this is a huge domain and the process of mapping it will be both stimulating and daunting.
there is so much to know – the secret is to know what to know, and what not to know, to
acquire equipment at just the right moment and allow it to pass from the hands when the job
is complete. acquiring knowledge is a strategic investment, it’s great to learn things that remain
current and risky to invest in that which is likely to obsolese. are there universally useful things? can we be flexible in thought and conception? How does forgetting fit into all this?
there is so much to know – the secret is to know what to know, and what not to know, to
acquire equipment at just the right moment and allow it to pass from the hands when the job
is complete. acquiring knowledge is a strategic investment, it’s great to learn things that remain
current and risky to invest in that which is likely to obsolese. are there universally useful things? can we be flexible in thought and conception? How does forgetting fit into all this?
knowing what we don’t know, that’s the best beginning. not knowing what we don’t know is risky in the extreme when manifesting an objective. imagine a library full of unread books. how do i decide which books to read first? which books are most applicable to current questions? which are dependent on prior knowledge? how can i avoid books that are interesting but esoteric? this is self education, to know (identify, catalog) what we don’t know. informed ignorance.
diy film school is a comprehensive catalog of what we don’t know about how to make the films we want to make. once we know what we don’t know, we can decide what we most want to know and find other folks who want to know the rest.
diy film school is a comprehensive catalog of what we don’t know about how to make the films we want to make. once we know what we don’t know, we can decide what we most want to know and find other folks who want to know the rest.
(sustainable) cash cow
business plan
financial dashboard
surviving in this mileau
production
revenue 40%
real time returns
film/edit.artisthouse.com
• jobs are happening constantly that I could shoot when i have examples and a reel…
• the approach is to knock off a combo reel with camera work and edit together
• camera work must be improved – better preparation and practice (whether i call myself a cinematographer or not)
• the approach is to knock off a combo reel with camera work and edit together
• camera work must be improved – better preparation and practice (whether i call myself a cinematographer or not)
a Dan is what he does
these to do lists feel overwhelming… there must be a better way.
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