The collected works of fu - Page 4

thank you mr forummeister

there's something funnier:

if we knew a thing or two about capitalism, democracy, freedom, markets, indexes and the rest of the buzzwords, no one would complain about his sneakers/computa/pod/ being made in china, zanzibar or mars.

remember what your old friends used to say:



all things that matter take time + dedication

most of the books that lay down the basics about the mess we're talking here come with a surprise: the footnotes on the 1st page of the 1st chapters take up more paper space than the text of the main paragraph.

old-(s)kool vs new (s)kool is only about haircuts (ok fashion trends too), what we're facing (and missing big time) is obviousness + implicitness.


us continental toasts are not much better right now

till then, sybr, please give us a groove over your PA boombox and let's swing some

i used to have a similar workflow for stills to be prepped for gallery-grade display/exhibition. (a few years after) i'd occasionally reverse that, and output digital experiments to a LaserGraphics slide printer.


the printing/scanning businesses were like that too (most of them still are). good ol' master printers use their presses and the rest of their tech till they spit their guts off. pure quality style from people who can create any combo of cmyk with their own hands, eyes and nose.

if any sales guy tried to pitch 'em verbalism about obsoleteness (newer-better just because) they'd run him through the press.


(if you get a chance) i'd appreciate your feedback on the Mac versions jose. nothing to do with my own writing but new PA comes from the Office world and tells me that she can do things faster w/ Office. We use iWork now (got it free form Apple). all we need is a bunch of letters and the occasional excel budget sheet, pretty simple stuff when compared to corporate needs i guess.

i'd like to see some samba-football action a la Sócrates

walk around and shoot some landscapes maxsleg

really interesting light where pent comes from :)

i hope you guys are alright, esp. your email accounts: AT&T Said to Expose iPad Users’ Addresses

I know what you're thinking. "Did s he fire six shots or only five?"





↓ go Dave go

dunno if this is zerious or not sky (most articles are overhyped to cultivate fear), i just wouldn't like any more spam in my inbox

hope all is cool + funky with your iPads+email

(bri3d caught up almost simultaneously)

my wife is there right now, doing an art exhibition (nothing to do w/ the expo)

i tried to make it there so that i can have a few drinks w/ hamei but i'm locked inside a theatre till the end of june

expo or not, i think that China is worth visiting

i was thinking of mentioning Paris (france not texas) but driving habits are like politics, each one thinks that his place is the worst in the globe

hmm only in sweden everything works ok :P

good luck pent, a fresh start is always good

uhm, iirc it all takes a


and "little richard" or "shakedown" (until you silence this rock n roller)

a propos, the sata hack that you guys came up with is wunderful, my next sgi gots to have one :)

sounds like you could go back to Proust, there's nothing like searching for lost time on a lazy summer sunday :)

Bruce Wayne & his car

(ditto from the outsider)

long live diversity and this ad-free, pure quality place


jump 'n jive

get to know the whole picture. whatever the software, you'll be working with the basics (light & volume). learning methods vary according to each ones abilities but nothing that a decent amount of faith + dedication can't fix.


this is the 1st step and is relatively simple. at this point you'll be merely working under someone else's directions. yes, you gotta know the tool inside-out so that you can push buttons really fast.

from there on -and if you're thinking of creating things yourself- you should hit a pause on which software(s) to get accustomed to and start studying art.

forget all easy/magic chewing gums, moviemaking is a collaborative process. art and craft cannot be replaced by buttons.

sky's first post in this thread is pure quality. hamei's suggestion for a CAD career path will get you much more sane working hours/shifts.

(aj, i thought that you were studying law or something?)

not really, guess what separates a xyz software operator from an animator, director etc. sky explained a similar situation from his field, discriminating between "engineers" working on blueprint designs and engineers who actually engineer designs, etc (can't find the thread right now).

education/skills/knowledge is still king


a demo reel is just a (current) portfolio for this type of job. everyone knows that you had all the time in the world to put it together up to your hearts content. some studios/art directors may ask for earlier reels in order to better understand your progress/ideas/technique.

KEY is getting down on it in order produce a decent corpus of work for your ideas. visual work is something that you put on a wall/screen. to the experienced eye, telling the difference between real work vs. a few quick+drty push-button filters, ain't hard.


nice one Ryan, personally i'd love to see more nekochaners using their stuff instead of just talking numbers like GHz vs MHz or (latest) versions on pc/lunix/mac being "better"


go cut your story on your sgi or whatever you have, yeah it'll take more time than on the latest trillionHz box. so what? we have way more tech than decent stories/works. not having the latest version of a specific filter won't make any difference, trust me.

ah you noticed too ? we were over our headz, when Maria tried to export some vector work as PDF a few days ago





oh yeah! let's focus on quality again

it's not only computer people who are complaining, more often than not, upgrades of latest-better make no sense to us either

guys, please carry on such discussions (like the one you had about Office), it will only make things better.

strictly to the topic: Matador works fine on the o2, was used to push/pull stills/freeze frames to/from the art dept straight to on air spots/headlines etc..

^ dang! i mean thanks,

i wish i knew earlier, we ended up having to layout/paginate everything, messing with crosshairs, borders, margins and what not, just to export the frkn thing

^ it's what scares me w/ most kids who just consume buzzwords. every time they see/hear something they like, can only come up with a single question "what software did you use?"

all this faster easy magic push-the-button nonsense is frying perceptions left & right, high & low, like a mile a minute. we're all expertz now dude, i got mo magic buttons, just don't ask me to do anything original.

the baloney stops when the green flag drops

smooth maneuver sybr, give me some funky sax + drums and ah bee straight :)

truth is, poor OP just asked about software suggestions, but the "how do i go pro?" question popped-up quickly (and it's always encapsulated anyway) which made me want to give some honest facts.

bwahaha, story of my life divorce

-honey, we need a new wardrobe
-we?
-wellll my latest pairs of shoes won't fit nicely anymore *meow*

just someone else's photo from flickr but if it looks familiar… one day you find shoes all over your bed…

just wait for Clytemnestra to stab Cassandra in the back again (as if deafness by choice is not enough)


hmmm... we could cook up a design, run it through your machines and produce Clytemnestra key-rings?

sorry what? none of them was meant to be likeable, it's the only take in show-business where gods resemble human nature and vice versa

keep Clytemnestra, screaming bitch is all yours, no problemo. i'll club with Iris, coolest chick for my taste + she can take me from NY to Athens in 5 seconds flat (science didn't come up with the teleporting machine so far, i still gots to use airplanes)

Joyce did a good take too, somewhere down the road Beckett got seduced by that french chick, but these guys could write…but hot damn talk about coming back to a broken house...

hell yeah!

ain't it sublime that all great wars were started by a neurotic guy who just couldn't get an erection?

remember the baboons in the opening shot of stanley's "2001 space odyssey"?, a reference to our true nature that usually shows up when we're about to fuck up big time. expertly choreographed by stanley, tribute to the classic works

there's also this thin almost hidden paranoia about life and death when it comes to sacrifices.

the romans were pretty cool dudes too, got all the tech that did matter for their time, made money (but money never made them) and then got back to the basics. snotty baboons doing showbiz at the colosseum: gladiatorial shows, animal hunts, and hungry lions against (other/bad) people.

federico had the balls (and skills) to do it on film.

(jets go about the keyrings )

it's been ages loonv, but moviemaker was able to open all the right formats

i did test some dv streams back then and i wasn't using premier nor flame on the blue2

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