Documenting Fun

I've been reasonably busy recently, and I've had my nifty new digital camera with me for most of it. All links are to rather large images. I should implement a preview mode for Erato. Until I do, however, you'll just have to suffer. Or not look at my images, whichever.

As I posted earlier, I replaced the alternator in the car. I now present photographic evidence. Notice how shiny and new it looks. That's because it is new.

While down at Home Depot buying replacement process tools (which never ended up being used) I remembered to get a good shot of this happy little family of satellite dishes on the side of the Starbucks building.

Friday night vixyish and I went to a screening of Apollo 13 at the Boeing Museum of Flight. It is a wonderful movie, sure, but we went because Fred Haise himself was there to introduce the movie.

Saturday vixyish, cria_cow and I drove down to Portland. Being horribly vain, I took this self-portrait on I-5. (I love how very northwest the image is. Foggy sky, evergreens visible in the mirror, and a plane just taking off from Boeing Field in the background.) In Portland we met up with xiadyn, menhir and petorawolf for a TMBG concert. At the diner we went to afterword there wasn't a large enough booth for the 6 of us, so they stuck us in a bundling booth. It probably isn't actually very funny, but I just can't use the term 'bundling booth' enough.

Identity Functions: Finally on the web

There is finally a complete Identity Functions page on the Midgard Studios site. It includes the standard links to high and low quality Real Media exports, streaming or download. Enjoy.

I'm still not sure how I feel about Identity Functions. After all the set-backs, I'm mostly just glad we actually finished it. There are many technical details I'm very happy with. I'm particularly pleased with the scoring (thank you, xiadyn!) and the visual look of the credits. Quine's office is as close as we've ever come to a real, designed set. The acting is decent, but I should have found time to do rehearsals and gone for more takes in places. The cinematography bites -- I really need to find someone else to do that, because I'm just no good at it. The story comes across a bit muddled, which is part script and part editing. The audio continues to be less-than-perfect and the lighting non-existent. Filming completely lacked the great energy that we had going with Intersections. Maybe we should only do 48 hour movies in the future. :P