Archive for 2007

A good weekend and other such things

I’ve had a pretty productive week.

I haven’t woken up before 11am, I’ve played about 15 hours of wow and have yet to start on a cinematography project that I’m actually pretty excited about. Despite all that the job hunt continues to go well, so I’m not too worried about my sloth.

My posts do now have a song attached to them… it’s not a wordpress plugin or anything, I used an open source flash player and wrote a small amount of PHP to have it display when I attach a song… /flex. If you read this on facebook you won’t see it because FB is kinda lame, just follow the “original post” link.

I’m in another screen writing class… and while I wasn’t looking forward to it, because I just had one this summer, it’s turning out to be pretty cool. At first I didn’t like the guy who is teaching it, but I’m quickly learning that I judged him too soon. The end goal for most people in the class is to write a full feature length script, I’m not sure I’ll be able to write that much but I’m going to try.
My script is a romanic comedy… which is different because I don’t like romantic comedies and I don’t really know much about them… so the old adage “write what you know” has gone out the window. It’s not only fun to write sometime completely different but it’s also fun to explain the premise to people. When I tell guys in my class that I’m writing a romantic comedy called “Flower Beds” they look at me like I’m crazy… which is completely possible, but as I explain about the characters I think people start to believe I can pull it off.

My past weekend was fun, me and some people went to down to First Fridays. Which is this cool event that takes place by downtown Phoenix… which is funny because even an event that bills itself as being “downtown” doesn’t even really happen in what is the world’s lamest downtown area. Nevertheless First Fridays is a market/art show that happens on the first friday of every month and it’s not only well attended it’s also got some really cool stuff to browse. We walked around and looked at paintings and listened musicians, we even saw some vegan cupcakes and a local comic book studio. On one corner there were these huge paintings, probably 15 feet tall, we looked at them for a bit and a guy came over and started explaining what they meant. The first two were a couple of the Beatitudes, a few others some random verses and the last about Revelation. I’ll be honest I’ve always found such outward expressions of one’s faith to be a bit corny. I believe that for the most part they turn people away more then they educate or compel people to come to Christ. This artist however was obviously very passionate about his work and other then the one about Revelation he was able to quickly and eloquently explain their meanings and why he felt they were important. It was nice to see a Christian who was passionate and extroverted about his faith but not fundamentalist or pushy.

The chess project continues to chug along, I don’t have all the drawings but I do have one colored and that’s pretty big for me.

I’d don’t really like his skin color yet, peaches and off whites are really hard to get right. I also still don’t have a 3D animator, but I can find one on SA if nothing else.

Take it easy, I will be.
David Hildreth

The wind when it blows it is older than Rome

I’ve been listening to Bright Eye’s Cassadega almost religiously lately, track 9 hits me just right.

My trip to Boise was interesting at best. It was nice to be home and see my family but as selfish as it is that wasn’t enough. It wasn’t all that the trip was suppose to be and as childish and backwards as it is I feel cheated that everything didn’t workout. I had to come back early because of a rule I didn’t know about at school and somehow I just feel like all this bull shit isn’t how it was suppose to work out.
I had some pretty big plans for the rest of this week and now I’m just wasting my time in Tempe.

It’s late so I’m a little emo about it, I’m sure I’ll soon be over it.

My resume got completely overhauled today. It looks good now and with the approval of some people at school who were helping me with it, it’s now good enough to send out.
So the job search really gets going I guess, there are some good opportunities out there and I’m willing to wait for the right one.

Part of my schedule now is that I’ll have weekends free, which is great because I get to do something I haven’t actually done in a while… Go to church. I’ve had a bible study but it’s not the same. My spirituality is a part of my life that I’ve quickly learned can’t simply be ignored or put on the back burner.
As I’ve grown up I’ve really begun to understand more about how people arrive at their own beliefs, and no matter if it’s fate or opportunity or my environment my spiritual side is something that must be attended to and I’m glad I’ll be able to do that properly now. There is a cool church that my roommates go to that I am anxious to check out and I’d be lying if I didn’t mention that I am also excited about just being around more like minded peers.

The Chess project is going well, it’s still very much in pre-production, but there is headway being made. The drawings I’m getting back from Luke are great and my 2d animator seems anxious to get started. So hopefully I can figure out how to get the rest of this thing made.

Like I said a few weeks ago my Resume now includes a link to this page so I’m going to be making some changes in the next few weeks to make it more stranger friendly. I would also like to add a feature that allows for each of my posts to have a soundtrack. I listen to music all day, every day… I’m glad to say that my life has a soundtrack and my posts should too.

Incase you are wondering the soundtrack to this post is the aforementioned Clease Song

So, I guess I graduated or something

I now have an Associate’s Degree in Media Arts… and to be completely honest, I don’t really even care. I’ve finished the first part of a two part program at Collins, which in about two years will yield a Bachelor’s Degree in Film Production. That I do care about and it can’t come soon enough.
I didn’t go but there was a graduation ceremony, those who I’ve talked to enjoyed it, others even brought their families in to see it. I’m glad I didn’t go, my Friday night was great… but more then that I want to keep the mindset of being in school. It took me about 2 years to figure out what school I needed to go to and how to get through it. I am in a good place right now and handling the stress of school and a full time job well. So anything I can do to keep the axe to the grindstone I’m going to do. I don’t feel like I’ve accomplished anything by getting my associates, so why should I be publicly recognized for it? In a couple of years when I am finally done with college I’ll walk across that stage with pride and take my degree, until then I’m going to act like I still have a long way to go… because I do.

Tuesday will be my last day at KPNX, as time passes my decision to leave is looking better and better. I did enjoy my time there, but I am excited about the opportunities that await me. The Resume section of Kinetic is now on my resume so I’m going to keep a low profile here about my job search. I am still looking and will really make a big push after I get home from Boise. That reminds me…

I will be in Boise from October 24th until November 4th.

I’m going to drive home, not only because I don’t like flying but also because I like the idea of just leisurely making my way north and then just heading south a week or so later. I aim to relax the next few weeks, and driving is one way I can make sure that I’m not stressed out. I’m also hoping it’ll give me a chance to write a little bit. I’ve been working on a new script and am stuck, so I guess if I’m left to my own thoughts long enough I’ll figure my way out of the corner I’ve written myself into.

I’ve started a new project with my roommate Dan who is a chess coach. It’s basically a set of DVDs that let any school start a chess club, I know nothing about chess but Dan is pretty smart and has a bunch of lessons written out. We are going to try and introduce the concept with a short cartoon and then show it was an animated chess board. I’ve enlisted a few friends to help with the animation… because I don’t really know how to do that. Luke is making some concept drawings, a friend from school is going to do the cartoon animation and I’m still sort of looking for someone to do the 3D stuff. Hopefully I can hold down the producing side of things and not go broke farming out all the work. When the DVDs are done we should have a waiting market to sell them to though.

I’m out for now, I’ll see some of you in Boise and the rest back at school in a few weeks.
David Hildreth

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