www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7yfISlGLNU

I got to go on a little cruise to Ensenada this last weekend. I went with three of my former roommates and had a lot of fun. It was my first cruise and I definitely will be taking another at some point, it’s just a great way to vacation.
You can see some pictures from the trip here on Facebook.

I’m now settled in my new place, I’d post pictures but most of the place is still bare. I got a a sweet couch and a few other things but it’l be a while before I have everything to fill the place out. I get to go mattress shopping today, not really very exciting stuff, but I need a new bed pretty bad. There has also been talk of having some people over to my place for dinner, so I guess a dining room table is in my future as well. I really hate the idea of owning a table and chairs… it’l never get used, it’s just something else to have to move someday. I guess it will do a good job making that corner of my place look alright though.

The Oscars were last night, I had just gotten back into town so I was totally ok with a few hours of mostly mindless TV. I really liked Slumdog and love Danny Boyle but that movie should not have gotten so many awards. It was good, just not THAT good. The Visitor and Revolutionary Road are still the two best movies of last year, but I think The Curious Case of Benjamin Button would have been a solid choice for best picture.

That’s it for now, my posts seem to be getting lamer and lamer… it happens I guess.
David Hildreth

P.S. The music player for each post will be back in a little bit, I promise :)

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Don’t you ever forget

Two and a half years ago I moved down to Tempe to finish my degree and I’m happy to say that I have accomplished that. My work is so much better then it was before and I have so many more marketable skills. I’m also up to my eyes in school debt, but that happens I guess.

I signed a lease on a new place on thursday. It’s a nice little two bedroom in a quiet complex of condos, it has cool stained concrete floors and more then enough room for one. I left work about 15 minutes early on friday to go pick the keys and just as I walked down the stairs up walked my boss. He’s a great guy, but a little random. I had sent him a rough cut of a spot two days earlier and guess what he wanted to see as I was walking out. So I ended up 5 minutes late to the rental agency and was met by a locked door. It’s friday and I was late, I understand but I wasn’t a happy camper about not having my new place for the weekend. I wouldn’t have really moved… the electricity and internet weren’t on yet. It’s just that instead of spending my weekend buying rugs and lamps and chilling, I just got to think about doing all that :|
I’ll post pictures and video or something when I get in this week.

I have so much stuff and it’s not nearly enough to fill my new place. When I moved here just about everything I owned could fit in my car… that’s a glorious feeling. Now I get to buy more couches, a new bed, a kitchen table, something to put my TV on and lots of other stuff. It’s the not the cost of all of it that bothers me… most of it will come from craigslist. I just hate knowing that I own all of that, I really have no need for it all, it’s just odd not to have it. I could just sit in a chair to watch TV, which could sit on a box, next to a lamp I already own. I’m not going to eat at the table but it would still just be weird to not have one… that corner of my place would be empty. It’s just a part of getting older I guess… I’m the one that wanted to live alone for a while.

Most of my little website is gone. I no longer have school work to share, so I decided to downsize a bit. My photos will make it over to facebook after a while and my videos are now on vimeo.
My resume and reels have their own domain: david-hildreth.com

Take it easy,
David Hildreth

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Moving on

After a great trip to Boise its time to head home… so I can start moving.

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Back home

My rental agency is making me move apartments, the lease they had on the unit I was in is up and they didnt want to renew it so i get to move. It’s only across the courtyard but i really dislike moving and couldn’t think of a worse time to do so. My lease is up in July and I’m going to move in with some guys from my bible study. So while it is nice to have most of my stuff packed, i cant help thinking about how i get to move all this stuff again in a month. The house i’m going to is pretty sweet though, and while this puts an end to my hopes of buying my own place i really do think i’ll like living there.

School is going well, and i am now done with an english class which i was really starting to hate. I am also through with a screen writing class that i really liked but somehow ended up with a less then desirable grade in. Oh well, my GPA is still alright. My next general education class is marketing, which will be awesome. For core classes i am hopefully going to double up and take an editing class and a pre-production class. I need to shift my work schedule around a little bit to do so but it shouldn’t be a problem.

I haven’t posted any video for a little bit so I give you a rough cut of a submission I am working on for a Heinz commercial contest. It is a bit sketch, needs some sound effects and a higher quality version of the music, but you’ll get the point.
It’s on google video for the time being.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9052427263682069289

I went and saw Disturbia last night, it was surprisingly good.
Also, Wilco’s new album is really good. I’d link it for download but i need my pc to strip off itune’s DRM and that is currently in a box. In other news the last.fm plugin on the bottom of my pages works again.

David

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moving

I have a better idea of what i want to do for the modest mouse contest. I thank everyone for their input, it really did help me to form a concept. Basically the band will be in a white studio with cameras all around. Behind them is a large screen on which a grainy film plays. The shots of the band are either straight on with the screen behind them or a profile with the studio camera moving around them. The video on the screen is a first person view of a guy who walks into a party. He grabs a beer and talks to a few people before noticing a girl across the room. She heads out of the main room and out through a hall. He follows but when he gets to where she should be, she is no where to be found. He spins around and there she is walking by another group of people. He follows but is stopped by some friends who want to talk to him. He talks for a second but pulls him self away after a minute or so. He once again sees the girl and gives chase, this goes on for a while, the girl always walking at a slow pace and always eluding the guy. At the end he will probably catch up with her or something cliche like that.
Its a framework but i think it’l develop well. The big problem is the whole party thing, i could get extras pretty easily. but i do not want to deal with the logistics of that. I could do it with 10 people pretty easily, but 20 would look better. I also need a location, my apartment just isn’t big enough.
my sources for inspiration for the chase thing are an Elton John video and a prodigy’s smack my bitch up, which i wont link because its no where close to work safe.

i have been very unmotivated lately, i’ve been a big piece of crap for the last month to put it bluntly. my class schedule was mixed up a bit so that i have very long days on mondays and tuesday, about 15 hours of work/school. i just feel like i need a vacation, i mean i was doing so well there for a while. i was anxious to work on projects, my assignments were getting done and i was proud of them. but lately i cant even muster the motivation to edit a commercial i shot last week.

i did however have some fun playing around in ae today. i got this awesome idea for a little animation, im not real sure what im going to use it for but its turning out well. that i should be able to post this weekend. the aforementioned commercial hopefully in a few days, i’ll get the editing done tomorrow but it’l need music.

the modest mouse thing is a whole different animal though. the deadline is close, may 22. they didn’t leave very long for people to produce a video. i really doubt they will have many entries, not to mention the footage requires some hefty software just to view. i basically have another week to shoot the chase thing and my clean plates for the band.
i really want to do it, i really think my resume needs it but i just don’t think i can make it happen. i need a vacation, i am feeling so ragged and climbing the everest of this project is just too much at the moment.

all in all life is going well though, i am moving out of my apartment next week, the company i rent from is making me move… its a long story but they are breaking up the family and making me and my roommates move in with other people.
so i’ll be going to another unit in my complex. an easy move but i am not renewing my lease and will only be in the new unit a month.

i wrote a little script for my screenwriting class the other day, i like it a lot, here is a pdf. its sketchy, and probably has like 100 grammatical mistakes, it is just a rough draft

peace in the north east
david hildreth

ps my page is now the #1 return when you google my name

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it’s 3am i must be emo