yes we can! and so can you!

we should use their idea in the ending credits


sane zach asked a great question, we'll we be able to finish this scene in time. my initial response is "it is not too much work."

Reasons for my position:
it is storyboarded to under 3 minutes so it can be edited upto 3 minutes rather than downto. This means no extra footage. animation and drawings will make up for less than 33% of this project. this includes credits illustrated or colláged by mikey millz filmed with glitter blown across them.


I think it is important to understand the narration is completely read and recorded without need memorization and read rapidly but clearly. I am continually abridging the narration for timing leaving room for the "complicated" scenes.


scenes take a certain amount of time to film, period. In order that we don't have to spend all the time in the same place, I think it would be beneficial to all meet up so we can run through the locations. I would like all the lighting and blocking set up really in the next few days. I would like to have finished blocking by the 5th or 7th, The less I meet my goal, the less time we'll have when shooting comes.


from shortest length to longest length, here are the main 6 location:


(1) Under Madaline's bed
(2) Dinner at the family table with grandfather
(3) The graveyard driveby,
(4) The Freemasonic Lodge on Soquel & Main
(5) the Grandfathers room with the closet


the first doesn't even have any dialogue, it is just an establishing pan of madaline reading trotsky under the bed. the second is just a wideshot of the diningroom table. It has two lines but only one angle with one tilt for when Andrei stands up at the table. the third has one line and three angles. The wideshot of the graveyard from across the street showing the car driving into frame and stopping to look at her, her closeup and a reaction shot through his open passenger window at his face staring at her. the fourth is just for inlcuding the freemasons in the film, and has two scenes, but its the three angles, just two sets of dialogue and a total four lines. mainly the establishing shot and two over the shoulder mediums. the fifth is the most intense, thats the grandfathers closet room, thats with the special scary character, the kidnap and climactic finale.

(1) Under Madaline's bed
establishing: medium closeup. low pan tilt.

(2) Dinner at the family table with grandfather
establishing: wideshot. tilt up for andrei's standing retort

(3) The graveyard driveby,
establishing profile across the street. medium closeup of madaline. closeup of andrei.

(4) The Freemasonic Lodge on Soquel & Main
establishing wideshot: Freemason sign closeup. two medium over the shoulders.

(A) there is also a brief establishing andrei and brother running up the stairs which takes place before the finale.

(5) the Grandfathers room with the closet
establishing madaline lighting insense, closeup of lighting insense. extreme closeup of smoke. medium of madaline laying back, cut to czevdolbie abduction.






and the dialogue is all one liners...

script for the 15th thus far

stories.
they just go in one ear and out the other.
No they stay in the heart.





show insense and madaline relaxing with the closet open, a black rectangle untle face extrudes

Czevdolby
beautiful.


(scream)


NARRATOR
madaline had been swallowed by her own magic after naively lighting a whole stick of roseblood insense that she had stolen from her freemasonic grandfathers chest.

Though I should probably retract further you see before andrei, madaline kept to herself. She was a self professed trotskyite much to the dismay of her grandfather, She wrote poetry about snow and concrete, her bedfellows were ghosts and demons.

Cut to:

GRAVEYARD

Madaline is walking by a graveyard, smoking a cigarette. Andrei drives by.

MADALINE
Hello?

ANDREI
I'm a stranger. Would you like to come with me?

(flash kiss scene)

MADALINE
...okay

Cut To:
EXT WINDOW
through the window of the car looking at the profile of Madalines face in the forground,
Andrei's in the back.


NARRATOR
After that Andrei nikolac and madaline became inseparable. Also to the dismay of her grandfather.

Cut to:
INT DININGROOM
dinner with grandfather, andrei and madaline. warm lighting. red.


GRANDFATHER
So andrei eh? Is that Greek?

ANDREAS
No, Russian.

Grandfather chokes on his soup.


Cut to:

NARRATOR
Madaline showed Andrei a great deal of what she had learned from her granfathers books, like the importance of 33, and the perfection of number 6. She tought him magicke like how to give a witch pockmarks with wax oil and dogbaine or make men infertal with sage led and an iron skillet.


Cut to:

Andrei taught madaline about the rothschilds and the UN, and the rockefellers sterilization campaign. of the summerian magic inherented by her grandfather and the Freemasons and the impending fabian socialist satanic slavestate.

Cut to
ANDREI
there: Babylon..

Madaline
Damn Babylon...

Cut to:

Narrator
his idealism was sometimes disconcerting.

ANDREI
Free will! choice is consequence. Karma is action, effect, and fate .

Grandfather
whats the point?
silly stories.
they just go in one ear and out the other.


andreas stands

Andrei
No sir, they stay in the heart.


Grandfather stares shocked at him.

it was shortly after this that madalines grandfather dissapeared. leaving madaline his entire legacy.

33acres, a shortwave radio about $250'000 in gold, and his personal library of Masonic texts, byzentine illuminated manuscripts a Scrying mirror and a key:

Cutto narrator
This key in my hand.

Cut back



madaline shushes andrei then twists the key, opening hte portal in the closet.

cut to:

them looking through the door into the portal, the portal reflecting back in their faces.

they shut the door.

cut to:

andrei furiously slams the door behind his back, twists the key then he looks around, then opens the non portal closet where hey hide inside. he turns a light bulb on in the room and they talk to each other in the closet.

(silenced)
ANDRE
(lips) this is madness!
MADALINE
(lips) silence you fool!

NARRATOR
it is at this instant begins what is the first of many argumants about capital gain upon manifest destiny, and karman-portalis.






Narrator
my brother...


Andrei and my brother met each other at a Bilderberg and Council on Foreign Relations Protest where they were both beaten and arrested for trespassing on public property.










then *character name* (until 15th lets call Czevdolbei, could be soup...) comes out the portal door. with a thunder and a lightning bolt. all of a sudden a line of light outlines a door. in the darkness. czevdolbei walks across the path to the door. and stands by it.

Czevdolbei
your grandfather? oh yes we were, friends. partners really.



jet walks past the door and hears a knock. and he stands perfectly still.

JET
hello?
Jet stairs at the door. it begins to creak open. it is pitch black. there is suspense.

suddenly emerges from the shadow the faintest of mouths.
CZEVDOLBEI
hello young man.

JET
who are you?

CZEVDOLBEI
wh are you? oh I? oh yes of course.

JET
well?





EXT. MAINSTREET TEMPLE:

FULL MOON MIDNIGHT

The camera pans down in a full white shot profiling the glowing G sign.



the wide shot is followed by a medium close profile and two shoulder shots back to each other.


Andrei

what the hell then?


brother

just ask me to show you the light.

andrei
okay...




CUTTO:
cut from a mirror reflection to the actual scene with the mirror behind.

MADALINE

dont stare into mirrors, look at me...


ANDREI

I have an idea

cut to


brother
Jet? Jet?

(a thump and a cackle and more ruffling)


andrei and brother run up the stairs and into the room. they find the door cracked open and a white hand reaches around grabs the door and twists the key slamming the door. they chase to the door but don't get there in time before the key shoots out to the floor and they are left alone without little jet.

brother screams "no!" cut to ringing no echo in dimension: the door lit to look like its in the other dimension ringing.


Andrei
take a breath

Brother
we don't have time

Andrei
brother..

Brother
what are we, what am i? what are you gonna to do?

he jumps on the ground for the key to put it in the door.

Andrei
wait.

he pulls the airmasks out of the bag and exchanges a tool kit wrapped in a cloth.



The Head and the Hands need a mediator, it must be the heart.

stories go in one ear and out the other,
but morals stay in the heart

OPEN SOURCE GAMEBOY

Build on Arduino, of course.



http://antipastohw.blogspot.com/2008/10/using-inputshield-to-make-open-source.html

Also, check out this awesome website, Multicolr, which allows you to search flickr for photos by color scheme - you can pick up to 10 web safe colors and get an incredible set of photos that match brilliantly. I will definitely be using this. It's a really powerful example of what can be done with an API.

silkscreen?

Hey, does anyone have a silk screen around that I could use to do some printing?

--> Zach

Count Spankula Music Video

Greetings from Cairo!
The first Count Spankula track is well underway and the Count is looking for people who want to get involved with the music video. This is a VERY serious project and if you think spanking is something funny then please DO NOT RESPOND! On behalf of the Count, please show some respect. Also, the Count does not care if you just want to get spanked... If you think the Count has time to spank just anyone, you are wrong because he is very busy. No solicitors! I may pay you in credit, but there is a Bengal tiger named Mujtaba who will eat you if you are not careful so proceed with caution.

Spank You Very Much,

Count Spankula

insomniac flm festival

It's important to remember only five people are able to win but as many people as we can get help from are able to participate.

So if you only want to maybe win something (personal apple training, maybe one in 5000 will win macbooks, if it's not fixed)

I know technically maitland can't register to win because he's not a student this semester. I'm registered as captain of the stemcell films group, leaving four spots.

I asked adam and jesse for help



I know there are some official apple rules, but these are my rules too


We have to edit in FCP on a mac.
We have to use the lens adapter,
the Hard Drive,
The Dolly,
The Projector,
Arkaos (which we will record on minidv hopefully one of you can spare a GL1)




The rules say planning and setting up is great, start lighting and blocking locations, start writing scripts...

"Get ready for the long day by creating a game plan. Set the roles and responsibilities for you and your team members. Start gathering the film production and computer equipment you’ll need. Select your on screen talent, arrange for extra stage hands, and even start planning shooting locations and a script. There are no rules against planning any part of the film before the 24-hour period, as long as all of the film is shot on the festival day. The best organized teams will have a better chance at producing a great film before the deadline."


The required elements will be announced here on November 15th, 2008, at 9:00 a.m. eastern standard time.

Required Elements (choose at least three)

Location: ?

Prop: ?

Character Name: ?

Background Sound: ?

Costume: ?

Camera Technique: ?

Narrative Device: ?

Editing Technique: ?

Dialogue: ?

Style: ?



Gives you an idea what kinds of things will need to be variable. I've checked the rules and obviously planning ahead within reason is fine, like getting equipment together, maybe even a collection of props and things to chose from is fine...

I've got some idea of where I want to go with this I wonder if its a bad idea to post too much though...


I'll at least propose that I want Mad Zach (or anyone who is quick with a guitar) to be ready to record an impromptu theme song based on the name given by Apple.


Last year the name was Robin Darjeeling and I heard one video that had a very acoustic "shins" kind of song that rhymed...


Maitland Vaughn-Turner, back in the game this year. He'll be recording audio. We need to record the best audio possible and still have it be synced to video to save time, which means an extra person.


Frankly I have a very good idea of a number of things we have and need. I have a mask and an umbrella for the antagonist.

I feel like getting a roll of film shot and developed but not cut so we can pull through a roll of film with the faces of the actors and props we use.



Actors include the women, the young boy, and grandfather. plus two males.


We need a nice dining room with a sort of warm wooden feeling for the dinner with grandfather scene.




heres the script so far t's legit to plan a script, I was worried others would copy but I guess I'm down to open the source:








NARRATOR
This Is the story of madaline, and andrei nikolac, and of my brother who I am waiting for,

Cut to:


It all started when andrei nikolai and my brother ventured into the closet to find madaline who had been swallowed by her own magic after naively lighting a whole stick of roseblood insense that she had stolen from her freemasonic grandfathers doubleheaded eagle chest.

Though I should probably retract further you see before andrei, madaline kept to herself. She was a self proscribed trotskyite much to the dismay of her grandfather, She wrote poetry about snow and concrete, her bedfellows were ghosts and demons.

Cut to:

GRAVEYARD

Madaline is walking by a graveyard, smoking a cigarette. Andrei drives by.

ANDREI
Hello

MADALINE
Hi.

ANDREI
I'm a stranger. Would you like to come with me?

MADALINE
...okay

Cut To:
EXT WINDOW
through the window of the car looking at the profile of Madalines face in the forground,
Andrei's in the back.


NARRATOR
After that Andrei nikolac and madaline became inseparable. Also to the dismay of her grandfather.

Cut to:
INT DININGROOM
dinner with grandfather, andrei and madaline. warm lighting. red.


GRANDFATHER
So andrei eh? Is that Greek?

ANDREAS
No, Russian.

Grandfather chokes on his soup.


Cut to:

NARRATOR
Madaline showed Andrei a great deal of what she had learned from her granfathers books, like the importance of 33, and the perfection of number 6. She tought him magicke like how to give a witch pockmarks or make men infertal with dogbaine led and an iron skillet.


Cut to:

Andrei taught madaline about the rothschilds and the UN, of the impending fabian socialist satanic slavestate. the corporate fascist utopian biodomes In the sahara and bezra and the summerian magic inherented by her grandfather and the Freemasons and about the rockefellers sterilization campaign.

Cut to
ANDREI
there: Babylon..

Madaline
Damn Babylon...

it was shortly after this that madalines grandfather dissapeared. leaving madaline his entire legacy.

33acres, a shortwave radio about $250'000 in gold, and his personal library of Masonic texts, byzentine illuminated manuscripts a Scrying mirror and a key:

Cutto narrator
This key in my hand.

Cut back




and heres last years video, but this year its HD...


I have a treatment of surreal space clouds for inside the closet door. I hope we have a closet door. I guess we could either get a door or put a greenscreen with light in a closet for the shot but I'd like to set up a door in the middle of the greenroom.

eastern block-party

You know goat is delicious...

I've been thinking about how I'm going to continue the jim crow protest in santa cruz. The only way I can think it could work is I need the help of critical mass. I'm speaking in I terms because I tend to speak in we, but I don't know how many people really care about freedom in santa cruz. Things have gotten crazy if you have been to the drum circle on Wednesdays recently...

Time to transform the jim crow protest into something bigger. I want to throw an soviet eastern-bloc party.

I dunno thats my pitch... I have plenty of communist footage with soviet leaders with blue walls behind them, soviet tv was very simple...

For those of you who enjoyed the original...comes a fitting tribute.

Ok, for those of you who haven't already had your lives changed for the better by Frontier Psychiatrist, go watch the original. Ok, now that we're all up to speed, check out this Lego stop motion video tribute. It's got that folksy, authentic youtube style (which I once mistook for just looking amateur) where I know it's not a viral video that's gonna try to sell me something on the sly. And I think the watercolor/pixellation effects look great on the legos with their simplified color scheme. That's what makes old cartoons so good to VJ with - I'll bet footage from this would mash nicely. (I can't wait to get my laptop fixed).

Also, I like what they're doing with text - starting it at an almost legible pace then ramping it up until it's way too much for your brain to process all at once. So you just pick up random evocative phrases straight to the sub-dome.

freakers ball? I guess...

Well I heard about freakeds on Halloween. Surely it will be swell... Though I contest that lord Paul Sweet's Samhain ball with a haunted grove, stilt walkers and a roasted goat...

I'm not kidding...


Anyway the insomnia film festival coming up
This year lens adapter, dolly shot$ and rack of focus

German expressionist distorted window light cutouts needed help appreciated

cave party- nov.14th

hey everybody,

so we're thinking we're gonna throw another cave party on the 14th of november after i heard from mikey millz that most of you guys are going to the freaker's ball on halloween. so i'm wondering if any of you'd be available to come rock our cave that night, including mad zach, coda, agler, r2 and smurf to provide the visuals and anyone else that could contribute to the night.

so yeah. the last cave party was awesome, but i think we need to rock this one even harder. if you haven't heard, bryan and i are moving out of santa cruz, so this will be the last party we're gonna throw in the cave, and if you haven't been before, i highly recommend it. we're gonna get more lights up in there and we're open for ideas as to how we could make the cave even doper.

umm, we still can't blow the place up too fat, so let your close homies know and other people that should be there, but we'd like to avoid inviting the cops to the property.

let me know of any ideas.thoughs you may have on the cave party.
hope you're all doing well and hope to see you on the 14th!
peace

mikey moves millz

stay cool in school.

millz moves from millz on Vimeo.

P.S the art show was off the hook, lets have another in january.

Gotta Say It Is a Good Day

SeeqPod - Playable Search

some wompers from the Don Mega himself... enjoy!

fog machine?

Okay, so the only things we still need for tomorrow are: fog machine, strobe light, and kegs. Who's on kegs? can we get emiley's strobe back from christie? I'm trying to procure a fog machine, keep your eyes open. Also, I talked to akiva and she's gonna play for like 30 min or so. I think we'll put her on between hip hop and dance extravaganza. Also, I'm going to have the gl1 so we can get super down with filming this one. Hit me up!

--> Mad Zach

THE SEO RAPPER

After decades of vicariously attempting to enjoy rhymes about sneakers, hos, guns, drugs, money, dance crazes, food items, historical roots of oppression, and other things that don't really affect me, FINALLY someone is rapping about the shit that really matters. Everyday shit. The realness, yo. Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you, Poetic Profit, aka the SEO RAPPER.

oh yeah and here's EVERYTHING

Okay everybody, I have assembled a tidy archive of all of my good tracks from the Zachula project. They are readily accessible online, with album art, at:

http://www.jesseclark.org/thecart/music/Mad Zach - Zachula MP3's.zip

Enjoy!

Mad Zach

Indistreal

Hey Y'all, this is my first attempt at creating beats with MIDIs only, there's a streaming player after the jump.

Also, someone should tell me how to host audio with a service that doesn't suck like the one I used.

DJ dziga is born.




suckas running in fear
but don't cover they ears
so they falling like tears

Download Dj Dziga - TarkDsyPance

µ-Ziq Breaks/Dubstep/Grime Mix

+herstory+

not to cross post or anything - but did ANYONE know ANYTHING about Daphne Oram?
I mean, just saying...if you love electronic music - do you know where it came from?
sending you love my little bugs!
peace!

IN THE BEGINNING...G*DDESS CREATED ELECTRONIC MUSIC.

art show pre meeting

hey lets set a date to have a meeting about the art show on the 11th. so far we have Boom and Jfame from SF, the harshmellows, lyrical, zach & coda, and love gutter???? playing. right? and i think we have around 10 people putting up pieces. so lets sit down and chop it up some time this weekend.

--millz