I have a hidden love for short films. A couple of my favorites are "The Parlor" and "Silent Years". Silent Years was actually done in Hawai'i, on the Big Island.
Silent Years:
The Parlor:
Sunday, December 14, 2008
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
So Close
I'll be stepping on Japan soil in less than 16 days now. It's getting exciting every day.
I did something I probably shouldn't have, but I felt like I had to. I bought a new camera, the Canon 50D. I argued it out with myself, and this shouldn't hurt me too bad in the wallet. I had about $2000. The camera was $1200, then $300 for the rail pass, then $50 for the cellphone, bringing my lovely $2000 down to about $450. I just sold a lens for $100, my old dSLR should sell somewhere between $300-400, and finally, I did a job for someone a little while ago which totaled to about $400, this brings me up to about $1200. This seems okay, seeing that everything aside from food will be paid for once I get to Japan. I'm a little paranoid about the $400, but oh well. I already have the 50D in my hands now, just got it today in the mail! It's a lovely device, I haven't quite had the chance to test it out yet and tomorrow is Akino's birthday, restricting me from kidnapping and boring her to death by taking panoramic shots of the sunset :( oh well.
Speaking of which, I made her some little button pins for her birthday. She picked up an iPod Touch today for herself... since she received a nice, fat stipend from SAC for all of her hard work. I've been telling everyone that we're going to have a BBQ for her, but I have no idea of the location yet :(
I asked Ola, yet another boss of mines, if she'd be willing to purchase a lens I've had my eye on for awhile. They seem to enjoy simply purchasing things for my services instead of checks. Works for me, as I probably would have spent it on a lens anyway, and this way I don't get taxed! Ah, tax evasion! Anyway, the lens is a Sigma 50mm f/1.4!!! I bloody lub Bokeh. I did my fair share of research, and it seems that the Sigma tramples over the Canon f/1.4... as it should, it's a friggin 77mm diameter lens! The Canon is 58mm or 62mm, can't recall. Ah, these filters are going to get expensive. Anyway, I haven't heard back from them since my request, so I hope they took me serious... I don't ever ask for anything.
Dark Christmas went... okay. I didn't think it was a very successful event. You can pretty it up all you want, we simply didn't get the crowd that we needed to show that the students were getting something out of it. I don't know what my problem as a Publicist is, I just can't seem to nerf down my time on making things pretty.
My classes are going well. I have been skipping quite a bit recently as a result from Dark Christmas, and the pattern seems to be sticking with me. I'm just thankful this pattern didn't emerge in October. In any case, I'm ready for the finals, just one silly paper for Philosophy and I'm finished. I just need to worry about work now...
So I ran through an interview the other day for a position in Myhraliza's office. I was pretty confident and still am, some of the questions they asked seemed contrary to what they told me about the job description though. In any case, it's a job and one with people that I enjoy to work with, so I suppose it's a good decision.
Well, this was a rather long blog. Lots on my mind, I suspect.
I did something I probably shouldn't have, but I felt like I had to. I bought a new camera, the Canon 50D. I argued it out with myself, and this shouldn't hurt me too bad in the wallet. I had about $2000. The camera was $1200, then $300 for the rail pass, then $50 for the cellphone, bringing my lovely $2000 down to about $450. I just sold a lens for $100, my old dSLR should sell somewhere between $300-400, and finally, I did a job for someone a little while ago which totaled to about $400, this brings me up to about $1200. This seems okay, seeing that everything aside from food will be paid for once I get to Japan. I'm a little paranoid about the $400, but oh well. I already have the 50D in my hands now, just got it today in the mail! It's a lovely device, I haven't quite had the chance to test it out yet and tomorrow is Akino's birthday, restricting me from kidnapping and boring her to death by taking panoramic shots of the sunset :( oh well.
Speaking of which, I made her some little button pins for her birthday. She picked up an iPod Touch today for herself... since she received a nice, fat stipend from SAC for all of her hard work. I've been telling everyone that we're going to have a BBQ for her, but I have no idea of the location yet :(
I asked Ola, yet another boss of mines, if she'd be willing to purchase a lens I've had my eye on for awhile. They seem to enjoy simply purchasing things for my services instead of checks. Works for me, as I probably would have spent it on a lens anyway, and this way I don't get taxed! Ah, tax evasion! Anyway, the lens is a Sigma 50mm f/1.4!!! I bloody lub Bokeh. I did my fair share of research, and it seems that the Sigma tramples over the Canon f/1.4... as it should, it's a friggin 77mm diameter lens! The Canon is 58mm or 62mm, can't recall. Ah, these filters are going to get expensive. Anyway, I haven't heard back from them since my request, so I hope they took me serious... I don't ever ask for anything.
Dark Christmas went... okay. I didn't think it was a very successful event. You can pretty it up all you want, we simply didn't get the crowd that we needed to show that the students were getting something out of it. I don't know what my problem as a Publicist is, I just can't seem to nerf down my time on making things pretty.
My classes are going well. I have been skipping quite a bit recently as a result from Dark Christmas, and the pattern seems to be sticking with me. I'm just thankful this pattern didn't emerge in October. In any case, I'm ready for the finals, just one silly paper for Philosophy and I'm finished. I just need to worry about work now...
So I ran through an interview the other day for a position in Myhraliza's office. I was pretty confident and still am, some of the questions they asked seemed contrary to what they told me about the job description though. In any case, it's a job and one with people that I enjoy to work with, so I suppose it's a good decision.
Well, this was a rather long blog. Lots on my mind, I suspect.
Thursday, November 20, 2008
The event Dark X-Mas is almost here :(
It's a tie-in between the Haunted House and Christmas, so sort of an imitation of my favorite Tim Burton movie, Nightmare Before Christmas.
It's usually a bad month for me when this sort of event happens, but we'll see.
I won the Tribune Herald Calendar shot for the month of November, so I'm a whole $50 richer! Of course, $10 of that is going to pay for the shots and $20 is going to my loverly model, Tiff, so I'm $20 richer, but at least I'm not going the other way.
What more? Hmmm, I'm working on a "Hello" video for my friend, Haruka. She graduated last semester and went back to Tokyo. She's slid into somewhat of a depression, so I'm trying to cheer her up, if only just a little bit. Still haven't finished taping everyone.
Anyway, that's about all I really want to discuss right now. I'm procrastinating a lot and have a mountain of things to do, but I just can't seem to get myself energized about any of it.
It's a tie-in between the Haunted House and Christmas, so sort of an imitation of my favorite Tim Burton movie, Nightmare Before Christmas.
It's usually a bad month for me when this sort of event happens, but we'll see.
I won the Tribune Herald Calendar shot for the month of November, so I'm a whole $50 richer! Of course, $10 of that is going to pay for the shots and $20 is going to my loverly model, Tiff, so I'm $20 richer, but at least I'm not going the other way.
What more? Hmmm, I'm working on a "Hello" video for my friend, Haruka. She graduated last semester and went back to Tokyo. She's slid into somewhat of a depression, so I'm trying to cheer her up, if only just a little bit. Still haven't finished taping everyone.
Anyway, that's about all I really want to discuss right now. I'm procrastinating a lot and have a mountain of things to do, but I just can't seem to get myself energized about any of it.
Thursday, November 6, 2008
Never Sleeps
Hello!
I just got back from a conference in Las Vegas. The conference itself was for Student Unions (or what our campus calls "Campus Center"), called ACUI. It's basically a 3-day session-packed conference and a great reason to go places and network with people in other campuses doing the same things that you're doing to benefit your Student Union. I left Hawai'i with a chest cold, so I was pretty miserable the first few days there. I wasn't really digging the Vegas vibe. I don't like to gamble, I don't have a thing for Hookers, and although there were half-naked girls walking around all over the place it just felt really dirty. When my sinuses finally
cleared and I WAS able to smell things, I suddenly realized that the entire city smelled like one huge burning cigarette, which made me sneeze fanatically for a few days. We had the first day off, so we took advantage of this and went all over the strip. During the night time, we went wandering over to the MGM and then through Paris. We had this great idea to go up the Eifel tower and to watch the Bellagio Fountains.
It looked amazing. My eyes had not been so contempt since New York. We decided, though, that we needed to experience the fountains from down below. We
hastily headed down towards the strip in front of Bellagio and waited for the show to start. As Celine Dion's voice began to mumble strange Italian words from "Time to Say Goodbye" I fell in love. The fountains left me speechless, and as the final pressure blast from the larger circle shot up following Bocelli's finale I felt a deep love for this place which renewed my passion.
Anyway, from that point on, I had a pretty great time in Vegas. I gambled, I lost, I stopped gambling.
The keynote speaker for the conference was an advocate of the Pay it Forward movement and showed a great clip that I had not seen before from the Free Hugs Campaign
All in all, it was definitely a positive experience.
I just got back from a conference in Las Vegas. The conference itself was for Student Unions (or what our campus calls "Campus Center"), called ACUI. It's basically a 3-day session-packed conference and a great reason to go places and network with people in other campuses doing the same things that you're doing to benefit your Student Union. I left Hawai'i with a chest cold, so I was pretty miserable the first few days there. I wasn't really digging the Vegas vibe. I don't like to gamble, I don't have a thing for Hookers, and although there were half-naked girls walking around all over the place it just felt really dirty. When my sinuses finally
cleared and I WAS able to smell things, I suddenly realized that the entire city smelled like one huge burning cigarette, which made me sneeze fanatically for a few days. We had the first day off, so we took advantage of this and went all over the strip. During the night time, we went wandering over to the MGM and then through Paris. We had this great idea to go up the Eifel tower and to watch the Bellagio Fountains.It looked amazing. My eyes had not been so contempt since New York. We decided, though, that we needed to experience the fountains from down below. We
hastily headed down towards the strip in front of Bellagio and waited for the show to start. As Celine Dion's voice began to mumble strange Italian words from "Time to Say Goodbye" I fell in love. The fountains left me speechless, and as the final pressure blast from the larger circle shot up following Bocelli's finale I felt a deep love for this place which renewed my passion.Anyway, from that point on, I had a pretty great time in Vegas. I gambled, I lost, I stopped gambling.
The keynote speaker for the conference was an advocate of the Pay it Forward movement and showed a great clip that I had not seen before from the Free Hugs Campaign
All in all, it was definitely a positive experience.
Friday, October 24, 2008
Hello World
Ah, the first painful blog.
Well, I was inspired by one of my favorite photographers, Jingna, to start this blog up. I haven't had a blog in such a long time. I believe Xanga was the last true blog that I've had. I suppose that I owe you some kind of introduction:
My name is Ka'eo McKeague-Clark and I was born and raised in Hawai'i on the Big Island, Hawai'i. I've always been passionate about Art. From when I was very little I would constantly draw, and my imagination ran rampant. It was during my highschool years when I first became interested in photography. Film photography never grabbed me, as I was a digital person living in a digital environment. I was attached to my point and shoot camera throughout highschool, and then I took a trip to New York, where I got my first real digital SLR camera. I was hooked, and have been ever since then.
Well, I was inspired by one of my favorite photographers, Jingna, to start this blog up. I haven't had a blog in such a long time. I believe Xanga was the last true blog that I've had. I suppose that I owe you some kind of introduction:
My name is Ka'eo McKeague-Clark and I was born and raised in Hawai'i on the Big Island, Hawai'i. I've always been passionate about Art. From when I was very little I would constantly draw, and my imagination ran rampant. It was during my highschool years when I first became interested in photography. Film photography never grabbed me, as I was a digital person living in a digital environment. I was attached to my point and shoot camera throughout highschool, and then I took a trip to New York, where I got my first real digital SLR camera. I was hooked, and have been ever since then.
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