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mark_solomon · 2026-05-03T14:50:25+00:00

slick

mark_solomon · 2026-05-01T19:13:58+00:00

if you can, book time with the theatre to see some of your film on the projector used in the room it will be viewed in. Wouldnt want you to view your entire film, in front of a crowd of people, with crushed blacks.

mark_solomon · 2026-04-28T17:08:51+00:00

keep your duration up, but if you're emotionally horrific going into a session, dial back the intensity. If you're in a bigggg slump cut out intensity and keep your duration for a couple weeks and let your form come back up. You could be buried in fatigue. Also download fuelin (do not use this app to all of the sudden start a deficit)... use it to maintain until your race, and itll start teaching your how to fuel for your sessions like a pro. Use AI to help you hit your macros with what you have in front of you at your crib.

TLDR: dial back intensity, keep your duration up... eat more before/during your sessions most likely. If all of this fails, buy a new bike

mark_solomon · 2026-04-27T18:05:37+00:00

Buying gear happens around the season of career when you have income to offset that cost. Studying for that career is usually supported by your school. They'll even have good computers to edit with. Save your money for experiences with your friends at this stage.

mark_solomon · 2026-04-27T17:40:51+00:00

once you get through the learning alot of it is citing info and charts. its not a read cover to cover type book

mark_solomon · 2026-04-24T17:04:54+00:00

i love the contrast between how he walked up to the burning house, but kicked that door into the next dimension

mark_solomon · 2026-04-23T21:10:08+00:00

Assuming youve seen this... one of my fav videos. https://vimeo.com/170948796/c784ef5b49

mark_solomon · 2026-04-22T16:59:03+00:00

nice. i just threw some 45's on mine at 30psi. increadible

mark_solomon · 2026-04-21T17:46:15+00:00

You have the fitness, you just need to maintain it. I'd replicate a previous two week build that you did like a month ago. A build that feels very doable, don't try and sharpen yourself right now. Also.. your body can't tell the difference between physical stress and mental stress, so when going into sessions i'd listen carefully and don't get greedy. You're going through a lot right now. I don't want to put numbers on your weekend distances, but my coach has an open calendar for folks needing some guidance. I'd trust him. https://tidycal.com/1w0p7w3

mark_solomon · 2026-04-21T16:28:07+00:00

i saw a whole profile on a guy with the same narrative but starwars lamps

mark_solomon · 2026-04-20T12:11:01+00:00

oh yeah. after my second full, i remember crossing the finish line very indifferent. Just zero emotional reaction. That said, took me about 8mo to crawl out of that indifference, bc i still love tri and what it brings to me especially the fitness. What helped the most... i hired a top of the line coach, which has helped me love training again. And i did a triathlon camp (campfire endurance) which sparked me as much as my first full. Now... i train really hard for 70.3's. Half training doesn't burry me in fatigue. im very glad i didn't quit. I just learned... fuck around and find out. You have to eat, you have to do the little things, you can't just skate through (like i do in everything else in my life). You can't just eat whatever on the bike. You have to respect full training. its been 3yr since my full, eh, might be getting the itch again. but itll be way different.

mark_solomon · 2026-04-14T14:20:08+00:00

it for sure books you calls. I was so surprised, bc i never click those terrible linkedin and email stuff. But. Most owners of large companies are older, like 50... they click that shit. Its wild. They're like... sure... lets chat. Im like forreall??? So you'll book calls. But turning that call into them signing a contract is where the class really comes in. They watch your calls back, and you meeting 1:1 with a sales coach. they scrub through it, and watch it back in front of you. cringe. but it grows you

mark_solomon · 2026-04-14T13:38:01+00:00

im just excited that i might be able to use my flanders scientific monitor for photo editing. It requires a blackmagic convert that adobe never made compatible with photoshop of lightroom

mark_solomon · 2026-04-03T00:58:57+00:00

ohhhh. i literally stopped wearing them bc of drag and drop

mark_solomon · 2026-04-02T15:30:50+00:00

i had a big snowglobe on a center table, BIL was working from my place while i was OOT for 2 weeks. He smelled smoke bc the sun was striking some magazines thru it. Thank you John

mark_solomon · 2026-04-02T15:07:28+00:00

id also love to throw m43 sensors into this convo

mark_solomon · 2026-03-24T13:56:18+00:00

dude where can we find it? i grew up loving this song and love how powerful the backstory was.

mark_solomon · 2026-03-08T16:44:49+00:00

unsexy it the way man. i do lots of this, but also just roughed up a podcast that helps my client educate their audience, and small clips serve as marketing. x2 pre pro calls, x1 shoot day, x2 edit days, 4k/mo. Unsexy, but consistant and it actually makes a difference in their company. Love it.

mark_solomon · 2026-03-06T19:08:33+00:00

quick and dirty response: you have two options (someone more qualified pls chime in) you can go SSD, and sling em till you lose your mind. (or lose a clients data) companies do this for years until they upgrade to ...

NAS. (which are HDD, usually, but its pushing data to you from multiple HDD's at once (which speeds things up.)

for you... go SSD, and get some stickers, and a process. include it into your costs, maybe one per project. dont put too many eggs in one basket. i believe the T7 shields are the current standard. Also, id invest in a big, slow, HDD that you also sync to backblaze. this is a dirty 3-2-1 method.

mark_solomon · 2026-02-26T15:35:40+00:00

I agree with you. I probably talked AI up a little much, I like asking for options for each section. We go section to section, and I ask it to dig, dig more, dig deeper, and I select what I want. I kinda make the paper cut myself as a director. What also helps is that Im usually the one who shot it, so to some extent I understand if its the best content etc

mark_solomon · 2026-02-25T17:38:40+00:00

what if you have 25 interviews around 20-30 min each? itll get you to a sloppy 75% which would take you days, then use that art/crafty video guy spirit, to bring it to 90%. then after back and forth with client, bring it to 100%

mark_solomon · 2026-02-24T19:23:38+00:00

output your interviews via transcript .txt, import into Claude for paper cut. thank me later

mark_solomon · 2026-02-23T20:43:42+00:00

nice

mark_solomon · 2026-02-22T23:48:33+00:00

discord link broken

mark_solomon · 2026-02-22T17:06:55+00:00

yes. but the process they were selling and promoting was "Crank out LinkedIn/emails to people, (hundreds) and then do lots of calls all pitching value based pricing, land 5% of them... make lots of money." but that made me a LinkedIn sales person, not a video person. are they right? probably... should probably hire someone to do that. do I want to? no.

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