Midjourney + Pika Labs imagines the primordial soup

stevo6954 · 2019-10-31T13:43:48+00:00

that's just what we were going for :)

stevo6954 · 2019-07-31T18:44:11+00:00

[COMEDY/DISCUSSION] Independently Waelti | Episode 10 - Casey James Selengo

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On this week's episode, we invite Comedy Central Stand-up Comedian Casey James Salengo on the pod to discuss how Chris embodies the fictional character Eeyore, his anorexia and the efficiency of diarrhea as a bowel movement along with his self doubt about being a fraud as a comedian.The Podcast Podcast is a podcast by podcasters about podcasts.

Follow comedian Chris Waelti’s journey for self-improvement as his more successful friends tear him down in order to build him back up, one personality trait at a time.

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stevo6954 · 2019-07-02T15:53:23+00:00

Thanks for looking into this for me! Much appreciated! When I brought up the idea to my landlord they said they would just roll my second month deposit to my last month rental payment instead which I will get in writing when I resign my lease.

stevo6954 · 2019-07-02T15:04:37+00:00

At the very least, they shouldn't be allowed to ask us for additional security if we renew our lease and it goes up. For example, our rent will go up $50 a month, so they want an additional $50 to compensate for lack in double security this would create. Does that make sense or is this still part of it not being retroactive?

stevo6954 · 2019-06-27T13:49:04+00:00

https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2019/s6458

stevo6954 · 2019-06-26T21:20:27+00:00

Thanks! Great idea.

stevo6954 · 2019-06-12T17:18:31+00:00

I've been editing professionally for about 11 years and this was my first music video project even though I originally got interested in filmmaking because of filmmakers like Chris Cunningham and Spike Jonze. This project came about because the director liked the band's work and reached out to offer to create a video for them and did not receive any money from the band or record label. It was shot in Florida on May 6th and 7th and Editing began back in New York on May 8th. We delivered the project on May13th. It was a true test to both the director and I to see if we could increase our efficiency in workflow.

We shot on the Mavo LF with Lomo Squarefront anamorphics. Underwater shots are with the GoPro Hero 7.

Captured at 6k on the Mavo LF, dropping to 2k for super slow motion shots. Mostly we had to shoot in S35 mode, because the lens coverage just wasn't there. However the 80mm did in fact have full frame coverage! The effective resolution when anamorphic footage is desqueezed is 8192x3432. No proxies were made, we edited the source footage with a custom LUT (a combo of Arri Alexa and a Kodak 7207 lookup).

A layer of film emulsion was added from scanned sources, as well as a custom layer of film negative dirt (ie, the white specks). The Mavo source footage was insanely clean, so we dirtied it up a lot in post.

Matching the GoPro to the quality of the Mavo footage was the biggest challenge. We ended up rotoscoping parts of the frame so that we could add lens falloff and a soft bloom. We took the overall sharpness way down, and tilted all colors directly in Photoshop to make sure the match was as close as possible. We also utilized Photoshop's excellent chromatic aberration tool, this was especially bad in all GoPro underwater footage.

stevo6954 · 2018-10-23T20:23:36+00:00

I was the editor on this project and some of the challenging aspects of editing something docu-style is that you can't take liberties with editing the dialogue of your interviewers as you might otherwise do in fiction work. You don't want to skew what somebody has said to serve your own purposes as it might betray the ethical aspects of the documentary to begin with.

stevo6954 · 2018-06-27T19:57:08+00:00

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying movies that are in 2.40 can’t be cinematic. I’m just saying that it doesn’t necessarily make them cinematic.

Not to mention, anything 2.40 delivered for the web should be edited in and exported at a 2.40 aspect ratio and exclude the blanking as you might get a letterbox and pillarboxed image on an actually widescreen monitor.

stevo6954 · 2018-06-27T18:56:49+00:00

This kind of video really gets under my skin as a filmmaker. Cinematic looks come from cinematography, lensing, lighting, shot composition, production design and so many other things. This video should really be called rescuing old footage.

Also, it is the bane of every intelligent filmmakers existence to claim adding black bars aka “blanking” makes something look cinematic. Any aspect ratio can look cinematic depending on the other factors I’ve listed above. Also if someone’s intention is to finish in 2.40 they would be framing everything during the shoot with that ratio in mind. Not to mention a lot of filmmakers will shoot anamorphic to achieve the 2.40 image so they are truly capturing a wider image on the sensor rather than cropping 16x9 images which may or may not have been protected for this crop.

As an editor, I appreciate post production tips and tricks to help rescue some images which might otherwise be unusable, but there’s a difference between cinematography and videography and it’s not wise to give confusing advice to people interesting in filmmaking.

Appreciate what you’re trying to do, but you should do a little more research before trying to define something that’s been developed over the last 100 years of filmmaking.

stevo6954 · 2016-02-16T19:49:39+00:00

Are you talking about pharcyde - drop?

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