Day 263: Bobbi Star and Kimberly Kane

More porn stars in the porn class today. We were lucky enough to have two A-lister porn stars, Bobbi Star and Kimberly Kane, come in as well as two huge porn directors, Lee Roy Myers, the porn parody king and Sam Haim, the porn drama master.

Bobbi and Kim were very informative and personal as well as nice to look at (I got to mike Kimberly Kane). But Lee Roy Myers controlled the night with his Producer/Director insight. I asked him about how humor and comedy is such a huge part of pron and he said, "People want to do two things in life: laugh and orgasm." Good point Lee.

Day 262: FIFA Tournament is Dead

I guess '95 activities are over thanks to a everyone being too busy to play with their roommates.

Day 261: Canon 7D

 I wish I could tell you I bought a 7D but I did not. Allison let me borrow hers because I am shooting a music video on it. This is the first time I have ever messed around with a 7D and it shits on the T2i. We are really going to test its low light capabilities when we shoot at night on the beach with tiki torches.

Oh and I am popping my prime cherry as well with this "nifty fifty" 50mm Canon prime 1.8 lense. Should be interesting to set up the rack focus on the tiny focus ring.

Day 260: Extravaganza

I popped my Extravaganza cherry today. As always, the lineup sucked but when you go t a school where everyone listens to dubstep there is no hope for anyone.

Apparently this is the first year in which only UCSB students could get in. This explained why almost no one was there for the first few hours. I only stayed for the first 2.5 bands. Sprout, a local IV band was ok but one of the chick's microphones was almost inaudible making the other chick sound really loud and manly. I did not like this. The Expendables were the best that I saw. They played their hit "Pack This Bowl For Two" which I remember hearing in the back of Tay Tay's car many years ago.

Talib Kwali sucked so I left.

It was a beautiful day though.

Day 259: Borders RIP

Borders is now closed. It is depressing to think that with everything going digital, book stores and libraries will soon be as extinct to our children as dinosaurs. They were literally throwing things out that people weren't buying for as cheap as $.25. Some custmers were ripping shelves off with tools they had brought from home.

Look at that little bastard on his cellphone. Can't even appreciate what he is seeing right now.

Only things left in the DVD section: Rush Limbaugh audio book.

 

While it was really depressing to come in and see this ghost store, I came up on a sick souvenir. I wanted to get something that made me remember how the store had died. A book would have been cheap with the %90 offdeals but I wanted something BORDERS. I looked up at the walls and immediately saw this DVD VIDEO sign. I ased the manager how much and he said, "5 bucks?". Deal. "Do you guys have a ladder I could borrow?", I asked. He pointed to a ladder so I moved it, climbed up, and ripped it from the wall in true MacGruber fashion as I used some change counters to pry it off. After taking it home, cleanign it off, taking the screws out of the back, here it is.

Wet

Day 258: Fudge Packers

Doug finally got his tattoo. Ever since the Green Bay Packers won the superbowl, Doug has been talking of getting it. The tattoo: The lombardi trophy of the Green Bay Packer "G" logo. For getting it down by some unlicensed guy in his garage after a successful barter, it turned out pretty good.

Day 257: Sleeeeeeeeppp

After over 20 hours of editing, Elixir is done. Hibernation begins.

Day 256: Nina Hartley and Ernest Greene

In the porn class today, our guests were Ernest Greene, a porn director, and his swinger wife, Nina Hartley, world famous porn star. I was mostly interested in seeing Nina Hartley as our parents generation (mostly Dads) jacked off to her many many many times but when Ernest Greene started talking, he was hilarious and educational.

Day 255: 16mm Editing

Now that we are done shooting Elixir, it is time to edit. The original cut was 10:38 but we had to get it down to 7 minutes for Reel Loud. This was extremely difficult but after days of trying, we (mainly Allison) figured it out.

Since it was shot on 16mm, we can't really edit it on a computer. Sure we projected the footage onto a wall, recorded it, and then edited that on a computer. But now we have to go literally cut (splice) the film, tape the pieces together, and hole punch them. This process takes days but is one of the most rewarding and educating experiences a film student can have.

Day 254: Ballin'

After living like a peasant these past few weeks, we finally got our kickstarter money for Elixir. Now I can stop eating bread and water.

Day 253: Merry America

At first I wasn't down with the Christmas lights on my American flag because NOTHING should touch the flag including the ground. But now I realize that at night, it is illegal to fly an American flag unless there is a light shining on it. God Bless America.

Day 252: Title Credits II

After failing the other day, today I actually shot the title credits. It took hours to set up the lighting...not.

Special Thanks to Jon Reed for letting me use the school's equipment.

Day 251:/MAL

I had a job interview in L.A. today at my sister's company /MAL. She said I couldn't take a picture of where she worked as they have a bunch of secrets there. So I took a picture of my lens cap.

Day 250: Title Cards

I was going to shoot the title credits today but there was some miscommunication between Keith and myself so this is the only title card shooting that I could do.

Day 249: Tristan Taormino

In our porn class, we have some pretty interesting guests. This weeks guest was female porn director, Tristan Taormino. She makes feminized porn that entertains a mostly female audience.

The quote of the night came when she talked about STD's being spread amongst retirement homes, "Gonorrhea is going all around the bridge table!" 

Day 248: Strawberries

Day 247: Bathroom Censorship

A bunch of days ago I took some pictures of the bathroom in Buchannon hall. Someone must have seen all the graffitti and painted over it. There were literally years of vandalism that were fossilized in that stall and now its all gone.

But, as Doug probably knows, you can't get rid of the wet.

Day 246: Which Came First: The TV or the Frame?

I was hanging out with Sarah in the duerms when I realized this TV. Somehow, it fit perfectly into the stand that was holding it and wondered how this came to be. Did someone buy the TV and then find the frame or did someone have the frame and found the absolute perfect TV? Perhaps we will never know.

Candid shot of Sarah. Never has a UCSB sweater looked so sexy.

Day 245: Rugby

Today I got to film the UCSB Rugby team beat the shit out of Oregon State. As a videographer, I made a little video for the team. Here it is.

Day 244: Fotokem

Drove down to L.A. with Kyle today to pick up the Elixir footage. It is always nerve wracking when shooting on 16mm and seeing it develop. You never know what you're gonna get until you actually see it. Overexposed? Underexposed? you never know until its projected. Brian and Orlando met us there and we watched all 1300 feet of it. It looks fantastic.

On the side of Fotokem, they toss all the film canisters into this garage area. Sometimes you see features and television shows lying around. We didn't look too hard today.

Day 243: Another Prop

Borrowed my friend's shotgun for this movie I'm making and it is pretty gnarly. It is an old school double barrel that can be held like a cowboy when it is open. You can see Viggo Mortensen do this in Appaloosa.