It was the best of times, it was the worst of times

I always liked that quote (title), but I always felt that during the worst of times it would be difficult to appreciate it as the best of times at the same time. I realize that he was talking about a period of time and not an actual event taking place in a small moment.
Well this sentence has a completely new meaning to me, because these past few weeks have been the best of times and the worst of times.

As can be seen in the records of this blog, there has been a bit of a drop out in the last few weeks in posts. And there is no good reason like, vacations, lots of school work (though I have been doing a lot of that as well) and/or family time. I don't like venting on people, it makes me feel ridiculous, so I'm sending this out into the cosmic void of the internet where people can ignore it if they don't want to listen and then don't feel rude or anything when it happens (I tip my hat to you as you're mouse hovers over the close tab or go back one page button, thanks for stopping by).

Without going too much into the details. It has been the worst of times, because you always start with the bad so that you finish on a good note, in my classroom. I have moved around from country to country my whole life, a couple of times while I was on this blog as well, but never have I felt as secluded as the last weeks.
In my class there is one boy/man, boy because of the way he behaves, man because he is twice my age. And every one in my class falls in line with him. I don't mind this ordinarily and I can live with the fact that this boy/man makes a mockery of the way I live my life. But last week the whole class followed him in hate towards one teacher, a teacher that I quite like. It all turned pretty rough and now that everything has blown over, there is a bitter taste in the air between all my classmates and me. The girl who did not follow. I think it's extra bitter because all of the teachers and department heads know that I did not follow and therefore are talking to me about these problems and all the others in the class feel like they are being looked at badly. Which is true in their case (in mine the teachers only talk to me because I am class rep) but you have to live with the consequences of your actions.
 Suffice it to say, I am feeling very lonely in this country that isn't even one that I have ever lived in before and no one in my class to really talk to.

 I'm keeping this light hearted with Lilo & Stitch awesomness

It has also been the best of times because, and to keep his name to myself I'll just call him what I call him usually, Boy has been around.
I don't like leaning on people but Boy and I have been bouncing off of each other as he is on the middle of doing his finals and was feeling very very stressed so I tried to keep him aloft and being able to spend time with him made me feel better.
His whole class is also comprised of some great gentlemen. I could argue that this best of times can become worst of times once again because they are all graduating next week. But I am living by the day to take full advantage of Boy.

 This is probably an entertaining notion but in this image Boy is probably the cat and I am the dog

*Sigh* That's all. I apologize for this but man it feels good to write it all down. It makes it all more distant and easier to deal with.
Do any of you have difficulties venting to people? Or are having troubling times?
If so I'm sending you a *smile* and a *hug*. Just because they're lovely.

3d and 4th day of the first shoot

 

The grips setting up lights for the kitchen scene. 

 

 

Zoran, drumming our boredom away to a good beat.

 

It was a really nice kitchen.

 

Our set-up.

For those who don't know, it takes sound about 2 minutes to get set up and then we wait about 2-3 hours for the camera and lights and all that jazz. 

 

A big boat full of woodchips sailing by the set.

And the last day of our first shoot we were underground.

On top is the movie lighting, below is the normal lights.

 

Juan was tired as hell.

Which then resulted  in us pulling out the Leme Cam app on my Iphone.

1st and 2nd Days Shooting: First Set

Here are my classmates and I feeling the cold and suffering the waiting on our first day on set.

The film students we had to work with were... slow to say the least and we had to make sure we always had some form of entertainment with us.

This is a storage facility near my house, I was glad for the proximity but it was.... Aww screw it, it was pretty darn cold down there. 

I actually had to sit with my legs in a super warm bathtub the whole night after spending a day shooting there because my legs would not and would not warm up. Thank god the bath did its job and I didn't get sick. 

Juan is working hard. 

Annd I'm still trying to wake up properly. 

The set that we were working on was actually one of the film student's jam spaces. 

A brilliant and well organized sound setup. 

Trying to get warm with coffee. 

Day 2!

Zoran showing off his brillaint, finger-pointing, mixing skills. 

Yes film sets make you look liek a refugee, its not all fame and glory my friend. 

Back with a vengeance

 I have been gone for so long! I miss writing! But I'm back now and my lovely sets gave me some pretty pictures to share with all.
While I get all of that sorted out I'll share something I am actually kind of proud of.

So without further ado here is a project that I made using the Kontact sampler in Pro Tools, I only used the sound of my voice making the noises, Eee, Ssss, Shhh, Var, Gor, Ing, Myu and a couple other nondescript sounds.

Sampling Project

I swear I'm alive!

Sorry for not posting these last few days! It feels like I haven't been on the blog forever.
I have been suddenly and inexpicably bombarded with work at school. You know when you think that everything is going smoothly and you're just chillin and listening to some great classes and then suddenly you look at the due list and there are like eight things for a week from now.
Goodness! Was my initial reaction.

 On the brightest of sides I got some great work done with the term 6 people, helping them with their Foley which is really turning out to be my favorite thing ever.

Believe it or not this is a foley session, or the beginning of one. This was our lovely set up to create mold and goop sounds.

These two lovely gentlemen were screaming for two great projects, one with little creatures in a difficult situation and the other with a house being wrecked by wolfmen.
Both have great voices and are absilutely brilliant people. Suffice it to say it is always entertaining to work with them.