This blog was supposed to make me feel invincible. Where is my quick-fix?

I have been working a lot on the video that accompanies the song "tripping in a cardboard box" (the same one the last two entries were about. Things have been going slowly because I have been working this construction job. Ok, and plus I'm a bit lazy... It seems that you have to keep on working well into the period in which what you are doing is no longer just playing around, past the period of enjoyable work, and into the period of duty that is about as much fun as taking out the trash, although sometimes as much fun as doing the dishes. Fun! Raouw! Maybe it's just a technology thing, or a volume thing.

But the programs I'm using are fun, even though I am still learning. I do hope to post the video up on YouTube soon, so quick be my friend 'cause I can't release it yet til it's 100% dun.

It's interesting how.. you know when you do something all day, like rake leaves (it's an obsession), that you think about it at night. And it affects the way you think? Like maybe after a fall yardwork day, if you have a stomach-ache you visualize the pain as a pile of brown-half rotten leaves stuck in a corner under some pine trees with some tricky bricks or twisty roots? And you think of raking them up as being the solution to your stomach ache? Or when you are talking and you see your wild words flying through the air like a cloud of super crisp thin dry maple leaves yellow in the afternoon light? That happens to you, right? It's just a questions of mental paths over-reinforced in the short term affecting your categorization of thoughts.

Well, the interesting thing is using this non-linear editing program Final Cut, which I am proficient in, and the other DV effects program that I am still learning. They have different abilities and methods of editing. Now, I am used to the way a couple days strait of editing on Final Cut makes me feel; I look at the world capturing the most aesthetically pleasing shots, with an eye to movement, light, color, and depth flattened out. I only want to capture short clips and think of what clips or POVs would work after what I am looking at now. But with this new editing program I tend to see things as still images, capturing them and storing them in a file. I think of how to juxtapose them and how they will relate to each other in partially transparent layers. If I see a squirrel I wonder how to eliminate everything in my eye but the squirrel, so I can move him to a different environment. Ad it intensifies the feeling that everything is slipping away, so many discrete objects left uncaptured, so many beautiful backgrounds that will never exist again.

Well, a blog is an efficient method of procrastination. Count that continent discovered.

OK fans, don't send any more candy. My teeth... Send exotic spices with recipe suggestions! I could have used that asafotedia last night.