gallery show/ video screening

Just got my cards and magnets in today, in time to pass out at MTS gallery opening tonight.

looks like this

Legs feed the wolf

I was watching "Miracle" last night late into the night. Miracle is the Disney movie about the 1980 USA hockey team that won the Gold in the Olympics. It's a little hokey, but I really like that kind of stuff. The Kurt Russel character, Coach Herb Brooks, is explaining how they're are going to be the best conditioned team on the ice. He makes them do ladders, where the players skate from the goal line to the blue line and back, to the red line and back, to the far blue line and back. Before they begin he says "Legs Feed The Wolf".

Dead Lift

Dead Lift is the ending sequence cut out of Balls of Ice. check it out here. 1'48" long.

Circling the Crease

Two new cuts of my old flick "Slapshot". One is called Circling the Crease and it can be viewed here. The other one is called "Shot to the 5 Hole" and it can be viewed here.

These two movies are 1 minute and 30 seconds, respectively. By request from Lee, I am taking the Less than a Minute Challenge. My goal is to do more with sound, or lack of it, as well as incorporating text. I'm finding it hard to use text beyond the title, but for now, it works. I want to make better titles, maybe animate them some how. I also am exploring more techniques which will hopefully lead to a more symbolic, surreal, or hyper real feel to the videos. More on that later. (hint: it involves Mattes) I may also switch from Final Cut Pro to Adobe Premiere.

Searching for a topic for my last paper. I'm not sure I can outdo my last one, which clocked in at 3000 words. I would like to just expand on it, maybe look at some different artists, and relate it to the same kind of stuff. who knows.

By the way, I had "Balls of Ice" accepted into the Anchorage International Film Festival in the "Snowdance" category.

That's all I have for now,

Mike Out

Limited Ice Time

So my mentor has me making 30 sec. movies. I'm having a lot of fun trying to cut my long pieces down that short. so far I have two, Icing the Puck, the 1 minute version and Limited Ice Time, clocking in at 30 secs. click the links to see the movies.

Icing the Puck

here is the rough cut. I guess I'm calling it "Icing the Puck" or maybe "Neutral Zone". something like that. I know it needs work. I'm going to be cutting it down to 30 sec or a minute. but need to get inspiration on that one. Need a new way to cut. a new visual structure. Maybe it won't involve licking the ice.

Matanuska Glacier Hockey

Shot another hockey movie this weekend. This time on the Matanuska glacier. I'm pretty happy with the way the footage looks, and I think it will edit out nicely to about 2-3 minutes. I didn't get to do everything I wanted to out there, time was kind of short. But we got something that has somewhat of a beginning, middle and end.

The glacier was gorgeous as usual, and the colors were at their peak. We are having a beautiful autumn. It happened to be the perfect day to shoot, with rain the day before and rain the day after. The day of was complete with high diffused light, some direct sun and dramatic clouds hanging ominously over the mountains, peaks dusted with fresh snow.

I don't think this one will take too long to get a rough cut on the web. look for it.

Mike out

New Business Card and movie

yes, this is my new business card. Got refrigerator magnets made too. It goes along with my new movie called The Rink 2 which you can see here. It's a rough cut yet, and the sound needs work, but I'm putting it out there to my test audience (you) to see what people think. It will probably get shorter, and hopefully sound better over time.

enough for now,

mike

halibut

Coho, Sockeye, Silver, Chinook, Pink  = types of pacific salmon.  

All gorgeous, 

but what about halibut?  with their migrating eye, both popping up at you from the same side of the head when you pull them out of the deep like from another planet, all flat with fins rippling for propulsion, green on top and white underneath for camoflage from above and below, sideways mouth to eat the crap off the bottom, scrape it up and gulp, nice white meat, not fishy like salmon, but neutral, can do anything with it, or nothing with it, just eat it, old ones wormy and tough, young ones tender, nicknamed chickens if they're small like 30-60 lbs, if they're big they come up like pulling a barn door off the floor of the ocean, dead weight, not much fight, if they're really big like over 300 lbs you shoot them in the head before trying to bring them over the side so they don't flop around and wreck shit or knock people into the drink, if you're fishing off the dock try put your line near where the cannery waste tube lets out, town sewer line works too, lots a halibut around those places.

Movies I watched recently

Ponyo

Fellini - Satyricon

W

Buster Keaton - the General

Buffalo 66

Cinema Paradisio

The Bicycle Theif

All the President's Men

The Wrestler

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Go West

Gonzo

Into the Wild

Aguirre: The Wrath of God

Bukowski : Born into This

Slumdog Millionaire

Man on Wire

Fitzcarraldo

my netflix activity from the last couple of months.

enough already!

mike out

The Rink

Here is a re-edit of the video previously known as "Alternative Venue"

I chopped it down to 3:20  and attached an alternative ending, where I drink the ice after it's broken up.  

Still working on the hockey in the lake video, that one is hard to get through for some reason.  Maybe because I wasn't behind the camera at all, and am not personally attached to the shots - except that I'm in them.  It's a different feeling.  I suppose it should help me edit from a more detached place, like I'm not in love with the shots because I didn't shoot them.  

Problem is there are a lot of missing frames, I don't know if it was in the capture or in the downloading of the footage to the computer.  Might have to figure that out before I get too much further.

mike out