If you like short films you really need to go here. OnSuper8.org
A while back they accepted a film I did more than 15 years ago. But in this day and age were everyone wants high end this and HD that you forget about the film making. Every film on this site will inspire and make you want to crack out that old super 8 camera.
All you need is an idea. Come on, you got to have one!
I guess I better order some film… go here is if you need to pick up some.
If you’re a filmmaker, artist, musician photographer or content creator of any kind you should read this post by Kevin Kelly. It’s a short version of The Long Tail and puts it into simple easy to understand artist terms. I’m not saying it’s easy. Look at my counter 5. I know one of them is me, just to make sure it works…
But it’s a start, and for me it’s more fun to come up with ideas and get them out there. I should have started this 5 years ago when but I guess I was watching too much TV.
For me posts like this and “The Long Tail” have made me think differently about what I’m trying to get out there and who I’m trying to get it too.
The tools that are out there now can make all this very simple and it’s getting better every day. There is a little bit of a ramp up but the waves are starting to settle for me. I’ll be posting my work, and projects I’m working on and my silly observations. Soon I’ll post my list of the basics. Like web host, web OS, various online accounts that are a must or for what I’m doing they are a must. But for now READUP! Oh yeah and create something?
Send me a link to something you made! I want to see and talk about it!
The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More
But after I thought about it, these are good words to live by. I hear all the time you shouldn’t try to do something you should just do it. But sometimes you don’t know if you want to do it if you don’t try… But the truth is even if you are trying, you are doing more than the person who isn’t trying anything.
Maybe they should put fortunes under these lids?
Well it’s time to start talking about one of my new projects. With a lot of my latest influences like podcasting and filmmaking, which has always been there. I decided I wanted to be more prolific and start making lots of videos. I just feel like I needed to get back to my storytelling roots.
After looking around a bit, I realized the stories were right under my nose. So I decided to start talking about the town I live in, Lombard, IL. I won’t get into it to much here because you can go to Hello Lombard and find out all about it. I’m going to try my hand at doing some documentary videos. Don’t worry; I’m still going to make videos with visual effects in them. The problem is they take so long to produce, their fun but it takes a while.
Hope you like my new channel!
I’ve had my VHS VCR for well about 15 years. Wait really? It was great at the time and is still a very nice machine. But I know I won’t ever use VHS anymore. Well maybe one more time if I really have too. I want to make room for something new.
But I can’t take it out of my system. It’s the only thing that has a clock on it!
How will I know what time it is, if it’s not there? Oh wait where’s my cell phone…
Pistol Cams are going to revolutionize crime fighting. Giving courts and the public a new perspective on law breakers.
Let’s do a quick mash-up.
Can you imagine the new types of TV shows? They’ll have 30 camera angles to choose from. All looking at the same thing! Cutting back and fourth. They’ll have to add an extra camera looking at the Police Officer so we can get a good reaction shot?
Lets toss in 3D image tracking software. Now that you have all these points of view trained on the same thing. You can use this tracking technologies to visually analyze the image data and extrapolate the scene in 3D. Imagine how useful that will be in a court of law?
Add BlueTooth and we could have something like “Twitter Vision” but say Pistol Vision. So every-time a gun is drawn around the world we could instantly see who is being fired upon.
I think this is a good thing and I hope it helps to keep everyone honest.
I never thought anyone else would see this film after I finished it in college in one of my first real film classes. But now with YouTube and everything else I thought what the heck I’ll put it out there.
I submitted it to On Super8 and they accepted it for their podcast! Check it out if you haven’t seen it. A vintage Sean and Tammy are in it. It was shot in fall of 1990? Tammy’s Grandfather played his Lowrey Organ for me for the music. Believe it or not I shot the film. The part where the hearts are animated. I had a foot release trigger clicking off the frames.
If you are into Super8 film and yes they do still make Super8 film. On Super8 is a must bookmark. It will make you want to break out your camera and start shooting film again.
Welcome to the new site of SEANFX yup that’s right I’m going to a web 2.0 version!
If you are not on wordpress, do it! You won’t regret it. For now while I’m making this switch you can still visit the old site by clicking here.
iBiquity and iTunes have figured out a new way for us to buy music over HD Radio. Personally I don’t know why they couldn’t have done this 5 years ago.
But now that’s it’s here why can’t the music industry figure out a way to embed the lyrics and liner notes in that file too? I don’t care about the packaging any more. All I want is the info to match what I’m listening too.
The generation is coming that won’t even care about the album art. I lost interest in that when I switch from LP’s to CD’s. Heck the art was so small what was the point? Now they put it on a 2 inch screen.
Really at this point I just want the lyrics so I can figure out what they are actually singing and not some best guess because I’m to old to know what all the kids are saying these days.
Jerry Seinfeld was on the season premiere of ”30Rock“, great show by the way. “MUST SEE TV” is back! The story goes, NBC was going to take his old show and digitally put Jerry in their new shows. He was not happy about this. They asked him which show he would like to be on. He said, ”LOST, is that one of yours?”
Okay, I’m about to read way too much into this but what I think is funny about his response is not only is it not an NBC show but it’s ABCs. I want to pretend that he uses TIVO or downloads shows from iTunes…
What does this mean? It means it didn’t matter where the show came from or the network. All that mattered was he heard about the show and it was available and Seinfeld watched it.
This is the future of media.
Film by Sean McMenemy
Hello Lombard
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