Biggest news is I\u2019m (temporarily, I hope) unemployed.\u00a0 Life as a contractor. I had notice, and my current employer actually got me another offer before the last one ended, but a week ago that offer was rescinded for mumble mumble reasons.\u00a0 I\u2019ve since been able to get a second offer (that comes with a whopping 40% increase in compensation: also life as a contractor), but no timing on when I\u2019ll start collecting a paycheck again.\u00a0 You\u2019d think I\u2019d have plenty of time to be productive and get things done, wouldn\u2019t you?<\/p>\n
What this means, though, is any movie making efforts that cost money have ground to a halt.\u00a0 My \u201cFuck Retirement<\/a>\u201d short, though incredibly cheap, is on hold. Lily Horror<\/a> I decided to outright cancel, though I have some hopes I might be able to revive it for late Summer.\u00a0 Assuming my new job actually starts producing paychecks, I\u2019ve begun negotiating with my wife taking some of that 40% increase and dedicating it to movie making. Which should mean being able to pay cast and crew, which should make it easier to find cast and crew.<\/p>\n Some good news re Treasure Hunt<\/a>.\u00a0 I found two guys (who I believe happen to be in England), one to rework\/optimize the sound, the other to colorize.\u00a0 Both appear to be making progress, both are content with reel (e.g., credit – an entry on IMDB<\/a>), so that should kick the flick up a notch (or twain).\u00a0 Of course, that does imply additional delay to getting disks made. And I have no ETA for completion.<\/p>\n I\u2019ve tried editing the footage I have for Domestique<\/a>.\u00a0 The problem is while the footage looks amazing in the preview (can even see the freckles on the face of the actress), when rendered it looks like crap.\u00a0 Everything I\u2019ve tried up to this point has failed to resolve the situation. The frustration has reached a tipping point and I\u2019m taking a break while I ponder life, the universe and everything.<\/p>\n I had a bit of an epiphany recently.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been trying to make some progress with Blender<\/a> with the idea of potentially making money doing animation.\u00a0 I realized, though, that I already have a concept related to movie making with a realistic (though low, of course) chance of making money: Domestique.\u00a0 Coupled with an invention I\u2019ve been dilly dallying with for over a year now that could (if successful, of course) be worth billions to me personally, the idea of spending time on Blender (or, really, anything that isn\u2019t Domo or this invention) is a really bad idea.\u00a0 Sadly, little has changed from pre-epiphany, though I like to blame that on this FUBAR<\/a>ed job situation (I\u2019m usually really good at multitasking, so that\u2019s really a cop-out excuse).<\/p>\n So, there you go.\u00a0 Much has happened, little has been accomplished.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Biggest news is I\u2019m (temporarily, I hope) unemployed.\u00a0 Life as a contractor. I had notice, and my current employer actually got me another offer before the last one ended, but a week ago that offer was rescinded for mumble mumble reasons.\u00a0 I\u2019ve since been able to get a second offer (that comes with a whopping … Continue reading “Latest, Not Greatest”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,17,18,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blender","category-domo","category-lilys-party","category-treasure-hunt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":442,"href":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions\/442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}