Jul
2

Things I Can Do

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video production and editing (weddings, live events, talking head interviews, skits, instructional videos, travel videos), html/css coding, google apps for your domain setup and maintenance, home theater installation and coaching, video slideshows, VHS to DVD conversion, content writing & editing, technical support for Windows systems, network installation, CAT5 cable installation, computer hardware replacement and repair, photoshop image retouching, wordpress installation and customization, caregiving, audio mixing and recording. I’ve done tech support in high volume call centers, run my own small call center, provided care for teenagers with autism, done freelance web and video work, taught film to at risk high schoolers, been a Teaching Assistant for the university of California, provided audio visual and computer support in high schools, cleaned bowling alleys, written Technical and Call Center training manuals, washed cars, cashiered at CompUSA, worked check-in at a gym, delivered flowers, and designed educational multimedia websites.

that’s some of the stuff i do and have done. some of it well, some of it not so well. bidding for my services begins at $20/hr.

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Jun
6

The Dark Side of the Force

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What the hell, why not give it a shot? Alladvantage all over again baby. Get $10 just for signing up, beer money folks, beer money.

http://www.makemoneyreadingads.com/

i feel so dirty..though if just 10 people sign up for this, it’ll have been an experiment worth while. eh?

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Feb
4

I Did It

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Well it took three days, starting Thursday and finishing Saturday morning, but I finally watched the complete Extended Edition of LOTR on my big ass theater. And boy howdy was it worth it. Still looking for a job, nailed a phone interview for customer service last week. Not what I wanting be doing but I certainly need the money.

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Jan
6

death

Posted in life at 9:53 pm with tags: • • •

the trip back from chicago went well, thankfully no further problems at the airport. Spent the week applying for some jobs, nothing too exciting or promising. The rest of the week I sat around the house mainly watching netflix movies. Most notably, I just finally finished Six Feet Under, which I started a little over a year ago. While I think the show lost its way a bit in the middle few seasons, the first season and last part of season 5 are particularly amazing.

The final episode, and specifically the final 15 minutes of the last show, make for probably the best conclusion to a series I’ve seen. The final montage in the last episode is painfully beautiful and straightforward, and a logical fulfilment of the premise of the show. It’s one of those beautiful moments of film/video where the music and the images magically combine to create something neither of them would be alone. With the images showing us what to feel, and the music informing how we should feel it.

For me, the best episodes of the show were the ones in which the ‘death’ of the episode informed and revealed something about what the characters were struggling with at the time. The technique is similar to the way the island ‘manifests’ shadow issues or undigested material for the cast to deal with in LOST. The deaths in Six Feet Under do much the same I think, though the episodes that do that are certainly more prevalent earlier in the series before it turns into more typical soap-opera esque character issues.

While a little cheesy, predictable, and overly dramatic at points in the series, overall I’m so impressed. This is a show about how life is, not how we want life to be. Nobody is perfect in the show, but everybody has moments of perfection. Issues don’t always get resolved, things don’t necessarily end happily, and people don’t always come around as we might hope. Check it out if you haven’t already.

Death is that strangest of things; the one universal experience that every living being in the world shares, something completely universal, but also simultaneously the loneliest thing in the world for anyone to experience or witness.

That probably wasn’t the best show in the world to watch during my unemployed-what-the fuck-am-i-doing-with-my-26-year-old-life period right now. Meditating on death does little to alleviate existential angst.

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Dec
14

The Dark Side of Oz

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So what’ve I been doing with all my recently acquired free time? Well, for one, I finally made a DVD dub of The Wizard of Oz/Dark Side of the Moon. No more hitting play and pause and shit, just pop in the disc and go! Sweet. I’ll make copies for those that want them. $5 plus shipping and handling. haha….

I’m fairly proud of the image I whipped up for the DVD Menu on the right, I think it looks cool. Bless photoshop.

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Dec
7

In the airport again

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In the airport again, seems like I’m always blogging from the airport.

Anyways, in Phoenix on a layover on my way to Honolulu for the U2/Pearl Jam concert saturday night. I’m very excited to get out of boulder/denver/integral for a while, and kick it with my old Santa Cruz homies while waiting to see two of the best bands of all time.

I’m officially unemployed now, and back on the prowl for a job. The tension between making money and working on a film career has arisen yet again, and I’m not quite sure how I’m going to deal with it.

However, I’m going to work hard on some side projects to make some extra cash, regardless of what job I get.

I took the photos for SantaCruztraveler.com last fall, and am finally going to sort through those next week.

Also, far more exciting than that, part of the old 514 Broadway crew (Daniel, Matt, and Lee) will be joining me in the creation of eye-strain.net; a cooperative blog dedicated to film, television, new media, and everything else. It’ll mainly be for fun at first but if we get good could certainly bring in some revenue one day!

contact me if you have e good job suggestion…

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