This Sunday i went with Susi to a reheasal by the Legendary House Of Ninja, i was hoping the movie of the actual rehersal was up by now, but you have to settle with this video. They are really good dancers, so look forward to that part.
I also took some pictures for the website, they can be found on Flickr here:
flickr.com/photos/susigraf/sets
It was very interesting getting a look at this ballroomscene, which is completly something i have never seen or heard about before. It is this Voguing/catwalking community, everyone is invited but most people are transgender and or gay, but the common factor is "you have to look fabolous" and it is a rather big scene. Some are even homeless because their parents threw them out when they came out of the closet, and they can seek comfort at these different houses like the Legendary House Of Ninja, which was started by Willie Ninja, who is also the founder of Vogue. These homeless people are the ones Susi's documentary "Lost In The Crowd" focuses on. We also got invited to their show on Tuesday, where they will also show "How Do I Look" by Wolfgang Busch, which is Susi's competition, so we are also gonna go there.
torsdag den 19. marts 2009
Back to the future... Sort of...
If you guessed "American Museum of Natural History" you guessed right.
I had to go see the dinosaurs while i was here. One of the few places that shows actual skeletons, and not just casts of them.
It was an allright place, the dinosaur skeltons were the best part. I saw this space movie they show in a "dome" so you have a round screen, which almost fills out you entire field of view, so the expectations were high. But the movie was kind of lame and nothing really happened, they didn't take full advantage of that big screen in my opinion and it was an unsharp image, so that was unfortunate. But there was a lot to look at in there, and even though i had set to mind not to spend too much time in there, because the weather was really nice and warm, i spend the most of the day in there.
I had to go see the dinosaurs while i was here. One of the few places that shows actual skeletons, and not just casts of them.
It was an allright place, the dinosaur skeltons were the best part. I saw this space movie they show in a "dome" so you have a round screen, which almost fills out you entire field of view, so the expectations were high. But the movie was kind of lame and nothing really happened, they didn't take full advantage of that big screen in my opinion and it was an unsharp image, so that was unfortunate. But there was a lot to look at in there, and even though i had set to mind not to spend too much time in there, because the weather was really nice and warm, i spend the most of the day in there.
Watchmen and the Pourhouse
This Friday i got home pretty late, and i hadn't had time for dinner, so i went to my new favorite bar. The Village Pourhouse in West Village. They serve food to about 2am, and they have beer and a great atmosphere, and lots of TV's showing college basketball, I have really come to like basketball on tv since i got here, i think the College league is even more interesting than the nba league. So that's a great place, it has everything.
I only came to get a few beers and a burger, but i started talkling with this guy sitting next to me, and he was really interesting, he is an Editor and he edited South Park the Movie. He had tried a lot of cool stuff and we had much to talk about with me being schooled in Editing at the Danish Filmschool, and he had worked with a lot of big guys in the business. But i couldn't stay too long because i was going to the movies with a friend from work. We were going to watch the watchmen movie, i looked forward to seeing this movie given that it had been sold out the whole first week it came out. Probably because of all the "Blue Penis" i have heard.
"1 - Watchmen (Watchmen is now officially the best-performing movie about a blue penis since that movie where Paul Walker got trapped in the snow with some dogs) $55,655,000"
- http://www.hecklerspray.com/
I only came to get a few beers and a burger, but i started talkling with this guy sitting next to me, and he was really interesting, he is an Editor and he edited South Park the Movie. He had tried a lot of cool stuff and we had much to talk about with me being schooled in Editing at the Danish Filmschool, and he had worked with a lot of big guys in the business. But i couldn't stay too long because i was going to the movies with a friend from work. We were going to watch the watchmen movie, i looked forward to seeing this movie given that it had been sold out the whole first week it came out. Probably because of all the "Blue Penis" i have heard.
"1 - Watchmen (Watchmen is now officially the best-performing movie about a blue penis since that movie where Paul Walker got trapped in the snow with some dogs) $55,655,000"
- http://www.hecklerspray.com/
Woot, this week went by pretty fast...
... So here is the summary.
I started working with the design for Susi's Myspacepage on Monday, that was a real pain in the A**, because you can't really just write the HTML codes and test it, you have to write it all kinds of different places, and it took some time to understand. But with that said im pretty happy about the outcome, which can be seen here:
Lost In The Crowd on Myspace
We also worked on "spamming" the internet everytime Susi writes a post on her blog. So far her facebook profile and her twitter gets updated everytime she posts something, and you can subscribe to her blog too if you like. We also worked on updating her Myspace blog, but it seemed the Myspace funtionality had changed since the last plugin was released, and a lot of other people had the same problem. We couldn't find a solution, but i know it's gonna pop up sooner or later.
At the Maysles we finished up our Mockups for the website, here is the results:
We were looking into having a meeting about them that day, but unfortunatly Jessica, Philip and Jason were too busy, so we sent them an email with them. We told them that this was not finished websiteoutcasts, because we really liked to involve them more in our process, and instead of thinking these website-outcasts was finished, they were merely inputs to our discussion about how the website should look.
We hope to get feedback soon.
Thursday we worked on the backend of the Maysles website, we are trying to think of ways it would be easier for them to update the website, and keep it more current. Without doing that much more work, which actually can be done i think.
We are working on ways to make the calender show the screening of the evning on the home-page, and get the website to automatically remove screening that has allready taken place, and put them in an archive, so the next screening is always the first one you see.
We still had time for some copying and printing some more flyers, so they are ready for a handout on wednesday.
I started working with the design for Susi's Myspacepage on Monday, that was a real pain in the A**, because you can't really just write the HTML codes and test it, you have to write it all kinds of different places, and it took some time to understand. But with that said im pretty happy about the outcome, which can be seen here:
Lost In The Crowd on Myspace
We also worked on "spamming" the internet everytime Susi writes a post on her blog. So far her facebook profile and her twitter gets updated everytime she posts something, and you can subscribe to her blog too if you like. We also worked on updating her Myspace blog, but it seemed the Myspace funtionality had changed since the last plugin was released, and a lot of other people had the same problem. We couldn't find a solution, but i know it's gonna pop up sooner or later.
At the Maysles we finished up our Mockups for the website, here is the results:
We were looking into having a meeting about them that day, but unfortunatly Jessica, Philip and Jason were too busy, so we sent them an email with them. We told them that this was not finished websiteoutcasts, because we really liked to involve them more in our process, and instead of thinking these website-outcasts was finished, they were merely inputs to our discussion about how the website should look.
We hope to get feedback soon.
Thursday we worked on the backend of the Maysles website, we are trying to think of ways it would be easier for them to update the website, and keep it more current. Without doing that much more work, which actually can be done i think.
We are working on ways to make the calender show the screening of the evning on the home-page, and get the website to automatically remove screening that has allready taken place, and put them in an archive, so the next screening is always the first one you see.
We still had time for some copying and printing some more flyers, so they are ready for a handout on wednesday.
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