Mission Log 249 Delta

Well... I guess Google doesn't delete these blogs if you don't log on in 2 years or whatever.  I finished my Associate of Arts degree in engineering and am transferring to the University of South Florida, starting August 27th or so, to work on my bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering.  I have not had much spare time in the last two and a half years.  I plan to get back to the art of stop-motion eventually, when I get more time and some money to buy a decent camera.  I am occasionally making YouTube videos still: though, very sporadically.  I'm tired at the moment, so I am working on going to sleep.  Therefore, continuing to type will not aid in such a goal.  Thus, in the great words of Tigger, Taugh Taugh For Now, or, TTFN, as he likes to abbreviate it as sometimes.  Take Care~

I have just started a web comic. You can check it out at:

thelifeoffish.com

Time has went bye as it seems. I started college on January 12th and I am still at it. So I hav'nt had nothing to do. My job at Movie Gallery ended at the end of June when the company ended up going bankrupt a second time. So latey I've just been working on school. Right now I just have one class, which is on the subject of mathamatics. I'll be starting the fall semester on August the 18th were I shall be taking Pre-Calculus/Trigonometry, Introduction to Physcology, Musical Appreciation and English Comp 2. In my last post I said that I was'nt sure which degree to take. I kind of knew actually back then. Anyways, I'm working on my Associate of Arts in Engineering and then after that I plan to transer to a university to work on a degree in Nuclear Engineering. And that's my life as it seems...for now.

Cheers

Well I've been thinking about stop motion a bit more the past couple of days. So I decided to finish one of my puppets. I would say that it is the pinnacle of my stop-motion-ness so far. It's quite animate-able. And it has no clay, or plasticine, which should keep a few of my hairs still intact. It's taken me over 30 hours to complete. Then only thing that I'm not sure of is his eyebrows. I'm thinking they might be to big, but at the same time that kind of makes him cartoony. So I don't know... I'll probably do a test or something in the time to come. Anyways, here's a couple of pics of his top half. I probably should have got a full body pic. I guess I'll do that at some point later. The second picture kind of looks like Elijah Wood a little, in my humble opinion, lol.

Well the Jamaica video that I was working on got put on hold, then I decided to take a break. I did'nt really get to capture much good audio...so it just has lots of music. So yeah, not really great editting material.

I made a music video and song called "Snowman's requim" and I just made a short bit called "Dangerous man". You can check those out on my youtube page http://www.youtube.com/user/Rokinentertanement

Lately my life has been becoming a little rocky. My job at Movie Gallery has slowed down to me working 3.5hrs this week. Last week was 7 hours. I'm trying to find another paying job, but it's not a walk in the park. I'm also wanting to start going to our community college here. So that I can get job that pays above minimum wage. I'm not all that sure of what degree I should try to get.

Ultimately I'd like to make a living as a musician of a film maker. But it's hard to get into that business and the college degrees that you can get don't really help you attain to that goal. So yeah, I'm thinking I want to get a degree in something that pays well and that I can get a job doing. I really want to get a degree in something that I like though. Hard decisions.

Anyways, that's enough talk of my problems and unsuccesfullness. On saturday I went to see Stryper in Port Richey,FL. And that was alot of fun. Also it was quite encouraging to the musical side of me. Manic Drive and Flight Patterns were the opening bands. Manic Drive's electric guitarist was doing like robotic moves most of the time. It was really cool and funny at the same time.

And today, well yesterday, I went to see Jason Castro in Port Richey, Fl. That was alot of fun. There were tons and tons of girls there. There were only a few guys. Which I think is odd because he's a pretty good musician. Not just some woman's eye candy. I got him to sign the back of my threadless "Birds of a feather" shirt and got a picture of him doing so. And here is also a short video of him coming onto thee stage. Video curtiscy of my mom.

Well, see ya later people(Person),who ever reads this~

I figured I should probably update this to some point in time, which is now. I got back from Jamaica. I video taped 3.5 hours or so of footage, so I'm currently working on editting that into a nice little video. It's taking me a bit of time, to get that together. Because it seems every scene has it's own artist problems that need to be fixed. And everything needs to be perfectly placed where I want it. I like to have everything exactly where I want it and if I can't do that then I improvise... I've been trying to spend an hour or two a day doing that. I think I've editted 5 minutes worth of final video product so far.

If you examine my previous posts, you'll see that I was working on making a stopmotion film. Well 2, sort of, I was helping doing the audio for one. Don Carlson, the guy who's doing all the real work, is still working away at the film "Blue Alien Summer". I think he mentioned at one point that he would be done around Spring 2010. I'm excited about that.

And the stopmotion film that I was working on by myself... Well, my friend and half colege, Reggie Lloyd-Jones had a thought, which was one that was also in my mind. See I was planning on using my mini dv cam with a firewire cord to shoot the movie, so it would be in standard definition and stuff. I had mentioned that I wanted to get a Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ50, and he suggested that I wait and buy that, then shoot the film. Because theres a big difference in quality and resolution. So that kind of stuck with me.

Only problem with that is I don't make to much income. Moving onto now, I plan on getting better job anyday here. See about 2 years ago I worked at the nuclear plant as a laborer, during there outage. So, I'm planning on them hiring me again, anyday now, would be nice.


Well, that's all for now. See ya!
-Justin Parker

I'm leaving to go to Jamaica for 10 days on tuesday.