I was thinking I should have a clock in the shower to help speed up my showers. Then I decided maybe I should just start counting seconds in my head. Eight years of counting down seconds in television production has made me fairly accurate at that, and I stay pretty accurate up into the hundreds. I'm usually off by only a minute or two and have gotten my shower time down to about 15 minutes from when I step in to when I'm fully dried off. The only downside: while my shower time has decreased, the number of good ideas I have (or, any ideas, really) has also gone down.
@jqubed I can't ever count it right in my head. This comes from too many years of linear editing real film. In film, the countdown sequence is printed on the head leader to aid in synchronizing, but the countdown is in units of feet rather than time units. So I can count that interval, but it isn't a true second. I'll probably never be able to get it right . . . heard it waaaay too many damn times. Can't unhear it and NLE leaders which are mostly now all time based sound "wrong" to me if I'm not looking at the monitor(s).
@Pavlov Do you keep your timeline measured in feet instead of seconds?
I wish I'd gotten to do more with film. I had one class where we shot on 16mm. Our professor said the only other place she knew of that let undergrads shoot film was USC. We got all our footage back as NTSC 29.97 on a MiniDV, though, so it wasn't even a 24 fps timeline. I need to go by the school and see if I can get the negatives; the media tech always said we could but whenever I tried it wasn't a good time. The footage looked great when we'd shot it right, though. I'd love to do more with it. A guy around here has been posting an Arri 16M on Craigslist for years, but I guess he's pretty firm on his price. I don't know that I'd ever be in a situation to justify buying it, though. I'm not even super confident film will still be available in a few more years, especially at 16mm.
@jqubed If hand cutting the actual positive copy of the film negative we'd keep it in feet (technically, frames / sec and feet / min - but it all flowed back to actual feet that was reeled). Cuts were precise and made without regard to time. That was what seems now like forever ago . . . In the early 90's things changed . . . and they keep changing. Now, it has got to the point where the physical negative doesn't ever need to be cut and hot spliced together (unless you really want to rock it old school) - the negative is optically scanned and a cut list is made by a DI editor.
Sad thing is, that final cut is now scanned for viewing and the platter is extinct. Film is dead, in a commercial theater.
You can still buy Kodak Vision3 16mm (readily available) . . . but no one can really know for how long. It'll soon get to the point where to get it you'll have to join a buying co-op and wait until they have an order large enough to manufacture it.
I dunno, turning the shower into a musical comedy could be so problematic. Fortunately most do not realize this an provide endless family stories for the thanksgiving table
I listen to my own thoughts: omfg, you asshole this is california, we are in a drought... you are killing the state by sucking out all of the life-blood then, no more than 2 min later. I am out of the shower.
i bought a $2 waterproof phone bag on ebay, i ran some tests on it and it passed, now i can play music as i normally would without regard to the water which is spraying my $600 phone
Got home from work, was stinking hot and shouted through to the kitchen, "I'm going to grab a shower, babe. Join me if you like!"
Three things I've learned from this:
'My own desperate sobbing.' lol. My condolences but that is funny.
@elimanningface
@medz It isn't easy being green.
Her muffled screams... wait did you mean MY shower?
@awk
@awk
A 3 year old pounding on the door screaming that her 5 year old sister just hit her.
I was thinking I should have a clock in the shower to help speed up my showers. Then I decided maybe I should just start counting seconds in my head. Eight years of counting down seconds in television production has made me fairly accurate at that, and I stay pretty accurate up into the hundreds. I'm usually off by only a minute or two and have gotten my shower time down to about 15 minutes from when I step in to when I'm fully dried off. The only downside: while my shower time has decreased, the number of good ideas I have (or, any ideas, really) has also gone down.
@jqubed I can't ever count it right in my head. This comes from too many years of linear editing real film. In film, the countdown sequence is printed on the head leader to aid in synchronizing, but the countdown is in units of feet rather than time units. So I can count that interval, but it isn't a true second. I'll probably never be able to get it right . . . heard it waaaay too many damn times. Can't unhear it and NLE leaders which are mostly now all time based sound "wrong" to me if I'm not looking at the monitor(s).
@Pavlov Do you keep your timeline measured in feet instead of seconds?
I wish I'd gotten to do more with film. I had one class where we shot on 16mm. Our professor said the only other place she knew of that let undergrads shoot film was USC. We got all our footage back as NTSC 29.97 on a MiniDV, though, so it wasn't even a 24 fps timeline. I need to go by the school and see if I can get the negatives; the media tech always said we could but whenever I tried it wasn't a good time. The footage looked great when we'd shot it right, though. I'd love to do more with it. A guy around here has been posting an Arri 16M on Craigslist for years, but I guess he's pretty firm on his price. I don't know that I'd ever be in a situation to justify buying it, though. I'm not even super confident film will still be available in a few more years, especially at 16mm.
@jqubed If hand cutting the actual positive copy of the film negative we'd keep it in feet (technically, frames / sec and feet / min - but it all flowed back to actual feet that was reeled). Cuts were precise and made without regard to time. That was what seems now like forever ago . . . In the early 90's things changed . . . and they keep changing. Now, it has got to the point where the physical negative doesn't ever need to be cut and hot spliced together (unless you really want to rock it old school) - the negative is optically scanned and a cut list is made by a DI editor.
Sad thing is, that final cut is now scanned for viewing and the platter is extinct. Film is dead, in a commercial theater.
You can still buy Kodak Vision3 16mm (readily available) . . . but no one can really know for how long. It'll soon get to the point where to get it you'll have to join a buying co-op and wait until they have an order large enough to manufacture it.
Trying to match the rhythm of the water to the rhythm of the fapp...
Wait, that would never happen.
Bought one of those Pyle Bluetooth splashproof speakers off Woot a while back. Have it hanging from the shower spigot. Love that thing.
I dunno, turning the shower into a musical comedy could be so problematic. Fortunately most do not realize this an provide endless family stories for the thanksgiving table
I like to crank this up when I get in the shower.
California. Drought. Not in the shower long enough to listen to anything beyond the sound of the water from my Conair Shower Head falling around me.
I listen to my own thoughts:
omfg, you asshole this is california, we are in a drought... you are killing the state by sucking out all of the life-blood
then, no more than 2 min later. I am out of the shower.
i bought a $2 waterproof phone bag on ebay, i ran some tests on it and it passed, now i can play music as i normally would without regard to the water which is spraying my $600 phone