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Nov. 11th, 2005 07:10 pmhttp://cinepaint.movieeditor.com/
Cinepaint looks like a really awesome tool for movie editing, and apparently it's actually used by some commercial studios! The only downside is that it's broken on Win32 right now, but that's what VMWare is for!
I'm also kind of depressed. My parents are upstairs arguing about strategies revolving around church politics. You'd think that church would be the one place where there'd be a far greater emphasis on togetherness, but there's that same sense of constant manuvering to achieve a personal agenda.
It's a shame that it's the same way at school as well. Our school is stuck with a program that nobody cares about (not even the teachers) called "Character Counts at Cameron Heights." It's aboutgetting Principal Kemple a job at the board office emphasizing good values in our school, and it now takes up all the P.D. (P.A.?) days for the teachers, and there's even a committee that supposedly does stuff about it! Currently they've put up street signs all through the school (Honesty Ave., Rue Respect) and commissioned me to produce a radio ad for them (written instructions, not even a teacher to come in and work alongside me).
The point is, politics suck. This ties in nicely with my recent seminar for English on how Isabel Allende (daughter of the Chilean deposed president) portrays politics in her novel The House of the Spirits - specifically, they suck. The book itself is quite good, if you ignore Allende's strange predilection towards introducing a new sexual deviancy in every chapter. Apparently the next book we're reading, 100 Years of Solitude, doesn't involve a lot of (physical) solitude but does involve a truckload of bizarre sexual encounters! Oh joy!
Every lead I had on buying decently-priced turntables has now dried up. Looks like I might be looking at $500 for the Stanton DJLab (not my first choice, but what can I do?) and Final Scratch (somewhere in the range of $800!) Luckily, my parents seem receptive to the idea of spreading FS out among my relatives for my birthday next month. Until then, I must sadly make do with Traktor DJ Studio and dream of rubbing my fingers gently over the smooth contours of a Technics SL-1200MK5. I would drop the needle on it, while it spins slowly round, gradually increasing as I up the pitch slider until we're both moving in rhythm, and we're both dripping sweat everywhere. Except that everyone knows that turntables don't sweat, they glow. Kind of like girls, except that one I have the chance of buying, and the other is completely beyond my reach. And I can get turntables in a pair :)
Cinepaint looks like a really awesome tool for movie editing, and apparently it's actually used by some commercial studios! The only downside is that it's broken on Win32 right now, but that's what VMWare is for!
I'm also kind of depressed. My parents are upstairs arguing about strategies revolving around church politics. You'd think that church would be the one place where there'd be a far greater emphasis on togetherness, but there's that same sense of constant manuvering to achieve a personal agenda.
It's a shame that it's the same way at school as well. Our school is stuck with a program that nobody cares about (not even the teachers) called "Character Counts at Cameron Heights." It's about
The point is, politics suck. This ties in nicely with my recent seminar for English on how Isabel Allende (daughter of the Chilean deposed president) portrays politics in her novel The House of the Spirits - specifically, they suck. The book itself is quite good, if you ignore Allende's strange predilection towards introducing a new sexual deviancy in every chapter. Apparently the next book we're reading, 100 Years of Solitude, doesn't involve a lot of (physical) solitude but does involve a truckload of bizarre sexual encounters! Oh joy!
Every lead I had on buying decently-priced turntables has now dried up. Looks like I might be looking at $500 for the Stanton DJLab (not my first choice, but what can I do?) and Final Scratch (somewhere in the range of $800!) Luckily, my parents seem receptive to the idea of spreading FS out among my relatives for my birthday next month. Until then, I must sadly make do with Traktor DJ Studio and dream of rubbing my fingers gently over the smooth contours of a Technics SL-1200MK5. I would drop the needle on it, while it spins slowly round, gradually increasing as I up the pitch slider until we're both moving in rhythm, and we're both dripping sweat everywhere. Except that everyone knows that turntables don't sweat, they glow. Kind of like girls, except that one I have the chance of buying, and the other is completely beyond my reach. And I can get turntables in a pair :)
