Moved

Moved to a different blog. Not sure why, but I did it.

moktao.blogspot.com

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Just a Moment...

Use your heart to see, your mind to think...

Didn't forget...and designing?

I didn't forget about this blog, just been really preoccupied with family problems. But I am hopefully back soon. In other words I am designing a new hoody design. Stay tuned. Hope to be done with it sometime in the next month or so.

-R

Tick Tock

Tick Tock. Tick Tock. Have you ever thought that the phrase "so many things to do, so little time" I really don't like that phrase. It, to me, is very over used and just over irritating. Its like the phrase, "its not you, its me" or things pretaining, "life will be better tomorrow" "what doesn't kill you only makes your stronger" etc. etc. Those cliche sayings really irritate the crap out of me. Anyways projects projects projects, currently working on 2 projects and a very non video related project =D I fixed up a watch that belonged to my dad. I wanted to find the model number to see how it old it is and such, but had no luck. It doesn't say anything on the inside. And all it says on the outside is 100 m water resistant, made in the Philippines, timex, stainless steel. Its probably a ripoff, knowing my dad, but if it is that just makes it 50 times more awesome. I changed its battery and played around with some of the wiring and it started ticking again!

-R

Let Go Part II

Normally, I try not to post a post without something relating to my works/progress in them because I am trying to make this solely about the projects and not me. But tonight, I will make an exception. I have been watching a variety of movies lately and encountered a similar theme in all of them. Perhaps, they are just cliche themes, but it made me think. Some of the movies I watched was Junebug, Megamind, Curious George (The Movie), and Tron. A huge theme was escaping. Escaping the world we live in, the person we are, and being put in a new environment, and how we all want it so bad but perhaps the world is just too cruel because we lose it in just a flash. 

In Megamind, though a cartoon, still had that theme in its greatest simplicity. Its main character was the typical "bad guy" who wants to take over the world. He becomes a bad guy because everybody around him made him feel inferior, despite the good he did he was considered a bad kid because there was someone better. He tried to please others but instead was misunderstood. So after unfair treatment he decides he wants to take over the world and after years of plotting, he gets what he wants. But as time passes he wants to escape his life, his character and be in an environment where he is happy. He is able to escape and eventually find his happiness because he was given a chance, an opportunity. But I guess thats not the case in all scenarios, I mean this is a child cartoon movie. 

In Junebug, I have actually never heard of it, I've seen the picture on a dvd back in the day when walking through a blockbuster but never really picked it up to read the summary on the back. But a friend had recommend I watch it, so I did. Junebug is about this outsider who marries a guy from South Carolina and six months after their marriage they visit his family for the first time, mainly because they were down there on business so it was more out of convenience and free stay if anything. The family there is very dysfunctional. It is even more stressed when the son and his wife come to visit, as she is a very liberal person and different in many ways. The father keeps everything inside but is very wise, the mother feels under appreciated and cries a lot, the youngest son impregants a girl who lives with them but he is jealous of his brother who left south carolina. Eventually the "escapees" start to lose their sanity and they start doing other things to "escape" such as smoking etc. They all want to leave but stays for each other because of that "blood bond" The only one that leaves is the son. Obviously, another cliche, the son leaves with his wife in the end and all is good again. So I what I realized is the only way one "truly" escapes is if we are released. If we are let go by those around us. Its a movie, you have to watch and pay attention to, perhaps i'm just reading into it too much. My review probably doesn't make any sense whatsoever. 

Anyways i'm not going to write a review for every single movie I watched because that would be a really long post. When I watched these movies I was able to sympathize with some of the characters. And realized that my whole point of "let go" is not the whole point that "let go" which ironically is the title of my blog and have been for a long time now is not fully understood, at least by me. I say let go, and I personally want to let go of the past, and present. But I think i'm coming to the point in my life that its not me to let go but for others to let go me. 

{to be continued...}

-R

Purple Glove Dance Part II

We are done! Finally finished the video. The video was actually done Friday night but I wanted to wait till we got approved for the contest before I posted it up here.

The Purple Glove Dance Part II is done! Please support us by sharing this and by voting! Everybody can vote once a day.

Vote Here: http://apps.facebook.com/contestshq/contests/87013/voteable_entries?ogn=facebook

Thanks for the support!

Yolanda Eng, helped a lot in recruiting dancers!

Everything was looking gloomy for this video, but somehow everything worked out! Many great thanks to Jenny Chiang, Kristina Winch, Dennis Ramey and Hayley Sanders for doing that action light painting shot. We started around 9 PM and didn't finish till midnight. Kristina Winch was the drawer that drew the lines for Denny Ramey(cancer) and Jenny Chiang was the drawer for Hayley Sanders(chemo). We had to take individual picture for each shot. We were outside in 20 degree weather taking photos.


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Old Spice UW Part II

Old Spice UW Part II is released! Cory Foster, the actor, wrote the script and directed it. Kenny did the filming and figured out the props (as in the dolly etc.) this is my first time working with equipment like a dolly. Cory's friend also was there to help. Not going to let out all our secrets of this production =D This went a lot smoother than the purple glove dance part II-yeah that is still a work in progress.

Purple Glove Dance Part II may be pushed to a further date at this point. Not going smooth at all. I might just give up on my perfectionist and artistic values and just throw stuff together and reuse old footage at this point...

Also I've added a new section to this page. On the right hand side, you will now see a "Links:" page. The links page is links of people that has provided me with inspiration, or people that I work with a lot or both =D. But I should note that the Links page is not in order of favorites etc. It is just alphabetical. Anyways check them  out! 

Uploads: Okay so my uploads are now split. You will find some of my work at "youtube.com/uwrelayforlife" or at "youtube.com/rwoo426". Obviously, videos I make for UW relay will be uploaded to that UW channel.

Check it out:

Kenny's Site: http://www.youtube.com/yoddleman00

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Purple Glove Dance II RAWR

RAWR! RAWR! Long filming day for Purple Glove Dance II, and got the stomach flu today...RAWR...

I still hate you as much as you hate me...

RAWR

RAWR...

Purple Glove Dance Part I: RAWR
Purple Glove Dance Part II: RAWR

I hate you as much as you hate me. The end.

-R

Relay For Life 2010 Recap

I was suppose to make this awhile ago, but never got the time or motivation to make it till last night. I spent a total of 5 hours on it. 3 hours of it being rendering and uploading (very slow internet). I used two songs: Chris Brown: Yeah 3X and Classic Crime: Seattle. Not going to lie, not my best work, but I really wanted to get it done.

In other news purple glove dance part I is coming along alright. Filmed Saturday at an Asian church. Keyword Asian. But going there I had no idea what I was getting myself into, in that I thought there would be a dance prepared, but turns out that there wasn't. But things turned out pretty good. Kenny and I brainstormed for awhile and finally figured out something to do since a good chunk of them were too shy to dance in front of the camera. Filming for this video, we have had a lot of drawbacks and just plain annoying troubles. How? Well...

1) Footage we shot on Friday was lost. Don't know where it went but its gone
2) A lot of people are bailing on the day of filming
3) My computer is dying, so I haven't been able to actually watch the footage while I edit so I'm relying on pure luck, and skill to edit. That or rendering the clip after I make a change to see it in a media player (which takes double the time)

 Hopefully in the end, this all will come together really nicely. Massive hopefully...Anyways heres the recap video:

-R

High Five Trailer

Filmed this in December, finally became not lazy and edited it. Well the intro was what toke the longest, than just put a few of the clips together to make a trailer. This is my first trailer, so I realized there is actually a lot of things I should have done to make it better. I used After Effects CS4 for the intro(used tutorials from videocopilot-Great place for tutorials check it out!) and Sony Vegas for the overall of putting it together. It was loads of fun making and filming, great cast to work with.

Directed By: Hayley Sanders, Dennis Ramey, Hing Potter, Rebecca Woo
Filmed By: Hayley Sanders, Rebecca Woo
Edited By: Rebecca Woo

Starring: Dennis Ramey and Hing Potter

Guest Appearances by Hayley Sanders

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Old Spice Meets Relay For Life

One project done two more to go. Yes, we did it we made an old spice relay for life commercial! This video stars UW Senior Cory Foster. He wrote and directed this video. I just filmed and did the editing with a little assistance in directing. This is my first time, not counting weddings etc. where I had to use the actual audio clip we filmed. Very exciting stuff. Spread the word! Enjoy! Please watch on YouTube so we can get the view counts! Thanks!

-R

Aaliyah-I Miss You

So I sat down today and just stared at this blog. Why did I make this? What was its purpose? Its main purpose was to track my progress in projects and as an artist. And its side purpose is to maybe post some songs, music videos, etc that I really want to share. As time passes, I realized I have not made a lot of progress in my projects or had no effort to. But I am hopefully filming this weekend for a Relay For Life commercial. I have filmed some footage for the High Five Video, probably just enough to just make a trailer.

Anyways, I stumbled across this music video tonight, and thought I'd post it. It's what some may consider "old school" going back to the roots, when r&b was r&b, when hip hop was hip hop. When people can tell the difference between pop and r&b. This song is by aaliyah-I miss you. She died in a plane accident when she was filming for a music video at the Bahamas. We don't really know how it feels to be alone till we lose the people we love. People say when we lose everything we hit rock bottom. Yes, and no do I agree with that statement. When we are alone, truly alone, not for just a day or a night, but truly alone that is when we hit rock bottom. That void inside, we cannot fill and it hurts. It hurts to think, to feel, to do anything it just hurts. Ironically, even to be with people it hurts. Everything is a reminder. Thats what it means to be alone. Not just a simple you have nobody's shoulder to cry on. When you realize you have something to say, but have nobody to say it to. To me, that is what it truly means to be alone.

-R