More Fun At Work

Loving your job is one thing, but being able to see it's evolution is pretty cool... I will be bale to look back in 20 years and see all of the things I did at work just by watching a video! Pretty heavy huh?


Setting Up from Chris Christensen on Vimeo.

This is us setting up an interview set :)

Facebook/YouTube HD Embed Test

I want to see what it looks like to embed a Facebook video here... You have to change the size to 400 x 225 for blogspot, but other than that it's pretty nice!  I wonder if it works on an iPhone?  I will try it on my touch in a little bit.



As for Youtube, it doesn't seem to be in HD by default when embedded... Looks like it wasn't a waste to get Vimeo Plus (see my embed from yesterday below). Apparently there is a workaround by adding some code, I have done that below, but can't tell if it just sets it to HQ by default or HD... I will have to play around a bit more... this site was a great help.

Dance. Dance. Dance... 100 times

This is great! Why didn't I think of it?!


BOOMBOX from Ely Kim on Vimeo.

DIGITAL DEATH

I finished my spoof movie just in time for the DTV transition date. the only thing is that apparently they changed it to June now!!! Oh well... its out there, hopefully it will get lots of hits from scared people who aren't into technology and want to find out about the change... it would be great if it contributed to their fear!


Digital Death from Chris Christensen on Vimeo.

The End Of Last Week...

Last week was CRAZY... we had a really quick deadline at work to finish a promo video for the commercial side of the company. This is what I really want to do so I was pretty pumped to make a good promo video, I think it turned out really well considering we did it in less than 36 hours :)

www.ashdown.tv


Ashdown TV Promo from Chris Christensen on Vimeo.

24 and counting...

Life seems so short when you step back and look at it. I would rather just take it one day at a time and enjoy every second of it! it's my birthday and I am off to Minneapolis to see my favorite band Owl City tonight and party like a rockstar!

Its Windy Day!

We were on a shoot out in the middle of a field in Southeast MN.  The weather today was quite warm for a Minnesota February, but the wind was crazy!  I swear it was like 50 mph winds out there!  The nice thing is that the clouds were moving fast, so I got some good timelapse shots for B Roll of this old church we were at.  I was planning on using my SGpro 35mm adapter for this shoot since I haven't had a lot of time to use it on other stuff, but I forgot a piece for the tripod :(  I also didn't have time to shoot the scene for my movie that Betsy is going to be in, so that sucks.

Here is me, shooting in the 500 mph winds!

Fastest Day Ever

Today flew by for some reason, it's not like I was really doing anything special, just editing and I shot a green screen intro for a DVD we did last week. I was actually quite surprised at how good it keyed out, as I was only using my 3 light kit for the screen AND the key light on Betsy. I undoubtedly will be able to get a better key in the future when we get our whole light setup in there. I will post a clip first thing in the morning.

Worst Spoon Ever.

I just made a spoon in Cinema 4D... pretty horrible, you can judge for yourself:



In my defense, I didn't spend any time on it and when I wanted to be done, I tried to rush and make it perfect and ended up screwing it up a lot... oh well.

I Didn't Drink Enough Water Today

I have now lost 19 lbs in under 2 months.

I just realized that I haven't even posted pics of my new office! I have some from my cell! I actually have a window now! Also, I am just around the corner from all my whole job, the studio.



I will be shooting the final scene to my disaster short tomorrow!

I will also be putting up a funny green screen short tomorrow!

Finally, we are meeting with a mortgage consultant tomorrow, so we will be learning a lot about what's going on with our future house buying situation. We are at a point in our lives though, where we don't HAVE to buy a house, it would be nice, but if things don't pan out, life is still good :)

Finished Or Abandoned?

I finally finished this video that my friends Scott and Todd and I made last July... We sort of gave up on it because it was just us screwing around with an HVX200. There was actually a lot of tedious editing in this one... we were really just trying to get something done that day. I thought it would be nice for at least a couple of people to see it since we made it. We were very inspired by The Parent Trap on this one.


i swear to god i will kill myself from Chris Christensen on Vimeo.

Old Projects Die Hard

Tthe trailer for my documentary is picking up some momentum on Vimeo as well as getting close to 100,000 plays on YouTube! I should probably finish it... :)


Its a Hardcore Life Documentary Preview (Hardcore Dancing) from Chris Christensen on Vimeo.