Currently I feel like the Sunday song. 'forever... by the cool blue triangular water' š
But that's been going on for 3 days; as I say, this is one of those critical stages, and that's why I made a film about an archivist. Compared to older generations, I'm doing all this totally indie stuff, which means that I'm largely in charge of storing it.
Well, eventually NgÄ Taonga and NZ on Screen could store my films as well, but that probably is going to be somewhat difficult. Portrait of a Knight had a DCP, while I'm not sure whether Some Kind of Love has a raw file, and The Dakumentary is H-264 files.
As I like to point out, I don't have an agent or a manager, so this stuff takes longer than it might if I was running another media company.
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What I'm listening to right now: Hovhaness, Symphony no. 22 "City of Light"
Ken described Hovhanness as a very 'honest' composer; I think that's true of me as well.
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But yeah, I was just thinking that even in my boarding house I can churn through literally hundreds of gigabytes of data a day. That wasn't around when I was a teen.
Like, maybe in the States, but NZ didn't really roll out broadband until the late-2000's, and I never had unlimited bandwidth until I moved to Wellington, which obviously has amazing Internet thanks to the pipe that The Lord of The Rings laid across the sea.
Like Columbus in Ready Player One lol.
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I mean, this final render is over 100GB. I slept for about 3 hours, so I'm quite alert.
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I bet that Chloe doesn't dig Crash so much now that she's in it.
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Despite my war with the uni, I reckon that Paul Wolframm is probably more impressed by this film than any of my other ones. It definitely reflects his influence as a film teacher.
And yeah, I was heartened to see that I was factually correct and literally half of all the media industry people in NZ live in Auckland.
I mean, it's so parochial that even Wellington is like a small town in comparison, though it has several offices of various media companies.
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So yeah, moving is on my agenda. The Dakumentary is very nice, but I'm starting to wonder if something has gone rotten in Wellington. I mean, compared to the city that I moved to in 2012, it's definitely going through hard times.
I'm feeling like I'm in limbo this year, and living in a converted retirement home means that I'm extremely morbid. While I'm not a massive fan of some of Tory's decisions, I do think she's been true to her word that she's communicating very clearly - which is that the city's completely fucked, and there's some large-scale projects that are too big to fail which might bankrupt us.
I mean, even National have more or less stated that the country is broke. So, yeah, Aotearoa had very few covid deaths per capita, but there were massive social and economic effects from the crisis response that are creating a new kind of entrenched wealth that is very anti-Kiwi. Part of why I drew that comparison between NZ and turn-of-the-20th century America, plus I read that fairness and freedom book that Jim Bolger mentions in the 9th Floor series Guyon Espiner made. AMPP is all about fairness. - One of the reasons that Wellington is dying is all the civil servants are working from home, and that's destabilising the hospitality industry. So, boom times for Hutt Valley and Porirua, which is fantastic andā¦