Utter Despair

I've been editing video with Final Cut Pro for 9 years now, yes that's NINE YEARS. Yet today I'm wrestling with a problem that brings me to the brink of complete, throw-up-my-hands frustration. Absolute utter despair that makes me want to just give up being a filmmaker completely, or at least being an editor.

It's pretty much too complicated to describe here quickly and not have someone mistake it for a stupid mistake.  Trust me, it's not a stupid mistake.  I'm not an idiot, and, like i think i mentioned, I've been using FCP for NINE YEARS.  Trust me when I say this is a completely new and weird fuck-up that is a total mystery and that you would probably have no idea how to solve either unless you have as much intelligence and experience with this software as I do. 

In other words, I'm not posting this to ask for help. I'm just screaming my frustration.   Thank you, Apple, for once again leading me to believe that I could trust you and your products. sigh. Read more>>>

Steev "Trailer"

About one year ago I attended a weekend-long Creative Capital artist's professional development workshop. We were asked to give a 5-minute presentation about our work. This video is what I created as my presentation. It's a tongue-in-cheek overview of the sort of stuff I do, at least as a maker of motion picture culture.

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Glenn Weyant at MOCA: Noise Where Prohibited - 06

festival en el barrio - 22

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Calexico

They Really Want You Guys To Play

created for the Vimeo Weekend Project, weekend of April 3 2010.

The voicemail is from a friend who was arranging a music gig for me in Portland, Oregon about 8 years ago (see detritus.net/​steev/​images/​april1702flyer.jpg )

The video footage was shot this past weekend of Sergio Mendoza y La Orkesta, a Tucson mambo band playing at the Festival En El Barrio Viejo.

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Belated Musings About The Beach

Josie at the Beach - San Carlos, Sonora - 19Two weeks ago Greta, Josie, and I were in San Carlos, Mexico, on the sunlit eastern edge of the Sea of Cortez.  I'm just now getting around to writing a bit about it.

When planning the trip, I wanted to not camp, because the week before I had just had a cold wet camping experience for a few days.  I wanted a good ol' semi-luxurious vacation.  I've never really done that.  My travels have always been about cheapness, and hardship, and doing worthwhile things along the way, like activist projects or making films.  For once I just wanted to relax and enjoy myself.  We also wanted to be sure to stay at a hotel that allowed dogs.  I went online and found a sort of hotel search engine site for Mexico, and one of the criteria was permitting pets.  When I chose that criterion, only one hotel in San Carlos came up - this place that looked quite fancy, the Paradiso Resort. However, it was within my price range and we decided to risk being surrounded by yuppies and shallow sorority girls and just go. Read more>>>

Interview with "Truth On The Line" Writer/Director

In this clip you'll see that Steev Hise just can't stop being a director, even to the person interviewing him. He also talks about the idea behind the Truth On The Line project, what its goals are, and why he's doing it.

Truth On The Line's first episode is in post-production. For more information and related content, and to sign up for the TOTL newsletter, see truthontheline.tv

Shot in HD (720p) with a Canon SD780IS, audio recorded with a Zoom H4. (There was a little technical problem with the microphone during this so you'll hear a little distortion on some parts of the interview. por siento!)

josie goes to the other dog park and loves it - 06

Diamond Mountain - 39

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gear waiting for an interview

 

more photos from my trip to Diamond Mountain here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/steev/sets/72157623469650281/

From a Drizzly Cold Remote (but still wired) Place

Writing from a little room called "The Matrix" at Diamond Mountain, this is an email I just sent to an employee of Dream Host, the company that hosts most of my web sites, many of which (including this one) had some downtime this weekend: Read more>>>

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