What’s up everybody? I’ve been pretty busy with finals, but I’d like to write a little bit tonight. Mainly to thank some of the people that have been linking videos and finished product over to my facebook, or sending it to my email. It’s you guys/girls that understand what I want to do, and where I want my work to go as I progress. Some of you have even done more than that by sending me music or short films about film makers. This kind of stuff has helped me 10 fold to understand what it is I’m doing in this line of work.

When I first decided to go to school for this, I never took it seriously. I figured I’d go in, classes would be a breeze, and I could sit down and handle 20 credits easy since I was pretty computer literate and this field revolves mostly around computers. I was so wrong it’s not even close to funny.

What I learned rather quickly:
1)My line of thought creatively was spot on.
2)I wasn’t even close to having a work flow
3)I needed to start using some pre-production
4)My equipment sucked ass, even before it was stolen
5)I was stupid for thinking this was going to be easy (this didn’t come into my mind until about a week and a half or so ago).

I quickly made friends with a select few people. It was really amazing to me the amount of people that had a holier than thou attitude though, and it wasn’t just myself that noticed it. It seemed like those of us that clicked all had trouble in one way or another with the classes. Family deaths or other personal issues plagued a few of us, and those who did show up wondered where in the hell the rest of us were. Either way, we remained friends…and I’ve met a couple people who I can tell are good to have as around.

Now apart from all this, I slacked hard. I began to not only have trouble in school, but I resented doing any of the work I had before. It quickly swept over my mind that I would never be able to advance in this field, or be as good as half the people I watch on a regular basis. Don’t ask me why, it just came up like that. I fell behind in some things and dropped a class to lighten the load. Long story short, I ended up getting behind in anything and everything. I was thinking about giving up about the time I posted that video of the love story “Nuit Blanche”. Then Hans put in a comment here and told me I was getting inspired. He was right, and I didn’t even realize it. I’ve only shot car stuff ever since I decided to do this. I quickly realized that my style doesn’t match cars at all (not saying I won’t shoot them, but I want to move in new directions too), and once the writing and critical thinking started on other subjects, I couldn’t stop coming up with ideas. I couldn’t go an hour at work without having to write down something new. It felt awesome. Something was going right for once. Then the new car fell in my lap too, something else that went right. Then things just started falling in line. The more that went right, the better I felt.

Shortly after I received multiple emails and posts on my wall from a slew of people with work other people had done, but stuff that was inspiring to me. Work that made me want to follow through on even one of my ideas. That was it, the gloves were officially coming off at school. I knew I couldn’t save all my grades but I sure as hell tried to. Up until the very last day. I might be on academic probation next semester but I learned my lesson this time around. Not only that, but it’s really the first time I’ve ever finished a semester with passing grades. Time to hit it hard guys. Question of the day, if you’re reading this….what inspires you to do what you do?

Big thanks goes out to Jessica Slagle, Hans Nielsen, Alyssa Lynn, Sam Mcquillan, Eric Moen, Rob Stachowicz, aaaaaand MOM! lol.

You guys kick ass.

Oh, and the winter thing? Still happening. Bwahahaha.

~Jambo

So as a first shoot/break in/testing of the new camera when it comes in, I’m going to hold a snow drifting session and film the whole thing. Why? Because I love snow drifting, and I know that almost anyone can do it. I’ll find the parking lot, all you have to do is show up in a vehicle and have fun. If everyone gets solid enough we can do some crazy tandem stuff!

More to come later.

Who’s in! Get at me!

So I’m just sitting here in class. Production Planning to be exact. Not my favorite class but not my least favorite either. I guess I like it because I can sit here and blog like this or check my facebook if I really want to.

Anyway, we have been talking about different mobile media types and someone brought up a video for the class to watch. He knows the makers of this wonderful, awesome piece of art….errr something like that. Now some of you may not like this. Many of the people who come here look out for sweet pictures of drift cars or a new video I’ve put out. I’ve decided that I want to branch out. I’d love to do something like this and with the new equipment, I will be putting something like this together. I personally can’t wait! I don’t know why but this clip got me very very excited.

To make a long story short, it’s a love story told without dialogue. Enjoy! I know I did.

Well it was quite the weekend. I think many of us had been looking forward to this for well over a week or two now. It was a great day, and a very exciting night.

The competition came down to some of the best local and non-local drifters. In the end, the top 3 were:

1) Kevin Hilgers

2) Sam Henry

3) Trapper Dave

Kevin held solid lines all night, some of the most consistent driving I have EVER seen. Especially with the pressure that was on him.

We were all proud to see Sam take 2nd place, he hadn’t driven for almost a solid year and had gotten the car done the night before/morning of the event. It looked like his driving hadn’t skipped a beat over the last year.

The rest of the event was pretty awesome, and it was my first time latching on to a big camera rig. I plan on buying my own now for sure. Just need to decide on what I want to get. I should have my footage digitized by the end of the week, and hopefully I can begin working on the finished product of the new 2010 EP/DC video by then.

In the mean time, here’s some pictures from Neng and the other guys over at Jmuag. If you haven’t checked them out already, you should.
http://jmuagproduction.blogspot.com/