Dec. 27 - The Adventures of White Jesus.
White Jesus is walking home from a Christmas party... Really really drunk.
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White Jesus is walking home from a Christmas party... Really really drunk.
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With Christmas rapidly approaching I decided to determine just how rapidly Christmas was approaching. To make this highly scientific and not at all made-up measurement I first considered the point of view needed. At first pass it would seem that each day moves us one day closer to Christmas and that Christmas approaches at the same speed no matter what day of the year it is. This turns out to be the totally wrong point of view and if you think that you hate children, America, and baby Jesus. Instead, we must compound the time remaining until Christmas daily, like a delightful yuletide reverse interest rate. This way each day removes an ever-increasing fraction off of the Christmas countdown. For example, as December 26th passes, it removes 1/364th of the total number of days until Christmas. Likewise, December 27th removes 1/363rd and so on until December 23rd of the next year removes 1/2 of the remaining days and Christmas Eve removes the last day (1/1 of the days remaining). Therefore, by using these fractions we can determine how fast Christmas is approaching on any given day of the year. Christmas day itself has an undefined speed of 1/0 under this system, but it's not really a problem because we're not interested in the speed something is approaching when it's actually here.
Below is a graph of the speed of Christmas normalized to 100 knots (the traditional yuletide unit of velocity) versus the days remaining until December 25th.
You can see that Christmas's approach goes as 1/x as we would expect from our definition. The last ten days before Christmas see a 90% increase in approach speed, which I think accurately reflects our general perception of holiday cheer. So today, December 23rd, Christmas is traveling at 50 knots straight for us. I hope you're ready with your canned wassail.
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This is the last YouTube link I post in a while. I promise. I only wanted to get this up becuase I spent so much time on it.
This is my final project for that same documentary class for which I made Ebb & Flow. It's a short documentary in which I follow my classmate around while he films his documentary about TUVAC (a community service organization).
Phil is a nice enough guy, but when it comes to organization and pre-planning, he was a bit lacking. He showed up late, waited to the last minute, lost footage, botched sound, and I assumed the role of calling him up for an event or getting people to sign release forms. He was even late to the final showing. In spite of all this, he was also very nice and forthcoming during the whole process, and conducted himself very well on-camera. I really couldn't have asked for a better subject.
Thankfully, his disorganized nature made for a more interesting documentary. There are some parts that linger too long (every film in the class was essentially a seven minute documentary stretched out to thirteen) and the sound and lighting suck in the first scene, but overall I think this project turned out fairly solid.
Unfortunately, the sound is a little off on this version. It wasn't too bad for the other ones, but there are a few montages in Meta for which timing is very important, so it may not come off as well as it could. Still, let me know what you think.
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I was in the Communication Lab today uploading some YouTube videos for class, and I went on a little uploading rampage. Here are a couple videos pertaining to my recent activities (with more on the way).
This was a short project I made for my Documentary Production class. My concept was fairly simple: film the on-campus coffee shop for a couple hours and speed up or slow down the film to match the music. I'm sorry that it's not more exiting, but I was pretty much at the mercy of who came in and what they did.
This was a short piece from the San Antonio news about Second Life. It's a pretty sappy segment, and features me acting all nerdy and weird. It also includes my favorite professor in the whole wide world, Dr. Delwiche, so watch it and love him forever.
We have comics on the way. Keep your eyes peeled for those in the very near future.
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