Archive for January 24th, 2008

Music By The Numbers

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

Total pages: 368
Total “active measures”: 10,310
Total number of measures: 24,001

My charts for Sing 2008 are done! I still have to copy everything onto card stock and organize it all into folders (which will take a couple of long days), and mix the mini disc (another three or four days), but the vast amount of work is behind me. Sipping on a Glenlivet 18 and enjoying being finished.

Bloody Omaha

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

Compositing genius. Three guys attack Omaha Beach with nothing more than a digital video camera and period costumes. After four days of filming themselves running back and forth across the beach, and another few days of photography, plus a massive amount of compositing, these brilliant filmmakers manage to put together scenes rivaling Saving Private Ryan’s famous battle footage that cost millions of dollars. Here’s the before and after footage on YouTube.