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Now that the little detail items such as graphics and images are wrapped up and the script is laid down in a rough draft, the new project is rolling along fast.

I can’t wait to get this thing knocked out and done because when it is done, I just got my passport and I’m thinking Scuba Dive Mexico or Central America so my ass can relax where nobody can find me for a few weeks.

I just wanted to take this moment to say Script Writing Sucks, but it is still kind of fun. Working on the new project and just reviewing stuff for the script and having to watch and re watch and re review stuff is just annoying.

Not that the end result wont kick ass, it is all the little details to get into place to make it kick ass that kicks your ass. It’s a learning experience.

I did go grocery shopping tonight and paid in cash for everything and found a nice surprise from the cash register. $.50 off per gallon of fuel at Holiday Fuel. That’s $5.00 off the next fill up. That would be like $1.30 per gallon of gas!!!

Well back to watching a ton of more footage.

I bought another Fn Hard Drive tonight, er, um, last night. I did not feel comfortable having the project on several drives so I edited down the best cuts and put them on a monster sized 500Gig drive.

Transferring over 400 Gigs of video is taking some time but it will be worth it. I also got most of the scripting outline done. I do have to go through the time line again this morning and right up a ton more stuff but from conception to rough draft this is coming along really fast compared to some projects I have done.

Part of me wants to spill the beans on the project but then again, I just want to see the look on some peoples faces when they see the final project!

I bought another Fn Hard Drive tonight, er, um, last night. I did not feel comfortable having the project on several drives so I edited down the best cuts and put them on a monster sized 500Gig drive.

Transferring over 400 Gigs of video is taking some time but it will be worth it. I also got most of the scripting outline done. I do have to go through the time line again this morning and right up a ton more stuff but from conception to rough draft this is coming along really fast compared to some projects I have done.

Part of me wants to spill the beans on the project but then again, I just want to see the look on some peoples faces when they see the final project!

Ok, just a quick update, still alive but just crazy busy. I’m working on all the stuff for the new project. Getting graphics and research is a huge pain in the ass but it is coming along and I have just a few more graphics projects to put together and I will have everything I need, I hope.
Also I have got the rough outline of the script up done. I need to review the script and the video a few more times and rough it out to the point of story boards. All I can say is this project is really coming along fast but I was hoping to have it further along by now. It is the graphics side of things that is holding it up but it is kind of like building a puzzle, you need all the pieces before you can actually put it together. The script is the picture to use to build the puzzle but it is not a fixed picture.
I can’t go into details just yet but I will say a lot of people in chasing will love the video and hate the project because it is so freaking good. The Hurricane Charley DVD will look like a POS when this project is done.
I will have the rough edit done by this weekend if all goes a planned.
I need to book sound studio time for the voice overs next week. Since the new runway opened up I can’t do the voice overs from home anymore in the temp sound booth I made.

Just an FYI, I’ll be locking myself in at home for the next week to work on another new project that was just put in my lap. I have 10 days to pull off a video editing job that should take a month or more.
So, I’m going to be forwarding everything off to Dan and Bill to take care of for BNVN stuff and let my agents at Conus deal with the stock stuff so I can focus on this project. When it is done, oh man, this is going to kick ass!!!

I have been looking over the net tonight at a lot of different video and still images of the recent ice storms in the Midwest, south and out in the Pacific NW. There is some cool stuff but I have to laugh at people that say they chased the ice storm when all they did was go out after the storm and document the aftermath.

Checking out aftermath is not a chase people. If you were there when the tree fell from the ice or the car crashed from the ice while the ice was forming, and you forecasted the storm a day before and drove to where the storm was going to hit, okay, then you chased.

What is a chase? You leave before the storm or during the storm to go more then few miles from home to watch active weather as it is happening or if you have a deck and a view like mine, you can forecast the chase to stay home and watch lightning. 
The only exception is, if your home area is getting hit then you did not chase because you were already there so “you documented” the weather and did a home chase.
Once again, YOU CHASE WEATHER, you don’t chase aftermath. Aftermath is no different then rubber necking while passing a car crash in rush hour traffic. It already happened and your just checking out the wreck.

In other news, the latest video project is now completed. This is going to change a lot of how everything is done in the digital age.

Just working with all the computers encoding video tonight on the latest project and the office is hot.
Between the 2 desktops with the 600w power supplies and the laptop with a total of 20 internal and external hard drives spinning, my office is heating up even with the window open. The outside air temp is 0.2F and the inside temp WITH the window open 79.4F.But everything is coming along right on time with the project.

Just a little funny with all the computers and fans making my office sound like a jet engine.

I just updated my photo page with a bunch of new images. I still have to work on the description.
Here is one of the images from the New Years Eve winter storm.

And this one from an aurora a couple months ago.

Ok today I was out by the river in St. Paul doing some photography along the bluffs. It was pretty cool and below are some images.

While editing the images I started to do some research about the bluffs and one thing led to another and I found this site http://www.actionsquad.org and  Holy Crap, this is cool.

Granted they are breaking every law in the book but its an fresh idea, not something like storm chasing that is copied and copied and rehashed but something that is new to me and the site, I read a lot of their “Chase Reports” (sorry had to say it.) and it was interesting.

I think they could get or have got in a shitload of trouble but the history side of it was just cool.

Oh yeah, here are the images of the Bluffs.