13 tapes need to be patched and 10 need to be digitized completely. Well, that’s a start.
Read MoreSaturday
I went back and digitized some more tapes on Saturday. This is my life until I finish this step.
Read MoreExpress card to nowhere...
The process is, walking from shop to shop, asking about the items I am looking for and usually spending a while to explain what those things are, followed by a quick shake of the head ‘no’ or being directed to some other shop.
Read MoreQing Qiiiiiiiiiiiiii
I woke with some energy and a renewed excitement to take this piece forward, even if only an inch at a time.
Read MoreStill going
I spent the day digitizing dv tapes. 2 or 3 digitized fine, but the rest have dropped frames which means when you play them back there are clearly spots missing.
Read MoreThe pressure is off
So, it turned out that the “client” was not the client. There were at least 3 levels of approvals, with no direction or connection in between. The pressure came off.
Read MoreWhere are we going again?
The client came in to look at the cloud shot and offered a vastly different direction to the many I had been chasing down on previous days.
Read MoreSunday
I had suggested that it might be better for someone else to take the shot as nothing I had created seemed to be in the unclear direction that the client wanted. With quick turn around projects, it is important to make decisions to switch tasks, methods or even artists quickly to save time.
Read MoreOver and over
I spent the day redoing the shot several times. Each attempt involves recreating the many layers and reworking how they look based on each change of the camera or overall movement change.
Read MoreOn a cloud
I needed to create some clouds to fly through for a shot.
Read MoreAdapters and cables, this is how we make art
We head over to Hafeez Center to get a single cable to replace the cable with two adapters I was using. As usual, you walk to several shops, explain what you want, reexplain, and after a couple of minutes they tell you no, there is nothing like that in existence. Then they look away like you have disappeared.
Read MoreVisit to NCA
To hear the challenges regarding work prospects and how people are trying to build their futures outside the country is sad and interesting.
Read MoreWhat kind of bulbs?
Let’s see how many obstacles I need to get around to accomplish that.
Read MoreShalimar Gardens
It is sweet to see my relatives and enjoy a nice meal together. In the afternoon, we head over to Shalimar Gardens.
Read MoreDiffuse light
It was good to work on some more tests. Every round brings me closer to being able to work on the puppetry portion of the film.
Read MoreLight stands = backdrop
Afterwards, we went over to Nisbat rd, home of Lahore’s camera shops and picked up a couple of light stands. I’ll use them for the backdrop in my film.
Read MoreShalmi and Nisbat
After working on some background designs, we head over to Shalmi, the wholesale market near the old city.
Read MoreNew place
Each new place I stay brings with it a new set of challenges.
Read MoreThe moving rickshaw arrives
So, we packed up into a rickshaw and head to Imran’s.
Read MoreWeekly Landa trip
I picked up some cloth from Imran’s collection, hung out for a while, then caught a rickshaw to the Landa Bazaar.
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