New Website!

Well, what do you know? I’ve got a new blog on a new website, www.benjamindbailey.com! Come and check it out!

New website!

Updating, writing, going to be busy…

Hi, this is just a quick update to keep the blog active.

Did some filming with a good friend.  I hope to edit it into a music video.  🙂  We didn’t write the music – I’m just going to add an artist’s song I like.

Updating the ShadrachYouth.org website…

Need to copy more DVDs…

Get another DVD project done…

Write more for NaNoWriMo 08… 🙂  This year’s novel should be quite interesting.  The main character’s name is Jiason.

Do more work for the Morevna Project…

So, yeah, busy, but quite glad for it.  The burden of project after project can be tiresome, but being involved is such a treat I imagine I would not trade it for being bored!  My life may continue to get more and more hectic through the years … it’s not bad now, quite relaxed overall.

Anyhow, that’s some news… sorry that there are not very many films yet.  Oh, GOOD NEWS!  I now have a tripod to use!  The owner of the Whipple Company Store & Museum has graciously allowed me to borrow it while they winter in Florida.  This means I don’t have to save up for a tripod for a while and that I can have much better results for my filming!  Praise the Lord!

Please vote your conscience – not all of us have the privilege to cast our vote.

God bless,

-b

P.S. Actually, I am uploading the ShadrachYouth.org website with it’s updates… priase the Lord! Ciao -b

Destination: where?

Was going to write a poem – started, but haven’t finished.  Oh well, maybe later on that.

Did a job for free on designing a small black and white ad for someone and now it turns out I had the deminsions wrong.  Maybe if I correct them and send them back in soon I will be able to repremind the situation more smoothly.

Prepared and completed the downsampled (720×480, mpeg2) video files from Charles Morey’s violin recital for someone to use with other footage and compile a 4 minute promo video for the string program.  That’s good to have that done.

Now need to prepare (cut, edit, burn…) the recital in HD SP for one DVD, with source footage starting at about 2hrs and 40mins.  This computer is not built to handle HD smoothly, so I long for a faster machine.  I am not sure exactly what approach we are going to take with this project, whether to use the entire recital or just cut and compile the best parts, making a 5, 10, or 20 minute video when finished.  We will probably use the entire recital, but I’m not sure yet.

Hoping to design a website and logo for someone, which will greatly help in my finances for film.

FLY

Who knows, what path will I take?
Who will I be, what am I now?
Where will I go – why, when, for what?
And who will I meet, for God, or for naught?
Who will I be in twenty years,
Or even twenty minutes.

Who am I now,
And what am I aiming for?
What am I living for,
And why?

Find out,
Endeavor,
Don’t just try,
Don’t fall and cry,
Get up, spread those wings,
And upon the high winds
Fly.

May your skies be as bright
As the hope we were born
To fulfill.

-b

The Morevna Project

Yes! Finally! Praise God! My first real article has been accepted to BlenderNation (BlenderNation is the central news site for Blender, the free open source 3D content creation suite.[1])

Read the article now!

I am so glad and highly appreciative that my article as been accepted. I have been endeavoring to get an article submitted for some time now, and had somewhat given up hope (for a time) that I would ever get something submitted. But Bart (Bart Veldhuizen, BlenderNation’s primary contributor and founder) has been cleaning out the backup of article suggestions that the Blender open source community has been sending in. A recent addition to BlenderNation has been the “Rapid Fire” articles, shooting off multiple, short article suggestions and links. A wonderful idea!

So, I am very thankful for Bart accepting my article! And I am also thankful to Zelgadis (Head of the Morevna Project) for leading the open source community of Synfig in an endeavor to create this open source animé film and for letting me know my article had been submitted (I hadn’t found out yet!) Also many thanks to the Morevna Project open source community contributors and all the open source developers, artists, and enthusiasts of many kinds spanning the globe.

See the Morevna Project official website
See the project wiki

God bless and best wishes,
-b