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So last Friday I uploaded the video “Two Friends.” It’s the last of the “lost” footage that my Dad shot in 1978. Pretty amazing to get to cut a story together with super 8 that my Dad shot before I was born. There were even a couple of shots of my Mom, looking very young and beautiful, but not enough to put another piece together.



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Another job fell through this week – a music video that would have been shot in Toronto. Several things were a little frustrating about that…it was a low low budget video, which wasn’t a problem. But their MAIN reference for what they wanted to do was a Feist video that must have had a budget about 100x what they did. So make it just like this…ummm. Then I never talked to the artist just the manager…and apparently they had different ideas of what was wanted for the video, because the manager loved my treatment, but it was too weird for the artist. ahhh well.



In other news, I threw away about 5K in freelance work. I pre-fired the clients. Look, if I ask you a list of questions, and you can’t respond in COMPLETE SENTENCES and then I have to ask you 3 times what your delivery date is and you STILL can’t tell me…um my calendar suddenly got full. Really full. Like forever. I’ve found that working with these sorts of people stresses me out. And frankly, I’d rather work on www.The-Real-Luke.com and not get paid then work for jokers like that.



The other freelance job, despite my best efforts to make it go away is going to hang around. *sigh* It stars a filmmaker/actor who’s name you’ll know, but since I’m talking ish, I’m not going to say. They are trying to change a cut negative…which is a huge process…even a few minor changes will cost tens of thousands of dollars. I’ve been hounding them again and again for a list of these changes: which they have been unable to provide. Is it really that hard to take what you’ve done in an editing room and translate it to a document? Like, I don’t know? An EDL or a change list? If it is as you say “very simple” why are you not able to communicate these “very simple” changes? Isn’t that part of directing a movie, communicating ideas?



Ahh the mysteries of the entertainment industry…it’s like this video, with it’s questionable story telling, shoddy lighting, and overuse of logos, that has played at a bunch of festivals.




In a couple weeks I’m going to SXSW – really looking forward to seeing a lot of music and meeting a bunch of bands. Then after I get back I’m going to shoot my first project with a CGI creature…



Next week…the first part of “The Real Luke” Season 2 will be premiering. So stay tuned=)



I’ll leave you with this awesome commercial.





-Luke

Hello there interweb friends!



Happy President’s Day!



This was a good week. I finished up “Two Friends,” the last one of the projects that my Dad shot in 1978. Expect that online next week. 



There’s a couple websites interested in featuring the “Rotten Apples” video, I’m pretty stoked about that – and once it happens I’ll be sure to post the link to you all.



The shoot in NYC fell thru…I needed a bit more money from the label in order to pull it off in such short notice. They weren’t comfortable paying that much right now – soooo it got postponed for a date TBD.



The best thing though is that www.lukeasa.com is finally up and online! It’s been a long long time in coming. It took me 3 web designers before I finally found one who could do it. Not that the first two couldn’t – it’s just that they were friends doing me a “favor.” Unfortunately that put me pretty low on the list of priorities. A valuable lesson for me…but a really long time in making my site a reality. I really like working w/ Kenny of Mey:design he did great work and he did it quickly. It’s amazing what happens when you pay people.



Check out the site, let me know what you think. There are a couple videos on there that aren’t on the myspace page…and of course, everything is in glorious quicktime.



-Luke



p.s. plus photos and a short story!

Howdy,



Dude. The past couple weeks have been busy. For some reason I decide it would be a good idea to take some freelance editing work. so in addition to working 40 at my day job, and working on my own stuff – I was also cutting for 2 different clients. 



One client was very difficult to deal with, the other was not. Both were consistently late in providing feedback and kept pushing their deliveries. *sigh* Oh well, it’s not so bad and it’s going to pay for SXSW. 



In other news, I finished the mixing, coloring timing, and titling for “The Real Luke.” I have one small fix and it will be done. Woohoo! It’s nice to have things moving again…I like making things and I like moving forward.



The music video and short film in NYC are still up the air. I should know by the end of the week if it’s going to happen. It’s pretty short notice, but neither shoot is too complicated, so I’m confident we can pull it off.



Did anyone watch the superbowl commercials?



Some of them were just bad. I think the worst were the Nascar, Indian Gaming, and Salesgenie.com ads.



However, Fedex delivered once again with this amazing spot.





-Luke