A few weeks ago, I took my Nikon D90 out on our balcony, put a 50mm/f1.4 lens on it, adjusted the focus so everything would be as out of focus as possible, and then moved stuff in front of the lens.
While I’ve read about how to create your own bokeh look, I didn’t really realize the potential until I did this. Once again – you gotta do stuff to really understand them, not just read about it.
Now I’m wondering how I can use this in a more serious project!
A few years ago, I started the project 28 Chapters – a collaborative movie project. While it went along fine for a while, interest dropped after the first 8 or 9 chapters, and I didn’t spend much time trying to promote it either – I had too many other things I wanted to do.
Now, RootClip has done what I didn’t, and made a – or actually several – successful collaborative movie project(s). That’s a really cool project, and they’ve done a lot of good decisions when building it.
I wish I had completed 28 chapters, but I didn’t, and I’m glad someone has “taken over”. I wonder if the creators ever saw 28 chapters… and I wonder if it had been more successful if I had started it a little later, and had used even more time on it, and promoting it. But I suppose the main factor to making it is opening up a bit – 28 chapters was pretty strict in many ways.
I find that it makes sense to me to make a distinction between emotional and logical thoughts. I most often use it to describe bad feelings that I cannot get rid of by thinking it through logically. I know it isn’t right, but it still feels like it’s right. Makes sense to you?
Some days, I spend a lot of time regretting the way I did a certain thing, the things I said to a person or the way I behaved at a meeting or similar.
Often, it’s not so much that what I did, or the way I did it was so horrible that other people would think anything bad about me, but I was just feeling stupid because I felt I should have “done better”. My standards are often pretty high.
However, I do have a technique to fight off those thoughts that works fairly well when I use it. The problem lies when I agree – logically, not just emotionally – with my thoughts fully or partly, and that I really think that the other people involved thought bad of me.
I know, I know. It should be ridiculously simple. But I only need it every few months, and I always forget how I do it – so I thought I’d post a guide here, for my own sake.
In the “Paper handling” section of the Print window, choose to only print odd pages and reverse page order.
Let the printer finish its job, then put the sheets in with the top towards the printer and with the printed side up.
Back in “Paper handling”, choose only even pages and normal page order.
Let printer finish, pick up sheets and turn them around, and you’ll see page 1 of X perfectly printed double sided pages!
Easy peasy, but has given me enough grief over the years. Anyone know if the paper should have the printed side up and the top facing the printer with most laser printers?
Tonight, I’m leaving for Afghanistan with two schoolmates to make a documentary about the norwegian troops in Mazar-E Sharif. It’s really, really exiting – and I’ll be back in about a week, or perhaps two.
