music videos

last friday, before me and paul were heading up to new york for the christmas holiday, i took a few hours, and worked on capturing a couple of music videos that i really liked, and i converted them and dumped them onto my ipod. first off, i have to say that trying to put videos onto an ipod is a complete pain in the ass - i had to convert the original mp4 files several times into a format that the ipod would finally recognize. anyhoo, after a few hours, i was able to put a couple of videos that i really enjoyed an dumped them onto the ipod (a couple of videos by everything but the girl, doves, and crowded house). on the train ride back to dc, i was able to watch the videos over and over.

i think it's absolutely amazing to be able to carry around cool music videos on an ipod and to watch them whenever you want. granted that the resolution may not be perfect, it's still pretty damn good for something so small. i remember, years ago, i would always have to wait to see a video for something that i only heard about. now, i can watch them over and over again.

i also found that watching the videos was very inspiring. it gave me a lot of ideas, and i think that i would enjoy directing music videos if i had the opportunity to do them more frequently. they're kind of visual collages of images, in such a short format. anyhoo, i totally dig watching videos, and i hope to watch them more often.

so the trip to new york was awesome: got to catch up with tom and andrew, and have a few drinks at the savoy, which is the restaurant where tom works. i'm glad to hear that they're both doing real well.

i'm a little disappointed that i haven't been able to do that much filmwork this past weekend, but hopefully, i'll be able to put in a couple of hours this week. i have a bunch of music stuff that i have to send to bob massey, and i want to get that stuff out to him as soon as i can.

let's see how much i can get done before the new year begins...