Temple cat, teeeeemple cat….I was walking down C…
Temple cat, teeeeemple cat….I was walking down Civic Blvd yesterday when I saw this cat nestled comfortably underneath one of the dragons that guard the entrance to the Fu-cheng Temple (that might not be the actual name: I didn’t take notes). Temple-guarding dragons are, by the way if you didn’t know, er, anatomically correct, a female on the left and a male on the right. The cat looked quite smug as it dozed under the male dragon.
Later, as I walked past a couple of drivers watching their owners’ Big Black Benzes outside a swanky Chinese restaurant near the Ren-ai/Dun-hua traffic circle, I heard one of them say to the other, “Yeah, a prostitute’s gotta be more than just tall, you have to be able to, you know, look at her!” He was making the International Sign for Breasts as he said this.
I continued on, since it was such a nice day, and tried to have lunch at United Mix, but the out-door dining experience was somewhat ruined by the construction going on across the alley, and the indoor experience wasn’t much better, with slow service and cold food. The smoothie was good, though.
I showed my rough edit of Alphadogah to Mindcrime and Dean last night, and they admitted it wasn’t too bad, though it still needs work. My main obstacle at the moment is getting the effects to stick. I can assign effects to clips, but they just go back to the way they were before I added them. I also need to figure out a way, via Premiere if possible but most likely from third-party software, to try and clean up the audio, to bring out the voices more and supress the background noise if I can. The quality of the Adobe help and tutorial programs is horrible. It’s all horribly vague when you need specifics and horribly specific when you don’t need details. To wit: “To edit a clip: First, edit the clip. Next, select what you want to do with it by moving your mouse to the “select button and pressing down on the left button of the mouse with moderate to high pressure. If you are left-handed…”
I’ve got a couple of songs by Wu Bai in my mind for the music, and some other effects could prove useful as well. Then I’ll slap some credits on, burn it to disc, and start another, hopefully better project. Today looks ripe for an excursion, and I have sword practice again tonight.
