31 October 2010 - HALLOWEEN

There can only be one Weegie!

So for Halloween this year I was lazy with the costume (and a bit skint). So I decided to rehash an old costume (which is known as a Déja Boo according to Urban Dictionary,) and go as Super Mario BUT this year just to be different I decided to stash my green L cap and a green Nintendo T-shirt in my overalls and at several toilet breaks in the night I would change costume!

There were actually a few other Mario and Luigi's out (with costume shops now selling crappy M&L costumes) and not having a partner kinda sucked but the best point of the night was walking to the toilet to change into Luigi as Mario and being stopped by another Luigi and having a brotherly chat. The next time I saw the guy I was Luigi too and the other Luigi said "Aw hey! Now you're on my turf!"

There was also nearly trouble when I was dancing to Break Stuff by Limp Bizkit and I spotted Sonic The Hedgehog on the dance floor...

30 October 2010

Halloween Eve

Went to a Sarah's where I helped (a wee bit) to get the place Halloweeny. Then we went to a Burlesque show at The Doghouse which was entertaining but pricey. Some of the women were quite burly where others were only burly-esque. Flash photography wasn't allowed at the show so here's a shot of some pumpkins.

29 October 2010

Ichi ken-suburi

A shot of my Oblivion character with a black robe and Akavir Dai-Katana looking very martial artsy.

28 October 2010

Sticks and stones may break my bones but they won't hurt,
Not as long as I have this T-shirt

Been trying to come up with a T-shirt design for The Defenestrators for some time now. Now I think I've finally got it!

27 October 2010

Poltergeist

My CD rack fell off the wall in the middle of the night. This is it after I stuck all the CD's back in.

26 October 2010

25 October 2010

Fundee

A picture of the view from this place in Dundee we stopped for a breather. Spent the day wandering Dundee Toon Centre till Sarah finished Uni then went back to hers.

24 October 2010

Cry 2 OVD

This Nintendo product registration number told me to drown my sorrows in rum.

You get these numbers with every 1st Party Nintendo game (i.e. the ones made by Nintendo) and entering them on Nintendo's website earns you Star Points which can be exchanged for prizes like ringtones, playing cards, gold wii wheels and Nintendo Points (previously Wii Points till the DS started doing DLC). I'm aiming to exchange for Nintendo Points so I can download Virtual Console/Wii Ware games for free!

23 October 2010

A Coo's lick

Spent the day in Ayr visiting Sarah's grandparents and family friends (no not the cows). Here we are near a wee café in Ardrossan. One of these cows licked me. I was also licked by a cat, a dog and a Sarah. I feel as a guitarist it's important to have a lot of good licks.

22 October 2010

Went to a gathering at my Uncle Mike's house. Here's mum and dad after a few drinks (I was designated driver.)

21 October 2010

THE DEFENEFUCKINSTRATORS - Don't Hate, Defenestrate

Designed this logo today. It's awesome!

20 October 2010

Crazy Horses

The horses were out while I was walking Gus today. This white one didn't have it's jacket on. There was alson a brown one starting on Gus.

And todays date is 20.10.2010 which is awesome. They should have a word for when the day and month make up the year and we should use it as an excuse to party!

19 October 2010

Nanny McFee

Mum lost a tooth yesterday and went to the dentist about it today. Tootsiepop the Tooth Fairy put £1.55 under her pillow (she actually asked for £155 for my car payments but I thought I'd be wide).

18 October 2010

Full Fire, Dangerous Bomb, PUNCH!

Liam came round today and we sat and gamed for a good wee while. Played New Super Mario Bros Wii, Halo ODST, Bomberman Live, Sonic 4 (took shots each at the trial level), Left 4 Dead 2 and Pro Evo. Good laughs were had!

17 October 2010

Karma Chameleon

If the guys from Culture Club got a reptile in their curry would it be a Korma Chameleon? So another day of binge gaming on Oblivion and today I enchanted some light leather armour into the Chameleon Suit! 5 pieces of armour, each granting 20% Chameleon effect resulting in a 100% invisible character. In the picture above I've snuck into the Elder Council Chambers, the most heavily guarded place in the game with the toughest guards. The picture is taken in 3rd person view. While I was there I robbed Chancellor Occato.



Here's the suit in my inventory.

16 October 2010

Grapes are fun

Playing more Oblivion. Here's a dead wood elf who's corpse made a rather poncy pose.

15 October 2010

Anytime

Got a Sky Anytime router today (Sky staff are guinea pigs before it gets rolled out to customers). This basically allows us to watch any movie that Sky has (over 500) and some shows (the crap ones) whenever we want!

14 October 2010

Metal-retox

This is the rig I've been using for Defenestrators practises at my dad's school. My dad got the granger cab for £70 and it's waaaaaay better than the crate cab in sound. We've also been working on a song called Detox to Retox (about going cold turkey on booze before going to a music festival and then drinking like a fish). Although up until now we've thought of ourselves as a punk band this song changes things cause it's metal, pure and simple.

13 October 2010

Rockstar

100%'d Red Dead Redemptions single player. Turns out I was stuck on 99.5% cause I hadn't bought a gun from the gunsmith in Escalera. Also found this Rockstar Tshirt as an avatar award in a chest in the game. Then I discovered I can make pictures like this on Xbox.com

12 October 2010

Installing the latest patches

Made this first design for West Fife M.C.C.'s website. Got the colour scheme from the lion badge and made a banner with a patch type heading. Pretty proud of it.

11 October 2010

Moody Monday

I made this mood board for my Web Design unit. It's for a website for West Fife M.C.C. It may be the closest thing to a real mood board I've made in the years of studying Multimedia.

10 October 2010

He MUST be Desperate!

Staggering back to Sarah's in the early hours I spotted Desperate Dan out scouting for birds in Dundee...

9 October 2010

Pinky

Here's Sarah with her new purple hair mid-talking in Klub Kage in Dundee

8 October 2010

Hot and Cold

Went through to Sarah's for the weekend. She asked me to pour bottles of coke and some energy drink down the sink cause they were flat. I was a bit disappointed that mixing the two didn't cause some sort of a chemical reaction, but the excitement of realising the bottles had red and blue lids more than made up for it!

7 October 2010

The Defenestratettes

So I got my video work handed in today. Looks a bit rough but there's certainly been more effort put into it than some of the other submissions like a 'refreshing documentary about social notworking' (a guy on facebook hitting F5 a lot).

So from when I finished college to open mic time I was on Adobe Premier editing live footage and putting live videos on youtube.

6 October 2010

Editing

Here's a selection of decent stills. Spent from 9am to 12am editing video footage for my documentary trying to put about 3+hours of captured gig and interview footage into 2 minutes 2 seconds to meet the Napier Uni (and Virgin Media Shorts Competition) standards. Candle was considerable burnt at both ends!

5 October 2010

We are the Defibulators!

So the Defenestrators played PJ Molloys tonight and with the help of Stu and Lee the gig was filmed for the documentary I am making (and to get loads of decent live footage!) This still is from Stu's Canon XL2.

4 October 2010

Interviews

As part of my video unit for college I filmed interviews for a Defenestrators Documentary in Dougs livingroom against Stu's green screen. We used special lighting which was ridiculously bright and very hot, so hot in fact a wasp flew into one and exploded!

3 October 2010

Hey there baby I'm a thermomatic bomb...

Went through footage on some old DV Tapes and found a few Monty's gig including this one with Starry Wisdom Cult.

2 October 2010

Urban Dictionary's Word Of the Day

The first Defenestrator practice in a few months coinciding with Urban Dictionary's word of the day

This picture was taken from a still from video footage we got of practice. Trying to get a still from footage on Premier is so unnecessarily round about and awkward.

On Pinnacle Studio you put your timeline marker to the frame where you want to take a still, and from the still menu click the wee camera button and then click "Save As" and save in appropriate format through a typical drop down in a Save As menu style.

In Premier (industry standard software for reasons beyond me) you have to Export, Media then try and find the frame using In and Out Points in the Output window then choose where to save it and what to call is (and select Bitmap format) and then click OK which transfers it to the Adobe Media Encoder queue window where when it reaches it's point in the queue (and anyone who's ever used a busy printer knows the frustration of queues) it starts making a bitmap of every frame between the in an out points. Good if you want LOADS of frames turned into bitmap files but annoying as fuck if you want just one still.

1 October 2010

Man the Canon!

This is the Canon XL1 I've borrowed from the college for the purposes of filming a documentary on the Defenestrators.