Well, I'm producing a TV show and despite having a lot of people interested, it's so hard coordinating days to film. SO, Making the most of my time, I've been heading off on my own and shooting test footage.
This one was a test I did, using myself, all alone, without a camera man, at Great Pond reservoir in South Weymouth (MA).
It was kinda a spooky ordeal, and I even lost my keychain with all my keys, Starbucks cards, UMASS Boston ID, and some makeup, n discount cards.
These are all samples to show my actors & models.
I still haven;t settled on a title yet.
I used multiple filters on these (just not the AKASO). I used a warming filter, a blue gradient filter, and cross star filter. (CANON 70D.
This one shot on my action camera AKASO EK7000
By the old unused dam
Cropped photo show huge Heron behind tree trunks.
Here's the SPOOKY PART (1 of them).
This Heron I saw in water by the dead tree trunk was SO TALL! They only max out in size up to 5 feet tall. But this sucker was easily over 2 meters, way bigger than my dad, and it wasn't even fully extending its neck up.
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The footage thumbnails from Pirate Filming test shoot in South Field are found HERE.
A small dream/goal of mine was to make some ambient Meditation video art, and cut it to my own audio design music. It was something I had dreamed up a few years ago while walking in the woods, dealing with severe depression.
Most of the footage was shot all over South Weymouth including my own neighborhood, South Feild (Union Point), other neighborhoods, and a Colonial Graveyard near the South Shore Hospital down the street from me. I shot most of the footage on a CANON XA10 camcorder, often with experimenting with my own lens filters, and even a fisheye lens attachment of my own. Much of this footage also ended up in my other films I produced in 2016 including "Boho Light Journal" and "Smattering Thoughts Also Flow".
I can tell, by working on the editing that my camera work as improved a lot since I shot this footage in October 2016. This was the video camera my instructor told me to start with, and I've moved on since then to more SLR types since upgrading to HD from the old analog.
My mind is apparently at high speed, so I remember shooting this, and actually thinking I was doing it slowly... I was waaaay off, plus I was spoiled at shooting for Instagram styled content which is lightning quick. But, since it's a Wanderlust theme, it fits.
The actual melody in the music is a variation on a melody I wrote when I was 6 years old. I usually just called it "The Blue Fairies Song" or "The Blue Fairies Melody"
because I composed the song at the house of my elderly neighbors in the
1980s, Mr. & Mrs. Walter Blue (Mt. Laurel, NJ) on their antique
piano, whom were in their golden 80s.
Part of the ambient-ness was partly inspired by an experimental ambient track by Kerli titled "Journey Through The Elven Kingdom" but also inspired by Blümchen's 1995 Trance/Techno track "Herzen habben Flügel" (Hearts Have Wings or the English version "Where Hearts Have Wings" by Blossom") as well as several styles of music like "Breath" by Chang Jing, or anything Yoga, Ambient, and Meditation audio found all over the place like Amazon, and YouTube.
Here are is the Song FREE DOWNLOAD:
I still have other B-ROLL footage I shot left over from last year, but it was lanterns, candles, a tea setting, and other stuff I also shot this year... I was originally going to cut the footage with the same ambient song... but I realized it was TOO DAY-TIME-ish, and need to recut the audio with evening sound/audio mixed in instead... So, I spent quite a while compiling audio since last night for that. I'm not sure whether to go exactly the same or in a new direction, if not both, because I have all of my original vocals that I'd recorded. I even have an Arabesque version of vocals.
Kerli's experimental track actually is composed in segments of audio that flow one into the next, and I also have other tracks like that as well. Even tho' I've messed with audio editing & audio design since at least 1994, I don't feel like I'm a professional nor a true audio/music person, even tho' I like it, but more of a hack at times.
So, I would like to work on the new audio tracks, and cut some more mediation videos for my audio design/recording art stuff. Just a few of them, and have a small portfolio/album of them.
So, the main part of being a Gypset (or Gypsetter) is being an artist. they other part is wandering about, traveling, and dreaming...
Well, I've had a major mix of that happening in my life. Ever since I'd started applying the principles of Dao De Jing (Tao Te Ching) to my life since last year, I've been incredibly busy! I've been heavily into film-making including animation and motion graphics. You can actually see this applied in some of my films: Light Journal Film, and Smattering Thoughts Also Flow. Dao De Jing predates physics & psychology as a field of study and doesn't require a theology.
I'm still technically living within the poor class or poverty in the USA, but a number of circumstances brought me very rewarding experiences. Many of my wishes came true.
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I had been wanting a French Press (coffee maker) for a few years. Well, my spouse was graduating this year from UMASS Boston with a BA in Art from the College of Liberal Arts. So, I helped him to get a large grant scholarship to travel to Japan, and YES he got it. Even tho' it was for him, I largely benefited from it myself. No I did not go to Japan with him because my daughter was still in school graduating from Middle School. But, I ended up with some cash and bought a French Press at Marshall's which is down the street from me.
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Also, right before Mr. Wang left for Japan, an older gentleman crashed into our minivan and totaled it the day before he left for Japan. This had me driving rentals, and eventually we got a new car, and I got chiropractic care paid for due to injury.
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Also, my father wanted to spend time with myself and my daughter, and he & my brother got us Amtrack tickets, and we came down to Philadelphia where my father now lives with my brother. My father, brother, and my brother's girl friend were so incredibly generous to us, it's mind blowing! I picked beans in the garden, went swimming, went shopping, and worked on drilling my boho pewter pot project.
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My father & brother were so generous to us, that I had a strange experience of after being asked to get whatever I wanted when we were at the Shore and thinking I didn't actually want anything, and that I was just happy to spend time with my family.
Do you want this? Do you want to do that?
Actually, I found I didn't... After so long of being so poor, and being without, and being thrust into so much generosity, I just found I didn't want anything other than being with the people I loved.
My dad was so loving, that I found myself often being grateful, and hugging my dad all the time. It was so different than being a kid in the 1980s and being at the Shore and my dad not wanting to let us play in the arcades and win Batman stuff. This time, he wanted to pay for ANYTHING, and I kind of didn't care about spending money, just hanging out with him and everyone else.
I also went out and shot stock footage/B-Roll video with my brother around Greater Philadelphia.
My life is way different than it was a few years ago.
2012 Fountain Lane - South Weymouth (Massachusetts) New England
DSLR CANON REBEL XS
Self portrait by Kandice Kathleen Zimbleman "Black UniGryphon" ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Boho Chic, Mori Girl, Gypset, Tribal Fusion, Wanderlust
I could've sworn I published this on this blog, already, but I couldn't find it.
I believe I shot these, myself, back in 2012.
CANON Rebel XS
Makeup: Urban Decay NAKED2, Too Faced, Maybelline, Physician's Formula.
Feather earrings by Charlotte Russe (Hanover Mall, MA)
Top: vintage Wet Seal circa 2001-2002 (Braintree, South Shore Plaza MA)
Vintage Leather fringe jacket by Wet Seal circa 2001-2002 (Braintree, South Shore Plaza MA)
Shoes by Fit-Flops circa 2010 (Hanover Mall, MA)
Skirt purchased in the Philadelphia Gallery Mall 2012, Center City Philadelphia PA
Graphic art, image manipulation done in PicsArt app for iPhone
