<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2540447517852346723</id><updated>2011-11-15T14:36:49.313-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Erzen Design</title><subtitle type='html'>Thoughts, Ideas, Photography and Media work of Brian Erzen.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://erzendesign.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2540447517852346723/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://erzendesign.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Brian Erzen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00867662452102231659</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_HX1-_6V0r54/R_bDICuT8EI/AAAAAAAAAEc/X2UbgSVI7Sc/S220/_MG_5721.JPG'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>21</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2540447517852346723.post-5016051189217435986</id><published>2011-05-30T11:08:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-05-30T11:09:39.759-07:00</updated><title type='text'>When it rains it pours !</title><content type='html'>My website www.erzendesign.com has passed 200hits which is pretty awesome considering it's been up for about a month. &amp;nbsp;I think I've finally found out a good solution for people to see my photos. I created a facebook page here&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/brianerzendesign"&gt;Erzen Design&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;and I've been posting many of the events I do here. &amp;nbsp;Then about a week later I put them on my website, this way everyone can see the pictures, and it's been providing me with some exposure, and had lead to some work. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I've been shooting a ton of events lately, and it's not going to stop anytime soon, some big events are coming up that I'll be&amp;nbsp;involved&amp;nbsp;in. I need to put together an online calendar.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-yjJ-8LbzHLE/TePcZUyVZaI/AAAAAAAAA20/btZEkEGWWok/s1600/20110515-IMG_9926.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-yjJ-8LbzHLE/TePcZUyVZaI/AAAAAAAAA20/btZEkEGWWok/s640/20110515-IMG_9926.jpg" width="425" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1c2a47; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold;"&gt;AnJa Indirani&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;Perish's Studio 69&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2540447517852346723-5016051189217435986?l=erzendesign.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://erzendesign.blogspot.com/feeds/5016051189217435986/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://erzendesign.blogspot.com/2011/05/when-it-rains-it-pours.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2540447517852346723/posts/default/5016051189217435986'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2540447517852346723/posts/default/5016051189217435986'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://erzendesign.blogspot.com/2011/05/when-it-rains-it-pours.html' title='When it rains it pours !'/><author><name>Brian Erzen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00867662452102231659</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_HX1-_6V0r54/R_bDICuT8EI/AAAAAAAAAEc/X2UbgSVI7Sc/S220/_MG_5721.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-yjJ-8LbzHLE/TePcZUyVZaI/AAAAAAAAA20/btZEkEGWWok/s72-c/20110515-IMG_9926.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2540447517852346723.post-8406497412016006390</id><published>2011-05-02T17:40:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-05-08T20:23:25.813-07:00</updated><title type='text'>My video for Kevin Flint's Dystopian Weekend 3 has 200 views.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;object class="BLOGGER-youtube-video" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0" data-thumbnail-src="http://i.ytimg.com/vi/FWzeNYGKta0/0.jpg" height="266" width="320"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/FWzeNYGKta0?f=user_uploads&amp;c=google-webdrive-0&amp;app=youtube_gdata" /&gt;&lt;param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /&gt;&lt;embed width="320" height="266" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/FWzeNYGKta0?f=user_uploads&amp;c=google-webdrive-0&amp;app=youtube_gdata" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;I shot a bunch of random video footage, planned on doing much more, but there was an issue of bad weather, and a mission battery charger :/ &amp;nbsp; The desert is my favorite playground, I've spend many nights, and days out in the desert. &amp;nbsp;The richness in color of the&amp;nbsp;mountains, the stillness of life, the darkness of the sky, these are magically when you live near a Police Station and a major freeway. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-11rZr2vGAxE/Tb9HP19yjII/AAAAAAAAA2E/OWoJROM1EGc/s1600/20110424-IMG_5408.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="234" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-11rZr2vGAxE/Tb9HP19yjII/AAAAAAAAA2E/OWoJROM1EGc/s640/20110424-IMG_5408.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"&gt;First time trying long exposure night time, and it's windy, and the moon was crazy bright.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Sometimes photography takes teamwork, and I couldn't of gotten these great shots without my friend&amp;nbsp;Johnathan&amp;nbsp;Kramm's help. &amp;nbsp;There was a bunch of trail and error, the blackness of the desert was great, it pulled all the light except for the LED. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-yaQ2_ylU8Vg/Tb9HGHgbv3I/AAAAAAAAA18/ngLxNwFesBs/s1600/20110424-IMG_5361.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="363" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-yaQ2_ylU8Vg/Tb9HGHgbv3I/AAAAAAAAA18/ngLxNwFesBs/s640/20110424-IMG_5361.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"&gt;This was a failed attempt at an idea, still makes for an interesting shot.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0ogZ9ka0fCw/Tb9HMAsguII/AAAAAAAAA2A/pFOESPDrCiY/s1600/20110424-IMG_5383.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="426" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0ogZ9ka0fCw/Tb9HMAsguII/AAAAAAAAA2A/pFOESPDrCiY/s640/20110424-IMG_5383.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"&gt;Success!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We used a high power laser, with long exposure. &amp;nbsp;She can't see out of those goggles, if this light was shining in front of her like this it's highly possible she's be blind. &amp;nbsp;Also if this laser light reflects off something and directly hit the lens it can burn or the sensor.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-YiZviVfpZAc/Tb9G8mSxFwI/AAAAAAAAA14/aMB84FUZduo/s1600/20110423-IMG_5297.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-YiZviVfpZAc/Tb9G8mSxFwI/AAAAAAAAA14/aMB84FUZduo/s640/20110423-IMG_5297.jpg" width="426" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1c2a47;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"&gt;Sasha Valentene&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1c2a47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1c2a47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1c2a47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;These images are not&amp;nbsp;digitally&amp;nbsp;manipulated, except for cropping, and minor adjustments.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2540447517852346723-8406497412016006390?l=erzendesign.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://erzendesign.blogspot.com/feeds/8406497412016006390/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://erzendesign.blogspot.com/2011/05/my-video-for-kevin-flints-dystopian.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2540447517852346723/posts/default/8406497412016006390'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2540447517852346723/posts/default/8406497412016006390'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://erzendesign.blogspot.com/2011/05/my-video-for-kevin-flints-dystopian.html' title='My video for Kevin Flint&apos;s Dystopian Weekend 3 has 200 views.'/><author><name>Brian Erzen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00867662452102231659</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_HX1-_6V0r54/R_bDICuT8EI/AAAAAAAAAEc/X2UbgSVI7Sc/S220/_MG_5721.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-11rZr2vGAxE/Tb9HP19yjII/AAAAAAAAA2E/OWoJROM1EGc/s72-c/20110424-IMG_5408.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2540447517852346723.post-3668953707638951768</id><published>2011-05-02T17:00:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-05-02T17:00:22.779-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Kevin's Birthday Party was better then yours.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vOyOti5L3dI/Tb9Dz7mC36I/AAAAAAAAA1w/OK0rq9ERZaU/s1600/20110424-IMG_5762.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vOyOti5L3dI/Tb9Dz7mC36I/AAAAAAAAA1w/OK0rq9ERZaU/s1600/20110424-IMG_5762.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="380" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vOyOti5L3dI/Tb9Dz7mC36I/AAAAAAAAA1w/OK0rq9ERZaU/s640/20110424-IMG_5762.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-A0luoGWCl04/Tb9CzO0TsjI/AAAAAAAAA1U/aBne9REXMNs/s1600/20110423-IMG_4734.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-J6tD-6_m95s/Tb9C6mIevhI/AAAAAAAAA1Y/l-9FZVlVo4Q/s1600/20110423-IMG_4750.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="203" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-J6tD-6_m95s/Tb9C6mIevhI/AAAAAAAAA1Y/l-9FZVlVo4Q/s320/20110423-IMG_4750.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-A0luoGWCl04/Tb9CzO0TsjI/AAAAAAAAA1U/aBne9REXMNs/s320/20110423-IMG_4734.jpg" width="213" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-naGu4Ob_hjo/Tb9D7Fu8s4I/AAAAAAAAA10/SzYQWoWZfTA/s1600/20110424-IMG_5767.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-naGu4Ob_hjo/Tb9D7Fu8s4I/AAAAAAAAA10/SzYQWoWZfTA/s320/20110424-IMG_5767.jpg" width="212" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4E-TC4S1d1Q/Tb9DED6t3RI/AAAAAAAAA1c/BLRltyjFZlc/s1600/20110423-IMG_4859.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4E-TC4S1d1Q/Tb9DED6t3RI/AAAAAAAAA1c/BLRltyjFZlc/s320/20110423-IMG_4859.jpg" width="213" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-PN6pHSBfUUQ/Tb9CckOI_II/AAAAAAAAA1M/NVLxw11ihsI/s1600/20110423-IMG_4507.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-PN6pHSBfUUQ/Tb9CckOI_II/AAAAAAAAA1M/NVLxw11ihsI/s200/20110423-IMG_4507.jpg" width="122" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;I have a large selection of friends from all factions of life, and have made some interesting connections over the year living in Los Angeles. &amp;nbsp;One of those friends is Kevin Flint. &amp;nbsp;Kevin is know for&amp;nbsp;Dystopian&amp;nbsp;Studios, &lt;a href="http://www.impulsela.com/gallery.htm"&gt;the new genre bending club Impulse&lt;/a&gt;, and a kickass networking event called Collab. &amp;nbsp;Kevin's&amp;nbsp;uniquely creative, and hosts some crazy fun parties too.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-u-E-Xcxv4s4/Tb9DVG6en5I/AAAAAAAAA1k/v4ccotmTnZc/s1600/20110423-IMG_5201.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-u-E-Xcxv4s4/Tb9DVG6en5I/AAAAAAAAA1k/v4ccotmTnZc/s320/20110423-IMG_5201.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;For his birthday he came up with a idea called&amp;nbsp;Dystopian&amp;nbsp;Weekend, where every year he gathered up a group of those willing to go out to the desert in the middle of nowhere, with weapons, costumes, booze, and lots of bass. &amp;nbsp;After seeing the pictures from last year, and knowing about a handful of people going, I figured it's a can't miss event:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;The&amp;nbsp;original&amp;nbsp;email that went out describes this far better then I could:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-YKo2udG4ANk/Tb9Co_Qlg9I/AAAAAAAAA1Q/HSTSJvY7oNA/s1600/20110423-IMG_4599.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-YKo2udG4ANk/Tb9Co_Qlg9I/AAAAAAAAA1Q/HSTSJvY7oNA/s400/20110423-IMG_4599.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WXGBov3JfyM/Tb9DpcET1zI/AAAAAAAAA1s/AG3F679VKQM/s1600/20110424-IMG_5717.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WXGBov3JfyM/Tb9DpcET1zI/AAAAAAAAA1s/AG3F679VKQM/s320/20110424-IMG_5717.jpg" width="213" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 13px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dystopian Weekend III is here and it will be bigger, better and chock full o' more awesome than ever.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For those who have never been, we take this awesome patch of desert about 2 hours from LA, and turn it into our playground for a weekend. We shoot guns (and teach those who have never shot a gun how to, we'll have a few guns available for you to try.) We get addled. We play loud music. We entertain each other with awesome fire performances, dancing, hooping, our technological monstrosities and such. We cook food over fire. We take awesome photos that you can turn into your FB profile photo for the next 12 months. We make big explosions. And we make some awesome new friends.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The location is AUTOMOBILE ACCESSIBLE (4 wd not required.) There are some cool places to hike and explore in the area, and for those with off road vehicles, some cool trails to attack.&lt;br /&gt;If you have any questions, ask away. We will provide much more info to those who are attending.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The weekend didn't disappoint, made some new friends, got to see some old ones, and it all ended up being a rather&amp;nbsp;interesting&amp;nbsp;weekend.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-uIrEoteLrKU/Tb9Dc9HdKII/AAAAAAAAA1o/hsfr8VWy1wk/s1600/20110424-IMG_5617.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-uIrEoteLrKU/Tb9Dc9HdKII/AAAAAAAAA1o/hsfr8VWy1wk/s200/20110424-IMG_5617.jpg" width="143" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8VeMe3o7Bdk/Tb9DNkGMWjI/AAAAAAAAA1g/CfhsIkyZr3Q/s1600/20110423-IMG_5097.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="197" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8VeMe3o7Bdk/Tb9DNkGMWjI/AAAAAAAAA1g/CfhsIkyZr3Q/s320/20110423-IMG_5097.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&amp;nbsp;For more info :&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; color: black;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dystopianstudios.com/"&gt;http://www.dystopianstudios.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My collection:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/erzendesign/sets/72157626454821565/"&gt;http://www.flickr.com/photos/erzendesign/sets/72157626454821565/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Kevin Flint's Photos&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.dystopianslut.com/photos/dystopianweekend3/index.html"&gt;http://www.dystopianslut.com/photos/dystopianweekend3/index.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2540447517852346723-3668953707638951768?l=erzendesign.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://erzendesign.blogspot.com/feeds/3668953707638951768/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://erzendesign.blogspot.com/2011/05/kevins-birthday-party-was-better-then.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2540447517852346723/posts/default/3668953707638951768'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2540447517852346723/posts/default/3668953707638951768'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://erzendesign.blogspot.com/2011/05/kevins-birthday-party-was-better-then.html' title='Kevin&apos;s Birthday Party was better then yours.'/><author><name>Brian Erzen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00867662452102231659</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_HX1-_6V0r54/R_bDICuT8EI/AAAAAAAAAEc/X2UbgSVI7Sc/S220/_MG_5721.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vOyOti5L3dI/Tb9Dz7mC36I/AAAAAAAAA1w/OK0rq9ERZaU/s72-c/20110424-IMG_5762.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2540447517852346723.post-5435877098310103397</id><published>2011-04-12T13:41:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-05-02T15:42:24.146-07:00</updated><title type='text'>A new milestone is hit!  My photography portfolio is now online!</title><content type='html'>Gave my website a major reworking, added an online&amp;nbsp;portfolio, as well as in the process of updating all the links, working on the calendar selection, ect. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9awQvyWjxpY/TaSx3RpJUqI/AAAAAAAAAy8/-JUaA_ppjm8/s1600/ErzenDesign_-4908.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="376" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9awQvyWjxpY/TaSx3RpJUqI/AAAAAAAAAy8/-JUaA_ppjm8/s640/ErzenDesign_-4908.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;One of my favorite photos&amp;nbsp;Pacific&amp;nbsp;Design Center, Los Angeles&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-c1KocXQwlEY/TaS3oHiKbII/AAAAAAAAAzE/6hWXsYWkZ_M/s1600/ErzenDesign_--2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="425" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-c1KocXQwlEY/TaS3oHiKbII/AAAAAAAAAzE/6hWXsYWkZ_M/s640/ErzenDesign_--2.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Matt H. &amp;nbsp;- Private Dress&amp;nbsp;Rehearsal for Burning Man Performance&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;As I've been shooting&amp;nbsp;steadily&amp;nbsp;for about a year and have amassed a fairly&amp;nbsp;interesting&amp;nbsp;portfolio of images, and it's time to further improve my website with my online portfolio.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2srYbyAi2KU/TaSx5uqXaCI/AAAAAAAAAzA/n-r13FZ_nas/s1600/ErzenDesign_-2053.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="425" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2srYbyAi2KU/TaSx5uqXaCI/AAAAAAAAAzA/n-r13FZ_nas/s640/ErzenDesign_-2053.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;The AMAZING DJ Amanda&amp;nbsp;Jones at Fallout - Medusa's Lounge, Los Angeles&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;I&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-FKjFc8TgwVs/TaSx2IXaRKI/AAAAAAAAAy4/z9savovTN54/s1600/ErzenDesign_-2445.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="426" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-FKjFc8TgwVs/TaSx2IXaRKI/AAAAAAAAAy4/z9savovTN54/s640/ErzenDesign_-2445.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Ben and Natasha - Batcave Dragonfly, Los Angeles&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Y7LDKgr27Bs/TaS3sw_AM0I/AAAAAAAAAzI/3ojpNbYqQxE/s1600/ErzenDesign_-0777.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="426" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Y7LDKgr27Bs/TaS3sw_AM0I/AAAAAAAAAzI/3ojpNbYqQxE/s640/ErzenDesign_-0777.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Uber talented Fire Master -Micheal Tam Wood - Malibu, CA&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2540447517852346723-5435877098310103397?l=erzendesign.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://erzendesign.blogspot.com/feeds/5435877098310103397/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://erzendesign.blogspot.com/2011/04/new-milestone-is-hit-my-photography.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2540447517852346723/posts/default/5435877098310103397'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2540447517852346723/posts/default/5435877098310103397'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://erzendesign.blogspot.com/2011/04/new-milestone-is-hit-my-photography.html' title='A new milestone is hit!  My photography portfolio is now online!'/><author><name>Brian Erzen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00867662452102231659</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_HX1-_6V0r54/R_bDICuT8EI/AAAAAAAAAEc/X2UbgSVI7Sc/S220/_MG_5721.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9awQvyWjxpY/TaSx3RpJUqI/AAAAAAAAAy8/-JUaA_ppjm8/s72-c/ErzenDesign_-4908.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2540447517852346723.post-202330609253025720</id><published>2011-04-07T15:32:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-04-07T15:32:17.903-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Bringing my "A" game to photography.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-BJYrbwl9kGU/TZ4ikM3j7oI/AAAAAAAAAxE/T_y0raIUQYk/s1600/ErzenDesign_-1108.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="364" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-BJYrbwl9kGU/TZ4ikM3j7oI/AAAAAAAAAxE/T_y0raIUQYk/s640/ErzenDesign_-1108.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's been almost a year since I purchased my Canon 2ti, and entered into my foray of "Professional&amp;nbsp;Photography" and what a year it's been. &amp;nbsp;We've had many exciting adventures together, my camera and I. We're always learning from each other, trying out new techniques, ideas, and polishing up on the basics. I've grown leaps and bounds as a photographer over the last year, and that's thanks to all those other amazing people out there that have helped me or gave advice, people like &lt;a href="http://www.curiousjosh.com/"&gt;Curious Josh&lt;/a&gt;, who was kind enough to respond to an email I had with a ton of basic photography questions when I was first starting out, and&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jetsetter23/"&gt;Jessica Reinhardt&lt;/a&gt;:&amp;nbsp;Master of the Polaroid, she gave me an intense 4 hour crash course in time-lapse and long exposure photography the night after I purchased my camera. &amp;nbsp;One aspect of photography I didn't expect was the&amp;nbsp;creativity&amp;nbsp;and the helpfulness of the community. It's only the&amp;nbsp;beginning, I've meet a ton on super cool people online and in real life, also lead to a couple of&amp;nbsp;opportunities&amp;nbsp;and I've meet man insanely&amp;nbsp;talented people, some have even become good friends. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-I2BrVfH6Bzo/TZ4oGhdpEcI/AAAAAAAAAx0/zTcmTgHJ5iw/s1600/ErzenDesign_-8000.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="444" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-I2BrVfH6Bzo/TZ4oGhdpEcI/AAAAAAAAAx0/zTcmTgHJ5iw/s640/ErzenDesign_-8000.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Actor Kevin Deen&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;I'm continuing to update my Portfolio, and I'm close to finishing my actual website www.ErzenDesign.com.&amp;nbsp;I've taken all that knowledge that I learned over the last year and been out shooting as much as I can. &amp;nbsp;It's funny in retrospect, because I've never been great at photoshop/lightwave, and so when I shoot I over shoot and make sure I get the best possible shot I can. &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For the website, I've gathered a bunch of various photos, and have to reedit them. A long process. &amp;nbsp;When it came time to edit these photos, I went looking for tutorials, guides, forums and advice on photography and photo editing. &amp;nbsp;This was a helpful tutorial. &lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/EURb_ZbxzRY" title="YouTube video player" width="640"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Froknowsphoto.com was a great source of information. &amp;nbsp;Do you have a favorite video? &amp;nbsp;Post a link in the comments.&amp;nbsp;I'm fortunate to have &amp;nbsp;I gathered a few of my friends for an portfolio test shoot/practice shoot. &amp;nbsp;So when it came time to edit these pictures I felt, it's time to jump to that next level and seriously sit down and edit a few of these pictures, and see what I can come up with. &amp;nbsp;Here's a few of my favorites.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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game to photography.'/><author><name>Brian Erzen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00867662452102231659</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_HX1-_6V0r54/R_bDICuT8EI/AAAAAAAAAEc/X2UbgSVI7Sc/S220/_MG_5721.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-BJYrbwl9kGU/TZ4ikM3j7oI/AAAAAAAAAxE/T_y0raIUQYk/s72-c/ErzenDesign_-1108.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2540447517852346723.post-6615919040751632253</id><published>2011-02-22T06:45:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-02-22T06:45:48.110-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Made a RIFT Gameplay video in 1080p , Editing practice, and a good experience.</title><content type='html'>As many people who know me know, I'm a hardcore gamer and been playing Video Games since I was a little kid, I even worked in the Game Industry for about 2 1/2 years. Also I'm that guy that says "hey is that youtube link in 1080p"?  1080p Video even on youtube looks amazing.  It's full screen HD quality video.  If you had a 60inch TV it would be high res in 1080p.  So it's a big deal to some.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Check out this 1min video of Suzy spinning fire to see what 1080p video looks like.  Watch in 480p then watch in 1080p and you'll notice a huge difference.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;object width="320" height="266" class="BLOGGER-youtube-video" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0" data-thumbnail-src="http://i.ytimg.com/vi/ivMT_zCxwpY/0.jpg"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ivMT_zCxwpY?f=user_uploads&amp;c=google-webdrive-0&amp;app=youtube_gdata" /&gt;&lt;param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /&gt;&lt;embed width="320" height="266" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ivMT_zCxwpY?f=user_uploads&amp;c=google-webdrive-0&amp;app=youtube_gdata" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I was having trouble finding HD video a few weeks ago for another game, then I noticed there isn't too many good gaming gameplay clips out there, and so after I edited this video I did a search for" 1080p RIFT Gameplay " on youtube, and all I could find was the trailer. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So this caught my eye, and since I was playing the beta and the NDA was up I'd make a video.High-end pure gameplay of the upcoming PC Game RIFT.&lt;br /&gt;So learned how to capture the gameplay footage properly, then I cut it together took about 6hours, then took about a day to u/l and convert the youtube video.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It was fun, and I learned a bunch about compression too.  I'll prob make another one, since it's more editing practice, and I'll be playing Rifts again in the near future.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;object width="320" height="266" class="BLOGGER-youtube-video" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0" data-thumbnail-src="http://i.ytimg.com/vi/SZGmKBfxEKM/0.jpg"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/SZGmKBfxEKM?f=user_uploads&amp;c=google-webdrive-0&amp;app=youtube_gdata" /&gt;&lt;param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /&gt;&lt;embed width="320" height="266" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/SZGmKBfxEKM?f=user_uploads&amp;c=google-webdrive-0&amp;app=youtube_gdata" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2540447517852346723-6615919040751632253?l=erzendesign.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://erzendesign.blogspot.com/feeds/6615919040751632253/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://erzendesign.blogspot.com/2011/02/made-rift-gameplay-video-in-1080p.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2540447517852346723/posts/default/6615919040751632253'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2540447517852346723/posts/default/6615919040751632253'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://erzendesign.blogspot.com/2011/02/made-rift-gameplay-video-in-1080p.html' title='Made a RIFT Gameplay video in 1080p , Editing practice, and a good experience.'/><author><name>Brian Erzen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00867662452102231659</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_HX1-_6V0r54/R_bDICuT8EI/AAAAAAAAAEc/X2UbgSVI7Sc/S220/_MG_5721.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2540447517852346723.post-3600022269346111413</id><published>2011-02-12T22:53:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-02-12T23:27:01.667-08:00</updated><title type='text'>This One Time At Burning Man .......</title><content type='html'>This one time at Burning Man is said in the tone of the movie American Pie's classic line "This One time, in band camp". &amp;nbsp;It's a true saying out on the playa. This one time at Burning Man, and then someone&amp;nbsp;rambles&amp;nbsp;on about something crazy or seeing something out of the ordinary. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;That was the idea behind this video :&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;object class="BLOGGER-youtube-video" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0" data-thumbnail-src="http://3.gvt0.com/vi/mADqOQis7es/0.jpg" height="266" width="320"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/mADqOQis7es&amp;fs=1&amp;source=uds" /&gt;&lt;param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /&gt;&lt;embed width="320" height="266" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/mADqOQis7es&amp;fs=1&amp;source=uds" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;This video is best viewed in 1080p on Youtube.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2540447517852346723-3600022269346111413?l=erzendesign.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://erzendesign.blogspot.com/feeds/3600022269346111413/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://erzendesign.blogspot.com/2011/02/this-one-time-at-burning-man.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2540447517852346723/posts/default/3600022269346111413'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2540447517852346723/posts/default/3600022269346111413'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://erzendesign.blogspot.com/2011/02/this-one-time-at-burning-man.html' title='This One Time At Burning Man .......'/><author><name>Brian Erzen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00867662452102231659</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_HX1-_6V0r54/R_bDICuT8EI/AAAAAAAAAEc/X2UbgSVI7Sc/S220/_MG_5721.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2540447517852346723.post-3296870900823965481</id><published>2011-01-26T12:48:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-02-12T22:46:46.252-08:00</updated><title type='text'>A little video I put together for a friend.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;Suzy spinning Fire Poi.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;object class="BLOGGER-youtube-video" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0" data-thumbnail-src="http://i.ytimg.com/vi/ivMT_zCxwpY/0.jpg" height="266" width="320"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ivMT_zCxwpY?f=user_uploads&amp;c=google-webdrive-0&amp;app=youtube_gdata" /&gt;&lt;param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /&gt;&lt;embed width="320" height="266" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ivMT_zCxwpY?f=user_uploads&amp;c=google-webdrive-0&amp;app=youtube_gdata" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;This is a short video I shot with my friend Suzy, it's just a cool min clip of Suzy doing what she does best. &amp;nbsp;This video is best watched in 1080p off of youtube directly.&lt;br /&gt;Been working on updating this blog, and it's needed an overhaul for awhile now. &amp;nbsp;I redid everything created a whole new page, and although it's not quite done, it's close. &amp;nbsp;I like the new look, and happy with this look and style. &amp;nbsp;I created all the art, and have some really cool ideas for some cool video projects in the near future.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2540447517852346723-3296870900823965481?l=erzendesign.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://erzendesign.blogspot.com/feeds/3296870900823965481/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://erzendesign.blogspot.com/2011/01/little-video-i-put-together-for-friend.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2540447517852346723/posts/default/3296870900823965481'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2540447517852346723/posts/default/3296870900823965481'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://erzendesign.blogspot.com/2011/01/little-video-i-put-together-for-friend.html' title='A little video I put together for a friend.'/><author><name>Brian Erzen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00867662452102231659</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_HX1-_6V0r54/R_bDICuT8EI/AAAAAAAAAEc/X2UbgSVI7Sc/S220/_MG_5721.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2540447517852346723.post-6951760668321492150</id><published>2010-08-26T14:37:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-08-26T14:45:58.753-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Good things to come, merging my personal and professional life together.</title><content type='html'>Long ago when I was 17, I was one of those kids that knew about computers, and at that time they were considered these&amp;nbsp;strange&amp;nbsp;complex foreign objects that only geeks used. &amp;nbsp;I worked at a gas station with this young average Joe kinda guy who didn't have a computer at the time, didn't understand computers, and thought he didn't need one. &amp;nbsp;I saw him a few years later when I was in college at the local store. &amp;nbsp;I remember like it was yesterday, hey Brian I got my own email address! &amp;nbsp;My how times changed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cut forward to over 10 years later, and everyone and their mothers has computers, internet and an email address or 2. &amp;nbsp;I've always had this fear of keeping my personal life and my&amp;nbsp;professional&amp;nbsp;life private, and&amp;nbsp;separate. &amp;nbsp;With sites like Facebook, and the tons of emergent&amp;nbsp;technology out there I feel it's now really hard if not impossible to successfully&amp;nbsp;separate&amp;nbsp;the two. It's 2010, just about everyone has a cell phone, is connected to the internet, has an email account, is on &amp;nbsp;Facebook, or any other number of social media connections.&amp;nbsp;I "Brian Erzen" have been working on my&amp;nbsp;building&amp;nbsp;my personal brand which is part of my name "Erzen Design"and after doing a bunch of reading and research I came to the conclusion I need to make the conscience decision to just be me and people can be accepting or not accepting and it's their choice. &amp;nbsp;I can't hide who I am, and this openness and&amp;nbsp;clarity&amp;nbsp;and honesty has lead to some&amp;nbsp;positive&amp;nbsp;exposure has done more good then harm. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HX1-_6V0r54/THbd_9m1lGI/AAAAAAAAAtY/01iMNN_w2to/s1600/4698225309_a81951664f_b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="384" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HX1-_6V0r54/THbd_9m1lGI/AAAAAAAAAtY/01iMNN_w2to/s640/4698225309_a81951664f_b.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In May a long time friend of mine from San&amp;nbsp;Fransisco&amp;nbsp;was going to be in Los Angeles for a fundraiser for the amazing&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://temple2010.org/wordpress/"&gt;Burning Man&amp;nbsp;Project Temple of Flux&lt;/a&gt;. &amp;nbsp;I told Catie that I'd love to come out and I'll even take pictures of the event for you. &amp;nbsp;Which I did, and the event was an amazing success, as far as I could tell every one had a great time (&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/erzendesign/sets/72157624270261606/"&gt;see pictures here&lt;/a&gt;) lots of really cool performances, and over all a fun night. &amp;nbsp;I posted these pictures on my personal&amp;nbsp;Facebook&amp;nbsp;page, and on&amp;nbsp;Flickr. &amp;nbsp;Passes out some&amp;nbsp;business&amp;nbsp;cards, and made some friends. These pictures and personal connections which I was really open with lead to some other amazing opportunities in the following months, which lead to more personal connections, and allowed me to be in creative&amp;nbsp;environments&amp;nbsp;that people that other would kill for. &amp;nbsp;Which is a big change then a year ago, when I was paranoid to even have my picture taken at Burning Man never mind talking about it. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HX1-_6V0r54/THbeezgsWKI/AAAAAAAAAt4/7yu7yCs1qYs/s1600/BM06ME.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HX1-_6V0r54/THbeezgsWKI/AAAAAAAAAt4/7yu7yCs1qYs/s640/BM06ME.jpg" width="480" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This event in many ways, ended up becoming the&amp;nbsp;catalyst&amp;nbsp;for many great&amp;nbsp;opportunities, and instead of being fearful of the different, bizarre, and exciting I embraced it and directly because of being open and honest to myself I've grown leaps and bounds as a person as well as&amp;nbsp;creatively as well as built of some amazing friendships, creative connections with people, and some really cool projects&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Currently I've been working hard on getting exposure for my work. &amp;nbsp;Since to me although I have long term&amp;nbsp;business&amp;nbsp;goals, and I also have a strict code that I'll only support something I believe in, I would like to move towards making a living from Photography and Video work. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HX1-_6V0r54/THbgiTrxtGI/AAAAAAAAAuA/DTUuRwdYZFw/s1600/bmnight0burn.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="480" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HX1-_6V0r54/THbgiTrxtGI/AAAAAAAAAuA/DTUuRwdYZFw/s640/bmnight0burn.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So now I'm find myself at many weird, strange, exciting, and tantalizing events, because thats what I'm into and those are the people and connections I've made. &amp;nbsp;One night on the Red Carpet at one of LA's largest film festivals. &amp;nbsp;Next night at the Fetish and&amp;nbsp;Industrial&amp;nbsp;music club taking pictures for the venue. Following week shooting a large&amp;nbsp;spectacular fire performance&amp;nbsp;rehearsal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HX1-_6V0r54/THbeEOnPkHI/AAAAAAAAAto/dVaIbVWQx5g/s1600/4759911096_1c64f994e2_b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="420" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HX1-_6V0r54/THbeEOnPkHI/AAAAAAAAAto/dVaIbVWQx5g/s640/4759911096_1c64f994e2_b.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Life's good, do what you love, and be yourself. &amp;nbsp;That's the only advice I have. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HX1-_6V0r54/THbeBi7CWUI/AAAAAAAAAtg/nl9bJ405aq4/s1600/4698894152_cc2ff909f4_b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="358" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HX1-_6V0r54/THbeBi7CWUI/AAAAAAAAAtg/nl9bJ405aq4/s640/4698894152_cc2ff909f4_b.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2540447517852346723-6951760668321492150?l=erzendesign.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://erzendesign.blogspot.com/feeds/6951760668321492150/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://erzendesign.blogspot.com/2010/08/good-things-to-come-merging-my-personal.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2540447517852346723/posts/default/6951760668321492150'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2540447517852346723/posts/default/6951760668321492150'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://erzendesign.blogspot.com/2010/08/good-things-to-come-merging-my-personal.html' title='Good things to come, merging my personal and professional life together.'/><author><name>Brian Erzen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00867662452102231659</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_HX1-_6V0r54/R_bDICuT8EI/AAAAAAAAAEc/X2UbgSVI7Sc/S220/_MG_5721.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HX1-_6V0r54/THbd_9m1lGI/AAAAAAAAAtY/01iMNN_w2to/s72-c/4698225309_a81951664f_b.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2540447517852346723.post-4663218128972601937</id><published>2010-08-23T18:50:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-08-25T14:29:38.845-07:00</updated><title type='text'>On the Red carpet, The Opening Gala for Hollyshorts Film Festival.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HX1-_6V0r54/THMgrTBPlsI/AAAAAAAAAsw/3VI0cJagM2I/s1600/4865707420_49eb7e9b1e_b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="448" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HX1-_6V0r54/THMgrTBPlsI/AAAAAAAAAsw/3VI0cJagM2I/s640/4865707420_49eb7e9b1e_b.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;*It's me on the Red Carpet, my mom likes this picture!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This year I attended the Hollyshorts Film Festival. I remember being there for the first year, I actually made te program for the first Hollyshorts, and now it's blown up, big time, and every producer, actor, and director friend I know had projects in the fest. I was fortunate to get a Press Pass. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Took some pictures, but full disclosure they are not as good as I would of liked since my flash ended up dying and it took awhile to get replacement batteries. &amp;nbsp;Lesson learned always have&amp;nbsp;rechargeables&amp;nbsp;on hand. &amp;nbsp;This was quite the night, lots of&amp;nbsp;familiar&amp;nbsp;and new faces on the Red Carpet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HX1-_6V0r54/THMj5kO3CXI/AAAAAAAAAs4/1i3iDNiTGew/s1600/4865090887_456a6cbec9_b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="444" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HX1-_6V0r54/THMj5kO3CXI/AAAAAAAAAs4/1i3iDNiTGew/s640/4865090887_456a6cbec9_b.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Long time good friend and Actor &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1365373130#!/pages/The-Guck-Fan-page-for-actor-Christopher-Guckenberger/100812533312654?ref=ts"&gt;Christopher Guckenberger&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HX1-_6V0r54/THMkja3N2-I/AAAAAAAAAtA/umkTobwN-2g/s1600/4865086425_d9f3646096_b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="402" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HX1-_6V0r54/THMkja3N2-I/AAAAAAAAAtA/umkTobwN-2g/s640/4865086425_d9f3646096_b.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;a class="l" href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000274/" style="color: #1111cc; cursor: pointer;"&gt;&lt;em style="font-style: normal;"&gt;David Arquette&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;with David Branin and Karen Worden of the &lt;a href="http://www.latalkradio.com/Film.php"&gt;Filmcourage Radio Show&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HX1-_6V0r54/THMlEYyG-vI/AAAAAAAAAtI/T4ihBo0FE_A/s1600/4865085843_9deddc8a4a_b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="388" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HX1-_6V0r54/THMlEYyG-vI/AAAAAAAAAtI/T4ihBo0FE_A/s640/4865085843_9deddc8a4a_b.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Founders of Hollyshorts Film Fest Daniel Sol and Theo Dumount, with David Arquette&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/erzendesign/sets/72157624540032787/"&gt;For more pictures from the Red Carpet Gala Click Here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2540447517852346723-4663218128972601937?l=erzendesign.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://erzendesign.blogspot.com/feeds/4663218128972601937/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://erzendesign.blogspot.com/2010/08/on-red-carpet-opening-gala-for.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2540447517852346723/posts/default/4663218128972601937'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2540447517852346723/posts/default/4663218128972601937'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://erzendesign.blogspot.com/2010/08/on-red-carpet-opening-gala-for.html' title='On the Red carpet, The Opening Gala for Hollyshorts Film Festival.'/><author><name>Brian Erzen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00867662452102231659</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_HX1-_6V0r54/R_bDICuT8EI/AAAAAAAAAEc/X2UbgSVI7Sc/S220/_MG_5721.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HX1-_6V0r54/THMgrTBPlsI/AAAAAAAAAsw/3VI0cJagM2I/s72-c/4865707420_49eb7e9b1e_b.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2540447517852346723.post-2949480973838123110</id><published>2010-07-24T16:25:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-08-26T13:07:56.924-07:00</updated><title type='text'>My enchanting weekend at Labyrinth of Jareth</title><content type='html'>I was feeling kinda bummed out this month, because my family has a fairly large reunion in upstate&amp;nbsp;Pennsylvania. Last year was the first time I've been in many years, and I met so many &amp;nbsp;awesome members of my family from all over the country. The plan was to head back for a week in July the weekend of the 18th, but due to real life stepping in as well the the increasing prices of traveling in the summer this wasn't an&amp;nbsp;attainable&amp;nbsp;goal. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2 Weeks left to go and I was working on a short film and someone mentioned that she's going to &lt;a href="http://www.labyrinthmasquerade.com/"&gt;Labyrinth of Jareth&lt;/a&gt;, which is something I've&amp;nbsp;vaguely&amp;nbsp;heard about last year, and the year before, but honestly didn't know much about the event. It's quite amazing, and it's kinda unlike anything else in Los Angeles, I'm guessing it prob&amp;nbsp;similar&amp;nbsp;to the awesomeness that is the&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.edwardianball.com/"&gt;Edwardian Ball&lt;/a&gt; in San&amp;nbsp;Fransisco, but I've never been so I can't say for sure.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HX1-_6V0r54/TEtzIqmEOcI/AAAAAAAAArs/q2oPumSMALw/s1600/4814808468_12b54c35c0_z.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="427" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HX1-_6V0r54/TEtzIqmEOcI/AAAAAAAAArs/q2oPumSMALw/s640/4814808468_12b54c35c0_z.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's a super elaborate fantasy masquerade ball, where everyone is wearing the most amazing and complex costumes you've ever seen outside of a movie. &amp;nbsp;People work many long hours, building, sewing, inventing their costumes all year long for this 2 night event. &amp;nbsp;I had an idea to contact them directly see if I can come to the event to take pictures for the event and I submitted some samples of my work and I was invited to attend both Friday and Saturday.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HX1-_6V0r54/TEtzydwedXI/AAAAAAAAAr0/h_NBSdwdA9w/s1600/4814155775_2110f0ddf7_z.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HX1-_6V0r54/TEtzydwedXI/AAAAAAAAAr0/h_NBSdwdA9w/s640/4814155775_2110f0ddf7_z.jpg" width="366" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What I &amp;nbsp;didn't expect is the level of&amp;nbsp;atmosphere&amp;nbsp;that this event had, it was held in the&amp;nbsp;beautiful&amp;nbsp;Park Ave hotel in Downtown, Los Angeles. &amp;nbsp;With theatrical lighting, some large props&amp;nbsp;scattered&amp;nbsp;about, a water fountain, a large courtyard and multiple dance floors. A fantasy world come to life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HX1-_6V0r54/TEt05vSnXoI/AAAAAAAAAr8/EqaqBgq1SwY/s1600/4814721008_2ddd87c3d2_z.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="398" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HX1-_6V0r54/TEt05vSnXoI/AAAAAAAAAr8/EqaqBgq1SwY/s640/4814721008_2ddd87c3d2_z.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The closest way I can describe the setting is, there is a story by Neil Gaiman : Star Dust&amp;nbsp;there is a large&amp;nbsp;fairy&amp;nbsp;festival that happens once every couple of years where all the creatures of fairy gather in a magical market, and it was kinda like that. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #551a8b;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcIuHTG_D7o"&gt;Video Of Labrinth Of Jareth : A walk through the crowd&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #551a8b;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I made met so many talented and amazing, costumers, actors, signers, dancers, tons of tons of great people at this event. &amp;nbsp;One thing I know for sure I'll be back next year.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HX1-_6V0r54/TEt07N3nHyI/AAAAAAAAAsE/-lTTdS8oCuI/s1600/4814147833_4ed86eb2ea_z.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="436" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HX1-_6V0r54/TEt07N3nHyI/AAAAAAAAAsE/-lTTdS8oCuI/s640/4814147833_4ed86eb2ea_z.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h1 id="title_div72157624424388823" style="background-color: #ffffd3; display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="Click to edit"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/erzendesign/sets/72157624424388823/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Labyrinth of Jareth Fantasy Masquerade Ball Pictures&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/erzendesign/sets/72157624761707050/"&gt;Labyrinth Of Jareth Bonus Edition Photos!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.labyrinthmasquerade.com/"&gt;Labyrinth Of Jareth Website&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2540447517852346723-2949480973838123110?l=erzendesign.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://erzendesign.blogspot.com/feeds/2949480973838123110/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://erzendesign.blogspot.com/2010/07/my-enchanting-weekend-at-labyrinth-of.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2540447517852346723/posts/default/2949480973838123110'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2540447517852346723/posts/default/2949480973838123110'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://erzendesign.blogspot.com/2010/07/my-enchanting-weekend-at-labyrinth-of.html' title='My enchanting weekend at Labyrinth of Jareth'/><author><name>Brian Erzen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00867662452102231659</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_HX1-_6V0r54/R_bDICuT8EI/AAAAAAAAAEc/X2UbgSVI7Sc/S220/_MG_5721.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HX1-_6V0r54/TEtzIqmEOcI/AAAAAAAAArs/q2oPumSMALw/s72-c/4814808468_12b54c35c0_z.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2540447517852346723.post-4247615228134959451</id><published>2010-07-13T14:07:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-07-13T14:28:16.120-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Hi, It's been awhile.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HX1-_6V0r54/TDzU_jfJCcI/AAAAAAAAArk/Uwjwt2-fa-c/s1600/1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="428" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HX1-_6V0r54/TDzU_jfJCcI/AAAAAAAAArk/Uwjwt2-fa-c/s640/1.JPG" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Every now and then I would look at this blog and say to myself "wow it's been awhile since I've written anything". &amp;nbsp;Then I'd close the window in Chrome and Post on Facebook, Twitter, or somewhere else. Any information I wanted to convey I could do this through one of those other channels right? For the most part that worked, but having my own professional website/blog that I update frequently has the potential to reach those that don't know me, and as I move forward professional and&amp;nbsp;creativity&amp;nbsp;maybe I'll even make some fans and find other fine talented folks out there looking to&amp;nbsp;collaborate&amp;nbsp;.Which in turn will lead to more work, more creativity and&amp;nbsp;ultimately&amp;nbsp;have a greater long term&amp;nbsp;impact on my career.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One of the major reasons I haven't written in awhile, was I was frustrated by my own personal HTML skills as well as the limitations of using Blogger. I selected Blogger over Wordpress long ago, because I must admit I'm a Google fanboy, I've been using Googles Tools for quite awhile, and for the most part they seem to get it and I like the company mantra "Don't Be Evil". &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Google revamped the blogger interface recently, which dramatically increased the flexibility&amp;nbsp;of &amp;nbsp;page design, which makes editing, adding content and changing the user interface much easier. &amp;nbsp; Let's be honest here too, having a blog called "Erzen Design" it can not look poor or unprofessional for the obvious reasons, right? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So check out the newly revamped page for Erzen Design! &amp;nbsp;I'm happy with where it is now, I've added links to my recent Erzen Design Photography and Brian Erzen Production work. 2 Pages of links to my work. Now when I take pictures of someone and I post them online I can response with, yes I have a website and you can view the photos right there. &amp;nbsp;2010 Has been a great year so far, so much is going on and I'll talk all more about some recent projects soon.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Brian -&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/erzendesign/4686672284/in/set-72157624031358305/"&gt;The image above is one of my most popular on Flickr.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2540447517852346723-4247615228134959451?l=erzendesign.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://erzendesign.blogspot.com/feeds/4247615228134959451/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://erzendesign.blogspot.com/2010/07/its-been-awhile.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2540447517852346723/posts/default/4247615228134959451'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2540447517852346723/posts/default/4247615228134959451'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://erzendesign.blogspot.com/2010/07/its-been-awhile.html' title='Hi, It&apos;s been awhile.'/><author><name>Brian Erzen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00867662452102231659</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_HX1-_6V0r54/R_bDICuT8EI/AAAAAAAAAEc/X2UbgSVI7Sc/S220/_MG_5721.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HX1-_6V0r54/TDzU_jfJCcI/AAAAAAAAArk/Uwjwt2-fa-c/s72-c/1.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2540447517852346723.post-8183610575784417421</id><published>2010-04-18T00:58:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-04-18T01:13:21.634-07:00</updated><title type='text'>A damn good event taking place at the Downtown Independent Theater in Los Angeles.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;Film Courage Interactive is a&amp;nbsp;damn fine event for independent filmmakers, creative artists, and passionate actors, &amp;nbsp;taking place downtown Los Angeles once a month at the &lt;a href="http://www.downtownindependent.com/"&gt;Downtown Independent Theate&lt;/a&gt;r. It;s not like any other event I've been to,&amp;nbsp;it's a meet and greet, QA, movie screening and a afterparty all rolled into one. &amp;nbsp;It Takes place the last Monday of every month at the Downtown&amp;nbsp;Independent&amp;nbsp;and it is about to celebrate it's fourth month next week. &lt;br /&gt;Kevin Deen is a talented actor as well as a good friend of mine, and we've chatted in the past about working together&amp;nbsp;professionally&amp;nbsp;is some capacity. &amp;nbsp;Since we were both going to be at Film Courage, and I had a camera in my&amp;nbsp;possession&amp;nbsp;at the time . &amp;nbsp;We decided to shoot the event for fun, the experience was a great one, made a couple of friends, and saw a fun&amp;nbsp;quirky well acted comedy &amp;nbsp;feature called&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.steviewondershow.com/"&gt;The Stevie Wondershow&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;The event was a ton of fun, the footage was as exciting as it could be, and we had a great time. &amp;nbsp;The video was finished and it was put online and maybe the total number of people who watched it were about around 50. You can see that video here:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;object height="385" width="640"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/wwGSmI8K8EA&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/wwGSmI8K8EA&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Thanks for watching if you did, I spent many hours using this video as a learning experience in editing and this video taught me a ton of "what not to do". So it's served it's purpose, I'm quite proud of it considering the&amp;nbsp;restraints of completing this entire with only Kevin's help. &amp;nbsp;I also learned&amp;nbsp;how to better edit footage, as well as pacing, once it was&amp;nbsp;finished&amp;nbsp;a good friend complained that "it's alot of talking heads" this was disappointing, but stuff I need to hear. &amp;nbsp;As I strive to get better and better at what I do I have to learn to adapt and take people's feedback and comments into consideration. &amp;nbsp; I'll make my own&amp;nbsp;decisions and stick with them, but I enjoy seeing other's points of view. &amp;nbsp;Hearing this type of&amp;nbsp;criticism&amp;nbsp;will help&amp;nbsp;make the next video that much better.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;After I finished the video above and sent it to Dave from Film Courage, he sent me a link to a video that Director/ Editor Jon Berrien shot at the same event. It had a much different approach to the same event with this quick, tightly edited piece that's only 2mins long. &amp;nbsp;It's short enough you could watch it right now.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1c2a47; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;object height="385" width="480"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/_mmv-cKiXNo&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/_mmv-cKiXNo&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1c2a47; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1c2a47; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1c2a47; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;Theres a great quote.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"&gt;"Experience is what you get when you don't get&amp;nbsp;what&amp;nbsp;you want."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;I got a ton of experience. &amp;nbsp;Something else I learned will call it an&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;internet truth :no one is going to watch an 8min video on an event they have never heard and no one who went to this event wants to watch an 8min recap. " The next Film Courage Interactive video is going to be much more streamlined, and quicker pace, and you'll be able to see it right here in about a month! (give or take a week or two).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1c2a47; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"&gt;The Next Film Courage Interactive will be April 26th, 2010 at the Downtown Independent Theater, Downtown Los Angeles. &amp;nbsp;I'll be there, will you?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1c2a47; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1c2a47; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1c2a47; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"&gt;Please comment on the video, all I ask is your feedback is honest.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2540447517852346723-8183610575784417421?l=erzendesign.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://erzendesign.blogspot.com/feeds/8183610575784417421/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://erzendesign.blogspot.com/2010/04/film-courage-interactive-stevie.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2540447517852346723/posts/default/8183610575784417421'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2540447517852346723/posts/default/8183610575784417421'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://erzendesign.blogspot.com/2010/04/film-courage-interactive-stevie.html' title='A damn good event taking place at the Downtown Independent Theater in Los Angeles.'/><author><name>Brian Erzen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00867662452102231659</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_HX1-_6V0r54/R_bDICuT8EI/AAAAAAAAAEc/X2UbgSVI7Sc/S220/_MG_5721.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2540447517852346723.post-4252352329754158019</id><published>2010-04-17T13:11:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-04-17T13:11:20.756-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Kickstarting with www.kickstarter.com.</title><content type='html'>Most people who read this are&amp;nbsp;probably not&amp;nbsp;familiar&amp;nbsp;with&amp;nbsp;Kickstarter. &amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/"&gt;Kickstarter&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;as well as&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.indiegogo.com/"&gt;Indieagogo&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;uses&amp;nbsp;crowdsourcing&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;as a way of funding, it's an all or nothing&amp;nbsp;approach. So if you need a certain amount of money, and then figure out a certain amount of time that you think you'll need to reach that goal. &amp;nbsp;I.E. $3000 in 30days, so you now have 30days to get the $3,000, if you can't come up with the totally sum, you get NOTHING, zero zip... and no one's donations go through. If you can reach or surpass your goal all the money is yours to use however you like on your project, it's really that simple. &amp;nbsp;Have a good idea or project and this is a great way to test the waters to see what the interest is, as well as allows people to become&amp;nbsp;involved&amp;nbsp;in your project at an early level, and be a supporter. &amp;nbsp;You might even make a friend in the process. as well as gain incentive items at different price points. &amp;nbsp;It's a pretty neat idea, and with "Social Networking" being the offical buzz word of 2010, much the same way that "Information Superhighway" was the buzz word in 1995. &amp;nbsp;That's where I've seen these campaigns blow up.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In beginning of Augest 2009 I saw a post by filmmaker &lt;a href="http://arincrumley.com/"&gt;Arin Crumley&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;he was looking to raise &lt;a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/arincrumley/filming-at-burning-man-2009"&gt;$3,000 for an independent film project&lt;/a&gt;, this was the first time I heard of crowdsourcing and of Kickstarter. &amp;nbsp;The Arin isn't a friend, but is an&amp;nbsp;acquaintance I've met years ago at Slamdance, and I've seen some of his other talented work. &amp;nbsp;I liked the project idea, and made an account to donated to his campaign. He&amp;nbsp;campaign&amp;nbsp;was successful.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Want to learn more about Kickstarter?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/help/faq"&gt;You can see the detailed Kickstarter FAQ by clicking here.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This information was taken directly from the Kickstarter FAQ. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;The Basics&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;What is Kickstarter?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Kickstarter is a new way to fund creative ideas and ambitious endeavors.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We believe that...&lt;br /&gt;• A good idea, communicated well, can spread fast and wide. &lt;br /&gt;• A large group of people can be a tremendous source of money and encouragement.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Kickstarter is powered by a unique all-or-nothing funding method where projects must be fully-funded or no money changes hands.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;All-or-nothing funding?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Every Kickstarter project must be fully funded before its time expires or no money changes hands. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's less risk for everyone. If you need $5,000, it's tough having $2,000 and a bunch of people expecting you to complete a $5,000 project.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It allows people to test concepts (or conditionally sell stuff) without risk. If you don't receive the support you want, you're not compelled to follow through. This is huge!&lt;br /&gt;It motivates. If people want to see a project come to life, they're going to spread the word.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Recently two filmmaker friends of mine are currently towards the end of their kickstarter campaigns and they seem to be close to the finish line.  Director Gary King has the feature film&amp;nbsp;musical&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/grking/how-do-you-write-a-joe-schermann-song-a-feature"&gt;How do you write a Joe Schermann Song&lt;/a&gt; , and David Branin's &lt;a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1231856438/goodbye-promise-an-exploratory-feature-film"&gt;Goodbye Promise&lt;/a&gt; an experimental drama.  Both projects are unique, not your typical idea for an independent and &amp;nbsp;both films look like they are going to be fantastic.  I've personally donated to both films, and wish them nothing, but the best. &amp;nbsp;You can click on the links for more information.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HX1-_6V0r54/S8oNnqm7umI/AAAAAAAAApg/NvtdROTS82I/s1600/Kstrt.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="356" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HX1-_6V0r54/S8oNnqm7umI/AAAAAAAAApg/NvtdROTS82I/s640/Kstrt.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm currently working on the promotions and marketing for an upcoming&amp;nbsp;independent&amp;nbsp;Horror film, and we are going to start our own Kickstarter campaign soon. This is a great way to gage project interest, find some passionate supporters and allow us to have that extra bit of money needed so instead of making a good film we can make a great film.   &lt;a href="http://www.sotmmovie.com/"&gt;Straight On Till Morning&lt;/a&gt; is going to be directed this Summer by Craig Ouellette, and I've been able to join along in this adventure,and see first hand how difficult it is to make your own kickstarter&amp;nbsp;campaign&amp;nbsp;as well as produce a feature film. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So far it's been one hell of a learning&amp;nbsp;experience, and hopefully in a couple months we'll have our own kickstarter success story to tell.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2540447517852346723-4252352329754158019?l=erzendesign.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://erzendesign.blogspot.com/feeds/4252352329754158019/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://erzendesign.blogspot.com/2010/04/kickstarting-with-wwwkickstartercom.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2540447517852346723/posts/default/4252352329754158019'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2540447517852346723/posts/default/4252352329754158019'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://erzendesign.blogspot.com/2010/04/kickstarting-with-wwwkickstartercom.html' title='Kickstarting with www.kickstarter.com.'/><author><name>Brian Erzen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00867662452102231659</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_HX1-_6V0r54/R_bDICuT8EI/AAAAAAAAAEc/X2UbgSVI7Sc/S220/_MG_5721.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HX1-_6V0r54/S8oNnqm7umI/AAAAAAAAApg/NvtdROTS82I/s72-c/Kstrt.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2540447517852346723.post-2424618395001095319</id><published>2010-04-13T11:08:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-04-13T11:08:01.639-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Want to know how to market yourself, your project or your brand on the internet?</title><content type='html'>This 45min video is a great place to start.  &lt;object width="400" height="300"&gt;&lt;param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=10519171&amp;amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;amp;show_title=1&amp;amp;show_byline=1&amp;amp;show_portrait=0&amp;amp;color=&amp;amp;fullscreen=1" /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=10519171&amp;amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;amp;show_title=1&amp;amp;show_byline=1&amp;amp;show_portrait=0&amp;amp;color=&amp;amp;fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="300"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://vimeo.com/10519171"&gt;Marketing Your Film Online (San Diego Indie Fest Film Panel)&lt;/a&gt; from &lt;a href="http://vimeo.com/user2290405"&gt;Luminave Films&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;a href="http://vimeo.com"&gt;Vimeo&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2540447517852346723-2424618395001095319?l=erzendesign.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://erzendesign.blogspot.com/feeds/2424618395001095319/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://erzendesign.blogspot.com/2010/04/want-to-know-how-to-market-yourself.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2540447517852346723/posts/default/2424618395001095319'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2540447517852346723/posts/default/2424618395001095319'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://erzendesign.blogspot.com/2010/04/want-to-know-how-to-market-yourself.html' title='Want to know how to market yourself, your project or your brand on the internet?'/><author><name>Brian Erzen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00867662452102231659</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_HX1-_6V0r54/R_bDICuT8EI/AAAAAAAAAEc/X2UbgSVI7Sc/S220/_MG_5721.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2540447517852346723.post-9155820817843170984</id><published>2010-04-01T14:47:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-04-01T15:00:43.657-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Building a community for the Independent Horror Film Straight On Till Morning.</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HX1-_6V0r54/S7UWRhYt2DI/AAAAAAAAApU/xLah2JdoxFE/s1600/SOTM_Final_webbright.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HX1-_6V0r54/S7UWRhYt2DI/AAAAAAAAApU/xLah2JdoxFE/s400/SOTM_Final_webbright.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5455291013904848946" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A couple of months ago long time friend and director &lt;a href="http://craigofilm.blogspot.com/"&gt;Craig Ouellette &lt;/a&gt; started preproduction on a independent horror film, titled &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Straight-On-Till-Morning-The-Independent-Horror-Film-Fan-Page/365506727647?ref=ts"&gt;Straight On Till Morning&lt;/a&gt;.  This full length feature and will be shot sometime this summer and currently we are planning on having our first “official” production meeting next week .&lt;br /&gt;An enjoyment of mine has always been helping support my friends projects, and I feel that by helping others is the right way to go.  I have a background promotional marketing, anything from a beer, to large sampling event. One season I was the spokes model for a major company on the Car Show circuit. Also hobby of mine is reading blogs, learning about cutting edge technology, multimedia art, and film production.  The first time I was online was way back at my cousins Jeff's house with a Commodore 64 and a 1200buad modem, so I've been online for awhile. It was never strange for me to become friends and engage with people I'd never meet in real life. While talking one afternoon, I shared a couple of ideas I had for the film with Craig, and he said go ahead and make that happen.&lt;br /&gt;Now it's the beginning of April, and we now have 260 fans on Facebook, as we have 108 Followers on &lt;a href="http://www.twitter.com/sotmmovie"&gt;Twittter&lt;/a&gt;, and it's just going to keep growing and expanding.  This helped us spread the word about our project, but here's the great part that I didn't quite expect.  It allowed us to find about other fun projects, and support them too.  With social networking the world has become that much smaller, and sometimes it's amazing how close a connection you can have with someone without directly knowing them.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We're not just building a fanbase for our film, we are all working together to build a larger fan community and following for independent film.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2540447517852346723-9155820817843170984?l=erzendesign.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://erzendesign.blogspot.com/feeds/9155820817843170984/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://erzendesign.blogspot.com/2010/04/building-community-for-independent.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2540447517852346723/posts/default/9155820817843170984'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2540447517852346723/posts/default/9155820817843170984'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://erzendesign.blogspot.com/2010/04/building-community-for-independent.html' title='Building a community for the Independent Horror Film Straight On Till Morning.'/><author><name>Brian Erzen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00867662452102231659</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_HX1-_6V0r54/R_bDICuT8EI/AAAAAAAAAEc/X2UbgSVI7Sc/S220/_MG_5721.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HX1-_6V0r54/S7UWRhYt2DI/AAAAAAAAApU/xLah2JdoxFE/s72-c/SOTM_Final_webbright.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2540447517852346723.post-7217203956009073289</id><published>2010-03-18T21:01:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-03-18T21:52:19.845-07:00</updated><title type='text'>There's treasure locked in that hard drive!  - Editing and Processing Video</title><content type='html'>Back in July of 09' I borrowed a good friends camera and shot a bunch of various footage all over the East Coast over a 2 week period.  Some with close friends, others with family. This included two interviews, A Journey to see the Stanley Cup, a set of Commercials and a few other things I'll talk about in the future.&lt;br /&gt;About 8 to 9 hours of footage in total shot on the Cannon HG10's internal 40gig HardDrive. A affordable small retail camera visually awesome, as long as the lighting doesn't change the picture looks great and can record 1080i.  One major flaw is the sound quality is poor. So make sure you have a reliable External Microphone attached, because your going to need it. The camera records in  &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVCHD"&gt;ADVHD&lt;/a&gt; fomat a new proprietary format. This format wasn't well supported a year ago.  I'd call it the retail format from hell to tell you the truth.&lt;br /&gt;Now 9 months have passed and now ADVHD is much better supported and used more today.  Also I'm sure it helped to upgrade to 64x. After many long months I dusted off my old hard drive, through trail and error, and lots of internet research I was able to figure out how to convert this footage.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now the fun happens.....&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2540447517852346723-7217203956009073289?l=erzendesign.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://erzendesign.blogspot.com/feeds/7217203956009073289/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://erzendesign.blogspot.com/2010/03/theres-treasure-locked-in-that-hard.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2540447517852346723/posts/default/7217203956009073289'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2540447517852346723/posts/default/7217203956009073289'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://erzendesign.blogspot.com/2010/03/theres-treasure-locked-in-that-hard.html' title='There&apos;s treasure locked in that hard drive!  - Editing and Processing Video'/><author><name>Brian Erzen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00867662452102231659</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_HX1-_6V0r54/R_bDICuT8EI/AAAAAAAAAEc/X2UbgSVI7Sc/S220/_MG_5721.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2540447517852346723.post-7030901573199268139</id><published>2010-03-18T20:58:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-03-18T21:01:14.779-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Parallel Lines: 5 Shorts, awesome concept.  Simple, but looks effective.</title><content type='html'>Same dialog 5 totally different short films.  Looks visual cool, and could be epic.  This is such a great idea, and would be a fun experiment to do.   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="640" height="385"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/EoAqWD9Qh2M&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/EoAqWD9Qh2M&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2540447517852346723-7030901573199268139?l=erzendesign.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://erzendesign.blogspot.com/feeds/7030901573199268139/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://erzendesign.blogspot.com/2010/03/parallel-lines-5-shorts-awesome-concept.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2540447517852346723/posts/default/7030901573199268139'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2540447517852346723/posts/default/7030901573199268139'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://erzendesign.blogspot.com/2010/03/parallel-lines-5-shorts-awesome-concept.html' title='Parallel Lines: 5 Shorts, awesome concept.  Simple, but looks effective.'/><author><name>Brian Erzen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00867662452102231659</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_HX1-_6V0r54/R_bDICuT8EI/AAAAAAAAAEc/X2UbgSVI7Sc/S220/_MG_5721.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2540447517852346723.post-4334714757481088382</id><published>2010-03-06T13:47:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2010-04-18T00:46:25.222-07:00</updated><title type='text'>A Night Out With Kevin Deen : Film Courage Interactive / The Stevie Wondershow DVD Release Party</title><content type='html'>Film Courage Interactive / The Stevie Wondershow DVD Release Party: With Your Host Kevin Deen&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="385" width="640"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/wwGSmI8K8EA&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/wwGSmI8K8EA&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Actor Kevin Deen is a good friend of mine and a talented actor, I borrowed a friends camera and we went out to shoot the event for fun and the experience of seeing what it's like to work together. The event was a huge success, the video ended up become bigger and more robust then I would I ever thought. After many, many, long hours, and some strong positive feedback. I present to you this short look, into a fun event taking place in Downtown Los Angeles on a month call Film Courage Interactive, at the amazingly cool and practically unknown place called the Downtown Independent Theater, in Downtown Los Angeles.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Contains Interview segments with the Filmmakers, Actors of The Stevie Wondershow , as well as the Hosts of the Film Courage Radio Show Dave Branin and Karen Worden.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Update 4.18.2010:&lt;br /&gt;In total less then 50 people have watched this video. &amp;nbsp;I spent many hours using this video as a learning experience in editing and this video taught me a ton of "what not to do".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"&gt;"Experience is what you get when you don't get&amp;nbsp;what&amp;nbsp;you want."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&amp;nbsp;A&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;nother internet truth is no one is going to watch an 8min video on an event they have never heard and no one who went to the event wants to watch an 8min recap. &amp;nbsp;Then next Film Courage Interactive video is going to be much more streamlined, and quicker pace.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Director/ Editor Jon Berrien had a much different approach to the same event with this quick, tightly edited piece that's only 2mins long. &amp;nbsp;It's short enough you could watch it right now.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1c2a47; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="385" width="480"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/_mmv-cKiXNo&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/_mmv-cKiXNo&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1c2a47; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1c2a47; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"&gt;Next Film Courage Interactive will be April 26th, 2010 at the Downtown Independent Theater, Downtown Los Angeles. &amp;nbsp;I'll be there, will you?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2540447517852346723-4334714757481088382?l=erzendesign.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://erzendesign.blogspot.com/feeds/4334714757481088382/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://erzendesign.blogspot.com/2010/03/ive-got-story-but-for-now-heres-video.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2540447517852346723/posts/default/4334714757481088382'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2540447517852346723/posts/default/4334714757481088382'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://erzendesign.blogspot.com/2010/03/ive-got-story-but-for-now-heres-video.html' title='A Night Out With Kevin Deen : Film Courage Interactive / The Stevie Wondershow DVD Release Party'/><author><name>Brian Erzen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00867662452102231659</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_HX1-_6V0r54/R_bDICuT8EI/AAAAAAAAAEc/X2UbgSVI7Sc/S220/_MG_5721.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2540447517852346723.post-8678936622446914400</id><published>2010-03-05T10:11:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2010-03-05T10:16:05.043-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Disney's Mean Girls : An exercise in editing awesomeness.</title><content type='html'>When someone takes two pieces of media and mashes them together through creativity and editing I wanna see it and watch it over and over again. Study it, and learn from it.  There's a ton of this type of stuff on the net, but sometime it's done at a higher professional level, and this is one of those piece.&lt;br /&gt;This video uses the audio from the movie trailer of Mean Guys and adds juxtaposed images from various Disney animation clips, the astounding part is how well it works to the point that the lip-syncing is well done. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/KQeTlxhhmEo&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/KQeTlxhhmEo&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2540447517852346723-8678936622446914400?l=erzendesign.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://erzendesign.blogspot.com/feeds/8678936622446914400/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://erzendesign.blogspot.com/2010/03/disneys-mean-girls-exercise-in-editing.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2540447517852346723/posts/default/8678936622446914400'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2540447517852346723/posts/default/8678936622446914400'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://erzendesign.blogspot.com/2010/03/disneys-mean-girls-exercise-in-editing.html' title='Disney&apos;s Mean Girls : An exercise in editing awesomeness.'/><author><name>Brian Erzen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00867662452102231659</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_HX1-_6V0r54/R_bDICuT8EI/AAAAAAAAAEc/X2UbgSVI7Sc/S220/_MG_5721.JPG'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2540447517852346723.post-5943809078450827374</id><published>2010-03-01T22:39:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-03-05T10:20:16.910-08:00</updated><title type='text'>___________                                                      WELCOME_____________</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HX1-_6V0r54/S4yz2UkQO1I/AAAAAAAAApM/RhjvwzAlMwQ/s1600-h/ED_LOGOtemp.bmp"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HX1-_6V0r54/S4yz2UkQO1I/AAAAAAAAApM/RhjvwzAlMwQ/s400/ED_LOGOtemp.bmp" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5443923795399162706" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is the professional page for all the works of Erzen Design, and Brian Erzen.  This space with be used to write about my current and previous battles working in production, as well as projects I'm supporting, inspiring ideas and cool media related stuff found on the internet.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2540447517852346723-5943809078450827374?l=erzendesign.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://erzendesign.blogspot.com/feeds/5943809078450827374/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://erzendesign.blogspot.com/2010/03/welcome.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2540447517852346723/posts/default/5943809078450827374'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2540447517852346723/posts/default/5943809078450827374'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://erzendesign.blogspot.com/2010/03/welcome.html' title='___________                                                      WELCOME_____________'/><author><name>Brian Erzen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00867662452102231659</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_HX1-_6V0r54/R_bDICuT8EI/AAAAAAAAAEc/X2UbgSVI7Sc/S220/_MG_5721.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HX1-_6V0r54/S4yz2UkQO1I/AAAAAAAAApM/RhjvwzAlMwQ/s72-c/ED_LOGOtemp.bmp' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
