A Bitter Taste Of Hollywood
I’ll tell ye, it’s no wonder so many movie stars are on drugs and drink. It’s not because they have no privacy anymore, it’s not because of the pressure of fame, no - it’s because what they do, standing in front of a camera is the most TEDIOUS, DEPRESSING, and FRUSTRATING thing anybody can ever do. And now I know this first hand!
All I wanted to do was get a few photo’s for my blog to show my progress using a video camera, but what a load of mucking about that was… re-filming the same thing dozens of times until it’s right… camera angles messed up, making mistakes and having to film again, my God - even I felt like scoring a line of coke after that, and it’d of been well deserved!
I lost count of the amount of times I’d filmed something, plugged the camera back into the PC only to realise I hadn’t hit record; Damn it. And there was me, in my naivety, thinking when I first made this blog I’d maybe like to do not only MONTHLY photo updates, but photos of myself taking every body part measurement, and, using both black and white backgrounds so I could use whichever gave the best results. Well, fugheddaboudit!
No way is that happening. If I were to do that, I’d never have any time to do anything else. Do you know how long it took me just to do the few shots I finally got? Nearly 4 hours - that’s right. Unbelievable!
I wouldn’t call it perfect, but, perfect simply isn’t achievable when you don’t have the space, equipment, expertise and time. But, I’m reasonably happy with what I got, and it’ll do for the purposes of documenting my progress, although I doubt my filming and photography work will ever be winning awards.
And… it’s still not over. I’m yet to use the film I got, and take screenshots for the photos I wish to put online, plus maybe a little editing and contrast/brightness editing if I can. Which I estimate will take a further hour or two. Ugh…
On the bright side, I’m not working out today. I know I’m only 1 week back into it from my week off… but… I’m burning like crazy with lactic acid still, so, I think it’d be counter-productive to work out again before I’ve even healed properly. (And after today’s exhausting fiasco, I’m glad, because all I want to do is go to sleep.)
Anyway, the photo/progress updates will be on later today, I hope.
