So I’ve spent the bulk of today on about 4 hours of sleep and well.. redoing my network and office. So far the bulk of the network changes are now done. Here’s an idea of the setup before changes:

And now here is the setup after the changes:

This has now really changed the way the network works and my new server is a lot faster than the previous. However I will say moving from the apple router to a new hardware firewall system is a lot better and my internet is more stable and reliable now, not to mention my connection seams faster.

I’ll post some new pics of the new office soon, Have a good one! Cheers

So, last time I was away for a few weeks everyone freaked out and though the worst and thought I was dead, etc.

Well I’m not and this may happen a bit for the next few weeks. I will be working on a big film project and will be at the new studios in tampa shooting and working with my new crew on this project. So if I’m not around, well you now know why, I’m not dead just busy. At nights when I am back at home or when I’m not editing then I’ll of course try my best to post updates and be on IRC, etc.

So thats what will be going on! Check back for updates, Cheers

I’ve posted up some new photos on my Flickr of my office now that its all changed and such. Hope you enjoy!

Soon I hope to also add some more things and a new section to blog!

Cheers

Well I’ve noticed a few CSS issues here, I’ll take care of them tomorrow. Anyhow I know I’ve been kinda sparse again on the posts, however this past weekend was hectic getting the new TS site done and online at http://thinstack.net. However its done! Finally! So with that said I need to goto bed, even know I got up at 5PM and its now almost 3AM, I’m quite tired and not feeling well. So more updates later today I hope! Take care everyone, Cheers!

So, to go with the last update: I fixed the CSS issue with posts and such.

I’ve just been so busy I haven’t had time to post anything new. Between doing a few meetings for this project I’ve been on for months, to a new possibility hoping to arise, to new things being done with my business.

So with that said, not much I can tell about that is going on. Most of the stuff is.. well just I don’t feel comfortable releasing on the blog. Plus after what recently happened last weekend I’ve started to take a closer look at who I associate with and who I help, so issues like that don’t happen again.

Anyhow, I’ll try to post more updates when and where I can on the status of current projects.

Have a great Friday!

So, today I got a email from a family member, you know one of those emails that gets passed to tons of people. It was titled “A True Floridian”, so I read it, like it do every email of its type. Sad thing is its true, I can relate or agree 100% to almost every single thing listed in it, so I guess I am a true floridian! Anyhow here is the email, note its kinda long.

YOU KNOW YOU ARE A FLORIDIAN IF.....

Socks are only for bowling.

You never use an umbrella because you know the rain will be over in minute

A good parking place has nothing to do with distance from the store, but everything to do with shade.

Your winter coat is made of denim.

You can tell the difference between fire ant bites and mosquito bites.

You’re younger than thirty but some of your friends are over 65.

Anything under 70 degrees is chilly.

You pass on the right and honk at the elderly, but pull over for a funeral.

You’ve driven through Yeehaw Junction.

You could swim before you could read.

You have to drive north to get to The South.

You know that no other grocery store can compare to Publix.

Every other house in your neighborhood had blue slate roofs in 2004-2005.

You’ve gotten out of school early on Halloween to trick or treat before it got dark

You know that anything under a Category 3 just isn’t worth waking up for.

You dread love bug season.

You are on a first name basis with the Hurricane list. They aren’t Hurricane Charley, Hurricane Frances...but Charley , Frances , Ivan and Jeanne.

You know what a snowbird is and when they’ll leave.

You think a six-foot alligator is actually pretty average.

You were twelve before you ever saw snow, or you still haven’t.

’Down South’ means Key West

You think New York drivers licenses should only be valid in New York

Flip-flops are everyday wear.

Shoes are for business meetings and church

Sweet tea can be served at any meal.

An alligator once walked through your neighborhood.

You smirk when a game show’s ‘Grand Prize’ is a trip or cruise to Florida

You measure distance in minutes.

You have a drawer full of bathing suits, and one sweatshirt.

You get annoyed at the tourists who feed seagulls.

A mountain is any hill 100 feet above sea level.

You think everyone from a bigger city has a northern accent.

You know the four seasons really are: hurricane season, love bug season, snowbird season and summer

It’s not soda, cola, or pop. It’s coke, regardless of brand or flavor, ‘What kinda coke you want?’

Anything under 95 is just warm.

You’ve hosted a hurricane party.

You go to a theme park for an afternoon, and know when to get on the best rides. (Space Mountain during the Electric Light Parade!)

You understand the futility of exterminating cockroaches.

You can pronounce Okeechobee, Kissimmee , Ichnatucknee and Withlacoochee

You understand why it’s better to have a friend with a boat, than have a boat yourself.

Bumper stickers on the pickup in front of you include: various fish, NRA, NASCAR , Go Gators, Go Seminoles and a confederate flag.

Your 3 meals a day are: breakfast, dinner and supper.

When meeting someone for the first time you ask the question:

Who do you go for, Gators or Seminoles?

You were 5 before you realized they made houses without pools.

You were 25 when you first met someone who couldn’t swim.

You’ve worn shorts and used the A/C on Christmas.

You recognize Miami-Dade as ‘ Northern Cuba ‘.

You not only forward this but you understand it!!

Funny aye? Anyhow, I’m out, take care people!

Most of you know by now that I’m working on a special media project. This project is a DVD Series based on a how to series that a friend of mine is writing. However we are also doing a thirty second commercial for it that will air nationally. I’ve been working close with my friend to make this project happen and I’ve met some good connections through it as well. I shall speak of that later *grins*. But none the less it has been another great project so far and I can’t wait to see it completed!

Cheers

Check it out, feel free to comment ;)

Busy Busy Busy....

Man have I been really busy these past few days! It being the weekend I thought to have it off, of course not ;)

Anyhow to recap over the past few days, I did get another server and got most of it setup and ready to go. I got a little more work done on cBlogger. I got more client work done, still have 4 more to do, as of this second.

That’s all I can think of for now… will update if anything changes, of course check my twitter for more up-to-date news.

Cheers People!

Why is it every time I’m super busy and I’m not online a ton people think I’m dead? Seriously?

Anyhow I’ve been super busy, new clients each week, I tell you running a full-time business is no where close to easy. Not to mention my other side projects I have as well.

Social services such as IRC, MySpace, Facebook, etc are time consuming and a distraction thus I don’t try to bother with them while I’m busy, its just another distraction. So if I’m not around just check my Twitter or check here, I’m bound to update either, I try to update blog every 2 weeks and twitter every day to every few days if I’m really busy.

So yeah.. now you know :), with this said off to finish dinner and get back to work.

Cheers people

So.. thanks to some great friends, good thinking, some planing, and having some great faith, I’m finally going to do what I’ve been thinking.

So your wondering… “What is he talking about..”

Well here is the story:
There is this girl.. yeah a girl… so now you may be thinking well so what it’s a girl or your thinking Cody + girl = never… Well yeah but its bound to happen one of these days right? So I’ve been in a local furniture store a lot lately. This little store is owned by a family who has had the business for many many years. My family has all bought many things from this store over the years and well I needed a new bed so I went in the store and this young girl around 19/20ish age helped me, she was very very nice, very kind, very pretty and such, we did the paperwork, talked and she was impressed with my age and what I do and such and then I was on my way, not thinking twice about going out with her or anything right. So a few days past and then mother wanted to go back in the local store to look around and such and well this girl saw me walk in and she helped us right away and answered questions my mother had, etc and we were off, over the past week or two I’ve been back in there a few times and finally my mother made up her mind and got the stuff she wanted and just like last time this girl helped us and was just as nice as before and was always right there to help us instead of the other employees who are also family. So that went good and that stuff will be here this next Monday. So all this is leading somewhere I promise ;). I got to thinking more and more after all of this, been talking to close friends about it and such and well I’ve came to a grand idea. I’m going to ask her out! Keep in mind this is all new to me, yeah I’m 18, half-way to 19 and I’ve never dated a girl, most I asked out during school times always turned me down and such, for one reason or another. So now I’ve made up my mind I’m going to go back in there and tell her this: “You know I’ve been coming in here these past few weeks and you’ve been so great to me and I would feel really bad if I didn’t take you to dinner”. So.. think it will work? I dunno my friends think it will and I really hope it will if not there are more “fish in the sea” as one friend put it. So no loss if it doesn’t go as planned but I’m all giddy about it and well it’s all new you know. So some of you out there are probably laughing at me but hey you know it’s new to me, I’m not some crazy gotta-have-a-girl type of person you know. So we shall see how it goes and well I hope well. Thanks for the support from the friends that helped and I will listen to all comments you guys post! Wish me luck!

P.S. Her name is Stephanie

- Cody

So I got to thinking and I’m not going to follow out what I said in the last posting, as really.. I took a step back and thought about this there are too many reasons to not do it right now.

1. I don’t have the time to go out with someone or think of dating.
2. She isn’t the right girl for me after all, looking at her profile and other things I’ve picked up.
3. There are more girls out there and dating isn’t what it’s cracked up to be.
4. I really don’t have to have a girl friend noir do I really need one right now.

and that is just a few… really overall it was kinda pointless to even think or post about this stuff, but oh well it was fun but not important right now.

Not to mention everyone I know who does have a girl friend, they never have time to do anything else.

So yeah thats my take on it, enjoy!

- Cody

So many of you have asked lately what’s been going on with me, well here we go into the craziness.

I’ve been working on several clients and projects. Most of the clients are my general weekly ones, same stuff each week, but fun and glad to be doing it. So here is a list of some of my current projects and recent clients.

Recent Clients:
1. Eight 20 Photography
2. Amanda Kraft Photography
3. Stacey Wight Photography
4. Garrett Elliott Photography
5. Scott Anderson Photography

Recent WIP Projects: (not finished)
1. Stranger Things (Major system updates and public enhancements)
2. Children Of The Gods (Wiki, Audio Podcast Manager, Forums)
3. CPC Designs (Site Redesign and New Content)

Of course this is just a current list that changes weekly and I’ve now gotten to the point of I’m booking clients weeks in advance, which is fantastic!

Hope you enjoy my little update here and thanks for reading! Hope all of my readers are doing well and feel free to leave some comments if you like.

Cheers, Cody

To clear up some confusion about some recent activity around Thinstack and the common people I know from the network. I did in fact leave my position at Thinstack due to a few reasons but mainly that of time, being a IRCOP/Oper is just another thing to take constant time and time for me is very strict these days.

For those who don’t know I was a oper and co-founder of Thinstack, which is a semi-popular IRC network, while we’ve been through a lot at the network since we started it over a year ago, it was still a fun place to be let alone I had a few channels there as well. But with my lack of time lately I just didn’t have the time to keep up with my channels let alone the whole network, so I decided to leave Thinstack, I do pop in every now and then but not much and I do still keep contact with the other opers and such. I also for the time being still help out on the website since I did do the coding for it.

Overall it was fun but time to move on. Here you can find a post on Thinstack about me leaving as well.

Well I played around with Parallels yesterday, seams to work quite well and it will work for a temp solution till my new system is done. For you hardware people out there here is a brief on what the new system spec is:

Intel Core 2 Quad 2.88Ghz
4GB Ram (was going 8gb but decided to not go 64bit OS)
Nvidia 9800 1GB PCIe
Over 1TB of storage

and much more, I’ll post more specs as I get more exact in what they are.

The primary point of this machine is Visual Efx (3d, etc) only. Mainly building it for a film I’m working on with over 1000 VFX shots in it.

So I’ll post more as I go along with the build.

Cheers people!

Hey Readers! I’ve changed the feed, so hopefully you are still getting the posts, if not please re-subscribe. Before I just had the straight feed, I decided to route it through FeedBurner like I normally do with feed’s just never did here. So now it is! Enjoy!

So many things to update you guys on!

So first:
DVD Project & People
The project is still going very well, landed some major hookups with some very big people, will post in more detail when I get the okay to do so.

New Gear
I’ve been working on a new Rig lately, no not a computer rig as I choose to not do that (read more down). So my new Rig is a special 35mm/DOF setup for the HV20. Here are a few shots of some other HV20 rigs, I will post pictures on my Flickr (to the right) as my parts come in.

Computer Rig
So yeah as I said above decided to not build a new one right now, I instead fixed the old AMD system I had and bought new RAM for my iMac from 1Gb to now 4GB’s! Woot!

This pretty much wraps up the bulk of my updates, work wise everything is going really good and always busy, now pretty much working 7 days a week. Gym is also going well and is still quite fun, seeing results pretty quick as well.

More updates to follow on the Rig and DVD project. Cheers!

So my first order came in today! I finally got my RAM for my iMac! Awesome!

Man what a difference! This was long overdue I tell you, anyhow back to work :)

So my Canon Ee-A Focusing Screen came in a few days before I expected, the company I got it from via ebay was by far one of the easiest to work with. Great business and fast times.

So with this in now just awaiting the rest of my stuff. This will be a long few weeks.

If your doing this project as well and your finding stores like B&H to be out of the screens then look up OhioOptics.

Cheers!

Friday night started out like any other night, we left to goto our normal friday night hangout at X-Tech. Everything went just like it always does and was there for several hours. After that we headed home and started what we always do once again, listening to music and hanging with the neighbors, typical weekend. We as of that time my father was appearing normal, didn’t look like he was in any pain and he hasn’t been, he’s been pretty normal lately. Closer to 10 something he said I’m tired and I’m going to bed, he was quite intoxicated at this point as well (nothing new), so he went to bed, several minutes later mother told me he had told her he wasn’t feeling well and that he hadn’t been for sometime. So she had me go and check on him, keep in mind only a few minutes has past since he went inside. So I preceded to go check on him to find him collapsed in the floor, now this could mean two things, A. passed out from being drunk. B. Heart Attack or something similar. Well I of course ran to him to check him and he was barely breathing and it was very irregular, so I yelled for mother who ran in there, her knowing what he said before made her instantly get upset and told me to call. As I was calling she was getting even more upset as apparently he was telling her to just let him go and that he loved her, but don’t leave him alone like his fathers wife did to his father. As this was going on I was still on the phone, I tell you 911 takes too freaking long to get there, I bet it was a good 15-20 minutes before they got there and I could drive two either local hospital’s twice in that time. So I was getting pist as well, mean while him barely hanging on, to note this isn’t the first time this has happened, last time was ‘92 and before that was ‘87 or so. So they finally got there, did their thing, got him loaded and off to the hospital (not going to explain every detail there). We arrived at the hospital, we through the typical stuff you gotta do, etc, then about 30 minutes later after quite a few calls and family showing up; they called us to go back there (mom and I), at this point he was awake at least conscious now and talking, but still weak and not happy we took him there, as keep in mind he hates hospitals, doctors, etc. So not long after we seen him, we had to bring in his Boss & Best friend to calm him back down to keep him in there as he of course wanted to leave, not to mention they wouldn’t let us pick a hospital and the one he’s in is the same one that killed his mother (yes true story, long one too). But anyhow we got him calmed down to stay finally, this being around 11-12 something and he had a nurse that was pretty decent and was joking with him and keeping him happy so he was willing to stay, so by 3:30am he was stable, on straight nitroglycerin and wanted us to go home and get rest, as he would still be in the ER room for a few more hours. So we went home, cleaned up the mess, etc, then went to bed, got up the next morning and headed up there after calling to find out which floor. We got there, found out the room and by the time we got to the room he was coming out of it pist at the nurse he had that morning, apparently she tried to give him a new IV full of air bubbles and then preceded to beat the IV to get rid of them, he caught her and had enough, as you know air in your blood will kill you if it hits a organ. So he left the hospital and came home, ‘course minus the nurse ordeal we and everyone else wanted him to stay to find out the issue, not keeping leaving like he did in ‘92. So at this time he is home, stable, and seams to be feeling okay after a ton of sleep, he says he’s not in any pain but who knows he’s very secretive. I hope for the best and hope he gets better, we shall see, he says he will stop the drinking so lets see if that helps or if he even does.

So lets hope for the best and see what comes of it, hopefully good but I’ll just have to face that he could leave us at anytime, not something I want to carry around but nothing I can do about it.

Hopefully I got everything in there.. I’m sure I did, hope it makes sense! Cheers people…

Hey readers! I hope all is going well with everyone, everything over here is going great and I'm finally getting caught up and work is going good. Finally getting to some much needed updates on my software and other things, so thats good as well. I'll try to post some new shots here as the time goes on :)

note you may notice a few feed changes as I cleaned up the blog a bit, needed to purge some posts and such.

Hey Guys! Been busy this past week, got a few clients done and a few new ones :) so thats great!

I got the new Camera in today so thats great and just in time for a business shoot next week, so it won't take long for it to pay for itself and pay for more Camera Rig Upgrades so thats even better!

Everything is going great and as soon as I have some free time for myself then you will see some major changes around this site :)

Well I'm off to bed, gotta be up early to drive to Tampa and pick up my friend who is flying in for the weekend and he's going to the Projeket Rev concert with me on Sat, much to do tomorrow though pick him up, fight heavy traffic back here then a pool/birthday party for a close friend, then a cookout at another place.. then the concert saturday which is from 12PM to 1AM, then movies sunday before his flight leaves sunday night back to the west coast. So much! hehe....

So everyone take care! Speak to you next week or so! Cheers people!!!!

This past weekend was one of the best! My buddy from the west coast a few weeks ago told me about the Projekt Rev concert that Linking Park has each year, he then told me it was coming to Tampa and he wanted to go, so I looked over it and such, then decided I should go too! Well fast forward till this past weekend and he's sitting in my living room 3000 miles from home pumped about the concert! So I picked him up friday morning from TPA/TIA and man did we have a blast this past weekend out side of the concert, but man did we love the concert and would do it again right now if we could! Sadly he had to leave yesterday night (sunday) which sucks because I haven't had that much fun in a long time, regardless it was a blast and we will do it again.

So now its just back to the norm for awhile, catching up on clients and such. I did get my camera last week and had a blast with it this weekend as well, got the bulk of my Rig done and have done a tiny bit of shooting with the rig.

That's really about it for now, check my Flickr for new photos, other than that and the blast I had this past weekend, everything else is normal and going great! :)

Cheers people!

Well how is everyone doing? So far I'm doing quite well, business is outstanding, personal life going really good, my father recovered well and is doing great, so yeah everything is pretty good.

New camera finally came in after back order, so new HV30 rig will be done here soon I hope, depends how things go. However more shooting in a few weeks on a new project.

Web stuff is going well, however staying offline as much as possible to focus on other things and enjoy life a bit more than I used to, needless to say I'm either at home working or sleeping, or I'm not home.

Gym's been going pretty good as well, I am seeing results so thats great, however not going as much as I'd like to, due to working all the time. However trying to keep the weekends free of business so I can enjoy other things you know. ;)

Enjoy, and speak later! Cheers!!!

Is there really a way to become a better writer or blogger? Especially someone who has a hard time with reading comprehension and staying focused on a book. I don't know about you but this is a sore subject for me and frankly one I’ve never been that great at. As you’ve noticed before in my posts, they are always short, simple, with no real structure to them. So what is your thoughts? Can you ever become a better blogger or writer, and learn to love to read books? Please leave your comments!

Thank you!

- Cody

I've been working like crazy lately so not a lot of updates. Here's a overview ;)

Work:

So works been insane, lots of clients via Flosites and been really busy. I've had quite a few local clients as well, so going good on both ends.

Next few days...

I'll possibly be offline in the next few days or so, we have a hurricane headed this way and there is already watches out for the whole west coast of Florida. A few years back the entire city list power due to fallen trees at the local power plant and fallen tress throughout our areas, so its almost a given bad storm = no power. I have backup generators to power the house but most of the time when I loose power I loose internet and phone as well. So yeah thats what is going on if I'm not around.

Camera Rig:

So most of you know.. I think, that I did get my new camera in and my rig is slowly coming together when I have the extra funds that is. So overall update on it is its going pretty good, did some test shots however adaptor is taken apart right now to clean the GG of which got dust on it *sigh* so yeah outside of that its going pretty good.

So yeah nothing to new outside of all of this but thats really about it. Keep in mind when I have the time there will be some major changes around here, I'll leave you with that ;)

Last Wednesday while I was at a friends birthday I was showing some other friends the progress on my rig. While I was there I shot some test video. Below I've given a screenshot of that test video with the original raw colors and then 2 modified presets applied.

Over I think these turned out really well and look good.

Footage Details:

(raw/post) Res: 1440x1080

(raw) Codec: HDV

(raw/post) Frame Rate: 24p

(post) Codec: Apple ProRes 422

(raw) Aspect Ratio: 1.33

(post) Aspect Ratio: 2:1

Sample:

Feel free to leave your comments :)

UPDATES

So I managed to finally get some footage together and here it is :)

HV30 35mm Adaptor & Rig Tests from Cody P. Christian on Vimeo.

Rig photos added to Flickr on right.