One Thousand Dreams

Not gone... just lost

noreply@blogger.com (Luis Escorial) — Wed, 8 Feb 2006 13:41:00 -0800

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It has been a hard time with respect to my vlogging. I could not find what to say or how to say it and since I've been quite bussy with my daily work and enjoyed that, it hasn't been to difficult to let it slide, day after day... week after week... month after month.

Give me a bit of time.

I am not gone, I just got lost

Quotes

noreply@blogger.com (Luis Escorial) — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 21:21:00 -0800

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I don't need the money, dear. I work for art.
--Maria Callas

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
--Dale Carnegie

Every artist writes his own autobiography.
--Henry Ellis

Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.
--Andy Warhol

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.
--George Santayana

Faces

noreply@blogger.com (Luis Escorial) — Sun, 18 Dec 2005 00:40:00 -0800

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I've changed my face so many times, that some times I forget who I am.
Thanks H.

Surf and Alex

noreply@blogger.com (Luis Escorial) — Thu, 15 Dec 2005 23:16:00 -0800

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Went to the beach last afternoon. While Alex had a blast in the surf, the seagles were trying to eat my lunch.

They didn't get the food but eventually they got the papers from my bag. How am I going to tell my teacher now that a seagle ate my homework?

Thanks to Vloggers Yahoo Group

noreply@blogger.com (Luis Escorial) — Fri, 9 Dec 2005 16:47:00 -0800

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It was a week of research in which I have learned a lot and discover how little I know. Thanks for the help to:
Creative Commons
ScreenCast Online
Audioblog
vSocial and special mention to the guys at Vloggers Yahoo Groups, and the vloggers community.

You all are awesome!!!!

Flea market

noreply@blogger.com (Luis Escorial) — Mon, 5 Dec 2005 21:25:00 -0800

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I went to the "antique flea market" at the Irvine Valley College. I have this attraction for old, weird, rusty stuff. They had some really cool things but the prices were just too OC for me.

It was nice anyway. The music is a fast first try to Garage Band.

"loneliness,... my lover"

noreply@blogger.com (Luis Escorial) — Mon, 5 Dec 2005 13:15:00 -0800

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I met her more than 12 years ago, at the end of a cold winter, shortly after I met my wife....

Vlogger's block

noreply@blogger.com (Luis Escorial) — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 19:25:00 -0800

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Sometimes I need to go out to find inspiration. Sometimes I don't find it.
But just driving is a help.

Wrong Perceptions; part 2

noreply@blogger.com (Luis Escorial) — Sat, 26 Nov 2005 16:40:00 -0800

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Now let's watch the movie with a different visual perspective.

If you haven't watch the previous movie, do it now.

Wrong Perceptions

noreply@blogger.com (Luis Escorial) — Sat, 26 Nov 2005 16:35:00 -0800

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I found really interesting how we associate certain sounds with specific situations, even if we don't have a clear visual of the action. Our imagination tends to fill up the hoies our perception tends to produce.

This is a fun example. First you have to watch this movie then the next one.

The sound is the same, the images tell a different story.

noreply@blogger.com (Luis Escorial) — Fri, 25 Nov 2005 11:25:00 -0800

Morning Coffee

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This is one of our favourite spots. Nice sunny day, nice environment, nice service, great music and... fresh coffee.

For my kids of course is nice hot chocolate and coloring books.

noreply@blogger.com (Luis Escorial) — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 11:30:00 -0800

We got a Cat; we call her "blue"

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So, a couple of weeks ago we went to the shelter and got a cat. Ok, I've always been a "dog" kind of guy. And since the time we had to leave our dog "Arnold" in Spain, I was still hurting about having another animal to replace him... But Fabia was insisting so much.

Anyway, we got this 2 years old female called Sheba, from whom we didn't know much. She just looked shy.

The first week she become the "cat from hell". She run and hide in our closet and would hisssssss at us when approached. Pretty much we thought we had an antisocial beast in our household. We were advised to be patient and so we did (it was hard since I love having animals around so I can pet them and touch them and didn't make much of a sense to get one that disappears and just come back to eat and poo.

But for the last week, "blue" (her new name) has turned around. First coming out of the closet, not hissing at us and now she loves jumping on our bed and having a "petting" session from any of us.

We hope with time she will come out of our room and join the rest of the family. I love this cat!.

Got iPod?

noreply@blogger.com (Luis Escorial) — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 09:36:00 -0800

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Xmas is coming. My wife went shopping and got me a present. Just a bit of a problem... She has a hard time keeping a secret. So, lucky for me I got my present a month in advance.

A sweeeeeet black, 60 Gb, iPod. Videoooooooooooooo.

Now I will be seeing my favorite Podcasts and Vlogs from my brand new baby.

Thanks love!!!!

Being the Underdog

noreply@blogger.com (Luis Escorial) — Mon, 21 Nov 2005 13:54:00 -0800

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Yet another of my monologs. This time I dissert about being the underdog in this culture.

"I am number ONE", our kids are taught in school, TV and sport events. "Number TWO is the first looser", they repeat to us....

I want to be the underdog.

Just a conversation

noreply@blogger.com (Luis Escorial) — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 17:32:00 -0800

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I was surfing the web today and found some really interesting articles and information. These made me reflect about issues that have been on my mind lately.

New technology; where is it taking us? Grassroots media; will it keep grass root? Is it all about "the money"?

So I decided to have a conversation with you or at least share my thoughts... to loosen up the feeling of isolation.

Night lights

noreply@blogger.com (Luis Escorial) — Fri, 11 Nov 2005 22:16:00 -0800

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Sometimes I like to take a place, or an event to which we associate an specific feeling or mood and try to change it, giving it a totally different approach.
I went to Disneyland this afternoon (since we have a yearly pass) and got some footage of the lights using manualy the focus of my videocamera. Then I added some music of Peter Gabriel from the movie “The Last Temptation of Christ” and made a fast remix.
This is the result… a night in Disneyland.

Hard Day

noreply@blogger.com (Luis Escorial) — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 16:26:00 -0800

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I was having a really hard time today. Little sleep, lots of work, too many question, not enough answers. I thought about not posting anything for a while, just let it settle down, see how it feels... My fear is that I will never get back to do it, so I forced myself to record my internal talk and post it here.

Where am I going with this? How can I find inspiration? What are my rights as a videobloger? Technology is so overwhelming.
These are the questions I have today.

Days like this suck!!!.

My design process: working with typography

noreply@blogger.com (Luis Escorial) — Wed, 9 Nov 2005 19:40:00 -0800

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This is my second video on the series about my design process.
Finally I found some time to sit and work on the website for my freelance studio. Today I talk about choosing the typography as an esential part of the design.

Fonts have their own personality and you have to choose carefully so they are in accordance with the message you want to send with the design.

You can see the first video of this serie here.

Enjoy.

Touchme

noreply@blogger.com (Luis Escorial) — Sun, 6 Nov 2005 18:17:00 -0800

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I miss the warmth of a life rubbing on me.
I was thinking how scared we are in this culture to touch other people.

Technology has evolved, allowing people to get in contact at any moment, from any part of the world, but the irony is, we have grown more distant, we have lost the importance of physical touch, the warm feel of a life that could break the spell under which we live, the spell that says we are the only real characters on this Broadway play we call life.

I got a virus

noreply@blogger.com (Luis Escorial) — Thu, 3 Nov 2005 18:19:00 -0800

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Since yesterday I've been receiving hundred of bounced emails as "delivery failure" from all over the world as if I was the one who sent them.

Seems I got a virus on my email server that is using my account to send "spam" around the web. At my hosting company they told me there is nothing they can do... Neither can I.

Call the doctor? Get a shot? Change my mail?
I hate spam. Do they think anybody is going to click on those mails?

Attention, this video may produce seizures, headaches, double vision, incontinence and heart burn, consult your doctor before watching it, or under your own risk.

My archive of Vids

noreply@blogger.com (Luis Escorial) — Wed, 2 Nov 2005 06:52:00 -0800

Video archive by Mefeedia

I just added a link to all my Video Archive. You can check them out clicking the link on the right sidebar. Thanks to Mefeedia and Ryanne.

A short Conversation with Enrique

noreply@blogger.com (Luis Escorial) — Tue, 1 Nov 2005 07:08:00 -0800

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Yesterday I had lunch with my frind Enrique Grullon at a wonderful Asian place. He just came back to the USA after living for three years in Treviso, Italy, wher he worked as a consultant for the interactive department at FABRICA; the communication research center of Benetton Group.

Enrique is an awesome interactive designer and had some ideas to share with us about living over seas and future plans.

Are Videobloggers taking a stand?

noreply@blogger.com (Luis Escorial) — Sun, 30 Oct 2005 14:51:00 -0800

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I was having a conversation with Fabia; my wife, about how in the 60's there was in America an awakening on the social consciousness of the new generations. How they took stand for what they thought was right and how at that moment they had options and ways to move people and to push the government to listen and change things.
Through rallies, public performances, poets, singers, writers, they counted with so many mediums to reach people, to share and learn from each other.

Now we have the Internet, just a click away we are in contact with the all world. But are we really listening to everybody, or just hearing what we want to hear.

Are we vloggers taking responsibility for the "power" we have in our hands? . Do we want to?

This is just a small part of the conversation we had, I was thinking on maybe posting the all conversation as a pod cast, we'll see.

Featured vlogs

noreply@blogger.com (Luis Escorial) — Sat, 29 Oct 2005 00:17:00 -0700

Ey, some of my vlogs were featured in Steve Garfield's Video Blog "Vlog Soup". It was kind of funny to see some of my postings there. And I got a laugh out of my accent at the closing scene.

Thanks Steve.

Squared Media

noreply@blogger.com (Luis Escorial) — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 17:04:00 -0700

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"I am always trying to do what I can not do yet, in order to learn how to do it"...
Ok, I didn't say this. It is a quote from Vincent Van Gogh, but in any case I totally feel identified.

We "vloggers" are not media professionals (at least I am not), we are just learning the tools, the language, the do's and dont's, the rules... So I am continuously looking for new ways to brake them, to play with them.

This movie is meant to be seen on a page with grey background (the one that usually pops up when you click on the link for a movie... (the standard, if you know what I mean). Soooo it should work if you just click the link on top.

I have a second part that I will be posting soon... I have other things to do besides posting "friggin" videos. One has to eat you know....

Enjoy