Is Stang swamped by email?

From: Greg Kucharo <redbeard@piratehaven.org>
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Reply-To: redbeard@piratehaven.org
Date: Sat, Jan 12, 2002 8:47 PM

Does Stang ever respond to mail! The real question is, did he ever
get the hard drive I sent him?

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redbeard@piratehaven.org
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Subject: Re: Is Stang swamped by email?
From: joecosby@mindspring.com (Joe Cosby)

You should email him and ask.

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Subject: Re: Is Stang swamped by email?
From: HellPope Huey <hellpopehuey@subspamgeenyus.com>
Newsgroups: alt.slack

Oh, sure he does, but it takes up so much of his time, he gets impacted sitting
there for so long. I sent him an "emergency fecal containment unit" for Xistmas
(read: shitbag) and he e-mailed me back, saying "THIS CAME JUST IN TIME! I'M
USING IT RIGHT NOW!!!!" So the answer is YES, but at the expense of his bowels.
So be sparing with yer e-mail; we need him to live as long as possible and that
will be curtailed if he's FILLED with shit as opposed to merely being sacredly
FULLA shit. OK OK SLACK SLACK

HellPope Huey, hellpopehuey@subgenius.com
Larry, Moe & Curly's School of
Grace, Wit & Charm

"How fast is the speed of thought
for a race that isn't thinking at all?"
- "Heralds"
"Very deep.
You should send that in to Reader's Digest;
they've got a page for people like you."
- Douglas Adams

"Now we're being attacked by giant weinees!"
- "Invader
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Subject: Re: Is Stang swamped by email?
From: Greg Kucharo <redbeard@piratehaven.org>

Ooo I don't wanna clog him any further. I just want to make sure he
got what's coming to him. A VERY large hard drive.

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Subject: Explanation: Was Re: Is Stang swamped by email?
From: disciple@templeoferis.org (St. Marc The Perpetually Amused)
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Date: Sat, Jan 12, 2002 10:05 PM
Message-ID: <c59aeedc.0201121905.1b558991@posting.google.com>

Just between you and me and the fence post, it takes him a while to
remember which buttons to push. I've sent him shitloads of stuff, and
even when I insult him it takes a long time for him to acknowledge it.
I wouldn't sweat it.

He'd better keep them titty pictures comin' though, or there'll be
Hell to pay.

St. Marc
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Subject: Re: Is Stang swamped by email?
From: "Rev. Ivan Stang" <stang@subgenius.com>

I think I just emailed you about that this morning...

answer, YES, I got the hard drive, but only yesterday did I actually
get to the P.O. and KNOW that it WAS the hard drive you sent that the
yellow slip was for... I have been there earlier in the week and
SUSPECTED that the yellow slip might mean the box you sent, but at this
particular post office there's a really nasty long line unless you come
early in the morning. Which is what I did yesterday.

And sure enough, inside is a sealed up bag of HARD DRIVE!! BIG HARD
DRIVE just like you said!

DOBBS SHALL REWARD YOU WITH BLOW JOBS ETERNAL, COME X-DAY! Maybe he'll
even move over occasionally and let somebody else blow you.

But seriously, and stentoriously, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU for
this GREAT DAMN CHUNK OF TOOL!

I spent this whole week, as it happens, engaged in learning what to DO
with an 80 gig hard drive, namely, I finally learned high end
professional style computer video editting. I have hardly slept at all
for a week, as I knew would happen, and as I guessed would happen, I
already invented 2 weird animation techniques, have cranked out several
quasi-animations, and am in the processing of totally revising a lot of
our old rinky-looking stuff... and that's just since THURSDAY! You
should see the list of fun little things to do LATER.

FINAL CUT PRO is the name of the program. Until a year ago, any new
fangled video editing I learned was kind of a moot point since a) I was
no longer doing that for a living and b) my equipment couldn't do full
res video anyway. But a year ago I got this Mac G4 and, thanks to
DONATIONS largely, and a bunch of outlay on my own, I now have the gear
to work in REAL video again.

AND I AM SHITTING!!

As I knew would happen.

I used to cut Con film on Moviolas and stuff. Then I learned the old
VHS offline to Quad online sort of way it was done in the 80s. Then in
the 90s I JUST did DOBBS WORK. All SubG videos I put together in the
90s were done with two Handycams and a pause button. That's IT.

Ah, but now... NOW I can begin life ANEW!!!

It's like being BORN AGAIN!

This Final Cut Pro program is somewhat like Photoshop combined with a
music mixing program combined with Director combined with, well, a
Moviola. If I hadn't already become a well versed Photoshop amateur I
would never have been able to get through the Final Cut Pro tutorial.
Now I'm a timeline-marking fool. I'm a spline-tweaking razzmatazz. Well
at least I have cleared up a lot of my own ignorance about video
formats. And I can make a spinning shiny logo from scratch and
superimpose it on trippy background footage and output it at broadcast
quality.

The 60 gig drive that I use for multimedia -- mostly HOUR OF SLACK and
old-SubG-tape remixes -- was hovering around 20 gigs used for months --
until this week. Now I've added another 20 gb of original animations,
title sequences, alt.binaries.slack-art "slide show" movies, and
transfers of my old 16mm underground movies, which I intend to spruce
up.

Space was already getting tight when this drive arrived.

I don't actually have a digital video CAMERA or other interface device
of my own yet. My High 8 video cam is analog only. I have been using
the new digital cam owned by A.C.E. to do these transfers from tape to
computer and back.

At Thanksgiving, I learned the kids' video editing program, iMovie, and
cut my Burning Man home movies for practice. What I'm shooting for
immediately with Final Cut Pro is to drastically repair the videos we
sell now. PREDOBBS STANGFILM, SUBGENIUS INTERVIEWS, and the X-days
primarily. The submasters are all falling apart anyway.

But what i'm REALLY shooting for is a documentary about WEIRD SUBGENIUS
EVENTS, where I'd pore through all our raw videos going back to the 80s
and find the very weirdest, most unusual moment at each devival or
campout or whatever. There is always SOMETHING at each show that really
should be... remembered... and now I don't have to borrow equipment to
do it, I can sit here and trim and clip and narrate and subtitle at my
leisure, such as it is.

Frank Zappa did that with spare footage and backstage video for THE
MAKING OF 200 MOTELS, which in some ways is better than the
over-ambitious 200 MOTELS itself (one of my all time favorite movies).

The Merry Pranksters just managed to finish doing a similar thing with
their old "bus movie" just before Rev. Kesey died. I understand that
this was done by Ken Kesey and Ken Babbs, working with their SONS.

Likewise, all the advise that I've needed outside the free online
tutorials has come from my son. I spent half my retirement $ putting
him through fancy film school and at least it has paid off that way. I
am now about one third of the way caught up to where my LITTLE BOY is
at, technically, modern video-wise.

So that's what I've been doing -- living out my fucking DREAM COME
TRUE. I have JUST enough money to SCRAPE BY, if people buy new
SubGenius CDs (I HIGHLY recommend ALL of them), which buys the TIME to
apply these FRANKLY UNBELIEVABLY GREAT NEW TOOLS to my lifelong trade
of making monster movies.

I did get off the track there, but now I can slowly yank reality back
into conformity with my desires. I can make movies again. ANIMATION!!
Fake documentaries! Bug Porn! I have a Bug Porn 1-minute commercial
made of stolen footage about 1/3rd done.

However, I have ignored my wife, starved myself, gone without sleep,
drank too much coffee, abandoned all hope of answering email, and
otherwise acted like a male dog when there's a bitch in heat nearby.
The bitch is AFFORDABLE VIDEO AND COMPUTER GRAPHICS production and just
enough new knowledge to try to make myself dangerous.

I knew this would happen. AHAHAHAHA!!! FINALLY!!! ULTIMATE
TECHNO-SLACK!!! And Princess Wei is TOTALLY UNDERSTANDING!! She knew
I'd finally, eventually feel I had used the gear enough that I
wouldn't be afraid of FORGETTING what I'd just learned, and that has
happened.

This morning I kind of resurfaced... checked last night's Dobbshead
morph rendering, nothing that can't be fixed in "post," and realized I
was AGAIN several days late on THE HOUR OF SLACK, I hadn't even THOUGHT
about what bills I needed to pay, the house was cluttered with the
PREVIOUS project I'd been in when the Video Editing Bug bit -- getting
our huge stash of poster sized artwork framed and hung -- and so, now
that I think about it, I should quit this spew and go spew into the
Hour of Slack bucket... gotta get that produced and 17 copies made and
mailed! CAN DO thanks to the NEW CD BURNER -- ALSO DONATED, by the
Church Architect, REV. ED STRANGE.

So back to Sound Land. If I wanted to REALLY drive myself around the
bend I'd choose this Sunday to switch from cutting HOUR OF SLACK on
PEAK (basically all 2-track) to Pro-Tools (a huge, complex multitrack
sound mixing prog which I half-know.)

As far as the email goes, I'm probably no more swamped with email than
most people. What I'm "swamped" with is more often stuff like grocery
shopping, clothes washing, book keeping, gear repair, phoning my
family.

We do what MUST be done around here, and no more, so that I can spend
all the rest of my spare time chasing my new wife around the desk while
she giggles and pretends to flee, and stuff like that. This Space
Princess Consort/Sacred Scribe gig is PERFECT. It is like HEAVEN. There
IS Slack, Dobbs was NOT lying!

I will post some mini-renditions of these animations and so forth on
a.b.s. as soon as I tweak 'em better.

Wait'll you see the video of 4 months of LeMur art compressed into 2
minutes. (ALL the art that I've done in eight YEARS only runs ONE
minute)

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Resurrected
P.O. Box 181417, Cleveland, OH 44118 (fax 216-320-9528)
A subsidiary of:
The SubGenius Foundation, Inc. / P.O. Box 140306, Dallas, TX 75214
SubSITE: http://www.subgenius.com PRABOB
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Subject: Re: Is Stang swamped by email?
From: Geoff Bronner <geoff.bronner@dartmouth.edu>

I've seen Firewire bridges for analog audio/video that let you use an
older camera with Final Cut Pro

(anyone got anything good to say about any of them?)

-Geoff

--
<http://www.dartmouth.edu/~geoffb/>
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Subject: Re: Is Stang swamped by email?
From: Dr. Codini <Codini@subgeniusdot.whatever>

>
>(anyone got anything good to say about any of them?)
>
>-Geoff
nope. I tried the Formac studio and had problems with it and the tech
support sucked. I Sent it back. I haven't tried the others-Sony and
Dazzel both make versions, the formac "looked good" in the reviews I
could find. Get a Matrox RTMac, gives you analog in and out and
s-video to a NTSC monitor, plus real time effects.
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Subject: Re: Is Stang swamped by email?
From: faultline1989@yahoo.com (Gary)
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Date: Mon, Jan 14, 2002 2:07 PM
Message-ID: <87dac912.0201141107.56b7cda8@posting.google.com>

"Rev. Ivan Stang" <stang@subgenius.com> wrote in message
> Frank Zappa did that with spare footage and backstage video for THE
> MAKING OF 200 MOTELS, which in some ways is better than the
> over-ambitious 200 MOTELS itself (one of my all time favorite movies).

It is? What in the world for? I love most Zappa but this one
completely baffles me (other than some choice humorous nuggets).

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