Frakkin' Hugs

Frakkin' Tip

10k tip on $82 order. What a frakkin' tip! Never happened on me in 2 years in Warner Village Cinema.

Frakkin' Tablet

Frak! Let's leave it like that.

My Frak-ups Pt. 2

• Shaky footage. There was this party guy named Gary. He said he'd treated me well and I truly believed it for most of the time. The story began on indie music season in Kenting this spring. There were four videographers, including Gary. We had a exhausting and wonderful trip. He even offered a partnership from which I could have more cut. After I got back, I found the payment didn't add-up and wrote him to argue. That response was unforgettable. "You should be happy I'm paying you." He said my footage were too shaky and not usable. I buy that, truly. But in the end, I had never claimed my money. I guess I'll call that even.

My Frak-ups Pt. 1

I had a chat with some long lost friends on MSN last night, and since I haven't logged on for over half a year, these lovely people asked my whereabouts. Responding one of them, there was some truth. I told her I vanished because I don't know how to face up my frak-ups. Major ones. Not big ones, but ones could make people hate me for the rest of their lives.

Truth is, I don't even know where that came from. That was actually the very first time I truly admitted to anyone, myself included, that I frakked up several things in my career which technically hasn't even taken place. I wasn't even aware of it until I felt the relief. "Mistakes, mistakes, mistakes that are huge," says Sam Dowson. So, I would save myself the trouble and money of seeing a shrink, and write down my frak-ups so that I could start facing them.

• No-show on a friend's production. This was the greatest frak-up and I hope not for another surpass. The reason was I was too involved in a social movement and overslept. That poor guy was a really nice man. Totally. I haven't answered any of his call since I found out what I just did. Poor guy Adam.I gave him an equipment list the day before production and he did exactly as requested. Since I didn't show up, he had to deal with all the lights, filters, dolly, etc. He must have hated me. It's bad enough to make an MV without a DP. What's even worse was he had zero technical background. I could imagine his face that morning, looking at carts of stuff he knew nothing about. The thing that made me a total frakked up coward on this was that a junior once told me he saw that MV and the white balance was a total screw up. That makes the film a screwed up. Adam, if you're reading this, I'm sorry. This is unforgivable.
  

Let's stop here for a break. There will be more. So say we all.

Frakkin' Video Hosting

All of them. YouTube, Jumpcut, Yahoo Video, and 20 other top-reviewed video hosts. All together, they gave me my most-frustrated-day on Internet, by frakking up my upload. Some of those frak-ups were really annoying that actually worth some blogging. So, here's our nominees, ladies and gentlemen:

• Jumpcut.com: A successfully (so claimed the site, same goes for the following) uploaded short film turns out "Invalid Movie" right after clicking "Publish" button. For TWICE in a row, for frak's sake!
  
• YouTube.com: One successfully uploaded attempt is never successfully played. It stays in blinking dots in circle (loading status) for 4.5 hours. The other two attempts were never out of "processing" status.
• Yahoo Video: Same charge as the later two attempts on YouTube.com. They can't finish processing one 25MB h.264 QuickTime movie within 3 hours.
  
• Vimeo.com: Gods know how many attempts were made. All successfully uploaded. All returned with "FLV file was not found. The Vimeo staff has been notified."
• Google Video: Fraks up video aspect ratio. It turns everything into a 4:3 ratio. You can't even mask it by tweaking HTML code for embedding. It's completely 20th century. Maybe they should make their name reflex that more and share the fanfare with 20th Century Fox.

These are our Top-5 on the board. Vote in the comment if you like.