film transferrr

One of my favorite things and least favorite things to do is transfer film. Watching the film is great. Nothing beats the projected image, look, and colors associated with shooting on film. However, it is a huge process for me to actually get it transferred and digitized (but it definitely beats paying for it). So i guess this is a bit of an insight on the dreaded film transfer day..


Since i actually started getting super-dirty on the editing, my place has become an absolute mess of cords, film reels, cameras, etc..



But at least the weather was nice that day..



Get a new job dickweed



The drive to burbank usually kind of sucks because the drive though hollywood makes the highways a mess.. but thankfully we lucked out on some 10 a.m. nobody-is-driving-right-now



Fortunately for me, one of the last super8 developers/makers/suppliers is in driving distance from where i live. Pro8mm.com is their site and they have pretty much anything you'd need to shoot super 8.



Saw this on the way home.. You're welcome France.



This is actually the 16mm projector/film. But i transfer it the same way as the super8.



aaaaaand recording..



home sweet home



lunch for the pigeons



The Karate Guerrero



and the sweetest part of all is that when i captured everything, it was all cropped wrong.. so i get to do it all over again today! YES! (NOOOOOOO!)

wish me luck.

-LG

Il Pleut (a short film)

I recently starred in a short surrealist film made by my friend Sinziana. It is titled Il Pleut (Its raining) and is based on a poem.. So peep game on my acting skills.. i could be the next Steve Buscemi..



word..

-LG

weekend wrap-up

Soooo there was much business to be tended to over the weekend. First and foremost I had to get Rob G. back to the SF area on saturday.


A few minutes online and a virgin america ticket later and rob was home for less than the gas to drive would've cost.. plus saves us all 6 hours or so of car-time.. SCORE!



Rob managed to give himself a haircut sometime in between friday night and saturday morning and when i woke up i saw a freshly hairstyled Rob G. packing up his things.



then off to the port..


Krasnogorsk-3 16mm


HDV, 16mm, Super8mm.. step your multi-format game up


After that it was time to handle all the capturing, properly renaming clips and gathering all the film that needs to be transferred ready. Doesn't sound too bad, but organization is a dreadful process for myself to confront. Anyhow, saturday down, moving on to sunday.

Sunday was to be the last day i spent filming. Victor and I met up with Jeremy Soderburg, Anthony Williams, Anthony Gallegos and Greg aka Stepdad.

Half the sunday crew..


Not knowing what to expect we rolled out to a rail at a bank, and found a sweet fence that a car had knocked over and created a cool blade obstacle, then off to another rail before Anthony (Williams) had to leave for work..


Anthony Williams


Victor makes the special cigarettes


beat provider


The knocked over fence deal i was talking about


Anthony Williams Torqueee


Anthony Gallegos (no relation that we know of) negative fishy


Anthonelli Torquee


Anthony Williams at the last spot


obedoza also stopped by for a few days during the week..


no sleep till....



and thats about it for the weekend. Big thanks to Soderburg, Victor, and Rob G for the pictures. Also to the 2 Anthony's for blading.. Time to watch dexter while clips are converting.. Then dropping off more super8, all whilst editing in between. Hooray for a busy day..

-LG

SF & filming continues...

Over thanksgiving weekend Victor and myself decided to head up to San Francisco to chill, eat with my family, and kidnap Rob G. so we could bring him back to LA and finish filming his part. We literally planned nothing except for where to eat thanksgiving. So once we got the the city Victor Galicia and myself started our plan of attack. This started with a little hash, a sketchy cop scare, and nowhere to sleep. A few phone calls and a few hours later and we were headed to redwood city for the night. David and his gf misty hooked it up with some floor space and saved the night. In the morning we hit the skatepark before heading to the city where we were to meet with rob g at some point (but we did not plan when/where/how to meet). So after roaming the city for a few hours victor and myself ended up at the Free Gold Watch store right behind amoeba. After a small geek-out sesh with Matt the owner of free gold watch, we headed over to amoeba to look for some tunes. After roaming amoeba for a few we bumped into Ben Schwab and his friend Zara. They were going to some bar/concert thing which was a better plan then we had so we rolled with them. A few hours later Rob called us, we arranged a meeting place, and a few beers later enters Rob G. We crashed at Veronicas house that night with Ben and Zara with plans of morning blade. In the a.m. we got our stretch on and set out for what would be one of the best days ever. The kind of day where everything works out and everyone is happy. We found some sweet blade spots, no injuries, no kick-outs, perfect weather, perfect vibes. After that it was homeward bound with Rob G in shotgun and 7 hours later (even the holiday traffic couldnt ruin the perfect day) we were back in LA.. and now picture time!

No road trip is complete without car troubles


The randomest dude with a whole truck full of "fix your car" tools saved the day and pumped up our fully flat spare


dirtbag hands


almost done


done!


thanksgiving day sunset


en route to SF


for real


Rooftop chillin


Ben y Zara


Veronica y Victor


heels for reals


homerless dinner


Pobrecito Schwab


Rob G. y Victor


Victor


City decor


Chinatownnnn


China banks


statues somewhere


Victor on some weird instrument


Veronica on some weird pose


LA bound


John Starr helpin a brother on some motion graphics


laptop geekin


Mike McMullen & friend at the blockhead show


Blockhead & DJ Signify


Blockhead

and thats about it. going filming some more with victor, rob, and obi. time to hit the road this post has been holding back the sesh.. until next time..

-LG

Lee Martin's secret section from "Too Faded"

If you own the "Too Faded" dvd then this section is hidden in the extras menu. If you push right on the controller at the falls section the highlight will disappear and the click enter.. but if you've yet to buy the dvd you can see it below.




-Lonnie Gallegos

p.s. GREEN updates soon..

Supergirl Blade Jam Competition

Over the weekend was an all girls event in Venice Beach. Shannon Rodgers was in town to compete, so i went to hang and film. Enjoy.

from Shannon Joy Rodgers

word.
-LG

Language 2001

So a long time ago i made this video called "Language." My good friend Jayson Reduta put it online the other day. So yea, here she be. I could type out all the info, or you could just watch it.. which would help me since im in mid-capture sesh right now, but Jay just IM'ed me and reminded me of this.. word.


PART 1







PART 2






PART 3




just so you know, im working on Fade 3 "GREEN" as i type this. So dont think im bein lazy or slippin..

-LG

up to speed

so the extreme lack of blog doesnt mean we havent been doing anything.. actually its quite the opposite. Negretes workin on his thing and im workin on mine... Fade Nation 3: Green. Been filming with Kruise Sapstein, Rob G, Anthony Williams, Fritz Peitzner was out for awhile, and a few others. So yea, sorry for being MIA for a few months..










Deans ao fishy



Jeremy Soderburg Royale



Front torque



Front torque 2



Kruises ass



Kruise tts



Kruise TTP



Obidobe



Obidobe and LA



Obi 3 (edit: this is kenny owens, not obedoza.. fixed)



mother earth



AZ homies



Ben Schwab y Victor



Victor again



Fritz Royale up



Fritz & Andy



Fritz



Negrete



Lee (where you at dude?)



Anthony Williams switch tts



Rob G 360 with sleeping dude



JC's legs work again, but this is an old picture. He texted me this morning though and said "Watching brain fear gone.. You're awesome"



Valdez and the riot police



Lakers riots



Lakers riots 2



LL of LAZERSWORD



Ron Jeremy of PORN


and yea thats about all i have for photos..

thanks for the patience.

-LG

My brothers MJ tribute

I wasnt going to say anything about the death of my favorite pop star of all time, but i guess it was fate. Im sure you all know by now that Michael Jackson died. Which totally sucks. A lot of people talked bad about MJ during the whole kid-touching trials or whatever, but i had his back the whole time. Everyone would look at me crazy and talk sh*t, but cmon.. HE MADE THRILLER!

anyhow back to the reason for this post, my brother Johnny... and his MJ tribute video..


M.J.R.I.P.

-Lonnie

MIA

Sorry for the substance-free blog lately. There's a lot of life transitioning going on.

Kevin Gillan has moved to Long Beach with roommate JC Rowe.. and across the street from them is Chris Haffey. Then, Lee moved to Seattle for a week, and i think will be heading back for the fall. I moved deeper into downtown. Negrete and myself have acquired canon hv30's. But both of our cars are still troublesome which isnt that cool, but at least its consistent.

Anyhow, back to work, just wanted to let everyone know were still breathing.. and enjoying the weather.

and watching crap like this at work..


sorry about that.

More "on topic" videos to come soon i promise.

-Lonnie