Guzfershirts

May 29, 2013



Les presento el primer T-shirt oficial de Guzferable and a friend rocking it out . Fue pintado a mano con pintura de tela (fabric paint) ¿Qué les parece?

 Quizás empieze a venderlos, luego de publicar la foto en la página de Facebook (www.facebook.com/Guzferable hint hint), hay personas que quieren uno.
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Matt & Kim saben de eso

May 20, 2013


Me encanta cuando veo un video musical and it blows my mind, pero al mismo tiempo se puede notar que no se llevó mucho dinero realizarlo. Por lo general cuando uno dice "se ve que no gastaron nada haciéndolo"  automáticamente creemos que (sea lo que sea, un video, un vestido, whatever) la cosa no sirve, y es porque la relación de 'precio-calidad' casi siempre dicta que lo que se llevó muchos cuartos es bueno y viceversa. Pero no siempre es así. 

Matt & Kim saben de eso. (Ah, y Matt & Kim son un indie pop dúo de Nueva York que comenzó en 2004 y son conocidos por su actitud DIY [Do It Yourself] hacia la música). Aunque no soy fan de la música de Matt and Kim (no digo que sea mala, solo que creo que "its just ok", nada que me vuelva loca ni ninguna canción que tenga en mi computadora dándole replay a cada rato) pero sus videos son un caso diferente.

Un día mientras estaba en YouTube me pasó lo que siempre pasa, vi un video muy tranquila, y de repente los videos que aparecen a la... si a la derecha, me estaban haciendo ojitos. Así terminé viendo un maratón de videos de Matt & Kim porque los thumbnails me llamaban la atención y como ya había escuchado sobre ellos, bueno le di pa'lla, y así note que Matt & Kim siguen un patrón con sus videoclips. Sus videos son casi siempre simples, de bajo presupuesto, un solo concepto, pocas localizaciones y aunque no son nada del otro mundo, te entretienen y siempre te sorprenden y te dejan "like wtf?!"


 It's Alright
Dir.: Jacob Lincoln. 
Some very sexy sleeping

Bien sencillo, casi es un one shot, es funny y entretenido. Es el más reciente de ellos y cuando empezé a verlo pense que sería muy parecido al famoso stop motion: "Her morning elegance" pero que bueno que no fue así.  

  


 Yeah Yeah
Dir.: Nicholas Chatfield - Taylor and Matt.
Tanta comida que me pude haber comido yo :(

 Este es de los primeros que hicieron. Muy creativo, otra vez funny y simple, amé el detalle de presentar las cosas antes de que pasaran, fue lo más genial.

Cameras
Dir.: Jonathan Del Gatto
Le voy a Kim, o sea mírale esos brazos

 Me encanta como ellos tienen tantos videos simplemente performing con su teclado y batería pero cada uno lo convierten en algo inesperado o diferente. Me recuerda un poco al video de Last Day of Magic de The Kills (aunque ese es darker and awesomer) pero una vez más le ponen comicidad al asunto.
 
  

Daylight 
Dir.: Micah Perta. 
Qué bien, ahora yo también quiero ver si  me puedo meter en el freezer de mi nevera.

 Otro "low-budget looking video" de Matt and Kim que nos muestra que podemos hacer videos simples que al mismo tiempo sean divertidos de ver o tengan algo especial y whimsical. 
PD: Me gustó, pero hasta la parte donde metieron el stop motion porque está muy sobreusado, pero bueno, como este video es viejo vamos a dejársela pasar.

Bonus:

Lessons learned
Dir.: Taylor Cohen and Otto Arsenault
Ok? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJkymylTNU4
Este "didnt actually blow my mind", simplemente me freakeo un poco. How the hell did they do that?

Overexposed 
Dir.: ?
Esa tipa baila http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5wfL91W4FU
Este es lo más simple que hay, y aun así hace que dures un buen rato viendo el video, aunque no pase realmente mas nada.

 Es cierto que las grandes producciones, en las cuales se invierten mucho dinero son las que usualmente nos dejan con la boca abierta, pero es más sorprendente ver lo que se puede lograr con poco. Claro, no es que los videos de M&K, no requieran dinero y bueno, en realidad hay videos más asombrosos de ahí, pero me gusta como ellos se han mantenido fieles a su estilo de 'menos es más'.

¿Qué videos que se ven de "bajo presupuesto" te gustan? Comenta carajo!              Gracias :)
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Video nuevo

May 15, 2013





Queríamos hacer uno de esos famosos videos de YouTube en los que la gente canta (lip-synching claro) una serie de canciones y eso, pero lo hicimos con un pequeño giro. En vez de solo cantar canciones de bandas que ya todos conocemos y amamos, decidimos también meterle unas cuantas canciones enteramente dominicanas de bandas talentosas que están surgiendo últimamente. DR rocks!

 Intro songs:
Panic Station - Muse
Sun - Two Door Cinema Club
Where Will We Go - IAmDynamite 

 Straight from DR (check them out, en serio carajo!) :

El Afán - Alex Ferreira         
Me and my Dirty Conscience - TangoWhiskyMan 
Shut The Lights - River Tatem 
Submarine - Ocean Lips 
Remember (Being fake) - Franny & Zooey 
Caballo Homosexual de Las Montañas - Kaim 
Estamos negociando - POOLPO

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Guzferable en marcha

Apr 3, 2013



Tenía mucho sin escribir aquí, pero por una buena razón. Últimamente he estado trabajando junto a mi hermana (my partner in crime) en convertir nuestra idea que ha comenzado como un simple canal de YouTube en un posible negocio potencial. Claro falta un buen tiempo antes de poner ese negocio "en marcha" pero por algo se comienza (claro que sí carajo).

 Hemos empezado a trabajar en logos, plan de negocios, definiendo target market, competencia, servicios, y otras cosas que suenan aburridas y de gente grande, etcétera. Aquí está un poco de la experimentación con el logo:






El resultado final:





Business Plan: 


También, por fin hicimos una página de Facebook (*Discretamente aprovecha el momento para invitarte a darle like*)






Actualizamos nuestro canal de YouTube (Aunque YouTube que ahora tiene complejo de Facebook, volvió a cambiar el layout)

Estamos lejos todavía, pero me acuerdo cuando solo teníamos 11 subscribers y 2 videos (inserte música melancólica). Creo que hemos llegado lejos en solo un año. Bueeeno, ya que estás en eso, chequea nuestros videos, y si te gustan dale a Subscribe. We'll give you cookies. No we won't.


Hell yeah!
Ross 
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It took you this long? Seriously?

Mar 31, 2013


I know that at this point, I should not be even wondering anymore in what language should I blog. That's it, after some more thinking, I got to conclusions I didn't get to before, and from now on I will blog in my native language which is Spanish  So yeah, these are my last words in English, though expect a bit of Spanglish, I mean I can only do so much.

 Ross

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Two people chased me down a clothing store, and now I don't know what to do. Help me decide!

Jan 12, 2013


It was a beautiful afternoon, I went to the mall, to buy God knows what, oh wait, i remember, I went to fix my phone which i had fucked up the night before, (have you heard of ''error 1015") anyway, at one point while i was waiting for it to be fixed, i toured the entire mall with my little sister, trying to find decent high waisted jeans, which i didn't find, and at one point i was at this store, and 2 salesperson chased me down...to ask me about my t shirt, and where did i get.



I told them I  made it myself, they immediately asked if i sold this kinds of t-shirts, i told them no, and they called me an idiot for not doing so (well they didnt actually say idiot to my face, but you get it), they told me i had business in my hands without knowing it.

The truth is, I have been asked before if I sold this t-shirts, (2 people to be exact, wohoo), and everytime i wored it to college it would get kind of a lot of praise, but not until that moment i had really considered making a small bussiness out of this, God knows I need the money. I mean im still jobless, and there are tons of filmmaking equipment i want/need to buy to get this dream of mine going (in case you belong to the 99.9% of the human population who have not read this blog before i want to be a filmmaker but one especialized in music videos, kind of a Michel Gondry, my country really needs a Gondry).

So, I ask you, kind reader, WHAT SHOULD I DO? should i start making 'em and selling 'em? Before you say "Duh, obviously", yeah i would really love to, i have a lot of fun doing this, i love to create stuff regardless the medium, and i need the money, you know, to invest in other things that will get me money, the problem is that, i am THE  worst person when it come to selling, and business, and shit like that, and even if people praise the t-shirt i don't know how many people would actually buy it, so i don't want to jump all excited to make a Facebook page with some cheesy name selling my stuff just to see tons of tumbleweed going by.  Come on you are smart tell me what to do!!!

Here's a photograph of a lizard that comes into my bedroom window, around 1 pm every other day (I think he likes to watch reruns of Friends with us) If you still don't know what to write on the comments, look at Bob VI's eyes, they're full of wisdom!



Isn't he Discovery Channel cute?

Be good to your grandmas 
Ross
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Some serious reading to do

Dec 27, 2012


I got 4 new filmmaking pdfs books to read in addition to the one my sister gave me for my birthday:

-25 Scripts and How They Made It by David S. Cohen
-Rebel Without a Crew by Robert Rodriguez
-Digital Cinema: The Revolution in Cinematography, Postproduction and Distribution by Brian McKernan
-Filmmaking for Dummies by Bryan Michael Stoller
and the one my sister got me for my birthday:
-Grammar of The Film Language by Daniel Arijon, which is more of a go-to manual book once you are in the process of filming something
Getting my reading on. 







I can't wait to eat this 4 books. I already started "Grammar of The Film Language" but this one is more like a go-to manual book once you are in the process of filming something, but it has some pretty cool drawings.

Self-teaching something is hard but it is very exciting, the only thing is, that even when you are learning something on your own you really need that someone to guide you and/or ask questions to. Right now I want to read as much as I can about it, watch lots of films paying attention to details, and of course the one I consider the most important is to grab a camera yourself and start filming stuff, theory is almost nothing, if you don't put it to practice and make some shitty stuff that'll help you learn with time.

 Are you teaching yourself something? What would you like to learn on your own?

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It's always fun to mix movies and fashion, don't you dare say otherwise


Yes, Christmas cleaning is always good, and this time was even better. My sister found this jean jacket hiding in her closet, and she forgot she had it there, (knowing that I wanted one of those long ago, shame on you carol), so as soon as she got it out of the closet and threw on the bed, I jumped on it, and claimed it mine.

I proceeded to cut off the sleeves and think of what I was going to sew on the back, you know, inspired by Hayley's and Gaga's badass jean jackets. I then, remembered I had this Star Wars tee, that I thrifted long ago and was starting to smell funny, so what better use could i have found for it. My face lit like a cartoon character.

This is the result. 



I cut out the image only, then i glued it on the jacket with liquid silicone (not the right way to go, but i needed to glue it with something to make the sewing easier), then I sew it and here it is.






This is my "I am your father" response face.
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I'm on Tumblr you guys

Dec 16, 2012


I was born, and 21 years later I got a Tumblr: http://indieinthecaribbean.tumblr.com/

 It's almost the same as here, but with way more images and less words, and more of a casual, non filtered thing, I really don't know. Oh and more of a "oh my God everyone is so awesome and beautiful and talented, and Im a potato" kind of thing. It'll be so much fun.
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You haven't posted anything in almost a month...shame on you Ross


Yeah, I know, bad Ross, bad Ross, though I don't have many readers, so there is no harm, and I just write for fun and to document the process of achieving my goals and what happens in the meantime, the good, the bad, the meaningless, the meaningful and so on.

 Im finally on vacation (I've been on vacation for  like 2 weeks now...sorry), and after procrastinating a lot, and just doing the nothingness I was dreaming about doing once I got some well deserved vacations it's time to get into action: work and study.

Even though I don't have a job, and duh, I have 3 more weeks left since college starts again, so Im taking the time to keep the 'Self-Teaching Filmmaking' process I have been doing half-assed due to the lack of time and take this time to study and learn all I can, and work on my video making (you know, you gotta put the theory to practice, and embarrass yourself on YouTube while doing it).

 I actually feel bad because I have kind of wasted this 2 weeks, but that's it, Im serious about it. Well it's not like i have been doing noothing you know. Little before I got out on vacation I was going with my sister to band practice, because she and some school friends are starting out a band and they want me to sing in it but provisionally of course because I am a sucky, sucky singer, but of course I said yes, because I love music, and being surrounded by musical instruments, and of course I could get to play the electric guitar, given that I only have an acoustic one because is all I can afford at the moment, bummer.



No, I don't play the drums, my skills are so little I apparently can only play guitar, (barely) something else would just be pushing it. This is me trying to play the drums, and realizing is not as easy as it looks. Right now I can only play the very beginning of 'Steady As She Goes' by The Raconteurs, (it just came out of nowhere)  and  a bit of 'Starlight' by Muse, (by watching some quick tutorials on YT, everyone was to busy to teach me some drums)...also, I am incredibly uncoordinated.


See how my face is strategically hidden by the plates? Nice job sister taking the picture :D. Man, now I realized I don't have any picture of that sweet cherry red guitar I get to play.

Also, in this two weeks of crazy productivity I have been dealing with major, important and crucial issues for human existence, such as how can I make a cover for my laptop out of some Floppy disks I had laying around. Its harder than it sounds, I own a Compaq 15'' laptop, and not only they don't fit right away, but I wish I could get like a hard cover (like those on Macs) where I can glue the diskettes to, instead of doing it directly on the laptop top.




And of course, there's the video we shot last week, its just a little short that we came up with out of nowhere, its crazy, weird, it makes no sense, but I love it. I mean, hey have you watched Un Chien Andalou? what we are doing is completely normal compare to that.





It was pretty exciting, since we mainly make music videos, and this is the first 'short' we upload to our channel. Here's the video:




Tell us what you think, either here or in the YouTube comment section, whether is good or bad, we always appreciate feedback.

 And yeah, this is just some of it... How would you make your vacations productive?

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