So What Will You Do ?

[Emanuel]

37 minutes ago, IronFilm said:

Sometimes mutations are a good thing, is for instance how the SARS virus was helped to be contained a few years back. Because there was a mutation of SARS which was less deadly that then spread. As an extremely virulent virus that kills the host before the infection can spread would have a competitive disadvantage.

I know, let's hope this mutation may occur because I heard a specialist to say people can be infected with this virus twice... to follow a cure. Scaring : (

[heart0less]

[Cinegain]

His next project... Quentin's funniest homevideos. 😂

[IronFilm]

A silver lining about the coronavirus: I'm working on an advert for it today (and tomorrow)

[kaylee]

I've always said that absurd partisan argument is a luxury of good times in the US

these are bad times. let's stick together, ok...? 😎💙👍

[kaylee]

6 hours ago, Cinegain said:

His next project... Quentin's funniest homevideos. 😂

great -- let's get back to filmmaking...!

Quentin has never made anything worth watching without millions of dolars and star actors. my generation is expected to make something great out of thin air bc technology and internet. big difference!

I don't think that Quentin can make fuck all by himself... that's not what he does. I love the guy but maybe theres a reason he looks so lost in those pics 😂

let's see if we can argue abt that without digressing into personal insults lol

[BTM_Pix]

So.....

About the original point of this thread then.

Has anyone got up to anything interesting yet whilst in isolation that they can share with the group?

Yesterday I posted this live scene from my workbench and I'm pleased to share with you all the outcome of what was going on in it.

With having that ability to concentrate fully on a project that only fully being in isolation can bring, I have completed eating both bars of chocolate.

[Emanuel]

Hey, where's the one we had trac(k)ed? ; -)

[IronFilm]

At least there is still some shooting going on!

Have been working today on a Coronavirus TV commercial, got more tomorrow again as well. 

My bookings beyond then are looking pretty bare though, had cancellations/delays. 

[Geoff CB]

I made a list

- Inventory all my gear and sell what I don't need.
- Finishing a short documentary that I was working on.
- Color grading some VFX for a short I shot previously, as the guy doing the VFX has downtime to work on it as well.
- Storyboarding for a short, hopefully to be shot in May (we'll see...) 
- Editing vacation videos that I have never gotten around to
- Doing a deep-dive Review/Instruction video for the Sony F3
- Doing work around the house. 
- Doing more camera tests with my wife, who agrees to it only to prevent me going stir crazy. 

Sony F3, Nikon 70-200 2.8G

[Cinegain]

Yeah! Good thinking.

My PL to EF mount just came in earlier today for my IGA VLEV HELIOS 44-2 58mm f/2 cinehoused puppy that had already come in. I need to work my way through some moving boxes to find the Viltrox EF-M2 and see if I missed any of those more recent firmware updates (GH5/G9), looks like weather's getting sunnier this weekend, so hopefully I can get a beach/dunes hike in and grab a few shots. With the Sirui as well.

* officially moved here last month, not too shabby (pica from my balcony with my Huawei P30 Pro 2 days ago)

Otherwise, indeed, seeing what else is lurking in the boxes and see if I can't sell a couple things... time for these 'investments' to pay out, lol.

[homestar_kevin]

We're working from home for the forseeable future, so I"m taking it easy and cleaning my office/gear room on the clock as 'administrative' tasks.

My goal is to start taking camera walks more and to finish building out some different things.

I have 3 of the Travor 3060a LED flex panels that I've worked out a rig for to put the three of them together into a 60x90 (2x3) grid and I've ordered a bunch of supplies to hook them up into different modular combinations 60x60 (2x2).

I ordered some different sized quick umbrella soft boxes to mount them inside of in the various configs.

[BTM_Pix]

For anyone in a country that isn't locked down, you'll love Day 6.

Out on a brief exercise walk with my other half this evening (which we have been doing 3 times a day around our little empty housing complex ) we fell foul of the newly introduced additional restriction today of not walking with anyone else.

On the surface it does seem a bit of a mad one for couples who are living together in isolation anyway but due to us being in isolation we didn't get informed about it directly as we would have been by the administrators of the community.

So, if we'd known about it, we'd have complied.

Simple as that and no problem to us because due to our Japan trip we've been practising COVID-19 awareness before it became fashionable

But hey, even though we didn't know about it, ignorance is no defence so hands up and we'd take what was coming from the Police....

Except this wasn't the Police it was another resident conducting some sort of paramilitary neighbourhood watch scheme.

After shouting at us about whether the security company who patrol the estate had told us about the new restrictions we said no and remarked, as you do, that it seemed daft considering we lived together but were shrugging and turning round to go home.

And then it escalated beyond all reason.

I have a bit of a thing where if I'm in the wrong then I have no problem with being told.

You can even re-iterate what I've done wrong and I'll go along with it.

But its the third time that pushes my buttons.

You know the third one don't you?

The one when someone is talking to you like you are a child or an idiot?

Anyway, I politely(ish) informed him that I understood it the first time and the second time and there was no need to fucking repeat it again.

Of course the farce of this is that due to isolation, this whole exchange was being shouted across a road at each other  

Anyway, he gets it into his head that I'm an arrogant prick (I'll plead the 5th on that) because I'm utterly non-plussed by his attempts to intimidate me.

That wasn't because of some sort of hardman deal just that it was such an unlikely turn of events that I wasn't really reacting beyond thinking he was a complete tit.

As I crossed to the middle of the empty road to re-iterate that I wasn't going to be receptive to any of the threats or abuse, he reveals the concealed Nikon DSLR to try and takes a sly pictures of us, presumably to try and "non singular walking" shame us on Facebook.

Recognising that it was an utterly futile exercise to engage any further, we started to head back the 300 metres to our apartment when the frothing lunatic appears (breaking his own isolation no less) claiming that we must stop where we are to await arrest by the Police and he will personally ensure we are both fined €600 each.

He had undoubtedly completely and utterly lost his mind so I told the other half to start walking back to the apartment.

I started walking towards him to try give him some pause about whether he needed to dial this down because this particular arrogant prick wasn't buying it and also to put a bigger gap between him and my missus in case he did act on it. 

(Spoiler alert, I wasn't fully buying it but had put down a hefty deposit on it because I could see he had become unhinged, was twice my size but I'd jumped off the diving board at this point  )

Plus, there was no way I was going to turn my back on him at this point !

Anyway, he whips out the phone this time to video me and then says I have to remain where I am because now he was going to arrest me  

I think I may have laughed at this point which sent his rage-o-meter off the charts and he was bellowing me at a distance of about 40cm.

Oh dear.

The self styled Isolation Warrior of Murcia had saved his community from the threat of two of its residents walking together and was now firing his frothy rage fuelled spittle all over one of them.

Of course, I pointed this irony out to the camera on the video he was still recording of me and it was abruptly stopped to be replaced with more threats of physical violence at an SPL level that even AC/DC might deem to be a bit on the high side.

I backed away from him slowly at this point and then turned and walked back slowly to make sure that my missus was back in the apartment in case he came after me again.

Even walking slowly was an act of arrogance apparently which got his motor running again.

So I sit here patiently awaiting the arrival of the Guardia Civil to take all my toilet roll money (I hope @Grimor can put in a word for me with the authorities in case they cart me away) or perhaps this lunatic might just settle for sending his dog around to perform a canine arrest on me.

Of all the insults he brought forth on me, I think the worst one was him taking pictures of me with such a shitty zoom kit lens on that Nikon.

From the moment I saw that, he had no chance of taking the high ground  

Oh and for context, this confrontation was between two middle aged British men in Spain proving that, even when we are in full lockdown isolation , we can always find new ways to lower the tone.

 

[User]

15 minutes ago, BTM_Pix said:

Of all the insults he brought forth on me, I think the worst one was him taking pictures of me with such a shitty zoom kit lens on that Nikon.

😂

[Grimor]

1 hour ago, BTM_Pix said:

So I sit here patiently awaiting the arrival of the Guardia Civil to take all my toilet roll money (I hope @Grimor can put in a word for me with the authorities in case they cart me away) or perhaps this lunatic might just settle for sending his dog around to perform a canine arrest on me.

LOL!! 

I will pay your bail to get you out of jail.
or better yet, tell them you know me!
You have been lucky that he is the self-styled warrior of isolation and not a real policeman self-styled warrior (which of these there are also, although luckily less)

[Grimor]

16 hours ago, BTM_Pix said:

So.....

About the original point of this thread then.

Has anyone got up to anything interesting yet whilst in isolation that they can share with the group?

My workbench looks similar, way more chaotic. (I'm trying to send data to a BLE device to hack an electric bike) 

[BTM_Pix]

3 minutes ago, Grimor said:

My workbench looks similar, way more chaotic. (I'm trying to send data to a BLE device to hack an electric bike) 

 

Tell me more.

I've got a bit more spare time on my hands now since the walking ban!

[Grimor]

Just now, BTM_Pix said:

Tell me more.

I've got a bit more spare time on my hands now since the walking ban!

i´m writting you a PM now

[BTM_Pix]

22 minutes ago, Grimor said:

LOL!! 

I will pay your bail to get you out of jail.
or better yet, tell them you know me!
You have been lucky that he is the self-styled warrior of isolation and not a real policeman self-styled warrior (which of these there are also, although luckily less)

In all seriousness I fully support the restrictions and I'm annoyed at myself for not knowing about today's addition to it.

Particularly as this lunatic has now reset my own danger of exposure clock again when it was only a few days from running out by screaming in my face.

The rage and hatred he had for me was incredible though as usually people only reach that point with me when we've been formally introduced at least

Oh well, he'll have plenty of justification when true boredom sets in on day 13 and I fly my drone off the roof to pick up stray dog turds off the golf course and drop them all over his garden.

[Jimmy G]

Hi all,

Still waiting to see what my college is going to do with our lab-intensive FCPX class (I could do my assignments from home but I fear that the majority of my fellow students need to do their homework on campus). In the meantime, just acquired a colorimeter and will be working on finally getting my monitors properly calibrated. Also looking to do color-correction testing on my cameras using the X-Rite Video ColorChecker that came with the kit. Continuing pre-assignment work on my student project and preparing my shotlist along with a variety of scripting ideas (choices) I've worked out for the footage.

Other than that, we're keeping up on our antivirals (Garlic, Ginger, Oregano and Turmeric) along with some serious anti-oxidant dosing (gotta love that Vitamin-C) and keeping tabs on my immune-compromised at-risk family members.

Relieved (as much as is possible with this situation) that the ECDC makes note that part of their "Discharge Criteria" is a "Serology: appearance of specific IgG when an appropriate serological test is available." test which indicates that a healthy immune system can mount a proper defense...

Discharge criteria for confirmed COVID-19 cases - COVID-19-Discharge-criteria.pdf:

https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/sites/default/files/documents/COVID-19-Discharge-criteria.pdf

...all the more important that we all do our part and protect the elderly and those with pre-existing immune-compromising health conditions so as to not overwhelm our health care systems, but, more importantly, to keep the at-risk out of harm's way.

Of gravest concern (and what gives me nightmares most) is the lack of proper facilities globally to deal with a >1% CFR (mortality rate), which would mean...for an unchecked spread that for every 100,000,000 million people infected there would be 1,000,000 dead. Case-in-point, here in the U.S., we are woefully under-prepared for anything of that magnitude with "96,596 ICU beds" within our system currently available (as reported today by The Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) here)...

SCCM | United States Resource Availability for COVID-19:

https://www.sccm.org/Blog/March-2020/United-States-Resource-Availability-for-COVID-19

 

Please stay healthy and take care, one and all, and do what you can to help protect the at-risk population from falling victim to this virus.

Peace,

Jimmy G