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- mikedotta - 12challenge: Which Star Wars (original trilogy only) character is the best and why?
- 1 years ago — 67 views
- Onboard Slave I
- Blizzard bumped this.
agrees. lovesentproject
Thanks for the vote. mikedotta
I don't know, man. I've always sorta looked up to Yoda, you know?? Sort of like a puppeternal figure for me, you know? Not that crappy CG Yoda, either man, yeah. Dude was moving like fricken Spider-man, man! MAN! jaythepal
Yoda is probably my 2nd favorite. Oz is God. mikedotta
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- mikedotta - Tongue Tied and Mental Flossed
- 1 years ago — 54 views
- In a Twister
Speaking in tongues couldn't hurt either. :P StarWarsDork
How... Evangelical of you, Mike! ;P sloney
you were touched by the holy goat eunice007
And on the seventh day the Lord rested. And read the latest Mental_Floss. :P mikedotta

- mikedotta - [iPhone] Coraline
- 1 years ago — 96 views
I can't wait to see this; hope I can get to it in 3D before it's gone. pasha
You're gonna love it. The 3D was really cool. Felt very natural for the film.
Btw: These pictures are of the art and models they had on display at Arclight. mikedotta
soooo good! beach
Pasha - A buddy of mine just emailed me, "By the way, saw your 12 sec thing. you should let people know it's only playing in 3d for three weeks, i think next week is the last week."
Ahhh!!! Hurry!!! mikedotta
I really, really thought you were gonna pan out and there was gonna be, like, a dollhouse in your room. kendraschaefer
Wouldn't mind if there was a dollhouse in my room if it meant Eliza Dushku was within close proximity. ;) mikedotta

- mikedotta - My True Love
- 1 years ago — 86 views
- On my iPod
- Webdesignberlin bumped this.
Music I've been listening to this past week. mikedotta
Coolness. StarWarsDork
♪♥♪♥♪♥♪♥♪♥♪♥♪ Blizzard
nice! dmbdork
OK. I just wasted hours trying to put this together. Now off to the gym I go. :) mikedotta
Hours? I guess there are times when Windoze Movie Maker is better than iMovie. joyofzen
music soothes the soul
and sometimes numbs the pains
of a lost loves strain of the pulling away
and that incessant tugging of the heartstrings
ONCE the hearts been engaged...
or somethin like that... (shrugs) lovesentproject
Yeah, iMovie '08 is the stink. Thought the whole process would take 10-15 minutes tops.
First I edited the music track in Audacity. Super easy; maybe 2 minutes spent. (Deastro, btw.) Next I searched for the album covers online. 6 covers took maybe another 2-3 minutes. Then I dropped everything in iMovie and production soon became very frustrating.
I changed the duration of the 6 pics to 2 seconds apiece. (totals 12 seconds. ;) Next I finessed the panning to land on the album titles. (Took me about 2 minutes for that.) Then I added cross dissolves in between each cover. And this is where things got hairy.
With each dissolve I added it would DECREASE the length of my video, thereby cutting the audio short. It went all the way down to 6 seconds. (?!) Made absolutely no sense. You'd think if it were to change anything, it'd balance out the length of the transitions and the panning of covers.
Took me ages to finally figure out I had to select every pic and collectively change their durations until I got close enough to the 12 second mark. One second or fraction over and the video was too long. One second or fraction under. Too short.
Ugh.
But now it works and I have me a template. YEY! I hope. :P mikedotta
What a pain in the ass! At least it's over with and it came out good. joyofzen
Yeah, if only 12seconds didn't compress the video so much on upload. Or is there a trick to preserve quality? mikedotta
I don't think so, someone else was wondering that too. I think this is as good as it gets. You could double check w/ Jacob though :) joyofzen
I wish there was a way I could just loop this and stare at it. kendraschaefer
It's catchy isn't it. Well guess what?…
Now you can. :) (Cntrl-click and save. Loop in QuickTime.) mikedotta
nice Webdesignberlin

- mikedotta - 12challenge: My fish is doing the backstroke.
- 1 years ago — 81 views
- The Fishbowl
Remember Stick Figure Theatre on Liquid Television?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUyYhh2jbSU&NR=1
mikedotta
Crap, this is an awesome drawing. Is that your logo? I seriously hope so. kendraschaefer
Kendra - Thanks. Yeh, I sketched it in high school once and have used it ever since. My cousin likes it so much he got a tattoo on his arm. I wouldn't go THAT far, but I still think it's pretty dope.
Hey, Jive was telling me you might be going to Twiistup 5 in Santa Monica this Thursday. Is that true? If so, you should totally (like totally! lol) come hang out with our crew. All the guys/gals from Team Ringorang will be there. :) mikedotta
Well, it's cool. Makes me wish I could draw.
*laugh* Well, that would be hard, being that I'm located in South Carolina. I have no idea how that rumor got started. I grew up in L.A., but don't live there anymore. As soon as you guys do something on the East Coast, count me in. kendraschaefer
Haha. See. That's what I said. "She lives on the other side of the country, man. Are you sure??" Ah, rumors… So silly. We should start one of our own: The reason why you never talk in your videos is because you're mute. Ok. Pass it on. (Non-verbally, of course.) :P mikedotta
I would like to go to TwiistUp, but we shall see. :P StarWarsDork
@mikedotta: Mute? That's the best we can come up with, really? How about, like, She got her tongue cut out in a knife fight with a Blackwater guard. Or, She feels that the artistic value extrapolated from a video vis a vis the opportunity cost of free market purchases is condusive to Sharpie scribbles. *cough* kendraschaefer
(hands Kendra a lozenge) Me likes. Or maybe… She tried kissing a snapping turtle to turn him into a prince. Someone put a razor blade in her halloween candy. To make rent, she auctioned her vocal chords on the black market. She's a bluesman reincarnate and saves her voice for intimate recordings only. (harmonica solo) mikedotta

- mikedotta - 12challenge: I am man. Hear me roar.
- 1 years ago — 92 views
- Lion's Den
Doh! Had to retag this one. Supposed to be for today's challenge. mikedotta
extreme closeup! joyofzen
Dude, that ruled. Catherine
Fullscreen manliness! Complete with lozenge. mikedotta
Peak Billboard position # 1 for 1 week in 1972; not 1980's; BEARDFAIL. ;-) silverton
I am BEARD! Hear me BEARD! In BEARDS too big to BEARD! gronumbulator
Your comments are enigmatic. I am puzzled. :\ mikedotta
And so the universe is as it ought be; for an enigma made plain, is no longer baffling. silverton
silverton - You like puzzles, eh? See how quickly you can figure out how this is done… http://www.regiftable.com/regiftingrobinpopup.html :) mikedotta
No enigma here... just wanted to mention that you have an awesome beard gronumbulator
That's hawt! :) Blizzard
gronumbulator - Thanks man!
Blizzard - Roooooooaaaaaaar!
mikedotta
Okay, was playing on parallelism with a 1 week wonder women's liberation song in 1972 called "I am Woman, Hear Me Roar" by Helen Reddy. Depending on who you ask, the song somehow managed to become both kind of an activist anthem and a cheesy cliche (check the lyrics) at the same time. I do like puzzles and math tricks http://listverse.com/science/10-easy-arithmetic-tricks/ Thanks! ;-) silverton
@silverton so i heard you like math tricks ehy? :P i wanna hear that one week wonder song :D i like cheesy 1indienation
Silverton - Wow… Cheesy is right. When it comes to protests songs, think I'd rather stick with "If I had a Hammer." lol mikedotta

- mikedotta - 12challenge: If you were stranded on a desert island, what book would you like to have?
- 1 years ago — 124 views
- On a deserted island
Guess that first one didn't post. haha. sloney
you can read the bible a few times on the island :) 1indienation
lightbulb! 1indienation
You mean this photo? Yes, quite disturbing. mikedotta
actually i like that pic. But i am a weirdo like that. :| 1indienation
OH MY GOD YES THAT'S THE ONE. IT JUST CREEPED ME OUT! sloney
Mmmmmmm, Frank!!! Blizzard
I actually got to hang out at the Joe's Garage studio in North Hollywood and play GameBoy with Dweezil and Ahmet ... many, many moons ago. StarWarsDork
@StarWarsDork Sweet!! Those two are a riot. Blizzard
@StarWarsDork Very, very jealous. I remember when I first moved to LA and all those strange, obscure references in the lyrics of his music FINALLY made sense to me.
"If he didn't get you in Laurel Canyon, he won't get you here."
Ahh! I get it now! mikedotta
Sitting on a desert island would certainly help you through the "begats". kendraschaefer

- mikedotta - [iPhone] Kitchen 24
- 1 years ago — 125 views

- mikedotta - [iPhone] Could use more salt
- 1 years ago — 112 views
Wow...I remember my brother had a Flat Stanley like 13 years ago. jivebotic
Yeh, I don't tell many people this, but I never graduated the first grade. This year, I'm determined. The FS project has me at '100% Satisfactory' across the board. My parents are very proud. mikedotta
Hey, my friend is tour guide for Star Line :D And she had her pic with SpongeBob, and that Tigger is who took the pic! joyofzen
Haha. Small world. It was Tigger's idea to eat Flat Stanley. Pics turned out great though. mikedotta
Hi! I'm the friend that Ms. S.W. Legs is referring to, the tour guide. I believe that is my bus! i give the one hour tour of Hollywood. If you stop by again, say hi and come on the tour - on the house! I'm always there fri, sat and sun, and sometimes other days, too. Catherine
Hi Catherine! Unreal. I was there with a friend of mine taking Flat Stanley photos a few weeks ago. Will have to stop by again and say hi in person. What are the chances?! lol mikedotta

- mikedotta - My name's Mike D.
- 1 years ago — 147 views
- Brooklyn, NYC
mike diamond. <_> 1indienation
That's uncanny. kendraschaefer

- mikedotta - 12challenge: What did you do on your 21st Bday? If you aren't 21, what will you do?
- 1 years ago — 127 views
- Out on the town

- mikedotta - 12challenge: Give a random fact or piece of trivia that most people don't know.
- 1 years ago — 161 views
- 18th Century Rome
you're right. i did not know that. :) beach
Cool… Do I win?! hehe mikedotta
I'm a little late on this one, but that will certainly send me on a Google etymology spree. kendraschaefer
Dammit. What the hell is Kendra doing here with her damnable 5 syllable words? Stop confusing us, Schaefer Wiseman! This should have won. We demand a recount to be conducted by Al Franken. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=influenza silverton

- mikedotta - Hello. My name is Mike Dotta.
- 1 years ago — 134 views
- 12seconds.tv/channel/ringorang
