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02.13.09
12:25 PM, Tuesday,
April 10th, 2001:
Well I threatened
to do this entry for a few months now. It was so much
work, that I avoided it for quite some time,
but...Adam needs some money. LOL. If you've come
through the site from the homepage you'll see that
I've ONCE AGAIN changed the opening sections. You
can't imagine how long it takes to redo just that
page. This frontpage redo took 3 1/2 hours. (sigh) - I
think I'm done though. So what's 4tvs Productions? The
truth of the matter is that during my struggle out
here I've unintentionally acquired many valuable
"survival" skills that I need to start cashing in
on...in the short term. I guess this entry should be
entitled: "THANK YOU ABOT" - but I won't be
that much of a smart-ass to point out how they played
a roll in all this.
LOL -
right.
Dear ABOT
Productions,
In August of
1999, you decided that my "Blair Witch TVs" set was
not the type of humor you wanted to be associated
with. You wanted 4tvs to continue to be just a
musical performance. I realized that the music
would have to be secondary to the comedy and
couldn't do away with it. You broke off our
relations and forced me to put thousands of MORE
freakin' dollars into 4tvs that I wasn't prepared
to do. In November of that year, just weeks before
I left for LA, I had put together a complete
video editing computer along with a digital
camcorder. I created the "Slide" and "Day in
the Life" set and then was off to LA.
Thanks,
Adam
As has been the
pattern of my life since I've had control of it...I've
taken a shitty situation and made it a positive. I
don't dare say I had the "power" to do this...many
times a nice dose of luck played a hand, but
I always positioned my pieces to ALLOW for the
positive to happen. When ABOT pulled the plug, I
could've very well said "FUCK IT". I had paid
them nearly $2000 to edit together the first couple of
4tvs sets, and I hadn't a clue on how to do it
myself. Turns out it was paramount to monkey-work, and
ignorance is bliss and quite expensive. But
I didn't say fuck it. I put everything together
myself, and that alone has saved my ass out
here.
So now, I figure I
might as well make a nice presentation and try to sell
those services on some level. As opposed to being "a
guy I know can do that for you...", my skills can
actually be known as 4tvs Productions. As well there's
a lot of people out here and back home that are quite
talented in many forms of media I haven't been able to
learn yet including flash animation that has become
quite big in the web world. Through 4tvs Productions
we could all make a little bit of dough and provide
people with creative content at a reasonable
price.
Which brings me to
the best reason for 4tvs Productions. The price of
video and web production is absolutely stupid. Nobody
seems to have a middle ground if they need some sort
of multi-media work done. You either have a friend
with a "fisher-price" computer and cool video software
he doesn't know how to use, or HUGE production
companies that will charge outRAGEOUS amounts of
money. And I do mean outrageous prices. When I heard
what people have paid for their piss-poor websites -
I am floored. Thousands upon thousands of dollars
and the most BORING, un-enticing, graphically
pathetic, horribly compressed-way-too-long to load,
shit on the net. Not that I'm opinionated about it in
the least - eh? But I'd like to offer an alternative.
And when I started taking stock of the past year
or so, I realize I have. I've done many
professional jobs including tons of video and web
work. Music scoring on many projects - even creating
graphics and cover art. I soon realized I had a nice
foundation for a little production
company.
The
Video Production section of the site is
still incomplete. I mean, talk about a
BIG FREAKIN' SECTION. I don't
even know how to begin to show the video
work I've done in the past year and a
half. It makes my head hurt thinking of
that section, but the other 3 look quite
nice. One of the pictures above leads to
the 4tvs Productions movie. It's like a
game to find it! What fun we're having!
Anyway, check out all the sections when
you get time...or don't. It's just another
section of the 4tvs pie I thought y'all
should know about.
And of course if
there's any work you need to have done in any of these
areas, by all means: shoot me an email
adam4tvs@gmail.com.
Price is heh...HIGHLY negotiable.
As for the rest of
my life...expect a true introduction of The
Trinitrons, as the first draft of the show is
complete. There's still quite a bit of rewriting to be
done, but some great things have come out as well as
an ending that could absolutely be a show-stopper.
I'll shoot that entry off in about a week followed by
the big #120 where I can finally divulge the little
secret I've been working on for over 3 months. Even
without hitting the lottery (I'm still getting
reactions from some of you late readers - LOL) life is
quite exciting, and I couldn't be happier.
