I’ve been keeping a diary journal for few years now. I’m just a human being, so I don’t write every day. And sometimes it’s just a short sentence, other times it’s a couple of reflections. But I try to stick to this habit because even minimal written reflection is much more effective than simply thinking things through in your head. As for the other benefits of journaling, there’s already so much information out there that you can easily find it.
In first half of July we continue our crazy weekends with mountain hiking and Exit Festival. Afterwards, we settled down and started to relax after 2-3 months of traveling, festivals and other stuff.
For some time now (from February or even earlier) I have a daily practice called “On this day”. I read any diary entries I have for this calendar day for previous years (2014, 2016 and from 2019 until now).
What’s the profit? Besides obvious reasons like recalling events and comparing yourself with the past one?
Half of year has passed (with additional month) and I haven’t missed a day filming a year movie. What an achievement for me!
Yeah, there some shots that look 100% placeholders, there is strange broken video with “WTF” caption (forgot to press “record” and press it instead of “stop”). There are days with amazing events I forgot to film, and instead of I used another footage. But there are no missed days — comparing to previous movies, it’s a hell of a progress.
That’s it, that’s the post. I’m just proud of myself and want to celebrate it.
June started with preparations for vacation and then vacation itself. 3-day Rock im Park in Nürnberg, a quick trip to Dortmund (not the best time here as they were preparing for the Euro Cup), and finished trip in Helsinki.
Week at home, and here we go again: a new trip, this time to Arsenal Fest in Kragujevac.
Besides this: meetings with friends, cinema, stand-up in English, etc…
I have a multilingual blog, and most of the time it was Russian by default. Once I switched it to English, but soon after, I reworked the whole concept and reverted things back. And now I’ve done it again.
At first — what is PICO-8?
PICO-8 is a virtual machine and game engine created by Lexaloffle Games. Games are written based on LUA language, you can play in browser or natively. “Cartridges” are png-files.
The most important difference in development is the token limit (8192). Tokens are variables, operators, etc. Thus, developers often have to be creative, plus the games are short (if they are not roguelikes).
Made another movie of the year.
Yes, today is the day I’m done with Anubis theme. It is no longer maintained, but it still works.
From July 12 I started to film year movie. It was an idea in the my mind corner for a some time. I knew about all these “1 Second a Day” movies, and Timur Zarudny constantly mentioned his movies (he’s been shooting since 2013). He even released a course (as newsletter), but then 2022 happened, popular mailing services left Russia, and only recently Timur relaunched his course. I thought about purchasing for a few hours, then paid for it. I wanted something new and interesting.
There are several formats of such movies, the most well-known is to film one second each day, which I already mentioned. I think, it’s the simplest one, with numerous apps available to ease the process of shooting and editing.
Initially, I planned to do the same, but I also made a 2-second version for comparison. And after getting some feedback from my friends I decided to stick with this format. There are multiple episodes on some days, so the rules are flexible. The limitation helped maintain a rhythm and reduced editing complexity.