Daniel Orta
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Writing Galore #2
Aug 6th
And i keep truckin, truckin, truckin…
Writer’s block: 2 page
Desperate Keenwives: Season 3: 3 page
The Radio Show: 1 page
Zombie Episode #1: 1 page
Zombie Episode #2: 1 page
So… reviews tomorrow, perhaps?
Writing Galore #1
Aug 5th
Okay, at the end of the day, i’ve written so far:
Zombie: Episode #1: Three pages
Writer’s block: Two pages
Desperate Keenwives: Two pages.
Seven in all. I’ll aim for ten next time, i guess. and maybe, some damn reviews.
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Writing Galore
Aug 5th
Okay, so i’ve been incredibly lazy with writing. I blame it on a writer’s block most of the time (and perhaps that’s true, who knows) but I’m going to push myself to start writing more often. A lot more often, actually. Here’s the plan – the next two weeks, I’m going to start writing at least 7 to 10 pages of day. it doesn’t matter which project it is or what piece of code it is, but in the end, its going to be at least 7 to 10 pages. I’ll be keeping track of what it I’ve accomplished here on my lj- in hopes that i can get some fucking insane amount of work completed. Check back tonight to see what i’ve accomplished so far.
The move…
Aug 1st
Well, i’ve always been a fan of both Macs and PCs. I used Macs constantly at school, while running PCs at home. (I actually remember my first PC- it was 75mhz, with a whopping 2 gigs of space. Man, what a joke that is today). Finally, i have a computer of my own, and its a mac. And somehow, I have to get used to it all. As mush as i am used to fixing both macs and PCs, this finally turns out to be a learning curve for me. Figuring out the littlest things like how Finder organizes your files (Goddammit i want the folders on top, then everything else organized by kind! that’s how my PC did it!) and moving files back and forth between them (almost all of them work- i got rid of my wmv files anyways, they were no use. I can play them back, thankfully, without the horrible Windows Media Player for the Mac. (an oxymoron within itself.)
So i can finally say that I’m basically situated on my new mac, save for a couple of files lying around here and there on my PC I have to fetch. No scanner or printer, which i actually started to miss, oddly enough. I’ll have to have the PC network to my mac to let me print shit while the rest of the family is on the PC.
Went to the beach last weekend with plenty of friends. God, I actually remembered why i don’t like seeing myself without a shirt on. People run screaming in pure pain and torture. Hell, i figure i should talk to Homeland Security to use my bare chest as a interrogation weapon. One flash and a terrorist would be willing to commit suicide to spare himself from the pain he just endured.
These next two weeks I have planned out- writing, website design, and webcomic reviews. All the things I’ve been needing on doing, I shall do this upcoming week. Hopefully everything will go along smoothly.
Oddly enough, I just realized something. I have a copy of Fearless, unwatched.
Guess I know what my mac is doing now.
Still around, you know.
Jul 26th
Allright, so i haven’t been very good at updating this thing. I’ve been… rather busy. Really. I’ve been around, doing work and whatnot, but i’ve simply forgotten to check up on my LJ, among other things online.
So what’s new?
Well, this is new. I’m now officially switched to Macs! it was a really odd process to go through, but almost everything has been sorted out. I need to clean up and maintain some sense to what goes on this psuedo desk of mine, so yeah.
I will be returning to my projects relatively soon. Expect announcements to new projects, cancellations of old ones, and dates for releases (Webcomics Report, especially. That site is long overdue.)
status report!
Jun 13th
Webcomics Report site is almost done. I ran it through some tests and its working beautifully. Continuing with a blue motif.
All I need to do now is finish the review template and ACTUALLY FINISH A REVIEW. (shock and awe commence).
Friday or Monday are my deadlines.
Next week, Team Mayhem Productions.
EDIT:
Here’s a quick little preview of what it’s going to look like. The Ads aren’t finished yet, unfortunately, and i think the logo is going to change again.
finals.
Jun 10th
While everyone else is done, i’m still doing them.
wish me luck. Damn acting class.
back from hawaii
Apr 24th
Well, i took a vacation and didn’t tell anyone two or three days beforehand. yes, i am back from the wonderful trip in Hawaii, where i spent 7 days with family. It was fun, admittingly so, and just gave me an itching to get back home to work on projects. (I had ideas for scripts while floating in the pacific… mmm).
Here’s one of the many pictures:
that’s at a hindu monstary on the island of Kauai’i. I want to get all of my pictures up, but i think i’ll try to move most of my pictures to a flickr account. I’ve been using a yahoo account to play with its Yahoo Pipes program, so i guess i’ll pop the pictures up there soon enough.
oh, and i got this in hawaii.
OH YES. K-Dawg‘s told me to go and get Pokemon, which i might will… funny, i think i still have my original copy of the game somewhere around here…
a decent picture of me.
Mar 13th
Daniel’s face by ~Italiansmilyface on deviantART
my friend actually captured a decent picture of me, but managed to send an insult my way in the description.
thanks primo, you jackass.
i talk. and talk. and talk.
Mar 11th
Well, i’m in the midst of school and work, so its oddly busy for me to be working right now. Daylight savings time came, and went rather… slowly. i didn’t realize until i woke up this morning. i woke up this morning to find my cell phone an hour ahead of everything else. disoriented me for a little bit, but other than that, i think its been allright. The weekend was dedicated to studying and to working on the Team Mayhem Productions site.
One of my biggest problems as of late is the use of my nickname, Teammayhem. People all know me as Teammayhem in the webcomics world, and it ain’t all that fair to where i got the name, Team Mayhem Productions. There’s two other people with me on that front, and to be only known as THE teammayhem is a bit selfish on my part. So i guess with the launch of the Webcomics Report, I’ll be going by a different name. No clue as to what yet, but i want to sorta…. display a new image for myself. Teammayhem is the snot nosed kid who started writing two paragraph reviews back when he was sixteen, and i want to evolve from that point to something much more. So I guess i’ll start shopping around ideas in my head to what to do exactly for this issue. I want to create a new image for those who know me, and to create an image that can be easily approachable by those who don’t. So yeah, I’ll work on this.
On the subject of Team Mayhem, its working oddly… well. No really, projects are moving and maturing much faster to what they originally were supposed to do. Zombie was always being held up as I’ve had multiple people drop out and move away from the project, a crushing blow to my own resolve to the project. But its odd- Taylor and Primo (the two other members in Team Mayhem) have become my own resolve. I get calls from Primo on random ideas he gets for the project, and he’s writing an episode of it all by himself. Taylor’s promised to see this project through to the end, so we’re pooling our resources and making this series.
Writing… is coming along to me much faster now. I’ve looked through a review that took me close to two months to finish and i was able to rewrite most of it within a week. I can’t explain it, but it feels like i’ve just been powered up, feeling a lot better about myself. It really does help to get my work done and be able to multitask much more efficiently than ever before.
I’m still working with the Cornstalkers, even as a coder. Supposedly, i’m still referred to as the Code Monkey, but i really don’t have much say to what to do in the project. I have no comic of my own to represent in the fray, so I’m sticking to what i can do best for them- Coding. I’m working on two versions of their site that i was hoping to get done by the UK Webcomix thing, but that ain’t happening anytime soon. But this and other projects i hope can help push the collective into a different fashion then would be a regular comic collective. I guess it’s just to push around and see what i can get done.
oh, and i have an absurd amount of projects for myself- 1 music CD, 3 short films, 1 storyboard, 1 animation pilot, and 4 scripts. wooo.
Oh, and I’ll be doing something special from now on- I’ll be listing the webcomics I’m reading.
Webcomic Readings:
nine lives
Lightbringer (to be reviewed)