I recorded a new song on Sunday and had in mind to produce a video for it. However, I've realised I find music videos rather boring. I was hoping I could produce something in a couple of days but it seems that ludicrous quantities of footage are required, and my animation style feels sorta ropey at best. The lip synch is off, and the movement isn't particularly accurate.

Perhaps I need to bite the bullet and get friends involved. I played a good DJ set on Friday night and in a conversation afterwards somebody pointed out that I can't do everything by myself. As much as I would like to avoid relying on other human beings, it's basically impossible, so I should let people in more.

Trouble is, my artistic concepts tend to be rather complicated and the motivation is not always clear to collaborators. For example, I'm often motivated as much by the pragmatic necessity to finish work within my limited attention span (generally about 2 days per thing) as I am by any particular desire to achieve a certain vision (although ironically if I was producing something for a client I'd spend a lot longer due to the simple fact that I was sure somebody cared and was paying attention!)

I do my best work when I don't care too much about it. Unfortunately now I've spent over 2 days on something that still isn't showing signs of taking shape. It's only a 'first run' (my first go at making a 'proper' music video) so I suppose this struggle was to be expected. I am hoping iMovie '09 makes my life easier (it's installing as I type this post). I am too impatient to work with software that doesn't work in real time!

What was my point? Um.. something like "AMAZING NEW MUSIC VIDEO FOR MY ELECTRO POP FUNK JUNGLE SONG". "COMING SOON". "YEAH YOU KNOW DAT TRUE BLOOD!". Etc... "It's gonna be HARD CORE!" Etc... etc... etc.. yawn...