I think secretly, deep down, everybody wants a microblogging service. Lets face it, Twitter is awesome or have you forgotten about this bad boy. So now, I’ll stop plugging my blog in order to plug my brand new microblog: Travis Fantina Ramblings.
It all began reading over last month’s Dreamhost newsletter. They mentioned a wonderful new microblogging software called status.net. Licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License. So I looked up Dreamhost’s own Pet Status It’s basically Twitter for your server which got me excited because as I stated earlier everybody wants their own microblogging service.
So I’m pleased to introduce Travis Fantina Ramblings a brand new microblogging service that’s free to join and offers ten more characters per post then Twitter! It’s a counter part to this Ramblings blog, now instead of only me EVERYBODY gets to ramble. It’s not very useful, but it’s on my server now and I’m probably too lazy to ever remove it check it out, join up and start microblogging who knows we might even have the next Twitter on our hands (but I doubt it). It’s a fun little experiment and a way for me to waste more time.

Now you may be wondering, Travis, where the heck have you been? No hide nor hair of a blog post since December. The answer is simple, I’ve been fairly busy and the majority of my ‘public thoughts’ (those are thoughts that I deem worthy to post online) are not long enough to blog about. You’ll notice that my Twitter account is regularly Tweeting and my new Ramblings account will soon begin rambling regularly. If anybody finds a plugin that allows me to merge these accounts I would love you forever.

Seriously, I do miss blogging regularly. I missed the ‘Avatar’ craze (but if your wondering I liked it a lot), and there are several other reviews I meant to post but just never did: let me just say go see ‘Sherlock Holmes’ and ‘The Lovely Bones’ RIGHT NOW! Anyway I’m probably going to see both ‘Green Zone’ and ‘Alice in Wonderland’ this week I’ll try to post a review. I promise I’ll get back to regular blog updates (for those of you still not tweeting with the twits).

For now, check out Ramblings: The Microblog

written by Travis \\ tags: blog, fantina, Microblogging, Ramblings, Reviews, Status.net, travis, Twitter

Sorry for the sporadic, er- total lack of, posts this month I have been very busy prepping for my latest short film “Initiation”.

“Initiation” is the story of a gun-for-hire who is hired to retrieve some diamonds, he botches the job and has to report this back to his boss who has the power and authority to kill him is she wishes, basically your worst day at the office times 10.

We shot on June 9th, it was a very, very fast shoot, too fast really and I wish we could have taken two days one for each location but that was not the case.  Despite the hurried pace I am quite happy with what we got.  I am almost finished with the rough cut now and it looks great.

Photos from the shoot (click to enlarge):

‘The Gang’ prepping for a scene.

Emily.

James pre squib.

James post squib.

Camera protected from blood spurting.

Working out lighting.

Directing.

Me with camera protected from blood spray.

All photographs are property of Bekky Gibson.
www.rekahgphotography.com

written by Travis \\ tags: blood, fantina, Initiation, Shoot, Short film, squib

I’ve been very busy lately, however for about the last six months I’ve been trying to fix the ‘movies’ section of my website good news is: I am making some progress.
I am still very busy shooting music videos, working on a short film and writing tons of scripts. When I find a free moment I will try and edit together some of my more recent work (Stuff I shot this year), and post it online for all to enjoy.

Anyway as far as Other Mysteries go, about a month ago I posted a pretty elaborate and special effects heavy video of unknown origin. Sorry for not posting sooner, but the origins of the above mentioned video have been revealed to the world.
/film has the scoop, turns out the popular theory that it was just some very, very smart people playing around with a video camera and some software is correct.

written by Travis \\ tags: Editing, fantina, Film, Filmmaking, Short film, travis, updates, videography, What's in the Box? Mystery, Writing

Just a quick update; I posted some of my edited footage from this parade. You can check it out over in the movies section of my website.

I hope you like it. As always, feel free to email me with your thoughts or just post ‘em here!

written by Travis \\ tags: 2008, fantina, Kitchener, Ontario, Parade, travis

Today I awoke to the sound of celebratory music. It’s weird because I was having a dream and in my dream the music had been playing for some time, then I awoke to find that the music in my dream was real.

Anyway today is a big day for Kitchener-Waterloo (K-DUB), it’s the Oktoberfest Thanksgiving day parade. So I got out my camera and ran down to main street filming everything and anything I could. I have not yet looked at my footage but I will do that later today or Wednesday and post it up for everybody to see.

written by Travis \\ tags: fantina, filmed, Oktoberfest, Parade, Thanksgiving, travis

You may notice that my blog is no longer what it once was, I have removed most of the irrelevant posts in favor of content that some people may actually want to read. (Bold and italics for an extra dose of emphasis). Don’t worry I’ve kept all my hard written posts on my server in hopes that some day I will have a use for them, not sure when though.

You also may have noticed that the main page of the website has under gone a big redesign, the old design was tired and worn, so I reworked it, in essence the layout is still the same but it’s sleeker, less clunky and some other words that people only use to describe cars.

As of right now, 6:55 on October third, I have not give the blog the full redesign it deserves, however trust me that is coming SOOON. I like the way it is now even less then you do! So check back over the coming days and weeks for a nicer cleaner template with hopefully lots of fun plugins.

written by Travis \\ tags: awesome, changes, fantina, Overhaul, redesign, travis, updates