Why I won’t take part in the next urler.tv?

Posted: January 22nd, 2009 | Author: dmireault | Filed under: personal | Tags: , |

With the firm intention to capture my adventures on tape or even do a few shorts, 2 weeks before I left montreal I bought myself a brand new Canon HV30. I had my eye on the Canon 5D Mark II but it was back ordered and maybe overkill for a newly self proclaim indie filmmaker. I went to L.L. Lozeau and bought the perfect starter kit: 1 camera, 1 tripod, 1 microphone, 3 60 min HDV tapes, 1 extra battery and a nice backpack to carry it all. I was all ready to shoot.

Fo my first project I chose to get involve with urler.tv. In november Vero had ask me to participate for the 7th episode scheduled to lunch sometime in February. The subject is epicure.

After only 4 days in Bangkok I had 2 hours of footage on the subject. I love my new toy! I was gung-ho to begin editing, but there was one little problem. My starter kit did not include a firewire 800 cable to connect to my new Macbook Pro. I must have spent more then 7 hours in Bangkok and at least 4 hours in Chiang Mai looking for my @!#?% cable. Turns out Firewire 800 as not arrive in Thailand yet. But no one knew that because they kept sending me from one place to another. In Thai society there is this emphasis on maintaining the facade of perfection. If you ask a Thai person to give you direction and he doesn’t have a clue he will still point you in one direction with a big smile on his face. They simply can not loose face.

Finally I ordered the cable online 2 days ago and had it shipped to my friend Simon’s place up in Chiang Mai. All that to say that I will probably not be able to make the deadline for urler.tv.

3 Comments on “Why I won’t take part in the next urler.tv?”

  1. 1 Marie-Julie said at 9:13 PM on January 24th, 2009:

    C’est la faute à Martine Pagé si j’atterris ici… Il n’y a pas qu’en Thaïlande qu’on nous pointe n’importe quelle direction plutôt que de nous dire qu’on ignore où se trouve l’endroit recherché, c’est comme ça dans plusieurs coins d’Asie! Tout ça pour dire que malgré ce léger détail, je suis verte de jalousie, je retournerais bourlinguer sur les routes asiatiques any time! Enjoy!

  2. 2 Vero said at 1:51 AM on January 25th, 2009:

    Hum… compte tenue de la situation, même si le deadline est supposé être lundi, tu as jusqu’à vendredi prochain / samedi matin pour m’envoyer la vidéo.

    On croise les doigts! ;)

  3. 3 dmireault said at 3:51 AM on January 25th, 2009:

    Cool! Merci pour l’extension.