Nacho is a cat.

Nacho and I get along because I let Nacho be Nacho.  I don’t try to make Nacho into a human and she doesn’t try to make me into a cat.

She doesn’t destroy anything and she never smells bad.  She’s not a prisoner, but she doesn’t ask to leave often.  She doesn’t understand why I sit at my computer 6 hours at a time, then eat, then sit at it for 6 more. Sometimes she gets bored and jumps on the desk.

Nacho is a cat.  She’s a hunter.  She has to do some hunting and killing or the tension is palpable.  So, one has to let her blow off some steam.  Then we go on living,  Every day or two, she wants to go outside.  I hear she’s going over and staying at Greg the Neighbor’s house where she’s called Mow Mow.

This silliness was shot with a home, tiny, Canon PowerShot ELPH 500 HS camera in full 1080 hd resolution. The two video clips are sewn together and titles added using Avid Studio. The words of the titles were moved in a virtual 3d space with keyframing to mark the end-points of the tweens. The production from end-to-end is completely HD in the highest resolution. The total cost for the camera was about $200, the software about $220 (over two years, upgrades), and the computer is a basic, $700 job that came with a good monitor. That’s production value there, kids.

If you have the balls then tell me technology and mass production aren’t good things. Tell me those guys with the $50k editing suites aren’t terrified. Tell me some great people, with little anything, no degrees (like me), aren’t relieved they don’t have to kiss ass for 10 years to get those jobs and then do whatever the guy who owns the $50k studio tells them to do.

Tell me, I dare you.