So, here I am. Late to the party, as per usual. Apologies.
Great gig this past weekend. Landed a resident booking. More on the horizon.
Finally free of the bruises which plagued me in the wake of the car crash. “In an interstellar buuuuuuuurst, I’m back to save the uuuuu-huuuuu-niverse.”
More news to come. For now, a warm bed beckons.
Dammit I think this song is so cool. ‘Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood – Summer Wine’
I heard this song on WPRB tonight and I can’t tell you how much I dig it.
Evan Dildo from the Lemonheads and some porn chick already covered it once. But I think it needs to be redone again.
A new cover of this song would be a big indie hit. Say Willie Nelson does the male vocals, and the chick from the Yeah Yeah Yeah’s does the female part. It’d be fucking huge.
I’d provide a link to the MP3 if I could, but I can’t find a decent one. So go to your favorite P2P and get a copy of this song.
As a rule, I hate movies. But If I ever shot one, this would roll first over the closing credits.
Man vs. Machine represents the first professional project that Tim and I were commissioned to make. Unfortunately, the piece never aired because the TV show it was intended for did not get off the ground.
Originally, the video was going to be broken into three segments and interspersed throughout the program. Accordingly, the first two parts had a “To be continued” after them. For the web version of the video, we’ve cut out the “To be continued” bits and linked the three segments together.
Special thanks goes to Joe on this one who was an integral component in the brainstorming process and was the one who suggested that we consider the premise of Man vs. Machine.
If there is a bible for anyone making a low-budget feature-length movie, then Dale Newton and John Gaspard’s, Digital Filmmaking 101: An Essential Guide to Producing Low-Budget Movies (2001), is it. An update of their previous book, Persistence of Vision: An Impractical Guide to Producing a Feature Film for Under $30,000 (1999), the newer version, as its title suggests, stresses tackling the feature-length movie in the digital medium as opposed to film. Whereas only several years ago hopes of distribution for anything not shot on film would have been virtually non-existent, today’s aspiring moviemaker needs to give serious consideration to the digital format as his medium of choice. Fast, clean and incredibly economic (to the tune of about 20,000 dollars less than shooting on film), the digital medium is the future of independent moviemaking, according to Gaspard and Newton.
I wrote this script to export an OmniOutliner list into iCal as a list of To Do items. I’ve used iCal off and on, and it’s not great, but it does currently hook into the syncing system of OS X. OmniOutliner is infinitely more usable in my mind, and lets you work the way you want to.
The primary motivation for this script is to let me sync my to do list to my phone, which only syncs through iCal. I’m sure others might find other uses for it. If you like it, have a suggestion, etc., leave a comment or send an email.
So today I watched Minority Report that bear lent to me and noticed, apart from that Philip K. Dick liked to write stories about future prediction, the computer interface Tom Cruise used was reminicient of what Keanu Reeves used in Johnny Mnenomic, only without the goggles. That is, not only did they use their hands as if they were a computer mouse, but gestures were added that performed functions you’d normally find in some hotkey or drop-down menu list. I really think that this kind of interface (albeit rather exaggerated in the movies to be efficient), along with voice commands, is the future. Except, they aren’t the future at all. Gestures are already here.
Octopus Genesus
When people began to multiply on the face of the ground, and daughters were born to them, the sons of God saw that they were fair; and they took wives for themselves of all that they chose. Then the Lord said, “My spirit shall not abide in mortals forever, for they are flesh; their days shall be one hundred twenty years.” The Nephilim were on the earth in those days – and also afterward – when the sons of God went in to the daughters of humans, who bore children to them. These were the heroes that were of old, warriors of renown.
Genesis 6:1-4
There is this form of expression I recently thought of calling “corporate art”.
Normally when folks hear a term like this I suspect they think of abstract paintings in hotel lobbies and hallways, or strong looking works of sculpture, or maybe those inspiration posters, or something similar. I remember loki at one point in college mentioned he was sort of fascinated with that kind of thing, or at least the lobby-paintings aspect of it. If I recall this is what inspired the Red Room exhibit (of ’97 or ’98 probably).
Anyway, fascinating though this stuff may be, this isn’t what I mean by “corporate art”.
Hey people, I'm the Wizard of Quiz I know all the answers to make you flip your lids. Smoking toadstools or drinking dry limes I'm the Quizard who quizes your rotting minds. Non-stop, my questions for fetid thought under the bazar, Ooo! Look! What's that trinket on the blanket to be bought? But please take care and do beware: for this is just one fun question of mine, among 10 zillion for the brain's fizz cauldron.
I really shouldn’t waste a post on this, but what the heck. As you can see, we’ve added a new header graphic to the page. I wish I could have used .pngs for the word “protozoic” and the alien, but I can’t because of GOD DAMN INTERNET EXPLORER! The .pngs looked better than the current .gifs, but oh well. If you have any issues viewing, leave a comment, I’d like to fix it.