Firstly, I am drawing nearer to Sept 20 which is when I plan on taking my giant trip all the way up to Maryland for the best Super Art Fight to exist ever! Which should be loads of fun. I am looking for any other bums who want to share a ride. My car could easily fit 5 people comfortably, and so far I only have one other person coming. So three more stooges? If you love me you would come. I have some relatives in MD that would let me stay at their place while I’m there, so only gas and food moneys would be required. I am just looking to be crazy at least once more in my life. That’s the plan anyways. It will be loads of fun though. Want to learn more about What Super Art Fight is? Check it! Let’s represent the south! Wait, let me try that again. Lez reprezent da SOUF! … Yeah.
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Huh. So uh, you come here often?
Thanks to Blast-O-Rama for my favorite Lucas picture. EVER.
Lastly, I plan on posting some 3D stuff this weekend. I am just doing basic modeling to get back into the groove of things. I may do some animation stuff down the road, but for now just except screen grabs of everything.
I’ve decided that I will begin a project. One 3D post a week of my own creations. I’ve been doing research to see if going back to college for a Bachelors in 3D design would be worth it, and given my location, time and financial constriants, it doesn’t appear that this is a viable solution.
SO! I am going to once again try the self motivated route. I will only be working in 3DS as that is the program I am most familiar with. I have a hard time keeping myself motivated because I think of so many fun things I could work on and I get overwhelmed with the possibilities as well as the amount of work it would take to fulfill these projects. I now look back at MODAT as some sort of miracle that I managed to get it finished.
This doesn’t mean what I will be posting will be fanciful movies. Mostly screen grabs of what I managed to accomplish that day. I will start off with easy cartoony things that are easy to rig and animate, slowly experimenting my way through this project. My goal is to have at least one project, hopefully a follow up to MODAT, done by within 4 months, so hopefully near the end of the year. So yay to that.
Secondly, I plan on posting at least every other day from now on. I have been extremely lazy lately and I need something to occupy this space. Some if it will be neat, some of it will be old, but I want to start getting on a schedule. I need structure… Wow, the corporate life is killing me. That’s all for my posts as of late. I will see you again in a couple of days.
So I managed to sit down and watch this today. It was pretty outrageous and over the top, much to my liking. I think I had an overload of ridiculousness this weekend.
First, Machine Girl was a japanese gore festering action flick in the same tone of Evil Dead. A grade A B-movie. It was a very low budget movie, lower than I expected, but I still found the things they tried in the movie to be entertaining, if only for thinking of such a premise for a death scene. It has entirely too much gore, not that that’s a bad thing mind you, and at some points tries to give more plot than necessary. If you have a group of friends, huddle round and bring out the tempura and wait until about 30 minutes into the movie. The movie is over 100 minutes long, but I believe it was worth it.
Then there was Tropic Thunder! See, this movie was a little special to me before going in, on account of two things. First, I love Jack Black. Anything that man touches I love. I’ve been a big Tenacious D fan for many years and would gladly pay whatever is necessary to see his next film. I even managed to find a pilot for a show he almost did with Owen Wilson called Heat Vision & Jack. That’s dedication. Secondly, the name, which has a story. I am not a big fan of sports games. The only kind I like are the over the top NFL Blitz and NBA Jam kind of sports games. So when NBA Street came out, I gave it a shot. I managed to find a favorite character, a real life BBall player from decades ago, whose nickname was Chocolate Thunder. Anytime I would play this character, I would reign down the shots while screaming at the top of my lungs, “CHOCOLATE! THUNDA!” So when I heard the name of this movie, I was instantly brought back to screaming, “TROPIC! THUNDA!” There. My story is over.
No but seriously, the movie is all sorts of ridiculous. I found myself taking breaks during the musical interludes to laugh and contemplate on the ludicrousness of the film. I was impressed by the depth of each character’s role and that all were given a fair amount of screen time. There were lots of names in this movie, one of which was Tom Cruise who managed to blow away myself and my friends with his performance. It definitely caught me off guard. And each role fit the actor so well. It wasn’t until they first step down into the jungle for real that the real comedy of the movie started to shine through. Definitely worth checking out, albeit a might bit offensive. OK, a lot of bit offensive. Not for the thin-skinned.
Anywho, working on getting the site back to 100%. Might take some time. Later.
WELL! I finally got the site back up after a week of hiatus. Rather than shelling out the extra $100 someodd dollars it would have been to get my site back from those filthy jerks at ENOM.COM, who are a domain hosting site themselves. SO A BIG F-U TO THOSE BASTARDS AT ENOM.COM. TO HELL WITH ALL WEB SQUATTERS. TO HELL TO EVERYTHING I WASTED ON THE FIRST SITE.
The reason it was so abrupt was because our website was purchased for 3 years. So I had no idea when the 3 years were going to dry up and the email warnings were going to an email address I don’t use anymore. SO, it wasn’t on the market for even a few hours before ENOM stole it. I hate squatters. I wish the worst of business luck to Enom. Jerks. I will take my .net and never ever ever let anyone I know use enom. Go away squatters.
