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Going against my nature?

The old M dot Strange would have had a trailer out 2 months ago... as well as a bunch of other stuff for the new film as I kinda always went along with the natural flow... project ready--> put it out... because I always believed that my hard work would pay off in the end but now I'm having to hold things up for business reasons... My end goal was never "to make money" so I didn't follow any "smart business" strategies when releasing stuff... I mean like I've put out like 19 musical albums or something and only made one available for sale... So recently I thought oh I'll make like an album filled with my best tracks of all time and sell it... and I'm trying to do that on createspace but the uploader thing has rejected it twice and it takes 5 days to let me know each time 0_o So I keep trying.... Collage of the old dayZ from inside the Cd "Strange beats Strange Rhymes Strange Times" So forgive me if I continually wrestle with mysel

M dot Strange Sound DesigneR?

After a discussion we decided it would make more sense if I started on the sound design while the music is being completed... since I finish the editing work really fast and the book is done... I'm starting on the sound design... the first thing I do is break the film down into locations... then make sound lists for the ambient sounds needed for each location... for the sound "beds" for each set... this is like the never-ending ambient sound to lay behind the music, dialogue, and hard fx to fill things out... it ends up being things like wind, torch sounds, crickets etc.... So after I make those "ambient" lists... then I go through the entire film and list all the required "hard fx"... these are things like sword clashes, bodies falling etc... I finished those which is only a little more than 200 unique sounds... NOW the thing to do is to set up my mic....look at the sound fx lists...get all my props and make my own versions of all the sounds that

Nothing to see folks... move along

Isn't it bizarre that right now SEVERAL countries in the middle east are going though major unrest wherein innocent unarmed civilians are being slaughtered in the streets... there's even video where you can see it for yourself.. IT's NO SECRET... YET mass media continues to babble on about all things truly meaningless? Celebrities, sports, TV, consumer whore tech, games etc... Politician's in purported benevolent countries "denounce" the actions taken by certain countries and their dictator's or regimes as an act of misdirection while behind the scenes they continue to support the regimes... even if they do slaughter innocent people in the streets AND it's captured on video for all to see... If your a young person today you get to see the world the way it really is through the internet...IF you choose to look... LOOK at what IS REALLY GOING ON IN THE WORLD and look at what mass media and the status quo is telling you is going on... its like NIGHT A

What am I doing NOW?

I must have a need to like type a certain number of words per day....or like express myself in some way that it being filled by doing the writing for the book... because ever since I started writing it I haven't posted here much. Well the "writing" of the book is done as of today... and as soon as my totally professional editor hand's me back the human readable version I'll start the book design. I already designed the cover and the template pages... I just need to lay it all out now. I got another chunk of music that I just finished the rough edit on so now 35 minutes of the film is cut so that's like 1/3 or 1/4 down depending on how long it ends up being... When I get the new music I work really hard for a few days to rough it out... then I take like a week and just watch it over and over adding small adjustments until it feels totally right. The music is AMAZING even though its not in the final form... seems I need to get Endika a good sample based ch

Digging up the past for the book

Some peeps asked for some stories from my past for the book so I've been digging up some old stuff to put in it.... here's some photos from about 10 years ago or so from the SomeGuY/Agent2a03 days... On our PUBLIC TOILET TOUR wherein we toured all the pay toilets in one night and had an obese elderly homeless woman sing the star spangled banner. A flyer to prove that I'm not even joking about it 0_0 In my Kitchen studio with actor and friend Steve who taught me about acting and improv... that was my first nice computer and that's where I made Blue Wander etc My Live action team from 2002 in Santa Monica... we made some really insane awesome stuff back then... Performing from a friends art show while class was in session in 2003 That's Stuart who did the voice of ORI in WATS- he's a dope MC/Singer so he would special guest with us some times Trespassing on private property to shoot a scene for my first feature film "Ophidian"

Guess the context

I went to see THE ROOM tonight as it was playing as a midnight movie... I have seen it a few times before as I r megageeK... I've been thinking a lot about promoting your own film and how its really difficult to guess how the audience will receive it.... what will get they attention? What will they laugh at? What will creep them out? As I was watching the room again...I noticed that this film is like an out of context nightmare for the director... people focus on these random things that are weird or wtf inducing like Lisa's neck in some boring dialog scene...or the football in every "friends hanging out" scene 0_o Or during the last shot of the film which was supposed to be sad or moving or something the crowd was chanting "suck his dick!" cause the way the shot was framed the peoples heads were moving over the dead guys crotch 0_O I don't think that's what he wanted.... I mean the d00d who made the room still WON in the end because it was so ba

HSM book topic requests?

So YEH I'm REALLY making a book RIGHT NOW...I will finish it and make it available as soon as its done..scheduled before the end of the month... So let me know what you want covered in this book! I'll write about anything you want so let me know! I can even do a question and answer section where I'll answer your questions in depth in the book er somethin... I'm covering the art and philosophy of the film... making of the film and my style of film production in general... stuff about the characters and sets... a chapter about UberectinG... a chapter about the films new style... with tons of concept art...my psycho drawings and stuff from my sketchbooks...test renders...stuff like that... So if were to buy my book what would you hope to be in it! Let me know and I'll make sure to include it! You can add your questions here! Thanks! Create your free online surveys with SurveyMonkey, the world's leading questionnaire tool.

What am I doing?

I edited all I can edit till I get the next chunk of music... finished that about a week and a half ago... so I'm waiting for more... I finished making the promo images, poster and teaser trailer but I'm waiting on releasing them until I have some promotional stuff to sell... like just a poster or something?...so I'm waiting to hear about that... I also decided to NOT have a "real" website for the film and I finished the THING that is going to replace that... which will be released when I do the first promo release... So instead of just waiting around  I'm writing a book ^ ^ I'm about 13,000 words into it and it's gonna have a ton of images...its "The art and philosophy of Heart String Marionette" so its part HSM art book/making of, part HSM philosophy and part M dot film school book... I go the cafe every morning and write for 2-3 hours and I'll continue to do so for the next week or so until its done... maybe I'll start eating

Apathetic whore hijacK attempt

I remember during the #iranelection goings on I was following the live twitter feed based on the hashtags... and people were using the hashtags related to the protest to promote themselves... for example something like "Check out our bands new album LINK #iranelection" ALSO attention whores were posting things like "I'm bored of hearing about Iran #iranelection"   It made ME SICK! Is that what the world has come too? Some people out there in the world who DO have spines and DO have guts are fighting for they rights and freedom and all people can do is use it to promote themselves or try to make a buck? I don't get this? How can you not care about your fellow humans who are fighting for basic human rights? Are people so narcissistic that they can't shut their fucking mouths and not talk about themselves every 5 minutes? BUT this new thing is a new LOW... so if you know what's going on in Egypt right now where regular people are fighting for the

Nobody's dancinG

In a time a numbness...where people self medicate to avoid feeling anything...and in an age where people trade freedom for "security".... NOW when someone really speaks out or acts out of PASSION they are called "crazy"... simply because it is so rare these days... but human's were not always so passive and numbed... they were once ACTIVE and BOLD... and the passion that is now called "crazy" used to just be the behavior of someone who embraced and LOVED life... but now it seems humans are AFRAID of LIFE... yeh its really DIFFICULT to truly LIVE and its really EASY to DIE...so people choose a slow DEATH instead of taking the risks required to really be ALIVE... If you stand up and fight for your rights the xombies call you "crazy" If you get up and dance the xombies call you "crazy" If you are really alive and act accordingly the xombies call you "crazy" My new film touches on this... "LAY DOWN AND DIE&quo

Some interesting tools for the near future

I've always been interested in experimenting with mocap for my animated film production BUT I don't want to invest in a suit or solutions that require 3-4 cameras...ALSO I would use it for creative purposes and probably NOT to capture stuff to apply to a biped rig... so the thangs going on with the Microsoft Kinect look very interesting... apparently some skilled programmer types have already created software bridges to integrate it with Motionbuilder, Max and Maya... So this would make your garage/bedroom/basement studio that much more powerful ^ ^ THIS really got my ideas going... I know there's sites like Veetle and Ustream to do live streaming stuff BUT your subject to they ad's and restrictions... but with the forthcoming Bit Torrent live platform you'll be able to stream whatever you want whenever you want as long as you have enough of an audience to seed and support the stream... so it kind of builds in a kind of natural selection....if no one want's