Raaaaawwwwwrrrrr....
So, picking up right after the last post. The Friday after Beats'n'Babes, I offered to help a friend of mine on the last day of filming for his entirely fan made pokemon movie trailer.
He needed my guns again and he needed cops and thugs.
I figured I'd be reprising my role as the Alley way thug, so I brought my flashy black suit.
I also brought as much police-ish looking gear as I could for the police station scene.
It's raining, so I wear my 5.11 tactical Saber jacket. Awesome rain coat.
He comes to get me at 9:00 am. On the car ride over to his place to pick up the gear he has me watch a video on his PSP to get me to understand theory behind preparing a shot for CGI add-ons for the scene where Team Rocket would be shooting up a lab. Now we can easily CGI muzzle flash and ejecting shells, but it would be really hard to add the illumination to the room that would be caused by the muzzle flash in post production.
So basically it's just to get the gears turning about things like that.
As I said, it was raining lightly. When we got out of the car, all over the side walk outside his house are those giant slugs! What's more, they're eating other dead slugs. There were large, fleshy chunks of them everywhere. It looked like the smaller ones had tunneled through the corpses like a hot metal rod through butter. One large dead one looked like another had chewed clean through him right where he lay.
So surreal.
We grab some food, load up the car and head to the staging area for filming that day. He has to go pick up some more equipment so I wait around for the rest of the crew to show up.
Our Officer Jenny is the first to arrive. She is also our make up artist.
Ash shows up a little while later, followed by our Still Photographer, AKA:The Man Who Ripped Off Star Wars then some of our thugs.
But we need to shoot the police station scene soon and not everybody is there yet! They need lots of cops too! So I suit up and head over to be a cop for this scene. I looked bad ass. Almost everything I was wearing was genuine police gear. Save for my underwear, socks and pants. I have my fancy rain jacket on, I pull the collar up high and do my best to hide my braid. I also try to spike my hair a bit more. Hopefully it won't be too obvious that I'm two characters in the same four minute trailer.
That scene is done, we strike the set and run back to the basement theatre for the thug fight scene. I suit up and grease my hair back, but it seems they've gone to a backup plan of T-shirt Ninja thugs wearing big red 'R's on their chests. So I was not part of this scene. Instead I prep the guns.
Everybody had a great ol' time playing with them in the green room. The one actress got really excited about using the M16.
They shoot one more scene here, then off to the lab scene. They do some alternate takes for the scene. Finally we do the one where they burst in, guns blazing. We had two mounted lights and my xenon flashlight going as fast as we could to simulate the light from the muzzle flash. I think it came out well.
We don't get out of the lab until somewhere around 10:00, maybe midnight. We need to shoot one more scene. We decide to do it by some dumpsters. Nothing exciting here... At least as far as things I had to do. I won't spoil the trailer.
I get home around 2:30am...
This is going to be huge. I'm talking internet fame for everyone involved kinda huge. We were theorising that we may inspire all kinds off anime convention costumes.
This guy is really talented. I hope he gets the recognition and credit he deserves for pulling this off.
Some big shot producer better see this and take him on for something big, because all he wants to do is make good or at least wildly entertaining movies. That's his only motivation.
The next night, my sister was due to arrive somewhere around 8:00 and we were going to go for sushi. But she was stuck on a bus that was taking all the tourists to their hotels before going to her stop so it was going to be a while.
I was waiting for her call, all primped up and starving to death. I catch the end of X-Men United on TV when I see a bat fly into the living room from the kitchen.
You see, I had left the back door open for some cool air as I often do.
Now this is my first time being is such close, prolonged proximity to a bat. I didn't know anything about their behaviour, I didn't know if he was going to smack into me and bite me or what, so I'm down on the ground as low as I can get, but I'm also mystified by the experience of gazing upon a live bat, in the full light of the house, not four feet from my face.
My eyes could not perceive that this was a real creature. It looked like a rubber bat on a string frantically being jerked about and swung around in circles by some unseen stage-hand hiding just out of my view.
He flies into the small alcove of the kitchen where the sink and dish shelves are. We have a curtain in the door way and there is a window in there, I figured I may be ale to chase him through if it's the only way he has to go.
I close the curtain so I at least know where he'll be while I run down stairs to grab my rain coat, close up the hood as tightly as I can around my face, put on the one work glove I could find and grab a cloth bag.
I slip in behind the curtain and stay close to the ground, watching to see if he follows any sort of pattern, and just to get an idea of how he moves.
He lands on one of the top shelves, so quickly I slip back out and grab a chair to climb up on.
He landed on a disposable plate. Carefully I lifted it up and tried to set it inside the cloth bag, but he won't have it. He takes off and circles for a little while then lands again. Once more on another disposable plate. This time I decide I am going to have to put my hand over him, not knowing if he'll be able to bite through this work glove.
So I pick up the plate, put my hand over him and carefully pick him up. I am now holding a bat. How many people are going to be this close to a wild bat in their life time, never mind actually hold one! I quickly, and carefully stick him into the bag and try to close it up as I run to the back door, but he's quick. He slipped out of my grasp and crawled right up my arm and out of the bag right before I'm outside. Now he's circling the main kitchen again.
Though I am high on adrenaline, I'm also low on blood sugar. Lacking the energy to try and catch him again, I decide it may be better just to try and chase him out the door....
My sister had a very good description with hand gestures for how I looked through the window when she approached the house. Rain coat, one bright red gloved hand raised above my hand and a small creature fluttering past.
I inform her of the situation, she waits outside and calls some friends who we are supposed to meet up with after sushi.
But somewhere I lose sight of him. He has either landed, or slipped out one of the narrowly opened windows.
We do a brief search, but we can't see him anywhere. I decide to leave a note for the room mates and head out because we are both starved.
After sushi we saw some friends who I have not seen for probably around five years. It was our old scout group. One of them is in the picture of my Ballista in one of my albums. He's in the back ground pointing to where his team's trebuchet should be pointed. Likely being operated by the other person who was with them that night from his crew. Along with the girl from our crew that the first guy is now married to.
it was good seeing them and catching up. The one of them is going to school here, so we may have to try to hook up for some camping.
The whole night I can't help but think about that poor bat. Hopefully my room mates didn't get home and stir him up then end up trying to kill him.
We finish our drinks, say our good byes then head home. Luckily nobody had gotten home yet so we go in. I do a quick look around to see if he was hiding anywhere obvious.
As I head back into the kitchen, sis says I could drive myself crazy looking for him when he may have just flown out.
Just then he flies out of nowhere and starts circling again. I run back down stairs to grab my work glove, then sis yells that he finally found his way to the door.
From the angle he kept approaching, his sonar would have completely missed the doorway.
I'm still not over it. I held a wild bat!
We met up the other night because we wanted to see District 9. The first theatre we went to wasn't showing any of the movies we wanted to see for some reason, so we headed down town. District 9 was sold out, same with Inglorious Bastards and the next showings weren't until 10:30.
I told her I wouldn't ask her to sit through G.I.Joe with me if I didn't pay for her ticket. So that's what we saw...
Wow.... It was so much better than I was expecting.
It was like some prophecy that was fulfilled. Kind of like how in Jumanji, after the game is won, Robin Williams' character is sent back to his childhood when he first started playing.
Going into the theatre caused a rift in time and space and brought my 12 year old self to inhabit my present day body, because it was only right that I be of an age where I would be without a care of how good the dialogue, production values or acting were.
I fully enjoyed that movie on every level and I left with a renewed boyish desire to be a ninja.
Then the night after, we go to see District 9.
What I find remarkable about this movie isn't the story. The story was great, but to me it wasn't anything new, and I found parts of it a little too out there.
It's not the obvious symbolism. I mean, that part should be obvious and it's been done a billion times before in movies that never get seen by enough people.
What's remarkable about this movie is people are actually listening to it and finally getting it through their heads.
For me seeing this movie. No it was nothing new at all. I knew all this already. But as something that can capture the attention of such a large audience, and leave them with something to think about? This movie definitely deserves credit.
Whatever combination of effects, story, acting, etc that they used was the right one for the masses...
Not for me though... I'm all about the interspecies romance... After all, isn't banging hot, alien chicks what man had dreamt about ever since first gazing upon the stars?
It was a great movie all around. I will buy the DVD and I will cherish it as another great movie with really cool aliens who are not evil invaders.
Everybody should go see it now.
But unless you know you will get the same pleasure out of it that I did, don't see G.I.Joe. It would be wasted on you.
I rode the new Canada Line to the airport today to see sister off. She's flying to the Montreal Film Festival where her movie is being shown.
I've been in a bit of a mood lately too. I don't really like one of my room mates. We butted horns the other day and I think I'm going to start looking for a new place. But I may still try to wait through to see if the bail out in the winter.
This should be a cake walk for me. But it is a drafty, cold house. They might not be able to stand not having a fancy north Van fortress against the elements.
I need a cheer up. Girlfriend-esque girl is getting back from Europe on the 1st. I can't wait to see her. I think we both need some comforting.
And looks like we've got an SGBC BBQ planned! It's gonna be awesome! Can't wait to talk to people in a venue where I can hear them and myself.
Papaspank had an awesome idea for a beer-swap. I hope everybody goes along with it.
I should get to bed. Was up until 3:00 last night. Feeling a little wonky tonight, despite taking a nap earlier.
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So, picking up right after the last post. The Friday after Beats'n'Babes, I offered to help a friend of mine on the last day of filming for his entirely fan made pokemon movie trailer.
He needed my guns again and he needed cops and thugs.
I figured I'd be reprising my role as the Alley way thug, so I brought my flashy black suit.
I also brought as much police-ish looking gear as I could for the police station scene.
It's raining, so I wear my 5.11 tactical Saber jacket. Awesome rain coat.
He comes to get me at 9:00 am. On the car ride over to his place to pick up the gear he has me watch a video on his PSP to get me to understand theory behind preparing a shot for CGI add-ons for the scene where Team Rocket would be shooting up a lab. Now we can easily CGI muzzle flash and ejecting shells, but it would be really hard to add the illumination to the room that would be caused by the muzzle flash in post production.
So basically it's just to get the gears turning about things like that.
As I said, it was raining lightly. When we got out of the car, all over the side walk outside his house are those giant slugs! What's more, they're eating other dead slugs. There were large, fleshy chunks of them everywhere. It looked like the smaller ones had tunneled through the corpses like a hot metal rod through butter. One large dead one looked like another had chewed clean through him right where he lay.
So surreal.
We grab some food, load up the car and head to the staging area for filming that day. He has to go pick up some more equipment so I wait around for the rest of the crew to show up.
Our Officer Jenny is the first to arrive. She is also our make up artist.
Ash shows up a little while later, followed by our Still Photographer, AKA:The Man Who Ripped Off Star Wars then some of our thugs.
But we need to shoot the police station scene soon and not everybody is there yet! They need lots of cops too! So I suit up and head over to be a cop for this scene. I looked bad ass. Almost everything I was wearing was genuine police gear. Save for my underwear, socks and pants. I have my fancy rain jacket on, I pull the collar up high and do my best to hide my braid. I also try to spike my hair a bit more. Hopefully it won't be too obvious that I'm two characters in the same four minute trailer.
That scene is done, we strike the set and run back to the basement theatre for the thug fight scene. I suit up and grease my hair back, but it seems they've gone to a backup plan of T-shirt Ninja thugs wearing big red 'R's on their chests. So I was not part of this scene. Instead I prep the guns.
Everybody had a great ol' time playing with them in the green room. The one actress got really excited about using the M16.
They shoot one more scene here, then off to the lab scene. They do some alternate takes for the scene. Finally we do the one where they burst in, guns blazing. We had two mounted lights and my xenon flashlight going as fast as we could to simulate the light from the muzzle flash. I think it came out well.
We don't get out of the lab until somewhere around 10:00, maybe midnight. We need to shoot one more scene. We decide to do it by some dumpsters. Nothing exciting here... At least as far as things I had to do. I won't spoil the trailer.
I get home around 2:30am...
This is going to be huge. I'm talking internet fame for everyone involved kinda huge. We were theorising that we may inspire all kinds off anime convention costumes.
This guy is really talented. I hope he gets the recognition and credit he deserves for pulling this off.
Some big shot producer better see this and take him on for something big, because all he wants to do is make good or at least wildly entertaining movies. That's his only motivation.
The next night, my sister was due to arrive somewhere around 8:00 and we were going to go for sushi. But she was stuck on a bus that was taking all the tourists to their hotels before going to her stop so it was going to be a while.
I was waiting for her call, all primped up and starving to death. I catch the end of X-Men United on TV when I see a bat fly into the living room from the kitchen.
You see, I had left the back door open for some cool air as I often do.
Now this is my first time being is such close, prolonged proximity to a bat. I didn't know anything about their behaviour, I didn't know if he was going to smack into me and bite me or what, so I'm down on the ground as low as I can get, but I'm also mystified by the experience of gazing upon a live bat, in the full light of the house, not four feet from my face.
My eyes could not perceive that this was a real creature. It looked like a rubber bat on a string frantically being jerked about and swung around in circles by some unseen stage-hand hiding just out of my view.
He flies into the small alcove of the kitchen where the sink and dish shelves are. We have a curtain in the door way and there is a window in there, I figured I may be ale to chase him through if it's the only way he has to go.
I close the curtain so I at least know where he'll be while I run down stairs to grab my rain coat, close up the hood as tightly as I can around my face, put on the one work glove I could find and grab a cloth bag.
I slip in behind the curtain and stay close to the ground, watching to see if he follows any sort of pattern, and just to get an idea of how he moves.
He lands on one of the top shelves, so quickly I slip back out and grab a chair to climb up on.
He landed on a disposable plate. Carefully I lifted it up and tried to set it inside the cloth bag, but he won't have it. He takes off and circles for a little while then lands again. Once more on another disposable plate. This time I decide I am going to have to put my hand over him, not knowing if he'll be able to bite through this work glove.
So I pick up the plate, put my hand over him and carefully pick him up. I am now holding a bat. How many people are going to be this close to a wild bat in their life time, never mind actually hold one! I quickly, and carefully stick him into the bag and try to close it up as I run to the back door, but he's quick. He slipped out of my grasp and crawled right up my arm and out of the bag right before I'm outside. Now he's circling the main kitchen again.
Though I am high on adrenaline, I'm also low on blood sugar. Lacking the energy to try and catch him again, I decide it may be better just to try and chase him out the door....
My sister had a very good description with hand gestures for how I looked through the window when she approached the house. Rain coat, one bright red gloved hand raised above my hand and a small creature fluttering past.
I inform her of the situation, she waits outside and calls some friends who we are supposed to meet up with after sushi.
But somewhere I lose sight of him. He has either landed, or slipped out one of the narrowly opened windows.
We do a brief search, but we can't see him anywhere. I decide to leave a note for the room mates and head out because we are both starved.
After sushi we saw some friends who I have not seen for probably around five years. It was our old scout group. One of them is in the picture of my Ballista in one of my albums. He's in the back ground pointing to where his team's trebuchet should be pointed. Likely being operated by the other person who was with them that night from his crew. Along with the girl from our crew that the first guy is now married to.
it was good seeing them and catching up. The one of them is going to school here, so we may have to try to hook up for some camping.
The whole night I can't help but think about that poor bat. Hopefully my room mates didn't get home and stir him up then end up trying to kill him.
We finish our drinks, say our good byes then head home. Luckily nobody had gotten home yet so we go in. I do a quick look around to see if he was hiding anywhere obvious.
As I head back into the kitchen, sis says I could drive myself crazy looking for him when he may have just flown out.
Just then he flies out of nowhere and starts circling again. I run back down stairs to grab my work glove, then sis yells that he finally found his way to the door.
From the angle he kept approaching, his sonar would have completely missed the doorway.
I'm still not over it. I held a wild bat!
We met up the other night because we wanted to see District 9. The first theatre we went to wasn't showing any of the movies we wanted to see for some reason, so we headed down town. District 9 was sold out, same with Inglorious Bastards and the next showings weren't until 10:30.
I told her I wouldn't ask her to sit through G.I.Joe with me if I didn't pay for her ticket. So that's what we saw...
Wow.... It was so much better than I was expecting.
It was like some prophecy that was fulfilled. Kind of like how in Jumanji, after the game is won, Robin Williams' character is sent back to his childhood when he first started playing.
Going into the theatre caused a rift in time and space and brought my 12 year old self to inhabit my present day body, because it was only right that I be of an age where I would be without a care of how good the dialogue, production values or acting were.
I fully enjoyed that movie on every level and I left with a renewed boyish desire to be a ninja.
Then the night after, we go to see District 9.
What I find remarkable about this movie isn't the story. The story was great, but to me it wasn't anything new, and I found parts of it a little too out there.
It's not the obvious symbolism. I mean, that part should be obvious and it's been done a billion times before in movies that never get seen by enough people.
What's remarkable about this movie is people are actually listening to it and finally getting it through their heads.
For me seeing this movie. No it was nothing new at all. I knew all this already. But as something that can capture the attention of such a large audience, and leave them with something to think about? This movie definitely deserves credit.
Whatever combination of effects, story, acting, etc that they used was the right one for the masses...
Not for me though... I'm all about the interspecies romance... After all, isn't banging hot, alien chicks what man had dreamt about ever since first gazing upon the stars?
It was a great movie all around. I will buy the DVD and I will cherish it as another great movie with really cool aliens who are not evil invaders.
Everybody should go see it now.
But unless you know you will get the same pleasure out of it that I did, don't see G.I.Joe. It would be wasted on you.
I rode the new Canada Line to the airport today to see sister off. She's flying to the Montreal Film Festival where her movie is being shown.
I've been in a bit of a mood lately too. I don't really like one of my room mates. We butted horns the other day and I think I'm going to start looking for a new place. But I may still try to wait through to see if the bail out in the winter.
This should be a cake walk for me. But it is a drafty, cold house. They might not be able to stand not having a fancy north Van fortress against the elements.
I need a cheer up. Girlfriend-esque girl is getting back from Europe on the 1st. I can't wait to see her. I think we both need some comforting.
And looks like we've got an SGBC BBQ planned! It's gonna be awesome! Can't wait to talk to people in a venue where I can hear them and myself.
Papaspank had an awesome idea for a beer-swap. I hope everybody goes along with it.
I should get to bed. Was up until 3:00 last night. Feeling a little wonky tonight, despite taking a nap earlier.
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Mexico Cabron is playing the Cobalt again this Thursday and there is a party on Wednesday at the Princeton Pub
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