Today, while you’re in the lovin’ mood, why not share your big geek heart with others.
Geek Girls Network™ & Geeky Clean have created a fundraiser to support the Haiti Relief called Geeks With Heart.
Through Mercy Corp, Geeks With Heart has a fundraising goal of $2500 and there’s no minimum for donations. If you can spare just one special cup of coffee, an iTunes download, or a crispy chicken sandwich, donate to Haiti instead. Show Haiti why geeks have heart!
As extra incentive, and not that you need any, once Geeks With Heart reaches $2500, all who donated will have the chance to win a prize from an amazing grab bag of geek prizes!
So donate, tweet it up, put a badge on your website, and tell all your friends and family. Thanks!
Geeks With Heart: http://www.mercycorps.org/fundraising/geekgirls
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Hey folks, recently we did an interview with Erie, Pennsylvania based Corey of The Midnight Podcast, an all-zombies weekly show about – zombies. Corey has since been added as a commentator on several other series podcasts about horror to be the official zombie newsman. Sit back and enjoy the cast:
If there are any. Well here is to hoping there are Galaxy Sailor Production fans out there. I thought I better get in here and update the site, and make some announcements as to what is happening in the filming world.
First off, the big project, The Last Stand, is about to release Episode 3 on Monday, February 1st, 2010. We are finished with all the special effects and we are completely scored music wise, and all the color is in place. Now we are getting our audio mixed and sweetened by Tag Team Audio. These guys are gems, and they have an extensive history of amazing work for some big dogs. I am pretty amazed that I have the opportunity for them to put the finishing touches on our audio. Once that is done, Episode 3 is out to the masses.
There are some films our there that I think need a tip of the hat for people to go out and see. First off, everyone is talking about Avatar. I did see Avatar, as a midnight movie, opening night, in Digital 3D. What did I think? Well, I have always been a Cameron fan, but I was left flat by Titanic. Cameron is the master at developing characters with texture and soul, despite the environments he creates (which are amazing). Look and ALIENS and The Abyss. These are movies that are amazing and beautiful and scary and dynamic, and the characters are the real starts, as well as amazing stories. That is what we care about: the characters and the story. I thought Avatar was meh in story and characters. I love Sigorney Weaver, but she was wasted in the film as a talent. There are also holes in the story. BUT! When the story involves our exploring of the environments and the textures created by the new digital 3D technology, Cameron is at the top of his game. If you were to compare Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace, the technology was pretty but it didn’t give us anything we didn’t already have, plus it failed in story and characters. While Cameron may have failed me with story holes, he created environments and textures that made me feel like I was truly part of something new. So with that, it is totally worth it!
Up next, people need to watch Food, Inc. and The Cove. They are harsh, brutal, and earth shattering in what you will learn of what people do to each other and the environment, but you have to be aware of what is done around you that you choose to ignore. We need to wake up, fellow humans, for we are our own worst enemy.
I think that is good for now. Galaxy Sailor, signing off…
Hey folks, we here at Galaxy Sailor Productions are the master minds behind The Last Stand. We just got Episode 2: Dearly Departed posted all over the place and we hope you come and check it out! Episode 3 is nearing completion in edits, so hopefully we will have music and special effects coming soon as well. Thanks for staying tuned. It was a tough road getting to Episode 2, but the increased quality in film and personnel should make it worth while. Please enjoy!
I am not a Christmas fan. To me, Christmas is a hijacked holiday taken by the christians, mutated by Hallmark, and made embarrassing by snotty little kids begging for things they want, thinking it is something they need. The desire to buy someone something to make sure they love you in order to celebrate the birth of someone that wanted us to get along, and later killed for asking us to get along, seems really silly to me.
The amazing part are the songs: with Peace on Earth, Good Will Toward Men. Blah blah blah. Does anyone remember we are having our people kill and die in another land because a Texas asshole has a chip on his shoulder and a small dick in his pants? I do!
In this time, we need to remember what is means to really struggle and to really mean peace. Americans don’t know this or understand this any more. We are too worried about if Lindsey Lohan is a lesbian and is making it with an ugly DJ in L.A. America, you need to watch what it means to struggle for what you believe in. Half a world away there are people fighting for the right to govern in such a way that is not radical and not idiotic. They don’t want to be like us, they just want it better then what it is. They aren’t letting cell phone technology and new high tops placate them in the struggle to be happy. Not comforted by stupid commercialism and retarded socialites – just happy.
I hope you all watch what it means to struggle and fight for what you believe in, even in the face of defiance.
I gotta pay more attention to this blog in case someone is paying attention to it.
Well, The Last Stand trudges on as far as getting the series out the door. I have hit every issue in making a film. Audio and filming issues in the field, computer and media outages in the technology world, people issues in getting it done. All in all, it’s the typical problems associated with making it all happen. Oh, and no budget…
There have been lots of happenings for me though. Lets see:
I was hired to film in Seattle for Brunswick Media and Ports America. BM was hire to create a new educational video, which was to include ports that are used be PA on the west coast. Most all of their ownership is in New Jersey and Texas, so coming to Seattle was a way to start making the west siders feel included. Hopefully I will get some footage soon to post on here of what I shot that day. I had never been actually on a port area before, so it was pretty amazing to see the MASSIVE operation it takes to unload all the stuff we consume in this country.
About two weeks ago I got hired on to do a commercial for Rose’s Equipment & Supply here in Portland. The company has been in business for 30 years and has never had a TV commercial of any kind. I am very happy and fortunate to say that I got to make their first one! You can find the commercial here as well as in my video section and embedded at the end of this post. Thanks goes out to Rachel Bennett for helping to script, shoot and edit this commercial. Also, a big thanks to Michael Fox of Vault Modeling & Talent for coming in for the day be talent and hire talent.
Speaking of Michael, it turns out he was quite the mover and shaker in his days of L.A., and having worked with Michael here a few times, he was gracious enough to ask me and Rachel to come and visit his buddies at Indent Studios. They are shooting a movie with Gus Van Sant right now, and we got to see the set that was built. The actress playing in Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland, Mia Wasikowsha, was there filming a love scene. Very cool stuff.
On the IMDb notes, I now have several IMDb listings. I am pretty psyched about that. You can check me out here and here. More to be added on that, for sure!
I recently helped to shoot a music video for Autumn Andel and Photosphere LLC. It was Autumn’s eighth music video, and another one of here green screen compositing adventures. It was a good time filming!
I know, I know. I keep on promising episode 2 of The Last Stand. I just want it to be good and be right, so it is taking time. The first one is as good as it is out of accident and luck with whatever skill I had to add to it. I don’t trust to blind luck to carry me through it, so if it isn’t want I want, then I am not going to put it out there. I hope soon!
Carry on peoples, and thanks for stopping in!
Today I had the privilege of seeing Zack Learned, the boy I gave my helmet to a few months back. Zack was diagnosed with a form of Leukemia, and was possibly not going to make it. When Make a Wish came to us and asked us to build him a suit of armor for Comic Con, we jumped at the deal. Zack had wanted to go as part of the 212 Battalions Airborne Parjai squad. The helmet is very hard to come by, and I have one of the few in existence. So I donated mine to him.
Today, Make a Wish is having an air miles fund raiser and they asked Zack and I to make an appearance for the show. Here is our clip:
I am so excited for this movie, I can hardly hold my water. Spike Jones! Hensen Studios. Maurice Sendak. I think I died and went to the greatest book of my whole childhood. I know it was only a couple of pages and this is a full length film, but I can’t help but think this is the greatest thing to happen to me, cinematically, since Lord of the Rings. Enjoy these previews.
I am usually talking about where I am shooting, what I am shooting (film wise) and all the things film that I am currently doing as well as film work by others. Well today, the post is different.
Today I am posting pictures of my transformation from eating meat to not eating meat ever again. I have been working on being vegetarian, and eventually vegan, for about six months. I have been running at about 98%, with minor slips that have gotten easier to control. Meat is damn addictive, and I had to break its hold. To that as well, everything has meat in it. It is unbelievable how we use animal matter in so many things. It is worse to know that I have KNOWN for so long and done nothing about it. That has changed.
So, awhile back I had bought these cutting boards, one being labeled meat, the other veggie, so there would be no cross contamination. I haven’t had meat in any capacity in so long that it only seemed fitting to correct the issue in my labels. You can see that one board said MEAT, now reads NO MEAT. A clear definition of how it runs in my house. So I now have three cutting boards, none of which will ever have or be used for meat.
I am very proud of that.
On October 16, 2008, at the New Castle County Airport near Wilmington, Delaware, Piasecki put its X-49A experimental Speedhawk helicopter through a final series of hoops that satisfied Phase 1 of its development for the U.S. Navy. The X-49A is a Sikorsky SH-60F Seahawk naval helicopter that Piasecki modified with an airplane wing and an aft propeller to give it greater speed and range. During the October demonstration, the helicopter reached 207 mph; an unmodified Seahawk at the same weight would fly at 150 to 160 mph. Other accomplishments demonstrated: a 35 to 50 percent increase in deceleration and acceleration speeds, compared with what a Black Hawk helicopter can do; a no-hover takeoff; a 47 percent increase in speed over a Seahawk operating at the same power; and a 50 percent reduction in vibration, due to the ducted propeller and the wing relieving the rotor of some of its lift and thrust duties. Next up? A third engine, which Piasecki hopes will enable the craft to exceed 230 mph. As for a production version, if one is approved, the company says that cruise speed will be 235 mph and dash speed, 255 mph.
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