I Found a Photo That I Took in an Article on Cracked.com

I was reading an article today at Cracked.com about 6 Mental Illness Myths Hollywood Wants You to Believe wherein a mention of child molesters was illustrated with a photo of a creepy van.

Not just any photo of a creepy van, but the very photo of a creepy van that I shot with my phone while sitting at my desk at work exactly two years ago today. The very same creepy van photo that I posted to this very blog, as seen here:

Douglas Dillingham - Filmmaker: I Love Creepy Vans

I also posted that van on the site CreepyVans.info, which is probably where they got the image.

This just goes to confirm my theory that all of reality, and by extension the internet, is just one big screwy Möbius strip... full of creepy vans. Maybe I could somehow leverage this into a job at Cracked?

Tuscaloosa Tornado 4-27-2011

A massive tornado, some sources categorizing it as an EF5, passed no more than 4 miles south of our home about 3 hours ago. It got very dark and windy for a while but there's no damage in my immediate area. Tuscaloosa has suffered terrible destruction. I've gathered together a few videos and links below:

Image gallery of damage and aftermath around McFarland Blvd and 15th St. from the Tuscaloosa News

Tuscaloosa Tornados 4-27-2011

This is Why I Love Craigslist

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American Adaptations of British TV Shows

Here's a video that I threw together for a group presentation on the topic of "American Adaptations of British TV Shows" for a Telecommunications & Film class project.

So Far, So Good

College has been great so far! I haven't had much trouble getting into the swing of things and I'm doing fairly well with my grades this first semester. I'm coming up on the end of this term and between meetings with advisors, job interviews, and projects for finals, I've been extremely busy. I don't have any serious video projects on the immediate horizon, which is good since it means I get to work on whatever I choose!

Speaking of class projects, here's a blog that I contributed to for a group assignment for my Intro to Telecommunication & Film class:

American Adaptations of British TV Shows

I did the graphic design and layout and have contributed one post so far. I'm working on editing together a video for our group presentation, which is Monday the 18th. I've had a lot of fun with the title sequence so far, finding humorous ways to visually illustrate the "Americanization" of overt English national stereotypes. I'll post it up here when I finish it in a few days.

As a final note, I'm considering taking on a double major with the second being in music, possibly composition. I'm still looking into the particulars of it, but so far I'm thinking I'm going to go through with it...

Ship VFX Lightwave Test

I found this on an old drive. It's a VFX test that I did around 2004. I modeled and rendered the ship in Lightwave and I think the glow and flash effects are from Vegas. I composited the ship onto a background plate of stock footage of outer space. I think it looks pretty good considering I had no idea what I was doing at the time.

"Blue Sky Dream" - My 2011 Campus Movie Fest Entry

I just finished uploading my submission to the 2011 Campus Movie Fest site. It's a surreal piece called "Blue Sky Dream". You can check it out here:

http://campusmoviefest.com/movies/7774-blue-sky-dream

Or watch it below.

New Year, New Place, Back Online.

The last few weeks have been one big heap of crazy.

Lindsey and I have moved to Tuscaloosa, AL where I'm attending the University of Alabama as a Telecommunications & Film major. We've been on a bit of a digital fast and just got our internet service connected a day or so ago. I've been busy getting my class schedule settled along with all the other fun college stuff.

Today on campus I learned that the Campus Movie Festival, the "world's largest student film festival", will be at UA in 2 weeks. I'm strongly considering taking part and am already working on ideas for a script.

I'm also open to shooting someone else's script for those of you who came here from my CMF profile. If you've got a good concept or script or are looking for someone to shoot, direct, edit, DP, or whatever, then please feel free to contact me. I'm not really sure what I'm doing at this point, just fairly certain that I want to get involved.

On another note, we finally finished up the "Paranotica" music video for Chaotic Theory before we skipped town. It took us well over a year to pull the whole thing together since the band kept changing it's lineup and requesting that we re-shoot with new members. I'm fairly satisfied with the end result, but it pains me to say that a lot what I felt was the best material ended up getting cut since it was footage from early shoots featuring people who were no longer in the band. I'll probably post some of that cut footage here at some point or work it into a new demo reel.

So here's the video:

Again, as far as the CMF goes, I'm open to just about anything so feel free to email or message me on the CMF site if you'd like to talk.

Click here for my profile.

White Christmas in Alabama

This is the first time it's ever snowed here on Christmas during my lifetime.

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A Very Gundarr Christmas

I was recently asked by Corey McDaniel to score an episode of Gundarr the Barbarian. Corey was a part of Zombiesquid Productions, an artists collective that I organized and operated for a couple of years circa 2003-ish.

I haven't really worked on any music in a good long while so it was fun to dust the cobwebs off of that corner of my brain. I was asked to write a score that sounded "sort of like Basil Poledouris's Conan, but more like Christmas" and this was the end result.

Note: The video has been removed. Gundarr was picked up by Mondo Mini Shows and I suppose they're planning on running the episode over there.

If anyone is actually reading this out there and you're looking for someone to throw together a musical score, I'm available...