Definitive Proof

Last week I did a smoking study for an aquatence of mind.
The goal was to show the difference in the smokers brain when they were craving a smoke and after their craving had been satisfied.
I couldn't smoke for 6 hours before the study.
So, you go in craving a ciggarette, they stick you in a MRI machine and show you pics of people smoking. The machine take images of the brain activity. Then you answer questions about the nature of your craving, More imaging. Then out you come from the machine, have a smoke and repeat the proceedure.
It was a rather fun experience for me, I felt like I was in the future.
There was a guy who ran the machine named Reggie or Wayne or DeWayne Wayne... regardless. He was not nearly as impressed with my brain image as I was and I guess that once you've seen one brain you've seen them all.

A Wee Wei

I'm going to France.
and I'm getting paid for it.
My good buddy Smith called me up yesterday and said that his company needs an extra shooter to cover the Motocross Des Nation Event in Ennen (sp?) France. The shoot won't be until the end of September, but I'm excited. We will be flying directly to Paris, which I'm not so excited about.
You see, I Don't fly to well.
I have been flying in planes since I was about 8 months old.My mother and I would fly to Canada to visit relatives. Then thru the years I have had to travel a lot for work. I even went to Europe with some friends in 2000. No problem for this jet setting guy.
Then I flew out of Allentown, Pa.
The Allentown airport is tiny in comparison to Hartsfield her in Atlanta, with only 1 spoke at the time of this flight. We arrived to fly home and the place was desserted, I mean empty, ours being the last flight of the night. Thsi unto itself was a little unnerving if not surreal. Our flight is delayed by about 2 hours so we are the only flight left to take off in the place. There was about 15 passengers waiting when the plane finally landed, disgourging it's cargo. And this cargo looked BAD. The people coming off that flight had just found religion in the most desperate of times, or so it appeared. Then it's our turn to lift off into the wild blue yonder, except the yonder on this day was real grey with low visibility. 10 minutes in to the flight we hit a little turbulance.
Then some more, then some more. I set my book down in the seat next to me and closed my eyes to coach my way thru this. Things settled down and I began to relax when my stomach left the building. It was not one of those 'I lost my stomach going down that big hill' type things either. It hurt. The book I had laid in the seat next to me was now floating at eye level and my ass was no longer in the seat. This lasted about 5 seconds and then abated , then happened again. I thought to myself,' this will be a lead story in Allentown and a blurb on the 6 O'Clock news in the rest of the country'. Shit, so much for being famous, or rich or just getting to touch a woman again.
All the while my panic is growng and I think about my coming demise, the plane is beggining to settle down. This I don't notice because I am other wise (thinking of death, you see) occupied.
Then it happens, that gruff heavenly voice from above...
"This is the captain speaking, sorry bout that shake up there folks, we got routed into the storm by mistake, and I have to say in my 24 years of flying that was the worst turbulance I've been through, we're back on track now and should be smooth sailing till Atlanta, thank you."
I am writing this, so you know that I surrived, but I hope that this illustrates my distaste for flying.
But drinks on international flights are free...
Keep the drinks coming stewardess, keep em coming.

Slow Slow Slow and a Show

Work has been dead.
Hence the lack of pics and updates.
But
Pistolero will be playing a show at the Star Bar in L5P Tommorrow, Friday Aug 19th. 9 pm

We Rock





See

Hold me close Tiny Dancer

This is a screen shot from the latest spot that I have been working on. It's a commercial for a jewelry store in McDonough. I started making spots for this company about 6 years when I was employed by William Barber. When I left that job, they came with me to the next production house, and then the next and finally to Studio 5. I don't make a ton of money from them (about half of what I normally make) but they hired me when I was first getting started and they're good people, so I keep doing the work for them.
This spot features 3 animated 'workman'. In the pic you can see them carrying gold and diamonds, this has led to an INVENTORY CRISIS (it's still a commercial no matter how much I like to think it's art). Thsi is just the open. There's spinning stars with text inside such as, Up to 75% off and Everything must go. As well as really hokey page turns.

Stop.....Go Back and Click that Last Link.



No really...You Must.



Good...You May Proceed.



The animations are very Aqua Teen/Sealab. That's because we did the spot on After Effects. Mike Mikalski drew the guys and did almost all of the animation, I just came up with the idea and did a little tweaking. I don't think that many people will see this commercial as it will only air in Henry County, but if your really interested I can arrange a private viewing with our tiny dancers.

Pat's Little Brother

1:
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Rolling with My Shorty

I've seen many different parodies of Adolf Hitler but this one is the absolute most brillant ever.
Roll that Shit mob deep Fool.
Peace out

A-Town

These Are the Bad Times

In the video biz you need lots of storage.
Loads of storage.
So I have a little under a tera byte of storage space for my Media 100.
Last week during the storms that we had here in Atlanta one partition of my Lacie Big Drive (500GB) dissapeared.
Gone.
With the Wind.
This is normally not that tragic, but contaied within this drive were the Media 100 program files for every project... for the last 3 years.
Why didn't you back them up you ask.
Because I'm an IDIOT!
This problem is compounded by the fact that I have several revisions that I need to get to that are now gone.
No revisions= No Money = No drinks.

I'd like to say that this experience has given me some great insight into my life and it's tribulation.
It has not. In fact I'm willing to bet that within a year I'll have another problem/meltdown of equal or greater magnitude occur.
No, what I learned from this is that not being vigilent with hard copy backups will cost you money.
Lots 'O Money

NEW EXTERNAL FIREWIRE HARD DRIVE - $302.69
DATA RECOVERY - $732


As a side note I'm in the middle of a project for DBI. Market research video for laminators. This is an Englishman named Hugo.

Note got a Baby

My friend Casey and his wife had a baby last night. So Randy and I decided to pay the family a visit today. Some of these pics are dark because there was a newborn in the room (no flash).

This is where we found Note...


When we looked for the baby....


then we found it....


then Note took it away from us...


It was very nice experience and then we got lost leaving

The Goods

Over the past 2 months I have been working with Valkyrie Entertainment Group to launch a new show called THE GOODS CONCERT TELVISION. It will be a half hour live music show. We take unsigned bands from all around the country and let them play 2 songs then interview them. We are planing to do a time buy on Fuse TV. This is on of our hosts, her name is Greer...




This is Sherri D, she does the interviews...



If you look closely, you can see that the guy in blue with the girlish hair is looking at Sherri D's tits. It's okay though, I think everyone did at least once.
Today we are making letterhead for the sponsorship proposals.

Blue Monday

This job can be very fun. Do interesting things, meet exciting people, shoot beautiful scenes.
Today was not one of those days.
Today I worked on an actress's demo video. Clips from different spots shes appeared in, still, that type stuff.
The woman in question is a friend of mine and I like to help out when I can, but I have resized over 140 .jpegs
to 720x486...I'm OVER IT. Heres a sample






As a side note I am hoping to help run a semi political campaign for a friend and I am thinking about making adocumentary about this kid, Ken Gushi.