You may notice the cover is slightly revised from the solicited version. The muddy yellow background really wasn't working for me and in the end, I dropped it out all together.
Also, CBR is running an interview I did with them about this issue here.
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Captain America #34
The new Captain America makes his debut today as Captain America #34 hits the stores, written by Ed Brubaker, penciled by me, inked by Butch Guice, and colored by Frank D'Armata.
(click image to enlarge)
You may notice the cover is slightly revised from the solicited version. The muddy yellow background really wasn't working for me and in the end, I dropped it out all together.
Also, CBR is running an interview I did with them about this issue here.
You may notice the cover is slightly revised from the solicited version. The muddy yellow background really wasn't working for me and in the end, I dropped it out all together.
Also, CBR is running an interview I did with them about this issue here.
Nancy Kumi wrestling Mariko Akagi in Japan
Nancy Kumi wrestling Mariko Akagi in Japan.
This may be from a tag team bout since Nancy and Victoria Fujimi, won the WWWA Tag Team Wrestling titles from Chino Sato and Mariko Akagi.
Did Mariko Akagi ever wrestle masked?
The more I look at this, the more I think I have it labeled wrong.
Nancy Kumi wrestling Mariko Akagi in Japan, posted to http://joshipuroresu.blogspot.com/ on 1-30-2008
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Monday, January 28, 2008
Staying Upright
Sorry there was no blog last week. There likely won't be one next week either. Criminal, I know.
Women's Studies has really become a full time job again over the past couple of weeks. I feel a little like I'm skiing ahead of an avalanche. No thoughts of fancy tricks or reaching the end of the slope. All energy is focused on simply staying upright.
There's not a whole lot I really feel like talking about. It's all minutia, technical hiccups, and trying to stay on deadlines that seem to be constantly shifting. Things I thought were figured out aren't. Things I though were set in stone turn fluid in an instant.
A movie is a fickle thing. You think you have it and then you step away and all of sudden, it's not right. Then you think you get it right again and send out for someone else to work on, and that someone else goes, "Are you sure?" Then you remind yourself, "Doubt is the enemy." But so is over-confidence. It's a high wire act on a very thin line.
I feel a little too close to the movie these days, but I don't really feel like I have the time or luxury to step away. Of course, next week I'm being forced to step away. I'm leaving to bike a hundred miles down Key West come Saturday. Plans for the trip were made months ago, but I feel like the timing is just awful. My baby needs me, and I'm basically going on vacation.
Right now, I'm trying to get everything to a point where I can leave and the project won't implode, or worse, stop.
No fancy tricks. Don't even think about the end. Just stay upright.
Women's Studies has really become a full time job again over the past couple of weeks. I feel a little like I'm skiing ahead of an avalanche. No thoughts of fancy tricks or reaching the end of the slope. All energy is focused on simply staying upright.
There's not a whole lot I really feel like talking about. It's all minutia, technical hiccups, and trying to stay on deadlines that seem to be constantly shifting. Things I thought were figured out aren't. Things I though were set in stone turn fluid in an instant.
A movie is a fickle thing. You think you have it and then you step away and all of sudden, it's not right. Then you think you get it right again and send out for someone else to work on, and that someone else goes, "Are you sure?" Then you remind yourself, "Doubt is the enemy." But so is over-confidence. It's a high wire act on a very thin line.
I feel a little too close to the movie these days, but I don't really feel like I have the time or luxury to step away. Of course, next week I'm being forced to step away. I'm leaving to bike a hundred miles down Key West come Saturday. Plans for the trip were made months ago, but I feel like the timing is just awful. My baby needs me, and I'm basically going on vacation.
Right now, I'm trying to get everything to a point where I can leave and the project won't implode, or worse, stop.
No fancy tricks. Don't even think about the end. Just stay upright.
Sunday, January 27, 2008
The Toilet Decorum Of Kings College London Students
Hullo!
Though it has always been a particularly foetid issue, this afternoons study session in the Maughan has brought to a head the disgust i have been forced to hold for certain anonymous KCL contemporaries, specifically in the lavatorial sphere. The fact is, the personal facilities of the Maughan and the Strand campus of the university appear to have become over run by individuals complacant with uriniating, defecating, and be-tissuing all over them. I don't know if its some sort of unlisted college society, or perhaps im just missing out on some low brow/rent fun which others have cottened onto, but i just dont understand how presumeably very academic young men at one of the better universities in the country can be so nonchalent in letting their toilet activities get the better of them to a point of a serious dearth in personal hygiene, and the very real possibility of a college health scare eminating from the bowls, and subsequently walls and cubicles, they have defiled.
I, like any other student, can appreciate the fact that a hard day reading up on the political spheres of medieval europe, or the narrative focalisations of Victorian literature, would sometimes make a boy want to have a relaxing break to reward oneself. A chapter of Three Men On The Bummel, or a cup of camomile tea for instance. What i fail to understand is why some people's downtime is nonchalantly filled with pooing all over a library toilet, with attempts at a clean up operation simply being weeing a bit, covering it all with a layer of tissue and the leaving it, as if it will be spirited away like the mince pies left for Father Christmas. Unfortunately, there's no nonimaginary parent figure in the Maughan to come and eat your mess, and thus magically instil in you the fantasy that it will vanish into the ether of the U.
Though it has always been a particularly foetid issue, this afternoons study session in the Maughan has brought to a head the disgust i have been forced to hold for certain anonymous KCL contemporaries, specifically in the lavatorial sphere. The fact is, the personal facilities of the Maughan and the Strand campus of the university appear to have become over run by individuals complacant with uriniating, defecating, and be-tissuing all over them. I don't know if its some sort of unlisted college society, or perhaps im just missing out on some low brow/rent fun which others have cottened onto, but i just dont understand how presumeably very academic young men at one of the better universities in the country can be so nonchalent in letting their toilet activities get the better of them to a point of a serious dearth in personal hygiene, and the very real possibility of a college health scare eminating from the bowls, and subsequently walls and cubicles, they have defiled.
I, like any other student, can appreciate the fact that a hard day reading up on the political spheres of medieval europe, or the narrative focalisations of Victorian literature, would sometimes make a boy want to have a relaxing break to reward oneself. A chapter of Three Men On The Bummel, or a cup of camomile tea for instance. What i fail to understand is why some people's downtime is nonchalantly filled with pooing all over a library toilet, with attempts at a clean up operation simply being weeing a bit, covering it all with a layer of tissue and the leaving it, as if it will be spirited away like the mince pies left for Father Christmas. Unfortunately, there's no nonimaginary parent figure in the Maughan to come and eat your mess, and thus magically instil in you the fantasy that it will vanish into the ether of the U.
Friday, January 25, 2008
YD BKFC RCNZ IDST!
I agree with Piz, Facebook has virtually destroyed this site, which is a bit slow when loading granted, but lets keep the faith.
To celebrate the new year, BKFC clothing will shortly be available and you will all have rcvd emails with details. For any others who wish to own such splendid katz merchandise you can email me with your orders. Hoodies £30, tshirts £12. You can get more detailson the 'The Friends of the Beeston Katz' discussion board on Facebook, er sorry The Evil That Is Facebook.
i havw nothing of interest to say other than that, so here are some random amusing pics:
To celebrate the new year, BKFC clothing will shortly be available and you will all have rcvd emails with details. For any others who wish to own such splendid katz merchandise you can email me with your orders. Hoodies £30, tshirts £12. You can get more detailson the 'The Friends of the Beeston Katz' discussion board on Facebook, er sorry The Evil That Is Facebook.
i havw nothing of interest to say other than that, so here are some random amusing pics:
January......
Well I have been meaning to post something up here for ages (where is everyone else?) but I guess January is just a crap month and no one really feels like doing too much at all. I certainly haven't, except brag about how cool my holiday was and how awesome my tan is (fading.....).
Going to Latam was such good fun, being with your old man is wicked and its an experience that I wished I had been able to have many times before, you're all a lucky bunch for having families so close by, take them for granted? Bet you do!
Couple of the highlights,
- Seeing me Grans
- Getting lashed with my dad (who of course doesn't get drunk) and uncles
- Going to the wine country and tasting some awesome wines
- Buenos Aires!
- Steak, Guayu Beef, Bife de Lomo, Argentinian Malbec
- That lunch place in Floripa that does Siri fritters (Crab balls!)
- The beach, body boarding, surfing is impossible
- Thongs
- Rio for a night and hanging about with Ferdi and Rod
- Reading a couple of books
- Totally 100% chilling out
- Meeting new people
- Coming back and going on a date the day after I arrived! hahahahah
We should all go to Brazil for a week in Summer there, its such fun and only 11hrs away on good old BA.
But now its Jan, its cold and I am getting depressed......just waiting for BARC to fire some people, I would put my hand up straight away, the thought of 3 months off sounds perfect to me right now. I could do loads of training, get fit again, loose those Latam kilos, and regain some moral fiber.
Hold tight, I think 2008 is going to be a much better year than 2007, I've already been told of 3 new arrivals on top of those coming anyway, a engagement and I might have something in the pipeline so fingers crossed. You never know until its DONE.
High five team, lets get posting.
PizBot.
Going to Latam was such good fun, being with your old man is wicked and its an experience that I wished I had been able to have many times before, you're all a lucky bunch for having families so close by, take them for granted? Bet you do!
Couple of the highlights,
- Seeing me Grans
- Getting lashed with my dad (who of course doesn't get drunk) and uncles
- Going to the wine country and tasting some awesome wines
- Buenos Aires!
- Steak, Guayu Beef, Bife de Lomo, Argentinian Malbec
- That lunch place in Floripa that does Siri fritters (Crab balls!)
- The beach, body boarding, surfing is impossible
- Thongs
- Rio for a night and hanging about with Ferdi and Rod
- Reading a couple of books
- Totally 100% chilling out
- Meeting new people
- Coming back and going on a date the day after I arrived! hahahahah
We should all go to Brazil for a week in Summer there, its such fun and only 11hrs away on good old BA.
But now its Jan, its cold and I am getting depressed......just waiting for BARC to fire some people, I would put my hand up straight away, the thought of 3 months off sounds perfect to me right now. I could do loads of training, get fit again, loose those Latam kilos, and regain some moral fiber.
Hold tight, I think 2008 is going to be a much better year than 2007, I've already been told of 3 new arrivals on top of those coming anyway, a engagement and I might have something in the pipeline so fingers crossed. You never know until its DONE.
High five team, lets get posting.
PizBot.
Monday, January 21, 2008
Anouncements on the tube about the East London Line
I don't really like tube announcements at the best of times. Being told to mind the gap, stand behind the yellow line, mind the stairs because it has been raining and they might be slippery and generally being told to do things that anyone with the capability to reason that being hit by a train would be a bad thing would do automatically, just generally pisses me off. In order to cater to the retarded nought point five percent of the population who have not been able to deduce that putting your foot in the gap between the train and the platform could result in something bad happening, the people who run the tube have decided to bombard me with a constant stream of noise and it frankly makes me want to purposefully jump in front of a train or at the very least pull a Van Gough.
Thankfully (or maybe unfortunately to my many nemeses) I have so far been able to resist these urges. This time though they are really pushing me to my limits. Fair enough the East London Line is closed: until 2010. I understand that. Maybe they should initially put some announcements out. And put up some posters. That is fine. What I don't really think is necessary, in fact what I am coming to believe is a soul crushing plan engineered by an arch rival, is the need to include this information in every single fucking service update, every ten or fifteen minutes, every day for two fucking years. Seriously. Two Years. Why? Who the hell doesn't already know that the line is closed. Do they really think that there are a plethora of commuters every day who have forgotten that the tube line they take home every day is closed that are saved by a timely announcement? This announcement is going out so often that I decided to calculate how often it would be made before the line re-opened. This is what I found:
Average announcements per hour (4) x Amount of tube stations (275) x average open hours per day (16) x days in a year (365) x years before opening (2) = 12, 848, 000
Twelve million eight hundred and fourty eight times those bastard words wil be uttered. Assuming that this takes 4 seconds per announcement that means over one and a half years of public service messages about it. ONE AND A HALF YEARS OF TALKING ABOUT SOMETHING THAT IS ONLY GOING TO TAKE TWO YEARS TO HAPPEN. Yeah so maybe I have too much time on my hands figuring this out but Tfl you can go fuck yourselves because you are spending one and a half years telling people about a tube line that only ever had 10 stations and is being extended to Croydon. Presumably so that more people can go to the Walkabout and experience the intoxicating mix of angry chavs, cheap booze, cheesy music, bad shirts and too much Brylcream that exists in there. (it's better than it sounds)
Personally I will probably hear it four thousand, three hundred and eighty times. FOUR THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY TIMES. I GOT THE MESSAGE AFTER THE FIRST ONE.
Some people have told me that it is helpful for tourists. Excuse me but how many tourists are getting the East London Line? It goes from Shoreditch to New Cross for fucks sake. It has got to be the least friendly line to tourists on the whole tube. Show me the tourist that is going to visit picturesque Wapping followed by a a luxurious meal in the Hobgoblin in New Cross and I will show you an idiot. Equally there are signs about it on any tube map you care to look at. Might I suggest that someone who cannot read English is also likely not to be able to understand English and therefore just be confused and probably angered by the unintelligible drone of noise that plagues them whenever they get a train in London. Much like I am. Please God, or maybe just Tfl, end this madness, it might just stop me crying every time I pay twenty four pounds twenty for a travelcard.
Thankfully (or maybe unfortunately to my many nemeses) I have so far been able to resist these urges. This time though they are really pushing me to my limits. Fair enough the East London Line is closed: until 2010. I understand that. Maybe they should initially put some announcements out. And put up some posters. That is fine. What I don't really think is necessary, in fact what I am coming to believe is a soul crushing plan engineered by an arch rival, is the need to include this information in every single fucking service update, every ten or fifteen minutes, every day for two fucking years. Seriously. Two Years. Why? Who the hell doesn't already know that the line is closed. Do they really think that there are a plethora of commuters every day who have forgotten that the tube line they take home every day is closed that are saved by a timely announcement? This announcement is going out so often that I decided to calculate how often it would be made before the line re-opened. This is what I found:
Average announcements per hour (4) x Amount of tube stations (275) x average open hours per day (16) x days in a year (365) x years before opening (2) = 12, 848, 000
Twelve million eight hundred and fourty eight times those bastard words wil be uttered. Assuming that this takes 4 seconds per announcement that means over one and a half years of public service messages about it. ONE AND A HALF YEARS OF TALKING ABOUT SOMETHING THAT IS ONLY GOING TO TAKE TWO YEARS TO HAPPEN. Yeah so maybe I have too much time on my hands figuring this out but Tfl you can go fuck yourselves because you are spending one and a half years telling people about a tube line that only ever had 10 stations and is being extended to Croydon. Presumably so that more people can go to the Walkabout and experience the intoxicating mix of angry chavs, cheap booze, cheesy music, bad shirts and too much Brylcream that exists in there. (it's better than it sounds)
Personally I will probably hear it four thousand, three hundred and eighty times. FOUR THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY TIMES. I GOT THE MESSAGE AFTER THE FIRST ONE.
Some people have told me that it is helpful for tourists. Excuse me but how many tourists are getting the East London Line? It goes from Shoreditch to New Cross for fucks sake. It has got to be the least friendly line to tourists on the whole tube. Show me the tourist that is going to visit picturesque Wapping followed by a a luxurious meal in the Hobgoblin in New Cross and I will show you an idiot. Equally there are signs about it on any tube map you care to look at. Might I suggest that someone who cannot read English is also likely not to be able to understand English and therefore just be confused and probably angered by the unintelligible drone of noise that plagues them whenever they get a train in London. Much like I am. Please God, or maybe just Tfl, end this madness, it might just stop me crying every time I pay twenty four pounds twenty for a travelcard.
Bands DJ-ing at clubs
Specifically, when you get flyers and things for clubnights that say the band on them, but then that its a DJ set, implying that this is somehow a good thing and worth my money. I dont understand why anyone would think i would i want to go and see people from a band i like with an almost 100% certainty that i wont hear any of their songs. I really dont care what some two bit indie scenester has on his ipod. Its not like you've even got any assurance that they can dj well! I dont know if it's just me but i'd rather stay at home with a nice cup of tea and some Jerome K Jerome than pay to see the bassist (its never someone worthwhile is it?) pretend they can mix. If they were just going to play hot anthems that you'd expect at a club anyway then why would a promoter pay them to do what a faceless man in tight jeans does every night? Everyone knows that venues or promoters only get bands to dj because its a way of getting idiot scenesters in at a fraction of the cost. Waste of money.
To be fair, i can see the point if you are a tiny, tiny niche clubnight like New Noise or something, when booking someone from a suitably large band might be charming (if it is still cheap to get in), but for the amount of dj sets that go on at, say a twice yearly Adventures In The Beetroot Field night at Fabric or Turnmills or somewhere, then for gods sake, cut some of this mindless drivel off the bill and use the money to get British Sea Power or No Age or Dan Deacon or someone i want to watch. Please. Then maybe i could get home before six in the morning (getting home later than 4 am is a rant in its own right), what with the utter inexplicableness of early morning night bus timings in central london!
To be fair, i can see the point if you are a tiny, tiny niche clubnight like New Noise or something, when booking someone from a suitably large band might be charming (if it is still cheap to get in), but for the amount of dj sets that go on at, say a twice yearly Adventures In The Beetroot Field night at Fabric or Turnmills or somewhere, then for gods sake, cut some of this mindless drivel off the bill and use the money to get British Sea Power or No Age or Dan Deacon or someone i want to watch. Please. Then maybe i could get home before six in the morning (getting home later than 4 am is a rant in its own right), what with the utter inexplicableness of early morning night bus timings in central london!
The Fratellis.
This one is obvious, but ever so important.
I hate The Fratellis more than almost anything else i can imagine. Or, as this is an update of sorts I hated The Fratellis more than anything i could imagine. The past tense brought into play here due to the fact that they shot themselves in the feet with a terrible sophomore release to sit snugly with their appalling first album. Clearly, the handsome record buying public of Great Britain realised that 'hey, maybe it's not such a great idea to listen to monotonous rowdy swill which brings to mind drunk builders shouting profanities at football matches'.
The mind completely boggles at how such a band of miscreant, slovenly, hideously faced perpetrators of Butlins-core pigswill ever retained even a semblance of popularity. Until of course you realise that the kind of people who bought their records, for that short summer but three years ago, were also those that regularly attend V Festival and wear bucket hats while doing so. Which is a rant of its own anyway. The singer resembles/resembled (I have no proof to show that he is still alive) an elderly alcoholic who sits at the back of Weatherspoon's pubs, the bassist is highly ginger and resembles Chris Moyles far to much to avoid attention, and the drummer is called 'Mince'. And wore a bucket hat. Not great is it? Seeing them lead a bunch of reprobates in infant-complex oik chants on T4 is not what i pay my license fee for). Obviously, behaviour like that bore parrallels with other dorkus malorkuses like the Pidgeon Detectives and The Enemy still doing similar things (both of which are still clasping onto their careers, equally as incomprehensibly). But none of these are quite, with the exception of Tom from The Enemy, as wince inducingly pot ugly. Honestly, if they were on the radio i'd still find them hideous.
And yes, their songs are godawful. 'Chelsea Dagger', as a friend put it, 'sounds like it was written just to be on Match Of The Day'. As much as one may like the sport, football songs are a crime unto themselves, especially those either explicitly or seemingly written to serve the purpose of being equated with it. I recall that their album, which i listened to, pained, once and no more, had a song to which the lyrics included a line referring to 'city boys and cuntry girls' or very similar. Not only, are you old, ugly and tone deaf, you're also incredibly vulgar! Which is something you're too old for. Preposterous.
I hate The Fratellis more than almost anything else i can imagine. Or, as this is an update of sorts I hated The Fratellis more than anything i could imagine. The past tense brought into play here due to the fact that they shot themselves in the feet with a terrible sophomore release to sit snugly with their appalling first album. Clearly, the handsome record buying public of Great Britain realised that 'hey, maybe it's not such a great idea to listen to monotonous rowdy swill which brings to mind drunk builders shouting profanities at football matches'.
The mind completely boggles at how such a band of miscreant, slovenly, hideously faced perpetrators of Butlins-core pigswill ever retained even a semblance of popularity. Until of course you realise that the kind of people who bought their records, for that short summer but three years ago, were also those that regularly attend V Festival and wear bucket hats while doing so. Which is a rant of its own anyway. The singer resembles/resembled (I have no proof to show that he is still alive) an elderly alcoholic who sits at the back of Weatherspoon's pubs, the bassist is highly ginger and resembles Chris Moyles far to much to avoid attention, and the drummer is called 'Mince'. And wore a bucket hat. Not great is it? Seeing them lead a bunch of reprobates in infant-complex oik chants on T4 is not what i pay my license fee for). Obviously, behaviour like that bore parrallels with other dorkus malorkuses like the Pidgeon Detectives and The Enemy still doing similar things (both of which are still clasping onto their careers, equally as incomprehensibly). But none of these are quite, with the exception of Tom from The Enemy, as wince inducingly pot ugly. Honestly, if they were on the radio i'd still find them hideous.
And yes, their songs are godawful. 'Chelsea Dagger', as a friend put it, 'sounds like it was written just to be on Match Of The Day'. As much as one may like the sport, football songs are a crime unto themselves, especially those either explicitly or seemingly written to serve the purpose of being equated with it. I recall that their album, which i listened to, pained, once and no more, had a song to which the lyrics included a line referring to 'city boys and cuntry girls' or very similar. Not only, are you old, ugly and tone deaf, you're also incredibly vulgar! Which is something you're too old for. Preposterous.
Hot Rant: an introduction
Ahoy there!
Hot Rant is a blog cum periodical journal (hopefully) set up by Fred and Tom in order to expose and deride things we hate. Not things that everyone despises, like that program Loose Women (eurgh) or racists (likewise), but things that especially make just us, as the individual, want to shank the bastard perpetrators of what ever cultural grievance one may be suffering. It is pretty much an open forum, so if anyone wants to contribute, email an article (length doesnt matter, as long as there's some level of detail to it) to hotrant@gmail.com, and itll go up. Hooray Hooray Hooray
x
Hot Rant is a blog cum periodical journal (hopefully) set up by Fred and Tom in order to expose and deride things we hate. Not things that everyone despises, like that program Loose Women (eurgh) or racists (likewise), but things that especially make just us, as the individual, want to shank the bastard perpetrators of what ever cultural grievance one may be suffering. It is pretty much an open forum, so if anyone wants to contribute, email an article (length doesnt matter, as long as there's some level of detail to it) to hotrant@gmail.com, and itll go up. Hooray Hooray Hooray
x
Sunday, January 20, 2008
The Crush Gals, Lioness Asuka and Chigusa Nagayo
The Crush Gals, Lioness Asuka and Chigusa Nagayo applying an augmented piledriver to an unfortunate opponent.
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Saturday, January 19, 2008
Chiemi Kitagami / Mirai, part 4
Here's the last photo of Chiemi Kitagami / Mirai.
She's applying a camel clutch, and pressing down on her opponents head to increase the punishment.
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Friday, January 18, 2008
Chiemi Kitagami / Mirai, part 3
Continuing with the photos of the late Chiemi Kitagami / Mirai, wrestling in Japan.
Chiemi died September 7, 2005 at the age of 22 in a bathtub accident.
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Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Chiemi Kitagami / Mirai, part 2
Another picture of the late Chiemi Kitagami / Mirai, wrestling in Japan.
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Tuesday, January 15, 2008
A Turning Point
I've been working on this movie all day today. I'm talking the whole friggin' day. I got up at 7:30am, took a bike ride, ran a couple errands, and by 11:00am was sitting in my office doing all I can to get Women's Studies to the people.
It was a good day. I got a lot done. In fact, once I get through this blog, I'll have hit everything on my "to-do" list for today. That's good too, because I have a feeling the next couple weeks are going to bring A LOT of new items for that list.
See, production reached a turning point today. Our first "picture-lock" scene was released to sound, music, and color about an hour before I wrote this. It's a nice little milestone. I took a moment to sit back and enjoy the accomplishment.
Only a moment, mind you.
Up until now, post has been almost exclusively editor Jim McGivney and I. Ours were the only schedules I needed to be concerned with, and the only needs I had to be aware of. Oh, sure I was fielding music from Ryan Sayward, talking process with Sound Guru Sean Russell, and discussing color balance/correction with DP Aaron Shirley. However, as of today they're down in the trenches with Jim and I.
It's taken a lot of willpower to make this movie happen and it'll take more before all is said and done. The journey to finishing this film is VERY far from over. I'm sure parts of it won't be pretty either.
But hey, at least Jim and I aren't alone anymore.
It was a good day. I got a lot done. In fact, once I get through this blog, I'll have hit everything on my "to-do" list for today. That's good too, because I have a feeling the next couple weeks are going to bring A LOT of new items for that list.
See, production reached a turning point today. Our first "picture-lock" scene was released to sound, music, and color about an hour before I wrote this. It's a nice little milestone. I took a moment to sit back and enjoy the accomplishment.
Only a moment, mind you.
Up until now, post has been almost exclusively editor Jim McGivney and I. Ours were the only schedules I needed to be concerned with, and the only needs I had to be aware of. Oh, sure I was fielding music from Ryan Sayward, talking process with Sound Guru Sean Russell, and discussing color balance/correction with DP Aaron Shirley. However, as of today they're down in the trenches with Jim and I.
It's taken a lot of willpower to make this movie happen and it'll take more before all is said and done. The journey to finishing this film is VERY far from over. I'm sure parts of it won't be pretty either.
But hey, at least Jim and I aren't alone anymore.
Civil War Soldier
Just a quick value study to try out a new rake brush I made in Photoshop. I doubt I'll take this any further, but if I do I'll post the finished product here.
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Monday, January 14, 2008
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Saturday, January 12, 2008
Chiemi Kitagami / Mirai
The late Chiemi Kitagami, known to wrestling fans as Mirai.
Mirai died in a bathtub accident a few years back.
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Friday, January 11, 2008
Black Widow
Pencils by me, inks by Butch Guice. From the upcoming Captain America #34.
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Wednesday, January 9, 2008
Chaos Precedes Transformation
The blog is late because of Melisa Breiner-Sanders. It is 100% her fault that I didn't get it done on time. I encourage you to go to www.melisabs.com, watch her demo reel, and then flood her email with complaints about how her behavior is jeopardizing the production of Women's Studies.
Jim McGivney on the other hand is a rock star. Right now, he's chest deep in the scary world of frame rate conversion, Panasonic's proprietary 24p bullshit, and hard drive space finagling. To boot, He's flying solo on all of this. We unfortunately don't have the resources to get him a proper assistant to help with not only the crazy HD workflow, but also handle all the administrative paperwork as well as the dozens of tiny little things I keep asking of him. Jim's a pro though, so all is good.
I've made it a point not to bother him this week unless absolutely necessary. Oh sure, we BS-ed about Joe Gibbs retiring from the Redskins and the primaries. That aside, I've tried to leave him to work through it in his own way. I've been there, in that place where no one can do anything but offer encouragement. His time of chaos will be a bit shorter than mine was, but I imagine it's just as intense if not more. Jim's frustrations with the the process mirror my own during production. There were times while shooting when I was so caught up in the minutia and technical details of the process, I lost sight of what I was working towards.
Looking back on it, I realize that moment of confusion is a necessary part of the creative process. It's kind of a cliché, but "chaos precedes transformation." I believe you have to lose yourself in the journey to the point where you can't see the path. And once you're lost, you have to dig deep into yourself and find what it takes within you to make it through.
Jim, if you're reading this, I'm very positive about the work you've done so far. Hang in there, buddy. You're almost to the good part.
Jim McGivney on the other hand is a rock star. Right now, he's chest deep in the scary world of frame rate conversion, Panasonic's proprietary 24p bullshit, and hard drive space finagling. To boot, He's flying solo on all of this. We unfortunately don't have the resources to get him a proper assistant to help with not only the crazy HD workflow, but also handle all the administrative paperwork as well as the dozens of tiny little things I keep asking of him. Jim's a pro though, so all is good.
I've made it a point not to bother him this week unless absolutely necessary. Oh sure, we BS-ed about Joe Gibbs retiring from the Redskins and the primaries. That aside, I've tried to leave him to work through it in his own way. I've been there, in that place where no one can do anything but offer encouragement. His time of chaos will be a bit shorter than mine was, but I imagine it's just as intense if not more. Jim's frustrations with the the process mirror my own during production. There were times while shooting when I was so caught up in the minutia and technical details of the process, I lost sight of what I was working towards.
Looking back on it, I realize that moment of confusion is a necessary part of the creative process. It's kind of a cliché, but "chaos precedes transformation." I believe you have to lose yourself in the journey to the point where you can't see the path. And once you're lost, you have to dig deep into yourself and find what it takes within you to make it through.
Jim, if you're reading this, I'm very positive about the work you've done so far. Hang in there, buddy. You're almost to the good part.
Sunday, January 6, 2008
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Saturday, January 5, 2008
Mimi Hawagara wrestling in Japan
Here's a couple of pictures of the beautiful Mimi Hawagara wrestling in Japan.
First, giving a ref a little judo toss.
Then, about to seriously face plant Lioness Asuka
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Friday, January 4, 2008
Mika Nishio wrestling in Japan, part 6
Last two pictures of Mika Nisho wrestling in Japan.
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Wednesday, January 2, 2008
Checkers
Sorry for the lack of updates recently. I'll be posting more regularly soon, but in the meantime, here's a little something my daughter and I colored in a restaurant last week while waiting for our meal -
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Tuesday, January 1, 2008
Mika Nishio wrestling in Japan, part 5
More Mika Nisho wrestling in Japan.
First a sleeper, then taking the bull by the horns.
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Out With the Old, In With The New
Happy New Year!
While I'd rather look forward to the year ahead than the one that was, I've thought a lot recently about 2007. It's been a life-altering year. This time last year, I was wondering if Women's Studies was even going to be able to happen. A year later, the film is in the can being edited. It's crazy. Deacades from now, when I look back on 2007, it will ALWAYS be the year I made "that crazy horror movie." And I'll look back on it with fondness, laughter, and a great sense of accomplishment.
I have a lot of good memories of the production, the people, and the even the problems. In recent weeks, I've found myself laughing at situations and events that at the time they were occurring, I never dreamed I would EVER find funny. "Distance lends perspective," the prolific but mysterious "they" say. It gives you the ability to see the whys and wherefores of the chaos.
While 2007 was the year cast and crew shot Women's Studies, 2008 is the year we'll finish and release the movie. I'm very excited about the opportunity to show people what we've done. There's still a great amount of work to be completed in order to get there, but this will be the year it happens. There's a real joy to that thought, that after what will be almost two years of work, we'll finally be able to show people what we've done.
2008 is here! The year of Women's Studies! May it bring happiness, success, and growth to everyone.
While I'd rather look forward to the year ahead than the one that was, I've thought a lot recently about 2007. It's been a life-altering year. This time last year, I was wondering if Women's Studies was even going to be able to happen. A year later, the film is in the can being edited. It's crazy. Deacades from now, when I look back on 2007, it will ALWAYS be the year I made "that crazy horror movie." And I'll look back on it with fondness, laughter, and a great sense of accomplishment.
I have a lot of good memories of the production, the people, and the even the problems. In recent weeks, I've found myself laughing at situations and events that at the time they were occurring, I never dreamed I would EVER find funny. "Distance lends perspective," the prolific but mysterious "they" say. It gives you the ability to see the whys and wherefores of the chaos.
While 2007 was the year cast and crew shot Women's Studies, 2008 is the year we'll finish and release the movie. I'm very excited about the opportunity to show people what we've done. There's still a great amount of work to be completed in order to get there, but this will be the year it happens. There's a real joy to that thought, that after what will be almost two years of work, we'll finally be able to show people what we've done.
2008 is here! The year of Women's Studies! May it bring happiness, success, and growth to everyone.
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