New Static shock pics

Here they are, will also post to my facebook page:

I'm doing it, actually since I got the camera now decided to go to the nearby little park and get started with filming. Surprised to find just a few feet from the entrance of the park exactly the spots I envisioned in my head, the cliff, the tree, the little tiny area with a small river, it's all there and today it rained so the tiny stream was flowing and if I actually had the motivation might have shot the scene where static falls into the water, but that's definitely for another day...

Who's going to direct episode 9...

I had a feeling Colin would be axed, I mean it's just like giving the movie to brett ratner based on his success at the box office. Ratner's not a bad director, but he's not GREAT. And that's what episdoe 9 needs. Hell even Episode 8 doesn't need to be great. But No, you can't have dingo Joe Nobody director helming Episode 9, just get out of here with that bullshit.

So now heads are spinning around, people wondering who's going to tackle the last movie. Some say, just call back JJ. eh...

I kinda am ok with that, but he's proven to not have an ounce of his own damn creative juice at all and sadly that's not what I want personally for 9. It needs a Vision.

Me personally wouldn't mind Spielberg doing it. Spielberg's been wanting to do a star wars movie for decades. Lord knows what he has in mind or would have done if Lucas wasn't an asshole and let him actually direct Revenge instead of just letting him direct some of the fight scenes over super mario lava.

Problem is Spielberg's trying to evolve as a director these days, tackle tougher subject matter, bigger more complex things. Making a star wars movie would be a breeze for him. He could do it in his sleep. He'll never take it since it wouldn't be a challenge.

I dare say call Bryan Singer. He's an actual great director working today. Will he want it? Probably not and of course, he's been burned by taking on iconic properties after Superman Returns didn't get the ball rolling on superman despite being a damn near masterpiece.

But if Lucasfilm has any balls they'll consider meeting with Singer about it. He's literally been making star wars movies with all his films imo. I get the same visceral star wars sense from his films so he'd fit right in.

Other than Singer...

People chanting LUCAS LUCAS LUCAS. It would be a dream if Lucas would do the last movie to be honest... NOT WRITE!!! but DIRECT!! the last movie. It'd be the perfect ending to things and quasi legitimize this new trilogy. Problem is that Lucas is not a fan of force awakens. He blatantly dismisses the film and doesn't seem to want anything to do with the new movies, and he had to watch as Disney tore up his own outline for the new trilogy, so you can bet he's going to say no. Just would be awesome if he did, but of course no, work on a movie after selling the rights to the franchise, kinda makes no sense. He'll not want to go open that box of womprats.

I'd be down for James Cameron, though again, he's making his own star wars right now. so yeah why would he jump ship to do real star wars when he can make smurf star wars...

I'd like Ridly Scott to do it since in interviews he goes on about how he loved and was inspired so much by Star Wars. Hell of a thing if he stopped screwing around in Alien and made a freakin badass Star Wars film with his style... shit would be goddamn.

Other choices, hard to think of anyone worthy, but they have to be truly visionary directors who are trying to take film to new levels and do different interesting things, that's the basic qualifications.

Goddamn, I mean in a perfect world, yeah maybe Guerllmo Del Torro would do it... then we saw what happened when he was supposed to do the hobbit movies, shit got boned up real fast. No doubt he'd wanting to stay the fuck out of big franchise films for a while, and that's a shame, man's a genius.

Peter Jackson? I guess, if you want a 5 hour movie that spends 2 hours of fight scenes, but not a bad choice and he's got mountains of experience... hmmm

Most likely though:

Rian Johnson

Ron Howard

Colin Whatever the hell has been Fired.

Finally someone with a brain at lucasfilm...

Goddamn that's I mean at least a step in the right direction. He's a hack director, not at all worthy of the potential FINAL star wars film EVER.

How the hell did they pick him, based on box office of jurrassic world? Might as well have Michael Bay then!!

God, am I happy about this news... Now all we need is a word on them recasting and reshooting all of Lando's part in the Solo film and we're good...

I wish. Have a great day everyone if you can!

gta online current thawts

Here we stand, it's that age, that time when gaming truly has reached its apex moreso now than ever. I've watched its rapid evolution, we all have and it's been an amazing journey. Where else is there to go really. Once you've got the f'n Matrix going, which is what Gta Online is, it's the Matrix, where else is there to f'n go with gaming?

I think even R is having trouble with that question. They've peaked, every DLC is the same shit. The current one is being called out for what it is, more of the same. It's been given a fancy title, a few new variations on aircraft and basically is just the same "go here, pick this shit up and put it over here." grind that we've gotten for the last few months with the other dlc's.

And this isn't above R, they'll release garbage game modes ala tiny racers and that shitty adversary mode with the armor. Both bombed on release and were a joke and embarrassed them.

Even overtime rumble quickly lost their novelty. Why release game modes that will soon be abandoned and become unplayable as nobody wants to suffer them once they become stale?

Only thing that looks any good is the new race mode where you change vehicles throughout the race. And they're holding it back!

My thoughts on the new dlc... might as well be associated with the bunker dlc, it's just an expansion of that, using air craft. They had lofty goals with it, make it its own sort of mini business where people would have massive wars in the sky over smuggling goods by air. But getting your aircraft is still a pain in the ass. So that defeats the purpose if it takes you 10 minutes to spawn your air craft, have to to drive to it, climb up to it whatever.. Nobody wants to be hassled with that. So as long as you join a session where there isn't someone hanging out all day in his jet, you can rest assured nobody's going to spawn their plane 3 miles away just to grief your shipments. Meaning, this dlc is just the ceo and MC and Bunker missions AGAIN but with planes... which actually removes any of the challenge of the other ones since now you can get your shit done without worrying about anyone coming after you because they'd have to take ten years to get their shit and fly after you, you'll be done before they get there.... just dumb...

One good thing about this new dlc and there are a very tiny few good thing about it, you can now spawn the cars from the special vehicle garage, knight rider car etc. As much as the youtube gta guys are trying to find good stuff about it, it's not, it's just a fancy plane hanger and a few new useless planes you'll never use....

Finally they woke up about it and said, ok yeah we can have shit like your buzzard spawn close, your MOC spawn close, the oppressor, mini tank, even pegasus vehicles will be delivered, but naw not your blazer aqua, hell no. Finally they wised up and have it be possible to call for those. That's nice.

Other than that, haven't really seen much about the new stuff that I'd say was worth the trouble of making up a big woop about. Would be nice to have multiple hangers. If you're at the airport, use that. If you're up the map use that. Hell, love to have an actual airline even. Run an airline and you can fly those big air liners. It's possible, the code is in the game to have us fly the jumbo jets, yet they refuse to let us fly them even though it was possible in SA and yeah, flying the jumbo jets is so much fun to do. It's what makes gta gta, you can do shit that you can't do in real life. Now it's like, neutered for whatever reason...

Imagine flying a jumbo Jet loaded with guns and you had a crew of maybe 5 or 6 guys defending your big ass jet from like all kinds of shit. THAT was the intention behind this DLC but they apparently lost their nerve and watered it down for release... stupid....

As it is now, just the same old shit, but easier. You won't get people going after you in the air for your shit, it's too much of a pain to drive down to the planes and all that, you'll be fine...

Let me conclude all this with a rant and a proposal sort of thing:

GTA is a GAME. The purpose of games, from UNO to Snakes and Ladders, to Nintendo to SEGA back to Nintendo and then Over to SONY and XBOX cuz SEGA got Boned...

I'm not going to go into the science of gaming and psychology of gaming which are probably interesting topics. But suffice it enough to say, typical sport games consist of pick up this ball and put it over here to score, wash rinse repeat, where things get interesting is having a wall of various types in between picking up the ball and putting it over there... having interesting people and personalities picking up the ball and putting it over there... having drama, last minute prayers between picking up the ball and putting it over there... to release a game consisting of pick up this ball and put it over there where you just simply walk the ball over un bothered is NOT A GAME. Yet R keeps releasing this shit...

They've forgotten what we buy games for or used to before the games became mini-societies. It used to be because the games were actual full of challenge and you were prevented from winning in every way possible. As the 90s rolled on, the games became more about amazing graphics and we started to hear worries about games becoming too close to reality and becoming life simulators WE ALL SHRUGGED, games still were focused on creating a tough obstacle course to master and build and develop yourself through. That's gaming. It's about getting BETTER at it. So you win. You build yourself up, whatever, fight hadouken, and suddenly IMPROVE. I love games like that. Like, whenever I play GTA I actually just join races mostly, that's still the only thing worth shit to do. The races are actual games, you have to be good to win them, that's kinda the point of a game....

Rockstar has abandoned the GAMING aspect of GTA and focused on the SIMS Aspect of GTA apparently... Life Simulator. Yunno, I liked the sims, then when I did everything, got all the good stuff, built a badass house, I realized, none of this is real and none of this means anything... I just am taking care of a mini digital fish tank.

GTA IS NOT THE SIMS.

Never has been. Never will be. FOCUS ON GAMING.

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In addition, so tragic really. They release this half baked attempt at getting people to having more air oriented combat which will never 'fly' but they COULD have had us having ocean based combat or even under water combat all along if we could f'n drive our yachts anywhere we wanted and had to defend them from land and air. More proof they don't care...

Getting places...

Doing some split screen work for the static shock fan film thing I'm churning out little by little...

I've worked on this shot all day, aaaaaaaaaaalll day. Yet another attempt at doing split screen back to the future fx and it's no simple thing, it's been bone crushing to figure out what shot works and syncs with the performances I gave as both characters...

Little advice for those looking to do similar stuff...

Try to create shortcuts for yourself when it's all over... Don't have traffic wizzing by in the back ground... My mistake... because of the traffic roto scoping was infinitely harder.

Don't obscure most of the frame at all, EVER, it's going to be roto scope hell...

Try to eliminate the camcorder's auto focus, simply turn it off really. Because of the damn auto focus, it ruined a great take I had which was what I wanted for the scene, but I couldn't stand the blur that happened every time and it just screwed it up...

Buy a wifi camera, that's obvious. Ruined another good take because I nudged the camera, throwing off the split screen.

Ultimately the best thing to do is not overlap the other character because then you really screw it over... I was wise to I guess subconsciously know that I should have one character not move much and be in the corner away from getting a ton of cars and pedestrians in the frame so when I cut that part into the other shot it didn't have any interference or anything mucking up the picture...

It came out as best as it could. Not the take I wanted, but it works, it does the job and if you're not paying attention you might buy that some how I found someone to play another character in this thing for me.

Which sadly is not the case. Participation would be awesome if I actually could find people to help me, but I've always worked alone... It's no different now, just another project, another long day of editing....

I have to fully polish and finish the final fight scenes, get all my props from ebay that are still on their way, and once I got tons of footage ready to go, I will be cutting together a teaser trailer to seal the deal and provide some sense of progression to the project as I'm sure it's been a way too long wait for most people who have any interest in this...

My bad, I've never tackled something of this size. But I think I can do it!

I know it has to be done, honestly. I feel compelled by some greater power to do this shit.... maybe there's a FORCE guiding me....

we only kill black people

WE KNOW!

And then they came for me...

A quote my super smart cousin put on his facebook referencing the famous words of Martin Niemoller...

Someone reiterated the quote in the comment section on a video of a police officer aggressively arresting a nurse who was doing her job and protecting her patient's rights.

I'm shocked that even white people get treated like crap by cops, that's like impossible to my black ass.

But cops don't give a damn.

I've sadly met very few cool cops. Even if they're nice people regularly, whatever trainiing they undergo, they're taught to be belligerent 24/7 and give off this "fuck you" attitude. So yeah it's hard to just feel like you can relax around a cop and I know it's not true, some cops are just nice regular people too. Just got in it for the money, community service, be a hero, who knows...

You should want to become a cop to actually save lives, not go around bullying the public and killing off blacks, but one element of the police force is dedicated to that unfortunately...

Surprised one day to be driving around ny and seeing a black man happily jogging. I was thinking, yanno, a cop will be chasing him down pretty soon... do yo thang bra, good luck with that...

Is all this stuff happening because of Thump? YES, he's actively and stupidly trying to get cops to be more cold blooded. It will not end well. We will have and it's already being discussed in comment sections, potential anti-cop attitudes in the streets when it should not go down like that. Just keep people safe, like super heros. Imagine superman going around being a jackass to the citizens he protects after stopping an asteroid, he says "fuck all of you idiots for not having anti-asteroid tech goddamit!" that's how people feel about cops these days. It's awful...



Well I'm off to the movies to see Terminator 3D, hope I make it in time... just want to give my boy Cameron my respect, he's earned it and I don't really understand what he plans for the next terminator movie, but if anyone can repair the franchise it's going to be him.