Tropic Thunder 10:44 am

Mother Nature Just Pissed Her Pants TOO! Already a classic line

Directed by Ben Stiller. Written by Ben Stiller, Justin Theroux and Etan Cohen




Stiller is starring as Tugg Speedman, an action movie star who, along with four other macho co-stars, is forced to rely on his boot camp skills to stay alive when things go horribly awry on their new movie. Ben co-wrote the comedy screenplay with Justin Theroux (Zoolander, Charlie's Angels Full Throttle) and Etan Cohen (Idiocracy). Jack Black will play Jeff “Fats” Portnoy, an overweight gross-out comedian from "The Fatties" franchise, who’s forced to kick his drug addiction while filming on location in the jungle.

Also starring are Robert Downey as Kirk Lazarus, the greatest actor of his generation and a four-time Oscar winner. Jay Baruchel (Knocked Up) will play Kevin Sandusky, an unknown actor on the set. Brandon T. Jackson plays multi-platinum hip-hop-star-turned-entrepreneur-turned-actor Alpa Chino. Bill Hader (Superbad) plays Rob Slolom. Matt Levin (Zoolander) plays Cam. Andrew De Oliveira plays a pilates instructor.

Tom Cruise was also confirmed as appearing by Baruchel, and rumored to be playing the head of the movie studio. Reggie Lee (Pirates of the Caribbean) plays the heavy.



Tropic Thunder is hopefully set to be one of the films of the year, and for this supposed hype, i am very much looking forward to watching the film on release, with such great comedic actors all thrown into one great explosive action comedy, its bound to leave you with a stomach cramp from the constant laughter of Stiller's Genius.

HDR Photography: What A False Sense of Security 9:29 am

Ever Since discovering High Dynamic Range (HDR) Photography, I Soon realized that i have been using these techniques all along in my photographs. By using various exposure levels of the same image, You can create some stunning visuals from the HDR method of editing. From research i conducted, there is softwares specialized in Doing all this for you, also Photoshop has a HDR image processor. I have Tried and tested this process, and to say the least i am not the biggest fan. So what i have learned from this is that i can take the supposed theory of HDR editing and proceed to incorporate it with my self taught manual methods of editing.

To demonstrate this theory of mine, I have produced a few photographs using this idea.
Keep in mind that these are my first attempts and guarantee vast improvements with more practice.



Please Criticize, Give Feedback and Most Importantly.. ENJOY

Also Keep Posted For New Photographs Coming VERY SOON

WALL-E (2008) 9:08 pm

WALL-E (2008)
Walt Disney Pictures, Pixar Animation Studios - I am a huge fan of Pixar Studios and this film has most definitely rocketed to the top Pixar films category with the other greats such as Toy Story and Monsters Inc. WALL-E, a very simple yet lovable compact crushing robot stranded on planet earth all alone, with a very big heart waiting to be taken. Every second of the emotional and exiting journey that WALL-E endures, you are right there with him feeling every bit of pain, sorrow and joy that WALL-E does. On a technical side of things the animation is state of the art, some of the cinematography looks close to lifelike, the ability that these animators have to put all those human emotions into not just a robot, but a CG animated robot. This is what animation is all about in the end, forget visuals, its how you can incorporate life and feeling into that drawing or CG model.

Great Film 5* A Must See

UFO Photography 1:36 pm

With My new Polaroid camera, I went for a long walk up into temple newsam woods a couple of nights ago.
To my astonishment, there were a small group of aliens building wooden tipi's from the tree wood.

I managed to get close to a stranded one trying to make a fire, as it spotted me it soon became clear that they were friendly creatures and allowed me to photograph it as it stayed fixated on the flash of the camera.

Cool or what!

Hancock 7:17 pm

Film review on "HANCOCK" 2008

Hancock (Will Smith). A sarcastic, self indulged, misunderstood, PC incorrect super hero. Gives a half arsed effort to stop crime while causing more damage than its worth. Was most pleasing to watch the film in terms of the post production and editing that has taken place, mind blowing visuals and great cinematography also. As for the narrative, lets just say its another will smith film, which is good! But doesn't get a hall of fame position in my mind.

Title Sequence for Dysfunctional Art 5:02 pm

With this mini project i have set myself. I have successfully achieved two things rather than just the one. While learning the ways of Adobe After effects, I have simultaneously produced a nice working title sequence to represent my efforts in any future moving image productions i am involved with.

Using After effects and a photoshop document I created this:



I produced it from a hand drawn title font scanned from paper, and a photograph of this beautiful little cloud captured by my Canon D400. The cloud was all alone in the air as it caught my eye through the window as i was on the very computer i am tying this blog post, unfortunately the clouds outside at this moment in time are much larger and more populated and also much darker with moisture falling from them, I believe its commonly referred to as typical english weather?

Yeah, Comment... Criticize and ENJOY

Premier of Fallout 6:47 pm

So earlier this afternoon myself, james and Graeme hosted a linked Youtube premier of our entry to the horror competition/ college video drome project.

As of now the Video is going down quite well on youtube collecting small amounts of feedback and getting over 90 views in 3 hours. This in my opinion has ben a good start and a success in terms of what we was trying to achieve.

Here is the video now uploaded for refrence and enjoyment to all you crazy mofos:



Please watch, enjoy and leave some constructive criticism on my youtube page.

On that note that was the last hand in of the year for the DDM course.. how fast that went. I only wish the course went on through summer, that would be awesome =D

Instead i intend to do some personal development and hone my skills in various techniques including Adobe After effects and some film techniques... But more on that at a later date

Adobe After Effects: Muzzle, Flash and Pull Back Effect 8:06 pm

Behold a Gun Muzzle, Flash and Pull Back Effect I put together in Adobe After Effects.

This being the first of many mini projects to come over the summer
I am exited and pleasantly surprised with how simple after effects can be! As David once said " Its a simple transition from using Photoshop and any form of timeline/video editing software"

Watch The Video:

Learning Journey 12:49 pm

Here is the finale of the PPD module...

It comes in the form of an animation produced in flash



Evaluation to follow!

Flash Website 10:59 pm

Since i now have an interest in flash, i decided to have a look around for some nice flash based examples.
I came across this really nice example of a flash website.



This websites flash design has sparked off some ideas for my development to the personal/professional development project.
But for now my ideas remain a secret! SUSH!!