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The Platinum Peacemaker - This Weekend in Nemo, TX!
The evil filmmaking syndicate, Project Black Studios is teaming up with Mr. Scott Mollette to flesh out his pet project, "The Platinum Peacemaker"! It is a modestly budgeted short, hovering around the hour mark, filled with laughs, action, gunshots, explosions and... well... women.
We'll be playing with 3 Panasonic AG-HVX200A's equipped with those sweet ass P2 cards (Way of the future, as they say) so we can pick up the most delicious HD images possible... I'll be swinging one around as 2nd Unit Cinematographer, and after a quick "getting to know you" this past week over at Videotex (Beautiful place, man)... I'm very much looking forward to unleashing the creative beast.
The food, man! My god, the food is going to be out of this world... we got a peek at the menu at a recent production meeting: We'll be eating better in Nemo, TX than we did when we were on the set of Prison Break Season 2 and 3, Walker Texas Ranger, Inspector Mom and also that badass George Foreman video shot in Dallas, TX!
One thing that'll be very different, is that this will be the first time we will be sleeping outdoors for all three days of the shoot. It'll be the second time in my whole life I've slept in a camping tent, and well... on the first night? The temperature's expected to be around 34 degrees... couple that with the fact we'll be sleeping on the ground and in the midst of some trees, and you can pretty much bet we'll be hibernating in below freezing temperatures.
Kicking rad!
Anyway, will be taking my little digital camera with me... maybe we'll have some time to grab some more photos of me in action (could always use more of those to add to my resume). I'm very excited... plus, this will be Mr. James Raborn's official introduction to the whole movie making thing... the guy's been a big help from afar (we first got in touch while he was stationed in Korea, for instance) and our paths regularly overlap enough for me to just... bring him on. It'll be a great place for him to start, since this is a pretty organized production and, with the tasks divided between two units, the workload will be comparatively lighter than some of my previous works.
Until I return to civilization next Monday... this is Adrian Santiago: War Chief of Project Black Studios signing out!
Alright folks, no more fucking around. Today is the day you've decided if you're a voter or if you're not... and chances are if you could not be motivated in this historical election, then you'll never be motivated to vote: In which case you should probably do the political equivalent of stapling your God damned mouth shut and cramming the flaccid collection of nerve endings you insist we refer to as a brain and shove it up your ass.
It is in fact the final showdown between Barack Obama and John McCain: Two very different individuals fighting for the same thing... leadership over the fearsome world power, The United States of America. Why fearsome? Well, because previously we could get away with saying "powerful" or "superpower" but not these days... today the only thing keeping us propped up is all of those darling weapons of mass destruction we've got stockpiled that the rest of the world isn't allowed to touch.
I'm Not Going to Tell You how to Vote
You can vote for anyone for any reason whatsoever. Furthermore, you don't even have to TELL anyone who you voted for. Me? I don't have to lie, I voted in the early elections after class (turns out it was right down the hall from where I was). Despite what those who don't register think, it was a piece of cake... I forgot my voter registration card at home, but they took my driver's license. The address on my license was new, and the address on my voter's card was outdated... problem? No. They had me fill out a form, which was easier than mailing out a letter at the post office, and then turned me loose to vote. The whole process took me 12 minutes, and that was because I had to take two extra steps.
Barack Obama. I'm tired of incompetent and complacent white people standing at the podium as if they stood before a congregation and basically ordering America to support him or leave... with no remorse for Bush's time being up, and no sympathy for John McCain "fighting his war neck deep in dog shit and being a stubborn bastard" in a war we ended up not even winning: Barack Obama has the kind of story I wish more Presidents had. "We grew up poor, my parents said I need an education and they stopped at nothing to get me one, I kept at it and now look at me" feels better to me than "I partied hard when I was young, then this big war broke out and I wanted to go kill some krauts, sand niggers, chinks and so on. Now I want to be President because I see all of those nasty people's offspring living in America and they should get the fuck out."
DO NOT LET THE TRUE NEWS STORIES OF THE DAY SLIP BY!
News media outlets all across the country are going to be covering the election tonight... and for good reason: It's obviously going to be the thing most discussed and talked about tonight. I'm personally thinking of ordering a pizza and staying up all night to see what goes down.
However, those crooked news channels will use this "constant coverage" as a way to kind of "ignore everything else that happens". I've detailed this practice on the past on this website, where a big "interest" story dominates the air waves (Terri Schaivo, Trapped Miners, etc) while big political news sweeps by under the radar.
Let's take a look what's happening on Election Day as of 1:00pm.
...and here's one that I'm sure you'll fucking love. Remember how Bush made this big deal about "Nuclear forces in Iran are the world's biggest threat?" in another desperate and feeble attempt to rally support for his war on your mind? Well, dig this: AMERICA IS PAYING FOR IRAN TO HAVE NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY! We're paying for it AND HELPING THEM to build it up!
"In times of change, the Patriot is a scarce man; brave, hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, however, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a Patriot." - Mark Twain
UPDATE - READER FEEDBACK ON THIS ARTICLE
From "The Ether Pilot" (22/M/TX) - "First of all, there is no reason I should "Stable my mouth shut" for not voting. In fact, the fact that I have Cognitively Chosen to not vote allows me more of a right to say something. That aside...You certainly have some great reasons not to vote for McCain but skate over the reasons to Not vote for Obama either.....Like, you know...he's either going to be the next Jimmy Carter (aka: ineffectual) or he's going to instigate a "Rebellion of the Fascists""
ADRIAN: Whatever Obama says he'll do compared to what Obama does are always subject to change. That said, as far as showmanship goes, I believe more in Obama than I do McCain... I'm sure there will be no shortage of stand up comedians and web animation artists who would love to take a crack at the political flub that has been the McCain/Palin ticket, but I think that enough people have been pushed up against the wall, so to speak. Without making the brash generalizations of "Everyone who charged up their credit cards" or "Everyone who's on welfare" and all of that jazz, just everyone in general.
People who invested in stocks as well as people whose personal lives were impacted... for example, my *bank* doesn't exist anymore. The problems of the country have become so large that "little people" like myself are no longer needed to "light the torch", everybody everywhere can see the mess and smell the shit, and for that, people are voting for Obama tonight. Republican, Democrat, Libertarian, Populist and so on? They're all the same phony management teams bidding for *power*. The government isn't going to make gay marriage illegal or legal, the government isn't going to close down schools and steal all your guns away in the middle of the night, the Government... when stripped down, is an institute of power and the elections are in place so that we, the people, can delegate the power to whoever the hell we choose.
Those who, in their "never-ending vast mental facilities" have come to the conclusion that the best way to exhibit their belief and contribute to the system is to do nothing, sit in the dark with their arms folded and smirk as if they have "figured it all out" are full of baloney... and my conjecture that they should *staple* their collective mouths shut (When you wrote "Stable" I had an 'oh shit' moment and checked my spelling, turns out it was fine) is based solely on those grounds.
In other words, if a 900lb man begins to blame McDonald's NOT because he ate so much of it but because they made no attempt to make a double cheeseburger as healthy for him as an apple or 30 minutes walking in circles, then I don't think I'd be alone in calling him stupid and his argument ineffectual. As a matter of fact, I'd say by "doing nothing to control things ON HIS END OF THE TABLE", not only did he do it to himself, but he should have no recourse as far as sticking his pudgy arm out and appointing blame, where 700 pounds ago he HAD the power to CHOOSE but instead chose to do nothing.
Heyo folks! Adrian Santiago here, and what you're about to look at is the end product of a challenge issued on an internet message board, and me having too much free time this week. Here is a retrospective look at the evolution of about 25 years of Sesame Street Video Games. Feel free to post it around the internet... but please: NOTE THAT THIS VIDEO ISN'T INTENDED FOR YOUNG MINDS! It's nothing horrible, but y'know... unless you want your kids to pick up a few bad words, I would pass on sharing this with them.
Before I begin, I will warn you that the content of this post is very adult, very graphic, and is in no way meant to be taken in jest. This is not a copy and paste, this is in fact an original posting from the hand and desk of Adrian Santiago, 24, of Arlington, Texas.
Last year, a man of age 60 contacted me over the internet. He informed me that he had been following my progress as a young filmmaker, and had come to take great interest in the hardships that prevented my advancement. In his original e-mail, he stated that he had something for me that he could trust with nobody else, and it's something that had never been given to anyone of my chosen profession in history.
He also said I had no choice in the matter, and in fact, I actually owed it to him to accept this "gift" he spoke about.
This gentleman didn't request an answer to his e-mail, and continued as if I had already accepted. As a matter of fact, he sent me $500 in cash via Paypal, as well as an e-ticket for an airplane ride to his hometown in New Mexico... the specifics of where, as well as his name, sadly, have to remain shrouded for reasons that will become clear as this story goes on.
I thought it best not to tell anyone where I was going, or even that I was leaving at all. Seven hours later, I had gone to the airport, flown across the Southwest United States, and found my way into this gentleman's home... a small, simple structure that you wouldn't find any other way than by invitation. It was here that he shook my hand, sat me down at a well-decorated dinner table, and set out a feast the likes of which would feed entire families, but was only intended for the two of us.
While we ate, the man told me about his life. That he and his family fought in every war they were invited to, for the simple reason that they could. He and his kin found a unique, purging release in being able to end many lives during those times of conflict. The way they saw things, they believed that the only way to end suffering on a global scale would be to eliminate all life capable of suffering.
The old man never spoke in detail, but instead, spoke with an indescribable focus: An expressionless tone that permitted no questions.
Seemingly out of nowhere, the man stopped his tale. He rubbed his eyes with his fingers, and began to tremble with frailty. Of course I was concerned, and I asked what the matter was... he told me that the poison "just kicked in".
Though physically weakened, the drive of his tone was still strong, and I knew he wasn't lying to me.
I asked him where the phone was, he said he didn't have one. I asked him where the nearest hospital was, and he told me "In a town where people want to live forever". I asked him what he wanted me to do to help, and he said "You can stop panicking and respect the last wish of a sinner."
My blood ran cold. My face began to tingle indescribably. From the elbow to the tips of my fingers, I felt powerless over the situation. As if to tell me that it wasn't my problem, he stood up on his own strength, walked over to the dusty, worn recliner in the corner of the room, and motioned me over to him.
He told me that in all of my movies, people die... and people talk about death with intent to threaten one another. He said that even here, in the same room with me, he can see that I was afraid of death because my first reaction was to scramble into action... to do everything I could to stop it from happening.
"That's not what you're here for, young man... you're here to see the peace that comes with Death... you're here to listen to my final word before my time is over. After this, maybe you'll see why death isn't as fearsome as you believe it is."
I knelled beside him, at his request. He told me there was a large envelope on the nightstand in his bedroom... and that I was only to open it after he had died. To be frank, I was out of my mind... I felt that someone somewhere was calling the cops, and that I would be going to jail for doing nothing... or because they would think I killed him.
It happened a lot faster than I thought it would have. His chest began to react as if he was coughing, except he wasn't. His eyes widened, he was looking straight ahead, unblinking...
He said "Fear...", and then gave a large exhale. His eyes didn't close, save for a few odd twitches on his face, he was still. There was nothing magical about it, there was no majesty behind it, he was just dead. I sat there for a few moments... no other sound seemed to exist for a few moments. I didn't know what to say, or what to do with him... but I remembered the envelope.
Inside was $1,000 and a note that said "Don't be a fool, take everything you brought in with you, leave me wherever I am, and go home. Stay quiet about it until you think the coast is clear, then write something about what you learned here. Don't thank me for this, I was going to die anyway... my dying wish was that my death would mean more than my life."
That's all I've got. In case anybody noticed a drastic change in my persona from last year to this one, perhaps it's the difference that one year has made... or perhaps it's the difference one night has made.
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From Martin Scorsese's "Shine A Light" documentary, here's "Champagne and Reefer" as performed by The Rolling Stones with Buddy Guy. When I first saw this unbelievable piece, I was halfway across the Atlantic Ocean on the way to Dubai. My mother's a big fan of the Stones and in fact bought most of their original vinyl records (which are all up in my closet today).
You can see and feel their emotions through the music, and through their stage performance, you yourself can feel many stories in the music itself that there just aren't words for. Simple, yet powerful... a classic meeting of Rock and Roll and Blues music.
Today's going to be a hard day. Sometimes the best thing you can do is just get lost in the old tunes. Hope you take a moment to listen to this, to watch this, and I hope it stirs you inside as it did me.
Update: It's 10:40PM. My puppy dog of 13 years was put to sleep today at 5:00. I've never seen anything like it before, but I wouldn't have had it any other way. Adios, T-Bone... My titi (tee-tee, for those who didn't know the pup).
U.S. Troops In Homeland “Crowd Control” Patrols From October 1st
Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
U.S. troops returning from duty in Iraq will be carrying out homeland patrols in America from October 1st in complete violation of Posse Comitatus for the purposes of helping with “civil unrest and crowd control” - which could include dealing with unruly Americans after a complete economic collapse.
The deployment of National Guard troops to aid law enforcement or for disaster relief purposes is legal under the authority of the governor of a state, but using active duty U.S. Army in law enforcement operations inside America absent the conditions described in the Insurrection Act is completely illegal.
This shocking admission was calmly reported on September 8th by the Army Times website, which reports that from the beginning of next month the 3rd Infantry Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team “Will be under the day-to-day control of U.S. Army North, the Army service component of Northern Command, as an on-call federal response force for natural or manmade emergencies and disasters, including terrorist attacks.”
The article notes that the deployment “marks the first time an active unit has been given a dedicated assignment to NorthCom, a joint command established in 2002 to provide command and control for federal homeland defense efforts and coordinate defense support of civil authorities.”
The purpose of the unit’s patrols includes helping “with civil unrest and crowd control or to deal with potentially horrific scenarios such as massive poisoning and chaos in response to a chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear or high-yield explosive, or CBRNE, attack.”
The unit will be on homeland patrol for at least 20 months before returning to Iraq or Afghanistan in early 2010, according to the report.
Training for homeland operations has already begun at Fort Stewart and at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs.
Ominously, the report states that, “The 1st BCT’s soldiers also will learn how to use “the first ever nonlethal package that the Army has fielded,” 1st BCT commander Col. Roger Cloutier said, referring to crowd and traffic control equipment and nonlethal weapons designed to subdue unruly or dangerous individuals without killing them.”
The unit would also be deployed to deal with hostile crowds of Americans in the aftermath of a massive economic depression, potential food riots and race riots, if one defines the term “crowd control” to match its reasonably applicable scenarios.
The open admission that U.S. troops will be involved in law enforcement operations as well as potentially using non-lethal weapons against American citizens is a complete violation of the Posse Comitatus Act and the Insurrection Act, which substantially limit the powers of the federal government to use the military for law enforcement unless under precise and extreme circumstances.
Section 1385 of the Posse Comitatus Act states, “Whoever, except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress, willfully uses any part of the Army or the Air Force as a posse comitatus or otherwise to execute the laws shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.”
Under the John Warner Defense Authorization Act, signed by President Bush on October 17, 2006, the law was changed to state, “The President may employ the armed forces to restore public order in any State of the United States the President determines hinders the execution of laws or deprives people of a right, privilege, immunity, or protection named in the Constitution and secured by law or opposes or obstructs the execution of the laws of the United States or impedes the course of justice under those laws.”
However, these changes were repealed in their entirety by HR 4986: National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008, reverting back to the original state of the Insurrection Act of 1807.
The original text of the Insurrection Act severely limits the power of the President to deploy troops within the United States.
For troops to be deployed, a condition has to exist that, “(1) So hinders the execution of the laws of that State, and of the United States within the State, that any part or class of its people is deprived of a right, privilege, immunity, or protection named in the Constitution and secured by law, and the constituted authorities of that State are unable, fail, or refuse to protect that right, privilege, or immunity, or to give that protection; or (2) opposes or obstructs the execution of the laws of the United States or impedes the course of justice under those laws. In any situation covered by clause (1), the State shall be considered to have denied the equal protection of the laws secured by the Constitution.”
Is the Bush administration and Northcom waiting for such a scenario to unfold, an event that completely overwhelms state authorities, before unleashing the might of the U.S. Army against the American people?
The deployment of National Guard troops to aid law enforcement or for disaster relief purposes is legal under the authority of the governor of a state, but using active duty U.S. Army in law enforcement operations inside America absent the conditions described in the Insurrection Act is completely illegal.
With the promise of an “October surprise” on behalf of Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda being bandied about by the media and the potential for civil unrest should a complete collapse of the U.S. economy unfold, the presence of U.S. troops inside America, returning fresh from kicking down doors, arresting “insurgents” and taking them to internment camps in Iraq, should put Americans on alert and provoke urgent questions about the legality of U.S. Army units engaging in law enforcement operations against American citizens.
Starting October 1 customers of Comcast's residential data services will have an invisible barrier on their monthly data usage. Under the new guidelines of Comcast's Acceptable Use Policy announced Thursday, that cap will be set at 250 gigabytes per month, per account.
Users who go over the limit will get a courtesy call from Comcast's customer service for the first instance. However, under the new policy a second-time offense means the service is immediately suspended for an entire calendar year.
Surprisingly the company is not providing any tools to help users monitor their current usage. An FAQ on Comcast's support site simply suggests that customers do a "Web search" for bandwidth metering software that will track this amount for them.
Comcast notes that the median usage for most residential customers falls somewhere between 2GB and 3GB, a number that is regularly broken within a matter of hours and sometimes minutes by customers taking advantage of streaming HD video and online backup services. The company breaks down basic usage numbers similar to what's seen on the marketing materials on a consumer hard drive:
* Send 50 million e-mails (at 0.05KB/e-mail)
* Download 62,500 songs (at 4MB/song)
* Download 125 standard-definition movies (at 2GB/movie)
* Upload 25,000 high-resolution digital photos (at 10MB/photo)
A far greater problem may be the slighting of cloud storage services that offer file transfer and backup. Services like Carbonite and Mozy let you back up and transfer the entirety of your computer's storage several times per month, which on many standard consumer machines can be in the hundreds of gigabytes.
Apple, too, is just at the beginning stages of MobileMe, a service that offers sync and file backup to multiple devices. Additionally, the rumored all-you-can-eat iTunes could drastically change how much downloading users are doing on a monthly basis.
Those of you aching for a taste of Bubba's World Famous Chili are in for a treat! I decided that, while Director Joey Evans is out touring England and Canada promoting the super-cool badass horror film "Bubba's Chili Parlor", I can hit the keyboard and start making a PC Game based on the movie for everyone to enjoy!
Alright: Truth be told, no... I didn't get any permission to make this game... but I'm sure the guys won't mind. How many other low-budget indie horror flicks out there have their own no-budget indie survival horror action FPS games? This is a way cool promotional item that few other people have... and it's way cooler than a mini 3x5 glossy "trading card" that's half covered with local business sponsors anyway.
Here are some screenshots from "Bubba's Chili Parlor 3D":
Yeah. It's going to be like that. You know what else it's going to be? 100% FREE! Nobody will ever have to pay a dime for the Bubba's Chili Parlor video game! (Besides... it's probably going to be much too short to charge people anyway... plus, it takes a lot of time to do something like this and nobody's going to pay me to make a big ass 60+ hour adventure in HD with Xbox 360-Quality graphics).
Adrian Santiago: Back Online! Plus, all-new 100% Free Pro Wrestling Channel
Technical Difficulties! Or: "What the Fucking Fuck?"
Hello. Well, it's been about 3 years since I last had to do it, but this past week I went through and reformatted my PC to reinstall a fresh copy of Windows XP. Due to Microsoft's pristine engineering team, XP had managed to gather so much extra dust that I could no longer view my website from my desktop computer.
My iPod touch? Yes. Laptops? Yes. Other PCs around the world? Yes. My own machine located in my room in front of an open window that I periodically sit nude and type in front of? No... and that's a problem.
Anyway: Continuing.
Texas Independent Wrestling - Digital Archive Project
Although I am actually hard at work on a new feature-length script, the main video project I'm working on right now is the "Texas Independent Wrestling Channel". Basically, I've rehashed some of my past in order to dig up old 8mm and Hi-8 cassettes of Independent Wrestling shows I worked as camera guy for. Some of these tapes are 6-8 years old, but they were done during the time period where wrestling promotions and wrestlers themselves were going to great lengths and putting their bodies in great risk to make a buck: We're talking barbed wire, thumbtacks, gallons of real blood and true-to-life injuries.
It's a work in progress at the moment, but by the end of the month I hope to have a solid block of around 24 hours worth of 100% free, uncensored content online. Right now? There's around 5, and by the end of this week I hope to at least double that. Some of the videos encoded for the web are originals that were made by myself, some of them are promotion-submitted (those who wanted their older shows to be a part of the project), and some are fan-submitted video tapes. All tapes are 100% complete, that is, no fancy editing or things like that done. As a matter of fact, in many cases, you will see previously unaired footage including interviews and promos, as well as behind the scenes content that nobody has seen before.
All of the videos in the channel will have a 5-minute preview of the event, and if it looks like your kind of show, you are free to download the complete event to your computer to watch whenever you like!
When the channel's ready for a full launch, I will have banner ads, button ads and such if you'd like to add/embed the wrestling content to your fansites, websites, myspace pages and so on. Whee, huh? I'm also considering doing a similar channel for Backyard Wrestling content, but who knows if that'll work or not: Last I checked, Backyard Wrestling wasn't as hot as it was back when I personally used to do it almost 10 years ago.
Busy busy busy! Dammit all I've been busy! I went out to Dubai with Adagio Productions and took center stage of "The American HD Filmmaking Workshop"... then I came home. Then, two days later, we started to move homes... a long, messy process. When it all came together, the internet died! It has just barely come back online this afternoon... but it's scheduled to go back down tomorrow when the geniuses over at Time Warner Cable come back out tomorrow to start Day 2 of the "repair work".
During the weeks the internet was down, I helped out my buddy Motubu in his crusade against the corruption in the Andalusian world, producing some slick graphics for his next video exposé. I met up with SAG Actor Dennis O'Neill and another gentleman who didn't come across to me as the type of professional a guy like Dennis should be working with... I walked away not knowing this guy's name, not knowing the name of his project, and with a brisk "So lemme know if you wanna work on this short film" kinda thing while he fluttered away to a Starbucks down the road. I also spoke with some fellas in East Texas about their prospective reality TV show, and I'm also trying to get in touch with yet ANOTHER individual about helping him finish his feature-length script.
...all the while, I'm juggling which of my own 3 feature-length projects to start writing. After seeing Dennis again, the choice became clear: I'm currently about 20 pages through on a rough draft of "Dario's Will"... an extension of my On The Lot short film, "Andolini's Office". This time will be a fair bit different, however: We don't have a 5 minute time limit, and we don't have to be "PG-13 or less" as far as content goes... with the number of F-Bombs I've dropped in the first 20% of the script or so, I'd say I'm sitting comfortably in R-Rated territory.
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I'm looking for folks with cool crap on the web who would like to join my Site Affiliates section! Requirements are simple... you either have some cool thing to trade with me, or you have to be able to draw a lot of hits to my website in return for me sending hits your way! Anybody interested? E-mail evilprojectblack@gmail.com
---SKYPE ME!---
Internet telephone! It's free, all you need is a microphone and you can virtually dial me up from anywhere on the planet... and if I'm online (which I will try to be as often as I can... with this internet right now, who knows?), I can pick up the call and we'll shoot the shit.
Yeah, it's like that. Either click the Skype Me button on the left-hand side of the site, or just add "project.black.studios" in your little Skype contacts list! It's free software, adds no spyware or ads to your system or anything! Get connected, foo!
---AND AN ORDER OF FRIES---
Busy... so busy. Still writing this screenplay, so lemme get back to that. Skype Me, AIM, MSN... whatever. Add me on Myspace. E-mail me. If I'm not busy with one of the ton of things I've touched on, then I'll gladly chat :)
Alright, so here's the big announcement: Adrian Santiago has been hired by a multimedia company in Dallas, TX to co-instruct the American HD Filmmaking Workshop. This is a pretty big deal, because it starts by sending me overseas to work with the people who live in "The Las Vegas of the Middle East", Dubai, UAE. Dubai is a tremendously wealthy nation, and it's coming to life with the world's only 7-star hotel, the world's largest indoor ice-skiing resort (in the desert!), the upcoming #1 and #2 tallest buildings in the world, the world's largest theme park (twice the size of Disney world)... and a lot more.
Anyway, more on why I'll be out there: The people of Dubai are going to get a "One-Two" punch of filmmaking experience. They will learn about the basics of breaking into the business with world famous film guru Dov S-S Simmons (if you haven't seen the man work, google him!), and then they will come to me to learn to physically make the movies happen! Full hands on experience in set design, dramatic lighting, cinematography, directing, and all of the good stuff that "Everyone knows, but not everyone knows how to do it".
What's in it for me? Well... quite a bit actually. First of all, the killer 28-hour travel time will be awesome! It's a trip that'll take me from Dallas to London to Bahrain to Dubai, where I will be until July 1st. While there, I'll get my hands on the super badass Sony F900 Camera (a $150,000 HD Camera used to shoot Star Wars Episode III and Sin City, for those keeping tabs at home), as well as a range of other cameras. I'll also be networking on a level you can't imagine... remember all of the details on how wealthy the country is? Enough said!
...and then, the glamorous 30 return trip. That will look like Dubai to Bahrain to Paris all the way home to Dallas, TX. If all goes well, I should be "home" in time for dinner on July 2nd: Just in time to take a day to nap, and then get out there, buy a buttload of fireworks and beef, and have my killer Fourth of July party... uh, in a place I've never been to: Because we may be moving out of our home while I'm away. We'll still be in Arlington, but you know... different house.
Very interesting times are ahead of us! When we come back from Dubai, we'll be hitting Dallas, Houston, Austin, San Antonio, and then onward to the east and west coasts... full schedule to be announced later, but it all begins about a week from now, on Sunday June 22nd 2008.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
The cell phone number hasn't changed, but it's staying here in the United States. Leave voice mails... it's all the rage these days. I'll have internet access where I'm at, so if there's any urgent business, you can hit me at evilprojectblack@gmail.com - Dubai is (I believe) 9 hours ahead of Central Time in America (ex: 12:00pm noon = 9:00pm Dubai). So... y'know. Take that to the bank.
Catch ya later! Pictures and all that to come... :)
The evil filmmaking syndicate, Project Black Studios is teaming up with Mr. Scott Mollette to flesh out his pet project, "The Platinum Peacemaker"! It is a modestly budgeted short, hovering around the hour mark, filled with laughs, action, gunshots, explosions and... well... women.
Alright folks, no more fucking around. Today is the day you've decided if you're a voter or if you're not... and chances are if you could not be motivated in this historical election, then you'll never be motivated to vote: In which case you should probably do the political equivalent of stapling your God damned mouth shut and cramming the flaccid collection of nerve endings you insist we refer to as a brain and shove it up your ass.
He also said I had no choice in the matter, and in fact, I actually owed it to him to accept this "gift" he spoke about.
My blood ran cold. My face began to tingle indescribably. From the elbow to the tips of my fingers, I felt powerless over the situation. As if to tell me that it wasn't my problem, he stood up on his own strength, walked over to the dusty, worn recliner in the corner of the room, and motioned me over to him.
Click the small pic for a full sized picture of the best puppy ever!
This shocking admission was calmly reported on September 8th by the Army Times website, which reports that from the beginning of next month the 3rd Infantry Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team “Will be under the day-to-day control of U.S. Army North, the Army service component of Northern Command, as an on-call federal response force for natural or manmade emergencies and disasters, including terrorist attacks.”
However, these changes were repealed in their entirety by HR 4986: National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008, reverting back to the original state of the Insurrection Act of 1807.
