I'm also a filmmaker and effects makeup artist.
This is where I'll rant and talk about things I like.
Welcome.
On Top of The World.
This week has been one of the best in my short filmmaking career. Due to a donation by a single donor, we have met the funding to finish our film, Die Develkok, Die!. It is an incredible burden that has been lifted off of my shoulders and I couldn’t be happier. I am blessed to have people who believe in what we’re doing support us in such an amazing way.
In addition to that amazing news, I found out what my next project post Develkok would be by chance alone.
I was contacted by a filmmaker friend, Joshua Hull. Josh is the director of the film Beverly Lane and is hard at work on his next project, a superhero comedy called The Impersonators. My history with Josh started a few years ago when he invited me to design makeup effects for his then upcoming film Idiot Gore. Things with IG were put on hold but I’ve always been a big supporter of Josh’s and was thrilled when he announced his next film would be TERMS, the plot of which has been kept tightly under wraps.
It was soon announced that due to the film’s production status/schedule Josh would be moving forward with the impersonators. Although I was sad to see the hiccup with both Idiot Gore and TERMS I was really excited about The Impersonators.
Well yesterday I received a text message from Josh that simply read “If you could direct TERMS, would you?”.
I wasn’t sure what to think. I immediately said yes and asked a marathon of questions. Over the past 24 hours we’ve hammered out the details which begin with myself working on a rewrite of the script which was originally written by the talented J Travis Grundon. The script is in good shape but as with anything, I need to rewrite it to better match my vision of the film and this is something that, thankfully, the already established crew agrees with.
I am over the moon. This is a huge step for me. Between Die, Develkok, Die! and TERMS the rest of 2012 will officially be the beginning of the rest of my career.
Stay tuned folks. There are huge things happening.
Good to see racism is alive and well… #unfuckingbelieveable #whitetrashdreamcar #hopeyouwreck (Taken with instagram)
New Project.
It’s a little of this:
with some of this:
oh and this:
and a bit of this:
in this format:
This one has been percolating for a really long time. and I’ve started writing it (them?). I hope after Develkok I can get things together to do this. Maybe. We’ll see.
15, 37, 42
Just answered 15 but I also like “The Only Thing Constant Is Change”.
37-there are a couple of tattoos I definitely want. The first one is actually my favorite quote from the last post “If you’re loved by someone you’re never rejected/Decide what to be and go be it”
I also want to get a family tattoo. I want my grandmother’s portrait as a bust with a rose at the bust line for my mom set against an anchor for my grandfather.
It’s hard to commit to popular culture tattoos but Warren Zevon’s music has really gotten me through a lot and I would really love to get something to commemorate that. Maybe this without the name:
lastly, for years my grandfather carried a polaroid picture around in his wallet and would tell women at the bank or the super market that he had propellers tattooed on his ass and when they laughed and didn’t believe him, he’d whip out the polaroid and there was his ass with temporary propellers drawn on the left cheek.
I want to really get that done because my grandfather is hilarious and will always be my hero.
42. I last held hands with my sweetheart while we slept last night :)
15. favorite qoute
I have three favorite quotes actually. Two come from friends but the first comes from an Avett Brothers song.
That quote is “If you’re loved by someone you’re never rejected/decide what to be and go be it”
I don’t think there are truer words to live by.
The other two, as I said, are from friends and both refer to filmmaking and when I’ve felt shitty and down about choosing such an unstable career these quotes always come back to me:
“It’s not about the glory, it’s about the freedom”
and
“Who else gets to do what we do everyday?? wake up with new worlds in our head & create that shit. We do for the weak minded fucks who settle for selling insurance”
Let’s Make This Happen.
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“Creature Feature” by Pgh artist Byron Winton
acrylics - five months work
prints available here
I am buying a print of this right now.
Sweet Jesus I have rarely wanted anything as bad as I want this. It. Is. Perfect.
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And While I’m On The Subject…
I realized that growing up on a steady diet of all things horror, a huge part of which being “Are You Afraid of The Dark” has contributed not only to my career choice in the filmmaking biz (primarily horror genre) but also lifelong scar induced by pure nightmarish visions.
Here’s a small sampling from the first season:
This guy.
Human sized doll that wants you to play with her…more unsettling is that the body shape under the costume is clearly a man.
The gap in the teeth along with the Exorcist act. “I’m sorta dead”. I sorta pissed myself.
oh just an attic nothing to wo- SWEET CHRIST CLOWN DOLL!
This was hard to find one moment from this episode that scarred me for life so here’s a few…
The spaghetti dinner that ends up being cigars. No, I don’t know why this terrified me.
oh and how bout the fact that this is CLEARLY ZEEBOS FUCKING GHOST! he’s represented by the animatronic figure later in the funhouse but this bad boy talks and moves like people and NEVER shows up again. Chilling shit.
Well that’s all for the moments in Season One that have left me permanently damaged. As I watch the other seasons I’ll be sure to update why I still sleep with a Gremlins night light. Yes, that shit is oddly specific.
Dr. Vink…with a Vuh-vuh-vuh
So Dr. Vink pops up as a recurring character every once in awhile. Artist, Filmmaker, restauranteur.
My question is, where is he getting the capitol for all of these ventures. Mad science doesn’t pay well. Is there a business college for the insane and diabolical?
It boggles the mind.
