Greetings, all! Sit down, sit down. Today is truly a day of merriment, for it is the day that, twenty-five years past, Joseph Luster was born!
(hurrah, hurrah)
(fanfare begins and Joseph sits down on his throne)
To celebrate this day, I decree that you shall all buy him things from his wishlist!
(hurrahs continue. A single naysayer raises his thumb against The Earl. He is vanquished with haste)
Now, disperse, and go cast your eyes upon The Earl's latest cinematic review!
31.7.06
Stoop-a-Loop
Wow. My friend Matthew Stoop's (known as DP2000 to some random peons) blog is pretty amazing.
27.7.06
Transportal
Alright, here's our 48 Hour Film Project entry for Louisville! It was a lot of fun to make and it's totally rad-tarded; check it.
Requirements
Genre (drawn from hat): Fantasy
Character: Nate Wardman, retired police officer
Prop: Napkin
Line: "I promise it won't happen again."
Requirements
Genre (drawn from hat): Fantasy
Character: Nate Wardman, retired police officer
Prop: Napkin
Line: "I promise it won't happen again."
24.7.06
The Edge of Reality
This past weekend was the first ever Louisville edition of the 48 Hour Film Project. BigWig Films had to participate and, naturally, we drew one of the more ridiculous genres: Fantasy.
At the end of the weekend we've left the world with TRANSPORTAL, an epic to end all epics starring myself and the young starlet Jennifer Smith (with appearances by writer/co-director John Wishon and DP Bryan Adams as "Enemy Agent #1 and "Enemy Agent #2" respectively).
Our screening (known to our fans as the "World Premiere") is on Wednesday, so I'll post it on youtube and this site immediately after. I don't want anyone in Louisville prepared for their transportation into the world of TRAAAANSPOOOOORTAAAAAAL.
I'll post more about the production later. I'm going to go reward myself by consuming products at various retail outlets.
At the end of the weekend we've left the world with TRANSPORTAL, an epic to end all epics starring myself and the young starlet Jennifer Smith (with appearances by writer/co-director John Wishon and DP Bryan Adams as "Enemy Agent #1 and "Enemy Agent #2" respectively).
Our screening (known to our fans as the "World Premiere") is on Wednesday, so I'll post it on youtube and this site immediately after. I don't want anyone in Louisville prepared for their transportation into the world of TRAAAANSPOOOOORTAAAAAAL.
I'll post more about the production later. I'm going to go reward myself by consuming products at various retail outlets.
12.7.06
Slamm Dunk Returns!
This speaks for itself: Christmas / Anniversary issue:
Here are the past issue covers in case you missed them!
Here are the past issue covers in case you missed them!
10.7.06
The Vibration in Your Pants is Normal; This is a Delicacy Many are Deprived of
The volcanoes, separated only by thousands of feet of parched landmass, all began to tremble and heave violently. Before any evasive maneuvers could be taken, rock and brush began to tumble and toss from the lower inclines as the cones initiated some inexplicable magnetic attraction to one another. Just as The End was foreseen, molten rocks shot out at impossible speeds, and before anything could be recorded and inserted into some doomed-to-remain-unpublished History of the Apocalypse, the flaming objects met just above the skyline.
This wasn't death, though, this was birth. The rocks froze and split in mid-air, revealing a crystalline interior that acted as a jacket, blanketing an unseeable force within. The object fell and skidded into the dirt like a messenger from Krypton. Now visible, a figure stood up from the pluming smoke clouds and held out his right hand, signifying this land as his.
We now know this being as "Kojiro Abe," a filmmaker sent from the bizarre reaches of space in an effort to enlighten our small brains and lend a sense of urgency to the stagnating creative mind. He brought us rewired fables dislocated from our own reality, punishingly honest micro-studies on our underwater worlds, and scripts that our most brilliant man-scientists have yet to fully unravel.
He currently resides in a life of humility, and has aged 19 of our primitive Earth years. When he's not deciphering man's pitiful secrets in the time it takes you to fart, he is releasing a constant stream of ground-breaking work.
I bring you his latest teaser: LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD.
http://www.kojiroabe.com/films/redteaser.wmv
http://www.myspace.com/kojiroabe
http://www.kojiroabe.com/
Look for the full film in late August, but do not try to understand its peculiarities, for to you they are the Sphinx's very riddles; to him, a gnat's shit's fly's bacteria.
This wasn't death, though, this was birth. The rocks froze and split in mid-air, revealing a crystalline interior that acted as a jacket, blanketing an unseeable force within. The object fell and skidded into the dirt like a messenger from Krypton. Now visible, a figure stood up from the pluming smoke clouds and held out his right hand, signifying this land as his.
We now know this being as "Kojiro Abe," a filmmaker sent from the bizarre reaches of space in an effort to enlighten our small brains and lend a sense of urgency to the stagnating creative mind. He brought us rewired fables dislocated from our own reality, punishingly honest micro-studies on our underwater worlds, and scripts that our most brilliant man-scientists have yet to fully unravel.
He currently resides in a life of humility, and has aged 19 of our primitive Earth years. When he's not deciphering man's pitiful secrets in the time it takes you to fart, he is releasing a constant stream of ground-breaking work.
I bring you his latest teaser: LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD.
http://www.kojiroabe.com/films/redtease
http://www.myspace.com/kojiroabe
http://www.kojiroabe.com/
Look for the full film in late August, but do not try to understand its peculiarities, for to you they are the Sphinx's very riddles; to him, a gnat's shit's fly's bacteria.
Rrrrrrrroses on Your Marks!
If it's not already obvious, I'm a severely habitual person. As easy as it is for me to get in the habit of writing here every night, I can just as easily slip into a routine of negligence: something I plan on employing with more sobering results in the future on women and children.
Last week, I broke down (read: got stupid) and bought a 360. The "stupid" only factors in because I should be saving money. Other than that, I couldn't be happier with the purchase. I haven't had this much fun with Them TV Games® since I got a Dreamcast. Microsoft's Live service is much more streamlined and integrated into everything this time around, making it a console that seems fully connected throughout all aspects of play. If anyone else wants to "win" in this next generation, they're going to have to both match and surpass what's been established thus far on Live; It's that simple.
I'm not even that into competitive gaming or anything, but I love that you can just hang out and play simple arcade games with friends, download demos and games, or mess around with other rippable media. The 360 has also introduced me to Sega's Condemned: Criminal Origins, which is a stellar and terrifying game that I will write about more extensively in the near future.
Enough about that, I'm going to turn it on for a bit between script-writing and going to bed and play some Geometry Wars. Expect some more regular updates now.
Last week, I broke down (read: got stupid) and bought a 360. The "stupid" only factors in because I should be saving money. Other than that, I couldn't be happier with the purchase. I haven't had this much fun with Them TV Games® since I got a Dreamcast. Microsoft's Live service is much more streamlined and integrated into everything this time around, making it a console that seems fully connected throughout all aspects of play. If anyone else wants to "win" in this next generation, they're going to have to both match and surpass what's been established thus far on Live; It's that simple.
I'm not even that into competitive gaming or anything, but I love that you can just hang out and play simple arcade games with friends, download demos and games, or mess around with other rippable media. The 360 has also introduced me to Sega's Condemned: Criminal Origins, which is a stellar and terrifying game that I will write about more extensively in the near future.
Enough about that, I'm going to turn it on for a bit between script-writing and going to bed and play some Geometry Wars. Expect some more regular updates now.
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