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Sam Drog
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Monday, August 08, 2016
Clown Versus Monkey: Monday morning status.
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Sam Drog
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Sunday, August 07, 2016
Clown Versus Monkey: Spread Sheet Status
Those last two columns with all the white, don't sweat it. Mostly rendering and adding dissolves. It's those scattered whites in the middle that take a while; clown keying and adding their punchout patterns. There are a lot of props still to move around, but that puts me in a zen state, so no sweat. One of those columns is blood splatter, that might take a hot second, so we will see if I have time before the screening this Saturday.
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Sam Drog
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Friday, August 05, 2016
Clown Versus Monkey: Status Friday Night
Monday, August 01, 2016
Clown Versus Monkey: Status on the Spreadsheet
Saturday, July 30, 2016
Clown Versus Monkey: There are No Monkeys in this Dojo!
Tuesday, July 26, 2016
Clown Versus Monkey: captain's log
Last night's log. Progress is progressing.
The plot to CvM revealed!
Sunday, July 24, 2016
Clown Versus Monkey Chunk#5 Stills
Saturday, July 16, 2016
Clown Versus Monkey: When Bonzo Met Preston
Monday, July 04, 2016
Thursday, June 30, 2016
Clown Versus Monkey: 45
I did not get further with pieces last night, but got the computer to cool down and did some clean up.
Computer running better, need to get some more space. The RAM cannot be increased.4G is as big as it can get on this machine. Will improvise.
Right now, the score is 981/45.
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Sam Drog
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Wednesday, June 29, 2016
Clown Versus Monkey: RAM
Monday, June 27, 2016
Clown Versus Monkey: Into the Abyss
So here's some math.
I have 988 steps left to finish Clown Versus Monkey.
A friend wants to show it at a festival coming up.
He will show it as a work in progress.
I have 1152 hours before the fest.
I can do about 3 steps in an hour, baring computer glitches and obsessive tweaking.
That is 3/988 = 329 hours.
329/48 = 6.85 hours a day.
Let's say 7 hours a day, until August.
Let's say 3.5 before work and 3.5 after work.
Is it possible? Can I live 48 days in that CvM zone?
FIGHT EVIL
Sam Drog
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I have 988 steps left to finish Clown Versus Monkey.
A friend wants to show it at a festival coming up.
He will show it as a work in progress.
I have 1152 hours before the fest.
I can do about 3 steps in an hour, baring computer glitches and obsessive tweaking.
That is 3/988 = 329 hours.
329/48 = 6.85 hours a day.
Let's say 7 hours a day, until August.
Let's say 3.5 before work and 3.5 after work.
Is it possible? Can I live 48 days in that CvM zone?
FIGHT EVIL
Sam Drog
Clown Versus Monkey! Check It Out Here!
Buy Satanic Killer Chicken Here!
Watch Short Films Here!
Sunday, May 22, 2016
Cameron Conkle's Mars Rover Life Cycle
Cameron spent five hours drawing 100 pictures of the Mars Rover's life cycle.
I put some sound effects on it and there you go. Cameron's obsessive personality is perfect for animation. We actually had some creative differences over how many "pops" to use.
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Sam Drog
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Wednesday, March 16, 2016
Wednesday, March 09, 2016
Friday, February 19, 2016
Ten Reasons You Should See The Church (1989)
1. A big event in high school was when a group of buddies
and I took the subway to the one theater in Atlanta that was showing Cemetery
Man. It was a horror geek pilgrimage to see a bonafide Italian Zombie Movie. A
great movie, a great memory. Cemetery Man became a reference point in our
marathon movie conversations. The director Michele Soavi did this movie before Cemetery
Man, and you can see the same style here, especially when winged lizard man
shows up.
2. This movie is all about the atmosphere. Nothing scary
happens, but it’s so beautifully shot, staged, and lit that you don’t care. Great
atmosphere and takes full advantage of the huge gothic cathedral they shot in.
If you get to shoot in an ancient gothic cathedral, it can only help your
movie. You got Cathedral? Movie makes itself.
3. Asia Argento is here as a gawky preteen who loves to go
out to cheesy Italian discos and dance with preppy little dweebs in Member’s
Only jackets. This was way before I met Asia at a Fango convention, married
her, only to have the relationship fall
apart under the microscope of public scrutiny. It was nobody’s fault.
Somethings aren’t built to last.
4. Hey, it has the degenerate from Gates of Hell, Giovanni
Lombardo Radice, all grown up and bald, this time playing a priest. Even in the
white collar, this guy is a greasy mess.
5. Speaking of greasy messes, everyone in this movie ends up
coated in baby oil. I liked that, lots of greasy hair and greasy, grimy skin,
and an alter made of muddy, writhing bodies. I guess that was an alter. Maybe
an animal head? Not sure what they were going for, but it looked cool. Bottomline:
There are no wet wipes in this world.
6. I liked that they didn’t go Evil Dead make up in depicting the possessed people. People just start
acting crazy. You don’t know who’s possessed, or if everyone is possessed. Is
anyone sane in this movie?!? The over the top acting and dubbing adds to this
confusion. Are they crazy and possessed, or is this just bad acting? It’s
great.
7. The greatest
dubbing comes when someone gets possessed and starts retching and gagging. I
can picture the actor in the sound booth making all these noises, the director
trying to guide his gacks and groans. Hilarious.
8. Philip Glass on the soundtrack, if that’s your kind of
thing, kind of thing, kind of thing, kind of thing, kind of thing, kind of
thing, kind of thing. You also get Goblin. So it’s legit.
9. Goat Head Man was fantastic. Imagine the love scene in Rosemary’s Baby, but with a big rubber goat head.
10. I missed this when it came out in the 80s. I love the
homemade feel.
All done in camera. I didn’t see one optical. Feels like theater and photography, not like Home Video with CG
monsters thrown on top.
Pairs well with: Prince of Darkness (1987) – It’s Carpenter,
so you know it’s awesome, and the two movies share a lot of plot similarities.
Show Stopper! Two words: Subway Train
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Sam Drog
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Monday, January 18, 2016
Wednesday, December 30, 2015
Ten Thoughts on “Goke, Body Snatcher from Hell” – 1968
So Hulu has all these Criterion releases, most of which I have zero interest in watching, but with a title like “Goke, Body Snatcher from Hell”, how could I resist!
1. This is my kind of movie. Low budget and schlocky, with a twisted black heart. What will shock you is how nihilistic it is, while at the same time being really corny. It’s like Guernica done in Crayola.
2. The location is brutal. The characters are in a downed passenger jet in the middle of a barren desert. It looks like a Mad Max wasteland, but with lots of Styrofoam rock slides. People are being baked in this metal tube and every time they step outside a rock falls on them or a space vampire tries to give them a hickey. Rough times.
3. The alien is parked in the desert in this plastic UFO, and that’s pretty great...
...but the way it turns people into vampires is marvelous and will make you want to throw up. A very convincing special effect goes down that wasn’t just good for the time period, but good for the ages. It’s so effective and cool and weird. It’s one of those great culty moments that give iffy movies big reputations. I'm not going to show it here, you're just going to have to watch the movie. Don't google it. Don't!
4. The aliens seem to base their technology on lava lamps and psychedelic light shows. The inside of the UFO looks like a 1980's Steak Restaurant. I kept wondering if my table was ready.
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5. The film stock adds to the retro shag carpet appeal. 1960s Fujicolor. Maybe a cinematographer could let me in on why movies of the period look so fantastic. Nowadays cheap schlock looks like garbage, but back then cheap schlock looked like real movies.
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6. Similar to Night of the Living Dead where trapped characters spend the whole movie bickering with each other. Civility is gone the moment they are thrown into crisis. Both movies came out the same year, but this wasn’t released state side until ’77 to ‘79 depending where you look it up. I would say the biggest difference would be that instead of an army of zombies, you get one split faced creepy guy. He’s still pretty menacing.
7. My favorite character moment is the sadistic glee that the psychiatrist takes in watching people fall apart. People just don’t have these moments in American movies.
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| Sayonara, Mr. Bond. |
9. Interesting that political and domestic terrorists figure into the plot so strongly. Da more things change… badda badda boom!
10. If you were going to watch this as a double feature, I would say match it with either Lifeforce or The Blob (‘58 version). Both big amoebas and space vampires show up in Goke, so take your pick. However, Goke vampires tend to be less naked than the Lifeforce variety. Just saying.
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| Same as it ever was. |
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| Same as it ever was. |
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Sam Drog
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Monday, December 21, 2015
Ten Thoughts on Star Wars: The Force Awakens
I’ll try not to spoil anything, but you should run go see the
movie before reading this. It’s great. That’s my short review. It’s great. Go
see it. See it lots. Below is just some rambling. I don’t remember people’s
names. Sorry in advance.
1. Harrison Ford. Oh man Harrison Ford is so good
in this, brings his chops, brings Han Solo awesomeness, brings it. It was
everything that the return of Indiana Jones
wasn’t. In fact, maybe my favorite scene is him telling his stance on the Jedi
and the force and all that mumbo jumbo. Loved that scene and it also serves as
a fix for the Chrystal Skull where you needed to see how life changed and
bent him over the years.
2. Speaking of acting, no one sucks. Everyone is in
the spirit, looking alive and having fun. It was joyful. Living breathing
people that you wanted to hang around for 2 hours. No Space C-SPAN in this one.
3. Funny! Remember when Star Wars movies had a
sense of humor? Well they do again!
4. Very nostalgic. This movie is a big sloppy kiss
to the first movie. The plot hits the same notes with little spins. JJ is the
first Star Wars director to have grown up watching Star Wars, probably wanted
to make movies because of Star Wars, and his twiterpation locks this movie in
to the exuberant fanboy geekery zone. That keeps it from breaking new ground or
going places the movies haven’t gone before, but it is a solid iteration of all
that we love about those first three movies.
5. I loved the struggles of conscience the evil
characters have. The Darth Vader 2.0 Guy has a great quiet scene in his
chamber, kind of a “to be or not to be” moment, that I really dug. Same with
the shell shocked storm trooper. It’s a very optimistic view of the world that
the antagonists are just as unsure of themselves as the heros. The dark side
here is played as some sort of creepy cult that will steel your babies away. I
liked that angle.
6. The female lead in this is great. Liked the mummy costume. A good guy in a Star Wars movie with a British accent?
That’s not right! I’m going to let it slide.
7. Deathstar 3.0 is a gas guzzler.
8. Big planet blows up, my kid cries and asks “Is
Jar Jar okay?” Look, you raise your kids
the best you can, but you have to let them be their own people at some point.
Generation gap is a go.
9. So the scene on the bridge. I was a Teenage
Darth Vader. Sure, I got verklempt. Held it together but not going to lie. I have wanted
to see Harrison Ford be in scenes like this for a long time. After Cowboys and Aliens and The Chrystal Skull, I thought he’d lost it. He is back and the bridge
scene, man that gave me the feels pretty hardcore. Wow. See number 1.
10. But the last scene, I couldn’t even talk
afterwards. I would have liked one more little thing, a moment, but that is nitpicking.
I won’t nitpick, because the moment we’re given is wonderful, we see so much pathos
and regret and uncertainty in the eyes… it’s a great moment. I rambled about it in the
car trip home and my throat kept catching. Phew.
Bonus: Loved the Space Nazi Rally scene with the crazy
Hitler speech. Who hasn’t wanted to see that in a Star Wars movie?
Nutshell: Fury Road, Jurassic World, and this prove that
your awesome childhood wasn’t a complete hallucination.
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Sam Drog
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