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Could it be true? Is the plan done? Yes. Yes it is. We’ve combed through it, checked spelling, grammar, double checked numbers, redrew graphs, triple checked our sources and at last… I can say it is done. A lot of hard work went into this. Lots of frustration too. So it’s nice to look at [...]

A friend just turned me on to Swedish artist Lykke Li performs in this kinda creepy video. I’m loving the staccato motion of some of the characters and the photographic compositions. Also like her boxing style dance/performance. It’s a great song and normally I don’t think videos do well when an editor cuts images to [...]

Some good news. I just heard from the composer that the music is going well for the short film The Scorpion and the Frog. Might be another week or two before it’s finished. I’ve been slacking on the sound sweetening due to other things like the mystery project, but I’m tweaking the audio now, hoping [...]

Been busy with things, but I managed to work on a few photos from Sunday’s shoot. Still have a few more I’m working on. I did some green screen photography which mean I can remove the background and change it to anything I want. Looking forward to working on those soon. It was a really [...]

I’m excited to be doing a photo shoot today! We’ll be doing some simple portraits on the back porch if the weather clears. Otherwise I’m going to be experimenting with some green screen photography inside. If this goes well, I’ll be expanding some of the products I create to include photography. I’m leaning toward fashion [...]

I’m gearing up to write another feature length script set in the Horror genre. With that comes research in the form of watching every horror film I can, good and especially bad, in order to create something “new”. Watching these films, I’ve encountered a few horror film clichés that I’ll have to stay away from. [...]

Ahhh, at long last the short film Reunion is finished! This is a short I jumped on to help co-produce for Rey Villar back in the summer of ’08. I think we shot it around June or July. We managed to get it in for the Chicago Filipino Asian American Film Festival in September in, [...]

A little electronic/Jpop thrown your way today. Don’t worry, no one understands the lyrics. The music video is called Jumper. The band is called Capsule and Nakata Yasutaka is the same guy behind Perfume’s recent chart topping hits. This video is (supposedly) directed by him also. I’m loving the use of pixelization and artifacting especially [...]

Metric is one of those bands that pop up in my Pandora queue, but I can’t find their album for the life of me. In the mean time, I’ve gotten my Metric fix by watching the movie Clean where they play a small role and do a behind the scenes interview on the DVD. Here’s a [...]

Man, business plans are a pain in the ass, but they really make you look at your business from every angle. I’m glad we’re doing it for this mystery project though, because it’s made us really think about the business. I’ve been working on this one about four months now and I can finally say [...]