VAMPIRE Books!

MF and I ducked into a Borders recently to kill some time before a movie. We were barely in the door when I spied a table in the main aisle, TOTALLY covered in Vampire Books!




This made me smile. The fact that Borders is pimping all this new Urban Gothic fare is wicked cool to a Vampire fanatic like me. And it isn't even Halloween!

Of course the reason why they're doing it is because of the new Stephanie Meyers book that just hit stands called "Breaking Dawn." It's the end of her 4 part Twilight series, the movie of which is due out at Xmas. I haven't read Twilight myself, but MF has, as well as a number of other folks who I've been bumping into lately. It seems to be one of those guilty pleasure books, especially for girls, since it deals with a high school love affair between a clumsy girl and a fantastically beautiful Vampire boy.

I'm not making fun. This is me standing in line outside Barnes & Noble a few weeks ago for Midnight Madness of the Breaking Dawn release.



The girl in pink is looking forward to the film, and thinks that all the actors are dreamy.

Yes, I was eavesdropping...I was by myself.

I got lots of points from MF the next morning when she found the book waiting on her chair.

I will, however, make fun of the fact that every girl who exited that bookstore with a new copy of Breaking Dawn had to scream at the top her lungs before running off into the night.

I love this shit.

I got Interviewed...

I was just recently interviewed on FAN FILM PODCAST by my friends, Chris Moshier and Fanboy Will.

http://fanfilmpodcast.mypodcast.com/200807_archive.html

We talked about everything from Amanda Hades to the Midnight Men, and all sorts of stuff in between. The interview is broken into two parts, and each one runs for almost an hour, (yeah, they're audio.) If you're brave enough to listen, it's the knida thing you can stream and listen to while doing something else...like...the dishes...or Mah Jong.

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So anyway. If ya happen to hear it, tell me what ya think.

-Rourke

Where the Hell is Matt?

This is one of the coolest things I've seen in a looong time.


Where the Hell is Matt? (2008) from Matthew Harding on Vimeo.


Thanks, Dan.

Knight Rider GPS...

So, I'm usually never lost (yeah right,) but if I were, I'd totally want this new Knight Rider GPS system with the voice of KITT to guide me around LA!


mio knight rider gps from knight rider online on Vimeo.

I saw it on Gizmodo!

http://gizmodo.com/5019065/hands+on-knight-rider-gps-verdict-its-kittastic

FIRE!!!

This is a fantastic time-lapse video of the Fires that were devouring Simi-Valley back in 2005.


Firestorm from powrslave on Vimeo.

I saw it on Boing Boing.

New Camera

Okay, I've never flown a remote-controlled plane before, but this just looks too badass.

http://www.hobby-lobby.com/fpv.htm

It's a video camera that mounts onto an RC plane (or whatever you want,) and sends a real-time signal back to a set of VR Goggles that you wear, (which look very 80's in a totally Rad kinda way.)

Ya gotta watch the video. It'll make you think of mounting this camera on all kinds of stuff.

I was even thinking how sweet it would be to get some bad-ass aerial shots for a movie with this thing. It looks like the signal is NTSC, so it's probably no better than 720x486, but what a nice touch of production value you could add to a standard-def movie! Imagine an aeriel shot flying over two sword-fighting combatants on a ridge, ala Highlander!

I saw it on BOING BOING.

Writing Assignment...

(Just a quick piece of concept art. Anna Perilo's the model..from a shoot we did a couple years ago.)

So the cats from my Writers Group have been talking about handing-out writing assignments for a while now, and last week Dave made good on his threat. The parameters were these:

1.) There should be some mention or depiction of a
case of mistaken identity.

2.) At some point, make use or mention of an annoying
or aggressive animal. This could be a pet, a pest, or
even an obnoxious picture on a bumper sticker, or tv
ad. Or anything, just get him/her in there.

3.) Can not take place present day. Forwards or
backwards in time by at least 20 years.

4.) Sentence - must use "I guess you just don't see
that sort of thing coming."

So, this is what I came up with.