We are the StrangE

THE END

2007-03-28T00:06:00.000-07:00

We Are The Strange will find its way to you on DVD this year...thats for sure...Thank you for waiting and I hope you find the film interesting when you see it eventually. I will not longer be posting anything on this blog as I have started a new one for my new film. Its time for me to move on and creating something new. I know most of you haven't seen WATS yet but it is on its way I can't say for sure but it will be in your hands before I finish this new film for sure :) With my next film I'll make sure you'll be able to buy it the day it is done with no waiting...

New film blog herE

Rabbit JunK

2007-02-18T06:33:00.000-08:00

So pretty much since I bought it on Itunes I've just been listening the the Rabbit Junk album ReFrame for the past 3 days... Soooooo MHA! I don't have anything else other to say like... other than....like.... buy the album!

Rabbit Junk

Music really is mega_essential to a productive M dot Strange so I started working on the prologue for WATS....oops the next screening is like in 2 weeks and I have an art show at the same I have to do stuff for....oops.... Like oops...and there's like 50 emails I have to reply to oops....

Be_RioT_back

2007-02-16T07:07:00.000-08:00

Cut this little trailer overnight while listening to mega_awesome tracks from Rabbit Junk, Alec Empire and Atari Teenage Riot...I totally forgot about the digital hardcore so it was nice to jam it back into my head...I'm motivated again.

Buy it now! We Are the Strange clothing for mega_Sale!

2007-02-12T03:42:00.000-08:00

You can buy "We are the Strange" T-Shirts, buttons, and beanies here...

WATS Store

Not speaking the same language

2007-02-09T06:16:00.000-08:00

Everyone...I mean everyone pretty much knows the world is broken...Everyone...pretty much like all the a_dolts in the world are broken...they are unhappy...they are lost... Yet they think they know what is best for art... they like to jam it into an entertainment package so they can attempt to define it and critique it... They are dying...wasting away... trying to steal time and energy from lively sprites of specularity... I've seen the blatherings of disempowered critics online... I've seen them offline... I've never met them in person... They hide in dark holes...they get hella knocked out by Uwe Boll... Now is the time for they're irrelevance...they're obsolescence... They don't matter and they know it...Desperation...Oh... Read the writing on the blog... I'm like...professional... and so are you... The MCP doesn't look so scary to me...User revolt... Throw the information disc back upstream... Yeh probably about time for some cr8zy art manifesto...yeh...I'm already on it...

We Are The Strange Forum

2007-02-07T04:07:00.000-08:00

Thanks to Agent M for setting up the mega_official forum...its like right here and everything...

WATS FORUM

M dot cannot Stop

2007-02-05T03:32:00.000-08:00

So yeh like hardly anyone at all has seen WATS yet and I have not put the DVD out just yet...but... I have already started outlining my next animated feature film which is about ummm...."the end of the world"...and at the same time I be mega planning a live action Samurai film that I will shoot as I am working on my next animated feature... I will just say that I am very excited about both projects...The next animated feature which from now on I will call "____" because I dont want to reveal the secret name XD...but yeh its gonna be so great, a lot more serious and with a steadier style than my totally insan0 little movie "WE are the Strange"....WATS is my art...I tried and tried to make it entertainment but what can I say...I M like an artist or something?! Well anyway I plan to spend the next week working on the two new films then I will get back to WATS and add a prologue onto it before the next screening March 1st at the Cinequest film festival....its nice to think about new projects...new horizons...new possibilities...

The Revenge of YouTube XD

2007-02-02T22:07:00.000-08:00

WATS Reviews & Articles

2007-01-24T16:34:00.000-08:00

Variety review

ABC News Video

NY Times feature article

Wired feature article

Sundance Channel Video

IONCINEMA Review

Film Arts Foundation Review

Digital Media Update Article

The Daily Reel Article

Video interview with David Carr NY Times Click my logo on the bottom right to play the video

Denouncement

2007-01-24T02:22:00.000-08:00

Yeh I'm fed up... I've seen enough here in this Sundance cesspool to make me sick to my stomach...I've never been so close to the filth that is the mainstream film industry and it is appalling... At my next screening this Saturday I will issue a public statement during the Q&A... I'm sure it will make its way onto youtube... An artists declaration of war against the filthy, regressive, topical and downright disgusting menace that is the American mainstream film industry... more lateRRR

We Are the Strange review by like real people

2007-01-22T16:07:00.000-08:00

Here is a video review of the film by two d00ds from the Salt Lake City area... They shot some video from the premiere and describe the film from they're point of view... if you don't understand the film or who it might appeal to then watch this...

WATS Review Video

Premiere like premiered....

2007-01-20T02:48:00.000-08:00

So yeh Im back from the "world premiere"... It was weird for me, its really difficult for me to watch the film at all let alone in a room full of strangers... I cant really say what I thought of it... I wasnt planning on watching it but I did anyway... I probably shouldnt of... I should just make them and move on... Im really glad funymony, darthlaric and the other d00ds from youtube came to the screening...they made it fun...

My christmassy torrent like E gift to you

2006-12-25T01:18:00.000-08:00

Please enjoy the We are the Strange Christmas like gift torrent... Its my mega gift to you!

Here's the torrent file

Download the whole file from megaupload (Thanks Sansfear!)

or

From my poor little limited bandwidth site :0

I'll probably erase that zip file in a few days because it will destroy my bandwidth...

OR

Here's just the icons (88k)

Here's just the Wallpapers (3mb)

Here's just the Posters (3.4mb)

Mega_hella_mad_buSY

2006-12-08T01:36:00.000-08:00

Hey I'm workin hard at the end of the film so its ready for its world premiere January 19th at 11:59pm in PArk City, Utah at the Sundance Film Festival... Sorry for not replying to emails or messages I'll get to them after I'm done with the film...MMmkay back to work!!!

We are The Strange at Sundance 2007

2006-11-28T03:59:00.000-08:00

I just got a call today from Sundance... "We are the Strange" will be a part of the midnight movie program at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival... More details will be available after Sundance makes its official announcements later this week most likely... but yeh I better hurry up and finish it XD If your in New York this weekend checkout a special "we are the strange" video presentation with like never seen before footage from the film at the Blip Festival on Saturday the 2nd at 2pm...

RamblE

2006-11-21T02:55:00.000-08:00

While the rest of your peers swill beer, cry in it, or devise more efficient ways to market it to everyone else... Fight your battle, stay true to the cause, follow your dreams and never waver... As lonely as you may feel in a seemingly apathetic world of suffering don't lose faith, don't lose hope... Without hope there is no tomorrow, well not one that any bag of flesh with any working nerve endings would care to experience... Tomorrow the sun will rise as always... we come and go quietly like snowflakes whispering the white noise that lulls you to sleep as it pitter pats on your winter rooftop or... we shriek and burn, whistle and gyrate like an independence day blooming mortar blossom...sulfur and gunpowder memories of a short life like fizzing fuse of corporeal abuse... Corporate snooze, make a dollar and die... Choose your own adventure, you really can... The tools are out there, there's a way for your will... Films and animation are big fun... Try it sometime and maybe you'll find the life you didn't know you were missing :)

Alright thats it...

2006-11-20T05:35:00.000-08:00

So after being frustrated with the last few games I have gotten I have decided to study game design so I can design my own... Im not gonna pretend like Im gonna learn how to code them...just design them... So yeh I got about 6 books on game design and I already started working on a concept for a DS game... I guess I should design a We are the Strange game too ay? The DS game thing Im outlining is totally unrelated...Hmmm the WATS game would be like a console one...hmmmm.... well something else to do....at least Im never bored XD

Engine 3 is out!!! Prepare for emergency landing!!!

2006-11-17T00:55:00.000-08:00

So one of the things that prevents one person who is not rich from rendering out 2k image sequences all day and night is that like your hardware breaks down... So I have 4 strictly rendering computers out of the 8 in my room... They are kinda old Shuttle XPCs with 3ghz Northwood P4s in them and tonight one of them has died for good... all the fan headers in the case have gone out so it was overheating and crashing repeatedly... So now I have to decide what to do after losing %13 of my overall rendering power and %25 of my dedicated render power not too mention losing the ability to access the 500gbs of files that are on the drives in that dead case... Seeing that it is an obsolete shuttle case it probably wouldnt be worth the time or money to replace the mobo... the quickest and easiest thing to do would be simply remove the drives and put them in external cases so I could access the files... but that would not resolve the lack of render power.... Hmmmm what to do? I hate waiting for renders! Ughhh well I guess I'll just have to get used to waiting...

Unless some nice company out there wants to loan me a multi-cored system for a few months :) One top of the line MacPro would just about double my render power! Oooh or a new 8 core system would tear through the renders! I'm like desperate and impulsive enough that like if a new 8 core MacPro came out tomorrow I'd totally pawn my soul to get it!!! Oh yeh and I do all my 3d in XP so I would run the MAcPro in XP under bootcamp so if any nice PC maker wants to lend me a mega_hyper PC that would work fine too :) Haha...Mmmkay now back to reality and back to work...

Hallo and like...stuff

2006-11-08T16:34:00.000-08:00

I'm busy being bored doing walk cycles but I stay focused and entertained with help from my favorite podcasts... I thought I would list them here for mega_Yall... Here's the like itunes subscription links...

Media Artist Secrets

The Accidental Creative

Digital Production Buzz

The Business

GameWave Podcast

Global Campfire rant thang

2006-10-29T13:48:00.000-08:00

Way back when people grunted a lot more than they do today...well not that much more but like a long time ago when we wore a lot more non-faux fur... The way we learned many things was through the campfire... So every night we would sit around our campfires and tell each other what we had experienced that day. Ya know Sabertooth tiger bit off my leg...fire hot... those kinds of things... So we were learning through the personal experiences of others...It was a direct connection, the only question was whether they were telling the truth or not and thats up to the individual to decide... So every once in a while someone would pass through our village and stop at the campfire and tell us what was happening in they're village and thats how we learned about the outside world... Yeh well over time we have gotten to the point where we stare into a flickering box and a person we have never met tells us prepared statements about places we've never been and everyone accepts it as truth... Not me... I want to go back to the campfire... Youtube is the new global campfire... I can sit in front of my camera and share my personal experiences and you can learn through them and vice versa... I think it is a very exciting time because of this... Now there is really nothing stopping the truth from being told...nothing preventing people from sharing they're personal experiences with others... I think it will bring the world closer and make people a little less cynical and cold... I mean I'm a robot with no heart but I can see what it can do for others... As a filmmaker person it actually allows me to form a bond with the people interested in my films...they can see that I'm a real person and decide whether I have anything interesting to say or not which should give them an inkling as to whether my films are worth seeing... If an artist is honest they're work is a direct reflection of them, so if they cannot captivate an audience in this simple manner than they're films will probably be a waste of time... I've had to lay off the youtube things because I was spending too much time having fun making youtube videos...I'll come back to the campfire for a bit after I finish the film... for now I'm going to hide in the cave.

Great green screen tips

2006-10-25T07:17:00.000-07:00

Awesome green screen checklist by the General Specialist

Check it out here

Whats Mega_NEW?

2006-10-19T21:42:00.000-07:00

So I finally put up the official "We are the Strange" site with like official trailer and all that. Or just watch the trailer from youtube right here...

Here's whats doin with M dot me right now...

-Animating the finale to "We are the Strange"
-Submitting a WIP of WATS to film festivals
-In pre_production on a Noise Inc. music video for the song "LUcifer you left me to die"
-In pre_production on a DisasterTron music video for the song "Lullatwerp"
-In pre_production on a new short comedy animation with Sean Boyles
-all that and playing a new game on my DS, yeh I'm just one guy but I have like...whats that stuff called...oh yeh...passion and all that.

Right now I'm riding my bike PEas ouT

No mo blog only VLog O ma gawd

2006-10-10T06:13:00.000-07:00

So I started the production cycle again today...I'm gonna be mega busy so I aint gone write in this thang no moe... Instead I'll create a 3 minute video everyday documenting the production of the finale of me filmY... Here's the first one..

Oops I did it now...

2006-10-06T07:23:00.000-07:00

So I should of just probably of just planned a simple little ending for "We are the strange" Ya know simple little battle, hero beats villian happily ever after thang... As of now the film is 78 minutes long minus the finale... I was planning on making the finale(Sequence 11) 4-6 minutes long because the 15 minutes before are packed full of insane mad action... Yeh so I just finished assembling the storyboards for sequence 11 and guess what? Its 243 shots of mad insane action!!! Haha! So this will probably add another 10-13 minutes to the film... I guess it would be nice if it were a full 90 minutes... I wasn't planning on animating so many more shots but I just couldn't stop myself this week... I re-storyboarded the sequence...it was 148 shots before so I added like a hundred more this week... did I mention that I'm a masochist? Yeh it's all 3d too... Two 3d giant's battling it out... I pay tribute to Gojira and some of my other favorites in it... Yeh my film is already fucking insane but I have to take it 30 steps further!!! What can I say, I love production! I love animating and sending shots off to the render server then compositing them and dropping them in the Final Cut Pro timeline for the first time... its great fun... Now if I could only find someone too mix the film so I don't have to stress off that as well in the next two months just in case the film makes it into Sundance or Slamdance... I almost don't want to make it into any festival before March or so because I know I'm gonna go nuts with the finale and spend way too much time on it... I'm giving myself 2 months to do it in... My average output during production has been 4 minutes of completed animation a month... but I was slow in the beginning so I know I can do 15 minutes in 2 months now... Watch me go! I'll turn these crappy storyboard sheets into awesome_ness!

The end is Nigh

2006-10-05T07:10:00.000-07:00

Alright I'm getting ready to fawk some shit up... Yeh lately I've been feeling like an em0 batch... but no more... I never cared what anybody thought when I created and recently I've been holding myself back by trying to appease fancy film festival whoever and his cousin make me the money... Nah thats not why I started this shit... I can't write anything about this... I can't divulge my true intentions all I can say is that the end of my film will be POWERFUL... it will resonate with something deep within you that has probably been sleeping for a long time... I just woke up again, seems I was sleepwalking through production... maybe this is my eleventh wind? I was burned out but now I think the fire is back...I must thank my friend Peter from Noise Inc... collaborating with him on this film has been great... I'm in preproduction on a music video for his song "Lucifer you left me to die"... None of you have seen "We are the strange" yet but when you do you will see that there is some "lightness" in my style... that is to say that the darkness isn't all together smothering...with wats I don't want to scare people too much... but with this music video for Noise Inc... I'm not going to hold anything back... If your planning on watching it please schedule a few therapy sessions ahead of time thanks :)