In my last post I ranted long about the overuse of the term fanboy, how its misuse resulted in trivializing their psychosis while elevating their status as barometers of pop culture. My claim was that Hollywood has made true fanboys far more influential than what they are due. And I stated that I have proof.
That [...]

A theme which I seem to repeat frequently is the value of source material in movies and entertainment. What is source material, anyways?
Apparently, if you are a studio executive, source material is comic books.
In all fairness to Hollywood, plenty of movies get made with source material other than comics. Sometimes it’s old television shows or [...]

Approximately 25 years ago I began playing with sound on the computer. The hardware and software has come a long way since then, but sometimes I long for the good old days, before the dark times… Before the Empire. Sorry, Star Wars geek moment. What I mean is who doesn’t hear an 8-bit video game [...]

I recently purchased the Blu-Ray edition of Steven Spielberg’s classic Close Encounters of the Third Kind and finally got around to watching it this past weekend. The disc contains three versions: the original theatrical release, the special edition and the director’s cut. I went right for the director’s cut, having seen the other two versions [...]

The other day fellow dirty sprocker, Derek Olson, popped around the corner at work and declared that another fellow dirty sprockizen Shawn Werner had it figured out. Shawn’s post titled Subtle is Sexy consistently draws the most search engine traffic of any on the site, although its bounce rate (that’s the length of time a [...]

I’m not jumping on the Avatar bashing train, especially since I haven’t seen the James Cameron epic and probably won’t for a couple weeks, but I’m really getting sick of all the hype placed on the supposed advancement in cinema technology.
I have no doubt that as one, if not the most expensive movie ever made [...]

Recently, I been playing with Carrara Pro, a 3d graphics program. I’ve been using this software since version 1, when it was Ray Dream Designer. I even remember talking to the company president on the phone when I upgraded to version 1.5. You’d think that after all these years I’d be better at 3d. The [...]

I purchased an Epson PowerLite projector a couple years ago and planned to setup a home theater in my basement. I used it many times, projecting onto my unfinished basement walls and testing which video source worked best. I took it to a few Corduroy Vinyl gigs and projected some visualization generated using software called [...]

A couple weeks ago my son Miles and I were walking around the D.C. Booth Fish Hatchery in Spearfish (where I spend probably 20% of my leisure time) when I was hit with an idea for a story. Story ideas come to me all the time, but not like this. It had a beginning, a [...]

About this time a year ago I had a nice creative streak. I started writing some new songs and I revived work on a couple old ones. I actually started using some of the musical gear I’d purchase a year before. And I was feeling so good about it, I set a goal to complete [...]