Null Station Chronicles title test
A special treat for anyone who follows this blog: the new opening titles for the video version of the podcast, before even the podcast subscribers learn about it!
Weapons Test
More 3D printing! This is a scene from one of my short comedy films in which intergalactic bounty hunter Sammie Eden is helping test some dubious “armor” against even more dubious “weapons”. The Diorama was a present for the actress. The pieces are kit-bashed from all kinds of sources, and often heavily modified by me in the Blender software.
Hiss of the Catgirls
A sneak preview! Pre-production on Star Wars: Episode XIII, due out in summer 2038. So happy to have been involved! May the Fourth Be With You!
A Pie’ndemic Is Upon Us!
On Friday the 13th, of course, I got upsetting but understandable news. With only a day’s notice, the “Sudden Cravings” sploshing shoot had to be cancelled. Our pregnant model had quite reasonable concerns about the rapid spread of the virus among the public and the potential effects on her baby. We didn’t know, but lockdown orders would be issued within the week.
Well. We were sitting with over 20 pies and four pitchers of cake batter and were at quite a loss. In desperation I asked my friend circle if there was anyone who was comfortable with coming by for a single afternoon to film. To my relief I found two, “GirlDynamic” and “Valencia”. One of our backup costumes even fit Valencia. I quickly wrote another script and focus-grouped it among my friends – they all agreed it made them laugh. So the next day, we filmed “Pie’ndemic” to mock this frustrating virus which has been the source of so much pain.
(more…)My Latest Blockbuster Production
It’s been a little dull here, because I’m focusing my energies on a new movie project. Now, that’s exciting, but it’s also a bit NSFW. Safe-Ish For Work, perhaps. I’ve already made five, so I think I’m getting better at this. I have two very enthusiastic models, a script, and a location: what I do not have is funding!
So! If you think you’d enjoy looking into my psyche a bit and learning what I think is NSFW and fun, feel free to head over to MikhailBorg’s NSFW Patreon Link Page and click on the big red button there – and then contribute! Help these lovely ladies out a bit!
Do You Remember Second Edition?
I’ve had the Core Rulebook PDF for Shadowrun Fifth Edition for a while, but now I have the physically massive hardcopy. Thing should have its own Damage Code. I’m not crazy about how the setting has “grown up” in the last couple editions. Part of the fun of Shadowrun is that it’s a bit mad. It’s a solid brand, you don’t have to justify it now by going all SRS BZNS. Any Shadowrun I gamemaster will always have that Discordian wobble.
Also, Technomancers are still complete bullshit.
Mom is doing well in the Durham rehab facility. Driving an hour each way to see her is pretty rough, though.
Maya’s and my perfect Valentine’s date is the LEGO Batman Movie, and it’s up there with “Batman 1966” and “Mask of the Phantasm” as my favorite Batman film. Lots of fun, plus Real Talk about The Dark Knight. Also, it was that or a “Fifty Shades” movie, and we weren’t going any where near that one.
I found an English version of “Do You Remember Love” from the Macross ’84 movie of the same subtitle. I’m impressed, though as always I’d have chosen different rhyme and scansion options in some places. Not like I can sing.
Speaking of YouTube, here’s human beings landing a rocket at a spaceport: not crashing into the ocean, but actually landing. I’ve waited a lot of years to see this happen in real life.
Managlitch City Underground released Episode 27 – Shockwaves on February 22nd. Seven weeks between episodes isn’t terrible but I’d like to do better. I remember when it was every couple of weeks. Life, man.
Lastly, I’m going to invent a document type called the Journalled Information Format just so we can argue about the pronunciation of .jif files.
Glitchers Hospitaller
Let’s see… what was January 2017 like?
Well, we had to move Mom out of another apartment… cleanup was difficult and painful because of all the spilled cigarette ash. In the process, we took her to the hospital again for what was perhaps another stroke, and then again two weeks later because she couldn’t stand up on her own.
I released Episode 26 – Holiday Special of Managlitch City Underground on New Year’s Eve, so I’m counting that.
Maya and I introduced Professor Spines the Hedgehog, teacher of Dance Against the Dark Arts at Hogwarts, at MarsCon 2017. Later in January, we went to see the “Hidden Figures” movie and loved it; I, of course, recognized some of the Langley locations.
I wrote an analysis of the progressiveness of the various Star Treks. Fair to say, though, that Star Trek fails in its ideals on a regular basis, even as we praise it for at least having some. I experimented with rating the various generations, but sadly things got silly in my brain, so you get this.
- ST-TOS: “We Got Rid of Some Patriarchy But There’s Plenty More”
- ST-TNG: “We Managed to Get Rid of a Litte More But This Is Hard”
- ST-DS9: “Working On It, There’s a War On”
- ST-VOY: “Our Second Most Complex, Rich Character Was Hired For Her Boobs”
- ST-ENT: “Vulcan Boobs This Time”
- ST-JJA: “Hell With It, Toxic Masculinity Is Awesome”
A Slightly Classier Agreement
I have a lot of fun making “DVD covers” in Photoshop for my little video efforts. It’s weird, because they don’t show up in hard-copy very much any more, but it does make the movie files look better when I’m browsing them in a media manager.
To that end, I made this today:
If this had been a real DVD cover, I’d have added a lot more info about the actors and crew, and copyright disclaimers and the like. But this will do for now. It looks a whole lot better in iTunes.
Oh, and for the few readers of this blog who don’t know, the two parts of this video are right here:http://youtu.be/3nnLbQ1JvXs and here:http://youtu.be/iS6iGACneEQ Be kind.
