I just got back from Arizona last nite, where I had a few days of vacation and painting and drawing after the SD con, and boy did I need it. I cut together a little 2005 San Diego iMovie from the video and tons of pics I snapped while experiencing the 5 days of the Comicon. I'll give a final wrap-up of my experience later today, but I think the movie just about sez it all. It's a quicktime movie ad 24 megs, but it should stream.
Mike-
ReplyDeleteExcellent Video. As always it was a pleasure talking to you at the con. The Babymen where out in force. They didn't like the M&M starwars figures. "They went to far". cried out one babyman as he clutched a signed photo of Tiffiny Taylor, anxiously looking for a protective sleeve to put the photo in. I told him a sith made of chocalatey goodness was a good thing!
did they announce the Darkhawk movie yet?
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Good seeing you to Dan! haha! Yes, the babymen were in full effect!
ReplyDeleteKrinkle that shit up boy!
SPJ, yes there were old Mad mags there, always are, I didn't look for any comics this year though.
My lil' movie is just my experience, I didn't want any Star Wars Parody, the show is parody enough already. I think you'd enjoy the con, your brother too, but I think your parents, being quite types would be overcome quickly, though they would probably love San Diego.
You know I never played any on-line games...don't even know how, my PS2 has dust on it...and I played dungeons and dragons once in 10th grade, not my cuppa tea---way too geeky!!
Never read Tolkien, nor Dune, I can't take the fantasy stuff,elves and crap--yeech! Conan was as far as I got when I was 17.
As far as editing movies go, iMovie is pretty easy if you have a Mac. If you have a PC I suppose there must be something similar, but why use a PC anyway?
MM
Darkhawk the movie eh? Hahaha!
ReplyDeleteI don't know if i'm a Babyman or not, but i'm a freakin' nerd & proud of it. I'm not some skinny runt who smells like sweat and nacho cheese, but i love fantasy stuff - Conan, LOTR, Star Wars, Elfquest and all that goodness. Playing RPG's on my PC growing up.
ReplyDeleteWhats with all the nerd-o-phobia on this board? Fuck that, nerds are cool. Comics & superheroes are cool. Some of the folks i see in my local comicshop creep me out a bit, but most of them seem decent.
Just stay away from the 'Magic: The Gathering' card table at the back of your comic-store and you'll be ok. Nerds unite! EXCELSIOR!
Everybody is a nerd for something. I am a nerd for art. I just dislike much of fandom and the direct market as they have bad taste, their bad taste makes it harder for better things to see the light of day and make the medium better, the business better. I'm sorta' tired of the 80's 90's retread the business is stuck to. I'm tired of dark and gritt retread stuff. I'm tired of serious superheroes. Man there was such crap nominated for harvey and Eisner awards this year it to me invalidates the awards. There is good stuff nominated too, don't get me wrong, but a lot of weak material is held up as being good only because it's popular.
ReplyDeleteHey I like classic rock and new wave too, just not 24/7. Poor socialization skill, and hygene are not cool, nerd or not. The Simpsons guy is based on Brian Hibbs, who looks just like that. I didn't have a pont tail till 95', and had a gote right after highschool, where i played sports like football and wrestled, track missing placing 3rd in Shotput by less than a quarter inch. I gained my 100lbs of "table Muscle" drawing 14-16 hours a day for 20 years.
nerds invent cool stuff, put men on the moon, invented the thing I'm typing this on. I just dislike comic nerd taste, then again I dispise most peoples taste, or lack thereof.
Mike, from what it sounds like you just are rebelling against the mainstream of your medium. I'm with you there all the way.
ReplyDeleteIt affects all popular mediums of art. Music has Britney Spears and Backstreet Boys and 500 of their clones clogging up the airwaves and CD shelves, while countless great indy rock & jazz bands are stuck playing in bars and clubs.
You mention the Harvey/Eisner awards? I'm sure you rolled your eyes at the winners/nominees as much as serious movie buffs & film critics roll their eyes at many of the Oscar winners. Dozens of X-books mark the shelves of comicstores while original ideas are crapped on...just like countless crappy sequels clog the movie theatres while many other great films seem to be only shown at film festivals.
Its all about business and $$$. Capitalism kills creativity. Babymen are the mainstream and will eat up their X-men #876 while Dave Sim sells enough books to feed his cat & Mike Manley sits at his desk trying to draw like Rob Liefeld just so his book doesn't get cancelled.
True T, too true. But one cannonly go ahead and not repeat the past. Lucky for me people didn't take to my Liefeld experiment, maybe not lucky for my wallet, but it was interesting to see.
ReplyDeleteI can't fathom why anyone will even look at his stuff now, or Fathom either for that matter.
Hey, man. Cool video. I'll have to start doing little stuff like that. I would like to pick up a small digi-cam.
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the canon A80 did the trick.
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