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I wonder about this one. Does the journalist move to slow for the cops liking or is this cop simply a prick? Where do journalists' rights end and police duties begin? Watch the video and you decide.
Personally I think this cop is a little overzealous. I think police sometimes get caught up in that whole "I gave you and order, now jump bitch" mode. Don't get me wrong, I appreciate what they do, but police need to be there to de-escalate conflict. This officer seems to be just creating more trouble than anyone else there. I think he was in the mood to do some arresting that day. The cameraman cracks me up though. Please tell me you would be tougher than this guy under fire, Al. This guy is a wuss.
The sound files for Reflex have been up-loaded and an initial analysis has been conducted. Overall, the sound that was recorded will prove to be easier to work with than previous efforts but will still require filtering, normalizing and strengthening in places. It's not bad for a first time effort with the new equipment. All of the extraneous noises that I heard (i.e. keyboards, etc.) can be pretty easily filtered out. In fact, it's nothing compared to removing cicada shrieks from Showdown on Planet Earth or wind noise from Foresight. One of the bigger issues is that it sounds a little hollow or as Jon put it, echoey, but strong ambient sound should soften it up. For future efforts we should make sure that we record everything as a wav file instead of an mp3. Mp3 is fine for weddings but we need higher quality for this type of work. Good job.
I have reset the Marantz recorder so that it will now record in DLMono using the left xlr jack. This means that it will record a stereo track using the left channel on both tracks with the right track reduced by 15 db. This can be handy. I have also altered the storage format so that all sound recorded will be pcm and saved as .wav files. This is a lossless format and provides the highest quality sound. It also creates huge files so the max amount of sound that can be stored is around 2 hours. You can swap out the memory cards if you need to store more.
This is Sonja Kinski the model that Zoey is based on. You can see more of Sonja in All Gods Children Can Dance. Click Read more... to see the girl who is the voice of Zoey.
Hey, hey! We've got a microphone now! Yay! Peaches and I tested it briefly over the weekend. I'm going to buy a cable so we can test it outside and hear how well the windscreen works. Additional mic checks may commence on Wednesday along with some lighting tests for that flick you keep seeing advertised in the banner. That's right. Not only do we have the gear we need, we've cast the female lead for Reflex, and we're almost set to start shooting. More updates will follow.
I've already gone over what are considered to be the "manly" releases for 2009 but there are several other movies that are coming to theatres in 2009 that may be decent.
1. The Mutant Chronicles Simon Hunter-April 24, 2009 It's gritty future sci-fi and it's got Ron Perlman. This has got to be good.
2. Angels and Demons Ron Howard-December 19, 2008 May 15, 2009 It looks like they are finally going to release this after doing who knows what to the story. It might be a good film if Tom Hanks can snap out of his stupor from the first movie. Where's the chick?
3. Drag Me To Hell Sam Raimi-May 29, 2009 With the amount of Raimi love around here I'm surprised I haven't heard more about this film. Doubly true considering it's an all Raimi production with his brother as co-writer. If he returns to his horror roots then this might be a good movie. No camp please!
4. Up Pete Docter, Bob Peterson-May 29, 2009 The latest Pixar/Disney film shoud be fun. This movie will probably continue the string of successes that Pixar has established.
5. The Taking of Pelham 123 Tony Scott-June 12, 2009 Ahhh, Tony Scott and Denzel Washington back together again along with Tony Soprano and John Travolta. A remake, I know, but I'm looking forward to it anyway.
6. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince David Yates-July 17, 2009 Even though I think Yates is the worst director of the lot, I still think I want to see this movie. If for nothing else, just to see what these kids look like all grown up.
7. The Wolfman Joe Johnston-November 6, 2009 Another remake but come on, it's a wolfman movie so it's worth a look. Del Toro is actually a real wolfman so it won't be a stretch for him.
8. 2012 Roland Emmerich-November 13, 2009 Mr. Emmerich has sort of a hit-or-miss record so it's hard to say what this film will be like but global cataclysm movies are usually fun.
Once again it's time to take a look ahead and see what's coming down the road from Hollywood. It might be a good year.
1. Shutter Island Martin Scorsese-October 2, 2009 Featuring Leonardo DiCaprio, this looks like it might be rather good. Leo has improved quite a bit since Titanic and it's got Ben Kingsley and Max Von Sydow. How cool is that?
2. Public Enemies Michael Mann-July 1, 2009 I know Johnny Depp's a good actor but I can't quite see him as John Dillinger. This could be good, or it could be crap. I am betting on the crap side.
3. Watchmen Zack Snyder-March 6, 2006 This movie is already being panned for being over long and without moral values. My kind of movie, except for the over long part. Enjoy it in the theatre boys, I'll wait until it's streamed to my HD TV.
4. Avatar James Cameron -December 18, 2009 Holy cow, James Cameron is making another movie after only 12 years and it's a sci-fi flick. I like all, well most, of his other movies so it looks like this one might be worth something. Let's hope he hasn't gotten rusty while playing at the bottom of the ocean.
5. Star Trek J J Abrahams-May 8, 2009 Everyone raves about the all star cast but I haven't heard of any of them. I'm hoping that JJ doesn't ruin the entire franchise. The only good thing is that Shia LaBouef is not in this picture.
6. Sherlock Holmes Guy Ritchie-November 13, 2009 Somehow I pictured Holmes as being taller, slimmer and whiter than Robert Downey Jr. At least Mr. Downey will portray Holme's drug use accurately. They say that Guy Ritchie is a life-long Sherlock Holmes fan so he just might do this story justice but Jude Law as Watson?
7. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Michael Bay-June26, 2009 This crap will undoubtably follow in the footsteps of the first crap but with more and faster crap. The only reason to watch this movie is Megan Fox. I can't wait to miss it.
8. X Men Origins: Wolverine Gavin Hood-May 1, 2009 At least Stryker makes an appearance and is played by Danny Huston, a guy who actually looks like a young Stryker. I hope this film does well so that the Magneto film gets the green light. I think Magneto is much more interesting than Wolverine who was a late-comer to the comic anyway.
9. Terminator Salvation McG-May 22, 2009 The Charlie's Angels movies sucked big time so I'm not expecting any salvation from McG's effort and this movie may terminate the series. The trailer (especially Mr. Bale's performance) looks way too serious for it's own good and what kind of name is McG for a white guy?
10. Inglorious Bastards Quentin Tarantino-August 21, 2009 Oh boy, guys on a mission movie like The Dirty Dozen or Kelley's Heroes. Let's hope that Quentin's ego doesn't get in the way of what could be a pretty interesting film. At the very least, this movie should keep Tarantino in his box for another 4 or 5 years.
Here's a quote from someone who heard Gabe Newell, the founder and general manager of Valve, give the keynote at the DICE gathering.
Last weekend, Valve decided to do an experiment with Left 4 Dead. Last weekend's sale resulted in a 3000% increase over relatively flat numbers. It sold more last weekend than when it launched the game. WOW. That is unheard of in this industry. Valve beat its launch sales. Also, it snagged a 1600% increase in new customers to Steam over the baseline.
Sony beat out the other major studios in a bidding war for Issac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy. Originally a series of short stories, Asimov expanded the tale into three books. If you haven't read them you should because they are seminal science fiction. Slated to direct the series is the experienced sci-fi director Roland Emmerich. I liked some of his movies like Independence Day and even Eight Legged Freaks but I think he fell a little short with Day After Tomorrow and Godzilla. It's 50/50 that Foundation will be good. I'm hoping that it will be because there hasn't been much good sci-fi coming out of Hollywood lately.
In case you haven't heard, Microsoft released a beta of it's Vista replacement, Windows 7 over the weekend. The response was so overwhelming that it crashed their servers and they had to temporarily shut things down. When they brought everything back up I thought that I could add to the load so with nothing but bad intent I downloaded all 2.4 Gb of the install disk image for Windows 7. Well, the Microsoft server didn't crash this time. In fact, it was rather speedy and the entire thing came down in under an hour. I burned it to a DVD and decided to install it on my AMD box. About twenty minutes later I was shocked and horrified to discover that Windows 7 is a pretty damn good OS.
The sound files for Reflex have been up-loaded and an initial analysis has been conducted. Overall, the sound that was recorded will prove to be easier to work with than previous efforts but will still require filtering, normalizing and strengthening in places. It's not bad for a first time effort with the new equipment. All of the extraneous noises that I heard (i.e. keyboards, etc.) can be pretty easily filtered out. In fact, it's nothing compared to removing cicada shrieks from Showdown on Planet Earth or wind noise from Foresight. One of the bigger issues is that it sounds a little hollow or as Jon put it, echoey, but strong ambient sound should soften it up. For future efforts we should make sure that we record everything as a wav file instead of an mp3. Mp3 is fine for weddings but we need higher quality for this type of work. Good job.
This is Sonja Kinski the model that Zoey is based on. You can see more of Sonja in 
Hey, hey! We've got a microphone now! Yay! Peaches and I tested it briefly over the weekend. I'm going to buy a cable so we can test it outside and hear how well the windscreen works. Additional mic checks may commence on Wednesday along with some lighting tests for that flick you keep seeing advertised in the banner. That's right. Not only do we have the gear we need, we've cast the female lead for Reflex, and we're almost set to start shooting. More updates will follow.
Patrick, who sometimes plays as p-diddy, has won the sectional wrestling title and is now on his way to state. We wish him the best of luck.
The Left 4 Dead half-price weekend has enticed Jimmy to purchase a copy. Yea! 
Just announced. Bringing back somes favs from the past.
Sony beat out the other major studios in a bidding war for Issac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy. Originally a series of short stories, Asimov expanded the tale into three books. If you haven't read them you should because they are seminal science fiction. Slated to direct the series is the experienced sci-fi director Roland Emmerich. I liked some of his movies like Independence Day and even Eight Legged Freaks but I think he fell a little short with Day After Tomorrow and Godzilla. It's 50/50 that Foundation will be good. I'm hoping that it will be because there hasn't been much good sci-fi coming out of Hollywood lately.
In case you haven't heard, Microsoft released a beta of it's Vista replacement, Windows 7 over the weekend. The response was so overwhelming that it crashed their servers and they had to temporarily shut things down. When they brought everything back up I thought that I could add to the load so with nothing but bad intent I downloaded all 2.4 Gb of the install disk image for Windows 7. Well, the Microsoft server didn't crash this time. In fact, it was rather speedy and the entire thing came down in under an hour. I burned it to a DVD and decided to install it on my AMD box. About twenty minutes later I was shocked and horrified to discover that Windows 7 is a pretty damn good OS. 
F.E.A.R.2 coming in February.