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Zombies of Mass Destruction
About a year ago, I helped a small local production with special effects for a day. i went out to Port Gamble and set Pyro effects for the film. It was very quick and dirty. I set up a volkwagon bug to detonate, rigged a friend of mine to catch on fire (without undue harm) and set another car and a few random objects with effects. I went to the premier last night. I never would have guessed that Zombie film fans were so erudite, well spoken and generally showered. I caught up with the director Kevin Hamadani and his producer John, the same man that produced Iraq in fragments. I recommend catching the film. It’s a comedy and completely over the top. It is an energentic send-up of living as an … Read entire article »
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Weekly update!
http://venusarms.com/content/index.php?topic=94.msg176#msg176. It’s been pretty busy since may eleventh. We screened the three Pilot episodes of weaponizers at central cinema, to friends and family, for free of course. It was a great thing to be able to put out there. Really pretty amazing. Explosions always look best on a big screen and at high volume. The link up above is to a recent interview with venusarms, a local online art magazine, whom interviewed me last week. Thanks Niz and Dex! From now till June 27th we are guns a blazing getting ready for the Power Tool Drag racing in Georgetown, and the first freaking ever Sex-toy-drag racing on the 28th on Capital Hill at the Wild Rose. There is a lot of work to get done prior. A lot. Really. It would be a bit … Read entire article »
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Back to Back Races.
On May eleventh the Discovery Channel finished editing and released “WEAPONIZERS” a three episode Pilot. I was one of the four hosts of the Pilot and sveral members of hazardfactory, namely Jeremy, Paul, Aaron, Josh and Divide, worked on set for several weeks to make this thing happen. It was by no means easy, but we made it happen. By now, you have either seen it, or missed out and will have to find it online or maybe rent it from Blockbuster. I am waiting to hear what happens next. We could go to series, in which case I dissappear for a while. Or it does not, in which case I will spend as much time as possible in the pursuit of artsanity. Either way, “things will burn, things will explode, things … Read entire article »
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Welding instruction, typical weekend
Friday, Lara and I spent most of the day working on two fire features intended to help keep people at the M4 party warm. These were derelict 100 lb propane containers which we cleaned and then perforated. Finally we built manifolds and installed these in the base of each piece. They were capable of producing a 10″ column of fire from eight inches to four feet in height. They produced a lot of heat, ultimately looking like a cross between a japanese paper lantern and a Propane cannister. Saturday, i spent the day instructing Katja, and Gabe in mig welding. This went very well. I have been getting excellent feedback from my welding instuction and intend to begin setting up large one-day programs for business clients. I will set … Read entire article »
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Early adopter: Swine Flu
If what I just got over was not the swine flu, then it was the bac-o-bit fever. Gak, on the couch for about a week scouring netflicks for some hint of life, from me, or it… Then I perked up a bit and just in time. The pilot I worked on has now gone public so I can mention it by name instead of calling it, that-which-may-not-be-named-for-fear-of-the-wrath-of-producer-and-contractual-blah-d-blah. So, WEAPONIZErs, fun stuff, i can’t post much about the actual show details, but I feel free to drop some hints. My friend forwarded me a link on which multiple parties are opining as to wheter Weaponizers will Rule or Suck. I am the least objective opinion available, but I believe it will RULEZ! I know this because I am, as are many of you Lcd … Read entire article »
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Volis
I got a good bit done on Volis this weekend. The next thing will be to finish of the fenders around the front wheels and then comes the fun part. muahhahaha … Read entire article »
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Art-truck funs
So my friend Josh from Artisticmedia.biz called me up yesterday needing help moving a 500 lb display that he and Ben and Jim made for a Rolex shoot. The item iteself was an ice wall prop made entirely of sculpted parrafin wax. Apparently it was three and a half pains in the ass to make. So, I had just finished welding some lash points to the frame so what better way to test the rig than to parade thru downtown with a completely improbable object strapped to the bed. It fit the flatbed hand-in-glove. Trying to upload a photo. Stay tuned. Later that eve I went and hung out with my hackrpals. We traded some stuff and I now have a surplus little 12″ bandsaw I am planning on giving to another … Read entire article »
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Volis, a 1978 Toyota truck and GOD of Black Rock City Hardware
It takes longer than I thought to beat a Toyota back into shape. I generally only destroy cars, literally. But I was given this truck because it seemed like I could get it running and modify it in some aesthetically interesting way. It started off with white. It had a huge service body on it. You know making it a giant rolling toolbox, which sounds great except that the truck is a 78 with 2 or … Read entire article »
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Mercilessness
today I killed a keyboard. A small black Dell keyboard that was probably still working. It was not really the keyboards fault. It was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. Two out of three of my computers have called in sick. Only the crusty aphasic chronically weird shop computer has been hanging tough and so, when it seemed the little bastard keyboard was giving me trouble, we had a little argument. I tapped the sticking key, just tapped, really…. The first time. The second time was more of a smack and the third time, well.. that was really more of a full blooded strike intended to maim, incapacitate, kill and destroy. For which I feel about two grams of remorse. Then I cut up the keyboard in my bandsaw. … Read entire article »
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