-Going to start, yet another blog, which will probably see much more frequent posts than this one. A blog dedicated entirely to screen-printing and which will serve as a place to geek out and feature posts about whatever neat thing I'm printing. This will be linked directly to the FMPC site and basically be an extended "Portfolio" page. I will link that to this site when I get around to it.
-Made a short film with some friends to coincide with a solo-set that I played on New Years. It's called, STUNTED CHILD and was basically a continuation and more involved version of the FATHER FIGURE project I did a while back. Noisy stuff melted together with mostly finished songs. Even though I reworked two songs from the FF set, this whole thing came out a lot more, for lack of better term, "industrial" feeling. I pre-recorded drums for the songs, some excess drum noise, noise from a drum machine-ran-through-a-distortion-pedal and a bit of vocals. Played that through an old mixer live and added the guitar, guitar noise and more vocals live.
The film was shot in about 5 hours, yielding just over an hour of footage and after some time spent on editing ended up being approx. 20 minutes - not too short, not too long. We worked from a script that had 8 scenes that were written by me, but included input and direction from everyone involved. It was a blast to shot and just about everything came together nicely and gave me enough footage to work with.
The "Premier" was at Nevin's house along with sets from Autarkeia, Panzram & Old Soul. It went off well, except for some small glitches in the beginning that threw me off a bit. Got it together by the end and felt pretty good about it.
Now, my plans are to record the rest of the pieces that weren't pre-recorded and make about 100 copies of the film on DVD, design some boss packaging, a good looking menu & include some extra bonus shit, including, "Sorry, Phil," the stop animation short I made a few years back. Going to send some around to friends, family & for review...& try to sell a few along the way.
Might try to due the performance again in Tampa &/or Miami, but most likely not. I dug it, mistakes and all, but I was a bit fried from nerves, before, during and after. But, it crossed 2 things off my list of things I've wanted to do for a long time now:
1.) Make a Movie
2.) Cover "Dancin' With Manson" by Therapy? That song has come to be a song that I could possibly label, my favorite song ever. Quite a damn claim, if you ask me. HERE is the original track in all it's glory.
Here are some stills shots:
