| The Variants "Halloween" Promo |
[Oct. 28th, 2009|11:00 am] |
The Variants Episode 4 is coming. It's spoooky!
Watch more of this web series comedy about life at a comic book shop at our site http://www.thevariants.com and twitter @variants
The final edits of Ep 4 are almost done. I still have a couple of transitions to insert, some color and sound correction. Plus, we're working with a composer to get some soundtrack work.
The promo was really fun to put together, though I have to admit that I'm really novice at After Effects.
Enjoy! |
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| dvd presales |
[Oct. 5th, 2009|07:14 am] |
Episode 3 of The Variants is going live Wednesday. Now that that's out of the way, I'm looking into what involved in dvd production. I could go the way of Red vs Blue and just burn them from my machine and mail them out. I could also create one master and have a distributor handle all that.
I guess it would depend on the number of sales. |
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| Google Reader |
[Oct. 1st, 2009|08:55 am] |
Who here uses Google Reader?
I used to make use of NetNewsWire but between my job and at home, I found it much easier to use Google Reader because it doesn't require syncing.
Ana Marie Cox started posting shared items she read and recommended/commented on and I thought that was a nifty idea. Here's mine: http://www.google.com/reader/shared/12623364959904645728
Let me know if you have one! |
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| For the nerds (including mattycub) |
[Sep. 28th, 2009|10:22 am] |
Before hitting up the generally unfriendly tech forums, I though I would ask you folks first.
On my mac, I run Parallels for .NET web development. When I build my solution, it launches IE to http://localhost:3873/
However, this won't work on any mac browsers. Does anyone know how to get my "pc" localhost to work on the mac? |
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| Have you read? Gay is not the new black! |
[Jul. 17th, 2009|02:58 pm] |
Found this from one of my twitter friends.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/07/16/granderson.obama.gays/index.html
Rather than try and summarize my reply to fit 140 characters, I thought I would dust off this ol' LiveJournal account and write some complete sentences for once.
LZ Granderson's editorial on CNN.com illustrates an ugly pecking order among minorities. It's not the most accurate summary, but his bottom line is: sure gays are oppressed, but they were never slaves.
Thus begins the race to win the prize of the biggest victim.
Dallas' Cedar Springs, like Atlanta and DC also have bars that best fit one's lifestyle. Pointing out the differences between TMC and The Hidden Door to illustrate the great divide in out own community would be really short sited (or a bad case of beer goggles). Portland’s Pride parade wouldn't be the same without its Dyke March either. The two parades are affiliated, they have internal differences that cause this, but the pride of both groups is one voice.
I realize that the gay rights movement is only 40 years old while the end of US slavery happened generations ago, but let's not use the entirety of US history to cast the landscape of civil rights. We've got the whole of time to look at. Gays are an abomination in popular interpretations of the Old Testament, destroyer of cities in the Holy Quran. Even today, gays are executed in Iran and Iraq.
Gay is not the new black? It's hardly new at all!
Does Granderson really think gay critics of the Administration are being counterproductive to gaining acceptance? "And the fact that the loudest critics are mostly white doesn't help matters either." For not black Dan Choi, it was hardly about being accepted. Also, I can still support Obama on many issues and be critical of his inaction at the same time. I call it multi-tasking; I expect my president to be capable of it too.
Where Granderson and I do agree is the racism and self-imposed segregation among gays. Diversity in drinking wells is one thing, every bar should be able to support a clientele. I suppose even dating preferences are fine, some folks just aren't that into you (for the record, my dating history had many many shades in it, but that's for another post). Racist gays is wholly different. There's too much of it in Dallas where I live now. I used to think racist gays was just a bad idea, like Log cabin Republicans, I thought they were a myth. It saddens me when I see it. But when it occurs, it makes me hopeful when my gay brothers and sisters call it out for what it is: fucking stupid.
The black and lgbt communities are different and everyone has a different story to tell, but let's be clear: discrimination is discrimination and hate is hate no matter the group affected. In this, we are the same. |
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