I was asked a while back how do you meet all these celebrites and get those photos that wind up on your website. Well, I'm about to reveal my source.
Twice a year, in May and in October, I head off to a comic book convention about several miles away from my house. Sometimes I go alone, other times I go along with my friend Kevin. The convention has tons of comic books for sale, of course. But it also movies, action figures, and other cool items available. I've been able to snag some cool items, like t-shirts, caps, posters and the like. Plus, I've been able to acquire some nice additions to my comic book collection. But I have the most fun seeing the celebrities at the convention, getting to talk with them, sign their autograph and hopefully, take a photo with them.
Now these rare opportunities don't come cheap, costing about $20 to meet each star. But, it's well worth it.
The first time I went to the convention a few years back, I scored a major coup: I got to meet the Hulk himself, Lou Ferrigno. It was awesome to not only meet one of my TV idols, but to have a picture taken with him as well. That was the first star photo I used on my webpage. I've gotten so much good buzz from that photo, I decided to make it a permanent part of the Network website, adding a new picture with a celebrity every few months or so.
Over the years, I've gotten to meet other cool celebs, including David Naughton of "An American Werewolf in London", Dee Wallace Stone of "The Howling", and recently, LeVar Burton of "Star Trek:The Next Generation". It's a great experience and I have a good time each time I check it out.
The spring edition of the convention will be happening this weekend and I'll be heading out there tomorrow. Now, I hear there will be a lot of stars coming to this one, so I'll have my digital camera loaded and ready to go. With any luck, the stars I see tomorrow at the comic con will wind up on the front page of my website in the coming months.
May 15, 2004
May 11, 2004
Movie Review: Van Helsing
Monday, I checked out "Van Helsing" at the theater. My opinion: It's not bad. It wasn't a film that I would rave about, like "Kill Bill Vol. 2, (which as of right now, is my top movie of the year) but it was OK. The one thing that got me about the film was the plot took too long to come together. A film shouldn't take like three quarters of the film to make you realize what was happening. Plus it got a bit crowded at times with all these characters, like Dracula, Frankenstein's monster, the Wolf Man, as well as the title character and trying to weave their stories together.
The CGI effects were OK, but it's what would you expect from CGI. Now since there was a werewolf in this movie, I wanted to pay close attention to how they would do this. The transformation scenes were all right, but with the guy playing the Wolf Man in this one writhing and contorting about as he changed, it would've been a real cool scene if they did it the old fashioned effect as opposed to using the computer. I won't give the film away, but if you're a werewolf fan, you'll kind of like how werewolves play a key role in the climax.
So, all in all, it was OK. OK enough for me to say that when it comes out on DVD later in the year, I'll probably buy it. I can say that I really like the video game that's based on the movie. Hopefully, I'll get to play around with it some more when I get some free time.
Blog at you later.
The CGI effects were OK, but it's what would you expect from CGI. Now since there was a werewolf in this movie, I wanted to pay close attention to how they would do this. The transformation scenes were all right, but with the guy playing the Wolf Man in this one writhing and contorting about as he changed, it would've been a real cool scene if they did it the old fashioned effect as opposed to using the computer. I won't give the film away, but if you're a werewolf fan, you'll kind of like how werewolves play a key role in the climax.
So, all in all, it was OK. OK enough for me to say that when it comes out on DVD later in the year, I'll probably buy it. I can say that I really like the video game that's based on the movie. Hopefully, I'll get to play around with it some more when I get some free time.
Blog at you later.
May 10, 2004
Getting Caught Up
Um... hello?! Is this blog on?!
Wow, it's been a long while since I last posted on this blog. Over a month and a half in fact. I've had little time to do work on the blog or my website lately, mostly cause of work or lack of sleep or other things going on. But, finally I can be able to catch my breath and get caught up with what's been going on in the fifty-plus days since my last post.
-- Finally gotten back into writing again, working a little bit at a time on my various unfinished stories, episode guides for the Werewolf TV Series website, and also my script rewrite for my possible "Mark of the Wolf" movie project that I hope to start next summer. The process on all is slow and tedious, but I'm more closer to the end than I was a while back.
-- Finally got the chance to check out some movies this year. It took me until last month to finally go inside a theater to see a movie. First one I saw was "Hellboy", another of the films crafted out of the comic books. Now, going into this, I hardly was familiar with this character as compared to the other comic book films out there, so my expectations were very very low. But I was pleasantly surprised by this film. It was very good, funny when it needed to be, poignant when it had to be and had some kick-ass action sequences as well. Ron Perlman, who plays the title role, definitely nailed the character down. A perfect anti hero with a quick wit, a take no prisoners attitude when it comes to taking care of business and deftly providing emotion when necessary, even in all that makeup. I remember seeing him do the same thing as a kid when he was in that old TV show, "Beauty and the Beast" and he hit it out of the park again with this one. Like I said, I was pleasantly surprised with this one and I can see them making several sequels in the future.
The next one I checked out was "Kill Bill: Volume 2" I was eager to see the continuation to Quentin Tarantino's epic after seeing Volume 1 last fall and I wasn't disappointed. While Vol. 1 dealt with the madness and swordplay and fighting behind Uma Thurman's character and why she needed to, well, kill Bill, Vol. 2 gave you the reasons behind it and after seeing it all as a whole, I understood why she had to, well, kill Bill. I was impressed with Uma as the Bride and David "Kung Fu" Carradine as Bill and I was totally blown away with the overall film and how it all ended. Now, as tempted as I was about buying Volume 1 on DVD, I'll be patient and wait for the inevitable complete DVD set with both volumes together to come out.
The next film on my list: "Van Helsing". I report on that later in the week.
-- Other things to talk about: I got absolutely nothing out of my taxes, since most of it went to cover bills (taxes suck), and another of my job offers, this one to work at a TV station behind the scenes, fell through (that blows, but I'm still not giving up on my career goal).
Well that's it for now. I'll blog at you real soon, I promise.
Wow, it's been a long while since I last posted on this blog. Over a month and a half in fact. I've had little time to do work on the blog or my website lately, mostly cause of work or lack of sleep or other things going on. But, finally I can be able to catch my breath and get caught up with what's been going on in the fifty-plus days since my last post.
-- Finally gotten back into writing again, working a little bit at a time on my various unfinished stories, episode guides for the Werewolf TV Series website, and also my script rewrite for my possible "Mark of the Wolf" movie project that I hope to start next summer. The process on all is slow and tedious, but I'm more closer to the end than I was a while back.
-- Finally got the chance to check out some movies this year. It took me until last month to finally go inside a theater to see a movie. First one I saw was "Hellboy", another of the films crafted out of the comic books. Now, going into this, I hardly was familiar with this character as compared to the other comic book films out there, so my expectations were very very low. But I was pleasantly surprised by this film. It was very good, funny when it needed to be, poignant when it had to be and had some kick-ass action sequences as well. Ron Perlman, who plays the title role, definitely nailed the character down. A perfect anti hero with a quick wit, a take no prisoners attitude when it comes to taking care of business and deftly providing emotion when necessary, even in all that makeup. I remember seeing him do the same thing as a kid when he was in that old TV show, "Beauty and the Beast" and he hit it out of the park again with this one. Like I said, I was pleasantly surprised with this one and I can see them making several sequels in the future.
The next one I checked out was "Kill Bill: Volume 2" I was eager to see the continuation to Quentin Tarantino's epic after seeing Volume 1 last fall and I wasn't disappointed. While Vol. 1 dealt with the madness and swordplay and fighting behind Uma Thurman's character and why she needed to, well, kill Bill, Vol. 2 gave you the reasons behind it and after seeing it all as a whole, I understood why she had to, well, kill Bill. I was impressed with Uma as the Bride and David "Kung Fu" Carradine as Bill and I was totally blown away with the overall film and how it all ended. Now, as tempted as I was about buying Volume 1 on DVD, I'll be patient and wait for the inevitable complete DVD set with both volumes together to come out.
The next film on my list: "Van Helsing". I report on that later in the week.
-- Other things to talk about: I got absolutely nothing out of my taxes, since most of it went to cover bills (taxes suck), and another of my job offers, this one to work at a TV station behind the scenes, fell through (that blows, but I'm still not giving up on my career goal).
Well that's it for now. I'll blog at you real soon, I promise.
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