In case I haven't mentioned it...District 9 was awesome. Can't say enough good things about it.
Saw the Avatar in theater 3D teaser....it didn't rock my socks off. I hope the humans kill them all.
j
Monday, August 31, 2009
Remote
I've been down in Tulsa, OK on an emergency project this past week, doing 16 hours a day for pretty much 7 days straight. It's taken me back to the days at Interactive8 when we would occasionally have stretches of hell like this. I suppose we have them at _Echelon as well, but those are more "fun" ^_^;
This week I reunited with my old adversary, Howard Coale. I use the word adversary in a loving way. Howard and I worked together at Interactive8 when I was 22 and he was around my age(36). It's amazing how time changes perspective on how we approach projects and creative, but more on that some other day.
We got a lot of stuff done but we used to push each others buttons...will sledgehammers. Ultimately we learned to work together and made a hell of a team...so much so that when an opportunity presented itself that seemed to be "impossible" he was on my list of 3 people to call.
Working like this, while not healthy or even productive long term, does have a weird effect on team. I guess nothing brings people together like an impossible situation. Well...if you have the right people it does. It's strange how no matter how far I go, I always go back to Interactive8 as one of the best jobs I ever had in terms of the people/team. We had that magic chemistry that one team in a hundred has. At _Echelon we've been very careful about how we grow the team. In fact it's barely grown at all. We have 2-3 guys we go to for consulting when there's cash in the bank but for the most part we still go it alone. Slow and steady. Not rushing to market.
Be it gaming, creative, music or whatever, it always comes down to the right bunch of people being at the wheel.
Speaking of the right people, when I get back we should begin production on the BPRE graphic novel. The screenplay is in the can and I am meeting with the Josh Taylor, the artist, next week to kick off the project. We'll do a read,rough out the book and then identify all the images I need to capture for the appendix of the book. There's so much detail in the script we decided it would be best to make an artist's reference appendix to the script that showed images of everything I wanted in the finished book.
This is going to be my first published full length graphic novel and I have to confess...I am pretty excited.
When the 2nd Hayaino Daisuki EP is released(looking like October on vinyl and January 2010 on disc), a Scratch Trigger Era (you remember STE right?!) mini comic will also drop that was written by Mark Gilson and myself, though I will say the lion's share of the credit goes to Mark on this one.
In GridLink news, Takafumi busted out 2 finished GridLink tracks this week. They are hell on wheels to write to. Crazy parts that go all over the damn place. I have no idea what Fajardo is going to do with them.
I also cashed in some of the Amazon mp3 credits I received for buying a 360 Arcade this week and picked up the first 2 1349 records, which I had never heard in entirety. They definitely helped me drive through this project and combat the alien world that is Tulsa, OK (more on that someday >o<). These 1349 records are pretty insane. I picked up "Hellfire" a few years ago and there were a few tracks that had some cool hooks but, it never stuck with me. There's definitely things on these records that are far more sticky. I need time to digest though...
This week I reunited with my old adversary, Howard Coale. I use the word adversary in a loving way. Howard and I worked together at Interactive8 when I was 22 and he was around my age(36). It's amazing how time changes perspective on how we approach projects and creative, but more on that some other day.
We got a lot of stuff done but we used to push each others buttons...will sledgehammers. Ultimately we learned to work together and made a hell of a team...so much so that when an opportunity presented itself that seemed to be "impossible" he was on my list of 3 people to call.
Working like this, while not healthy or even productive long term, does have a weird effect on team. I guess nothing brings people together like an impossible situation. Well...if you have the right people it does. It's strange how no matter how far I go, I always go back to Interactive8 as one of the best jobs I ever had in terms of the people/team. We had that magic chemistry that one team in a hundred has. At _Echelon we've been very careful about how we grow the team. In fact it's barely grown at all. We have 2-3 guys we go to for consulting when there's cash in the bank but for the most part we still go it alone. Slow and steady. Not rushing to market.
Be it gaming, creative, music or whatever, it always comes down to the right bunch of people being at the wheel.
Speaking of the right people, when I get back we should begin production on the BPRE graphic novel. The screenplay is in the can and I am meeting with the Josh Taylor, the artist, next week to kick off the project. We'll do a read,rough out the book and then identify all the images I need to capture for the appendix of the book. There's so much detail in the script we decided it would be best to make an artist's reference appendix to the script that showed images of everything I wanted in the finished book.
This is going to be my first published full length graphic novel and I have to confess...I am pretty excited.
When the 2nd Hayaino Daisuki EP is released(looking like October on vinyl and January 2010 on disc), a Scratch Trigger Era (you remember STE right?!) mini comic will also drop that was written by Mark Gilson and myself, though I will say the lion's share of the credit goes to Mark on this one.
In GridLink news, Takafumi busted out 2 finished GridLink tracks this week. They are hell on wheels to write to. Crazy parts that go all over the damn place. I have no idea what Fajardo is going to do with them.
I also cashed in some of the Amazon mp3 credits I received for buying a 360 Arcade this week and picked up the first 2 1349 records, which I had never heard in entirety. They definitely helped me drive through this project and combat the alien world that is Tulsa, OK (more on that someday >o<). These 1349 records are pretty insane. I picked up "Hellfire" a few years ago and there were a few tracks that had some cool hooks but, it never stuck with me. There's definitely things on these records that are far more sticky. I need time to digest though...
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