Unfortunately, I can’t embed videos on this blog. Don’t really know why. So, here’s a few links to a few short video pieces I’ve done lately. Enjoy.
SFX Catastrophes
Bad Robot, the production team behind Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol released a handy little app called Action Movie and over the Christmas break I had a lot of fun with it with family and friends. See for yourself at the link above!
SKYWALK!
My wife and her friend planned a double date and Skywalk, the new trampoline arena just outside of town, is where we ended up. So friggin’ much fun. I’ve been back twice more since.
Drive to Work
I was driving to work the other day and the fog was super dense–more dense than what you’ll actually see in this video because it cleared up a bit before I actually pulled out my iPod. This song, “The Devil’s Work” by Miike Snow, came on and the mood was just perfect. I took the video to try to capture that mood. It’s all cars and streets, but I quite like this one.
In other news… it’s looking more and more like I’m gonna need to make an author site to have a place more focused on that side of my creative life. This isn’t quite the site people are expecting to find if they come to know me through my prose and memoir stuff. Not really sure what that means for this blog though. There’s an argument to be made that what I post here should be strictly SuperFogeys related, but I know that a lot of you enjoy the other types of blogs. My hope is that, if you’re a fan, you won’t mind going to both places.
Anyways, just thinking out loud here. I welcome your thoughts.
Sadly for one such as I who looks for the good in Cap, I find the contrast between this scene of apathy and the last strip featuring his ex-fiance’s possible demise to be appalling.
I was pretty much thinking the same thing
Of course you realize that Cap is entirely unaware of anything going on outside… right?
Yeah. But still.
And it was the luckiest day ever.
I think, however, that I ‘know’ part of the reason why Captain S is addicted to gambling like this, because maybe it’s escapism for him from depression. After all he lost his boy and we have seen him being in very bad shape in the past indeed.
This came to my mind when I was talking about how I think that if I started to drink alcohol (what I have never done), I might overdo it to escape my bad feelings which could in turn ruin my life.
I’ve always thought that I’d be a terribly wonderful alcoholic. I think my disposition is towards addiction and I get why people get swallowed up in their vices. My sympathies are with Cap, but don’t forget that many have successfully argued against him NOT having a gambling addiction.
But only you know how it is.
Expect if you haven’t choosen it yet, eventhough I guess this is the kind of thing writer must know, but then again, things happen.
I know.
It all starts with not returning a coin… and Captain Spectacular becomes a super villain!
Conveniently enough, Jerry can still be his sidekick.
Ha! That made me laugh out loud. Comment of the week.
Little wonder Dr. Rocket gave up on revenge on Cap. Also little wonder why he doesn’t want his adopted daughter to have anything to do with one of Cap’s kids. Well, except maybe the green one.
Interesting…
That zzz before the blam? Was that Cap blowing up the cashier with his super powers or was that a stray bolt from donutbot?
Stray bolt from Donut-Tron.
XD Every time you call it that I giggle with malevolent satisfaction.
Sorry I’ve been absent! Unintentional radio silence over here….. Everything has been really awesome. This? This is icing on CS’s crap-cake. And I don’t mean that it’s bad or that he’s not so great anymore. He’s just REALLY determined that he’s not getting up and doing jack-squat about that robot isn’t he?
My two favorite details about this update are A) It isn’t just ONE coin flying away from the wreckage of the cashier. It’s a LOT. Because realistically? There isn’t gonna be just ONE quarter than JUST HAPPENS to roll across the floor in his direction. There’s gonna be a lot. I’m moderately surprised a bunch didn’t his him or bounce off his face. Not that it would hav elikely made a different to Captain Apathy there….
And B) He didn’t think twice about picking up that quarter and slotting it. Technically? That’s stealing. That quarter belonged to the casino. Either way it didn’t belong to him and he just ‘yoink’ snatched it up and popped it in. Are we seeing a total personal alignment shift on the part of the Captain? I think so. Wonder who has to die before he gets his head out of his wrinkled butt.
Good work sirs!
That’s a really great insight.
That’s all I’ll say.
I wanna know what CS is whistling.
The Andy Griffith theme song.
Which, freakishly enough, as I started typing “The,” the actual Andy Griffith Song started playing on a TV in another room of my house. Scary.
True story: its “In the Hall of the Mountain King”
Brock, are you trying to put him on the same plane as Peter Lorre in “M?” Geeez!
More like the impotent Winklevoss Twins. (But you remind me that “M” is in my Netflix queue and I really need to get to it.)
Our actions determine who we are. Inactions, likewise.
Whatever the excuse, whatever the reason, whatever the motivation, the result is the same. Many a man who thinks himself a coward finds his empathy, his spirit and his courage in that moment of crisis where inaction would simply be unthinkable. Alas. here’s our so-called hero purposely ignoring all the hell around him to stay safe in his little bubble.
Coward and weakling. What happens if he himself gets hit with a “stray bolt?” Is he going to ignore that, too? Will he finally do something if his precious bank of one-armed bandits gets trashed, or will he just go looking for another, undamaged part of the casino? There is no way that he can redeem himself at this point. Even if he finds his sack at last, defeats doughnut-bot and tries to make it up to Spy Gal, he can’t, in any realistic way. This isn’t Herman this time. And I really doubt you’re taking this much trouble just to set up a mind-control copout. But – I’m just a reader. We shall see.
Harsh, harsh assessment. Is it justified? That’s up to you guys.
Mind control cop-out? Nope. Not going there.