I'm scared of women, and it's all the presidents fault.

I hate politics, let me rephrase that, I hate Politicians. The fact that the most coniving, manipulative, hypocritical, power mongers, are the the same people that run for the offices that control our country is a despicable thing. So even though politics does nothing but anger me I still watched the State of the Union address on Monday. Afterwards I came to only one conclusion. Feminists will eventually take over the world and kill all the men in it. Let me expound. President Bush at one point in his speech said something about pushing to outlaw human cloning this coming year. This statement struck me as something that could be found in a science fiction novel. That thought got me thinking of what this novel would be about? This is what the preface to that novel would be.


In the year 2008 the United States of America outlawed the practice of human cloning. In the year 2037 the Woman's Feminist Movement revealed that they had cloned the first human child, a female, overseas. Armed with this power the WFM cloned themselves an army of women and by 2095 they had taken control of every government power in the world. Men became useless to them in the wake of their new science and in the year 3003 they began the inhumane, genocide of all men on the planet. By 3015 nearly every man had been wiped out save for a scattered few that lived their lives in secret, underground and in constant fear of being found. Zach Grecco is one such man and his revolution begins now.



So you see where I'm coming from. But seriously the cloning comment did get me thinking. NASA has a human mission to Mars and an elevator to space in the works. It seams to me, that just as Jules Vern's novels came to pass, we may be on verge of seeing some our more recent science fiction fantasies realized. That, for me, is very exciting, as long as the future doesn't hold man-eating females in it.

Peace Out
Jon

Ps. If I offended any feminist I'm sorry, please don't kill me. This was not meant to be serious.

Godzilla's not so tough anymore.

So I was chilling at Rob's going away party tonight when all of the sudden a huge monster attacked Manhattan and made a completely amazing film. Yes I loved Cloverfield! For those out there that complain about the motion sickness they felt while watching it, grow a stronger lower intestine and shut up. The shaky "handy cam" film stile of this movie is what is at the core of its believability. I have never, never, felt so immersed in a film as I did while watching Cloverfield. The "realism" of this film was amazing, the special effect were so well melded into the scenes that I'm left wondering how Manhattan actually looks this evening. My friend and I commented upon leaving the theater that we felt tired from running threw New York all night long. We truly felt as if we were running right along side Hud ( the guy holding the camera throughout the movie) for an hour and half. The pacing of the movie was perfect as well. Once the chaos begins you are delivered intense, chair-arm clutching, action sequences flowed by short lulls that feed off the previous intensity. These lulls use humor and or sadness to connect you to the characters on screen and cradle you into a false sense of security before plunging you quickly back into the bitter truth of the horrific ordeal you are watching unfold. Matt Reeves did a wonderful job directing this film and I believe he achieved exactly what he set out to make (and no that wasn't to make people vomit.)
Perhaps I'll feel differently tomorrow after the post move euphoria wares off, but I doubt it. Move aside Godzilla there is a new monster eating people in New York these days, and he especially likes the ones who are prone to motion sickness. One more thing if your contemplating seeing this, see it now in theaters, it's the only way to do it justice.

Peace Out
Jon

I Take Pictures

At Christmas my Mom gave me her old cannon rebel camera. Yeah thats right a camera that uses film. So I went out and bought some Black and white film and took some pictures. The prints I got back turned out better than I had hoped but the digital copies I ordered were complete crap. The pictures that follow were the best from the CD but even these I had to alter heavily in Photoshop. I Might try and scan in the prints but I doubt they will come out very good either. Oh well, I guess I need a nice digital because I think I could really get into taking pictures.

Manuary Log, Friday, Manuary, 11, 2008.

Manuary has not been kind to the office. Apparently growing a beard raises testosterone levels and gives a man the urge to do manly things. All ready we have lost one to the mountains.
It's been hard, but he was part of the marketing team so it doesn't hurt that bad. However I'm afraid this rise in testosterone is taking hold of us all. The other day I walked in on our programing team talking about joining a football league, and I could swear I saw our boss thumbing threw a Craftsman catalog last week. My suspicions were confirmed when he asked us all if we thought a table saw would fit in our conference room. My fear is that we will revert into a caveman like state and be reduced to chiseling the rest of our game into the wall of a cave somewhere in the mountains of Colorado. However even though we are out a marketing department, our will is not broken and we have not lost heart, our beards are growing longer each day and we WILL become the most manly game developing team of all time. About 2 weeks in

Meatwad's Audition

I was cleaning out my harddrive and ran across this. It's my very first audio project from Intro to Audio. the setup is this; Meatwad of "Aqua Teen Hunger Force" is auditioning for the part of Gollum in "The Lord of the Rings". Smeagol however is reading for himself and Meatwad for his split personality Gollum, there is also some angry Govenator action in there as well. All the voices were done by friends of mine and I wrote, directed and edited the clip. Seeing as I hadn't taken any video classes yet, the accompanying clip isn't exactly what I had in mind but it works. maybe some day all I'll go back and re cut this up until then enjoy.

Let the Growing Commence.

Manuary has begun! Our office is holding a competition for all its members this month. In the month of January 2008 we are competing to see who can grow the fullest beard by month end. Today, January 1, 2008, we have all shaved and begun our ascent into manliness. At the end of the month we will hold a vote and the man with the densest facial hair will be named most manly.

They might as well give me the trophy now because as you can see below I grow facial hair rather fast. Below you will find a picture of myself clean shaven as of today(left) and next to it a picture of me from the sixth grade when I hadn’t shaved in only a day or two(right). I'm much older now and my facial hair grows even faster. So beware Skill Technology, I will be the hairiest guy in the office, and I will be crowned most manly.

Let the competition begin!!!

Jon