Elvis Ripley

I put up these pictures of Viet's going away party. It is a good set but I also thought I would put up this video. When I shoot a group of images I usually just put up one, whatever is best during the second long burst but when you view them all together it is a pretty nice experience.

In high school my friend Chris Brown didn't like doing book reports so the teacher had the option to make a video. I think he hoped that everyone would make a video so as they presented their book reports it would be less boring. Chris needed a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde book report so we put together this fancy video. It stars Chris Brown as Dr. Jekyllathon, Sherri Johnson as some sort of Hoochie Truckin' Mama and me as Rhino Utterson aka Johnny. Mr Hydeasaurus is played by a block of wood. It features drug use, smoking and guns, all in a high school video.

I didn't have the edited version so I had to re-edit the video. I tried to stay as truthful to the original as I could. I didn't clean it up or change much. I added a few wipes but it is pretty close to the version shown in Chris' English class in 1998. It features music from PaRappa the Rapper, Dr Octagon and The Crystal Method. Dr. Octagon was a much requested favorite in the mustang.

Dr Jekyllathon and Mr Hydeasaurus on YouTube.

I don't think many people have heard about the Speed Racer movie directed by the Wachowski brothers. In the 90's the Wachowski brothers took visual elements from a Japanese movie called Ghost in the Shell and made it into a move called The Matrix. It looked and felt in lots of ways just like Ghost in the Shell and also carried over many of the story elements and themes introduced there.

This time they took a Japanese TV show called Mach GoGoGo, which in the US was called Speed Racer, and then made a movie that looked just like the TV show. You can see from the Speed Racer trailer that it looks a lot like a cartoon and even a cartoon from the 60's. The Matrix is just a similar to Ghost in the Shell but not many of people have seen that so you probably didn't notice. You may not have seen Speed Racer but I just told you that it looks similar but here is the opening movie anyway.

Some of the scenes and maybe even a lot of the scenes, were shot using 3 cameras to simulate the way Speed Racer used sharp and blurry parts of the scenes to shift the viewer's focus. That meant that scenes took 3 times longer to shoot but it also gives an unreal feeling to most of it while at the same time giving the viewer clues on what to look at.

The trailer is below and here is a link to the HD trailer in case you want to check that out. Also, Speed's brother and monkey are always tagging along so they can get some of the action. That is where most of the episodes' side stories develop.

So I made a little smoothie movie to show what my smoothies are like and how much fun the whole process can be.

If you can't handle QuickTime here is YouTube. If you think you can handle the HD version, it is available now.

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