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Greezy

After the recent trip to Point Break Live, I thought this is kinda interesting (I also know this post would be interesting to some of the newer readers, aka D and Lys). Grease, a movie I didn’t appreciate till I realized how dirty it was, was a play that was originally written about Chicago. The first time it was preformed, it was at the old Kingston Mines. Rydel High was originally Taft High School (Go Eagles), the diner of the movie is originally Superdog and summer loving was originally at Foster Beach.

The point of bringing all this up is because I heard on Oldies 94.7 that Grease is being performed with the original script, here in Chicago. With some quick internet research, I think it is playing at the American Theater Company, at 1909 W. Byron. I can’t figure out when the new season starts and when tickets and dates are, but who’s interested?

April 20, 2010
Movies, Political!, Science Facts, Videos

Worlds Colliding

You (Austin… Michael…) thought Tracy Morgan and Bruce Willis were an awesome buddy cop team? Look out:

April 17, 2010
Videos

Remember the 80’s?

Via PopCandy, Its Friday and I thought I should put something up. I don’t get that nostolgic about 80’s movies, mostly cause I saw most of these in the late 90s, but I do like montages:

April 16, 2010
Random Posts

You can always expect him to come out on top…looks can be deceiving

I’m not really sure if there is a way to somehow vote for this kid or if I’m too late but damn I hope he won…he’s obviously far superior because of his three step process and he’s already got his finances planned to a T.

April 15, 2010
Random Posts

After Effected

The Bruce Blog has become many things, one of which is Brian’s Frank-shop (Frankenstien+Photoshop) incorporation of my face (aka Neil-bombing). I’ll have to admit I was resentful because he took what I saw as the pinnacle of Photoshop capabilities (to put my face on cool shit). Well he took that idea and ran with it and has gotten a lot better than me, but times as well as trends change. I’ve been trying my hand at another Adobe program, After Effects (without boring you too much with descriptions it’s basically Photoshop for film/movies/video). And as much as Photoshop has to offer, After Effects can really bring shit to life (literally) imagine the possibilities of making videos that are funny even funnier. If you don’t believe me just watch this:

… and as funny as that is, just by adding light-sabers to the mix a whole new funny is created:

So with that being said I have moved my attention elsewhere, found my new calling, and taking Kristin’s comments post-viewing of the latter to heart “anything can be funny with light-sabers,” I now have a coupled goal: learn the skills necessary to incorporate light-sabers into any video and find the perfect canvas upon which to administer said skills.

April 15, 2010