• 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.

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    Don’t Go Green

    stinkzoA new addition to my greatly used Google’s Reader, is Google Reader Play. It is their version of integrating the idea of StumbleUpon into their universe of products.  One of the first things that I found was almost as funny and ironic as the time Mike told me about how most recycling being a waste of a time.  Apparently the New York Times ran an article about how the green dye/ink used for the packaging of so many environmental products is actually very harmful and not environmental. Full Article Here.

  • King of The Road

    midnight_runsIt’s Friday and I haven’t been able to post in awhile, so here is a long one:

    Back working full-time again, which means back driving a bunch; which also means that I’ve been listening to a bunch of podcasts lately. I have a love/hate relationship with Gregg Kot and Jim Derogatis of Sound Opinions. Usually it is hate, but during their last show about SXSW, they offered up an artist called Uffie. People accuse her of stealing her whole persona from my girl Ke$ha (also see Justice – The Party). Other songs are all right, but I haven’t been able to get Mc’s Can Kiss out of my head.

    Another awesome podcast that I may have mentioned before is from Ellen.  Its called Stuff You Should Know from a awesome time waster of a site called How Stuff Works.com.   Its two guys who pick a topic and explain it as simply as possible.  I rediscovered them when I saw that they had a podcast about “Bail” and “Bounty Hunters” right after watching Midnight Run.

    Doug Benson, a pretty funny comedian, has a podcast called “I Love Movies.”  If you can work around his constant pot jokes or him being stoned, it’s a pretty entertaining one.  He usually has some pretty good guests and always ends the show with a game he made up called the Leonard Maltin Game (a new Travers favorite).  If you are going to start listening, I recommend anything with Patton Oswalt as the guest.

    Lastly, I just wanted to link to this about Erika Badu, cause I can’t get it out of my head either.