Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Basic Special Effects Tutorial - How to do a Small Laceration

It is very straight forward to do a small laceration. Place a small amount of spirit gum (which is an adhesive) in the area that you want it and in the shape that you want it. While you are letting that get tacky decant some soft putty/wax. Only a small amount is needed, as you can see from my video I was a bit over zealous. Roll it into a sausage shape and sit it on top of the now sticky spirit gum. Using the spatula tool, blend the sides of the putty down onto skin and do this around the entire perimeter. When that is complete, it is optional if you want to set with powder and camouflage with foundation. Bare in mind it is not always necessary. Take the end of a hairpin and slide it down the center of the putty, splitting it down the middle and making it into a laceration. Fill in the centre of the wound with some dark red or black grease paint using a small brush. Next stipple some red grease paint around the edge of the wound to give the effect of traumatised skin. Using a cotton bud remove some of the stippling to give a mottled effect. Ensure that the effect does not look makeupy as it does not translate well onto camera. Finally add blood liberally.

The following clips give a run through of procedure.


Schopenhauer On Love

I gathered from 'Schopenhauer on Love - Philosophy: A Guide to Happiness'(one part of the six part series on philosophy presented by Alain de Botton) that his main conclusion is that there is an unconscious motive inside of us to chose to fall in-love with those who offer a biological equilibrium in order to create perfect children, in other words tall guys are attracted to small girls, people with small noses to people with long noses etc. I find this absurd I think love is much more complicated and these conclusions fail miserably to take into account the complexity of love.

A smug faced Alain De Botton in the documentary suggests to the heartbroken girl in consolation basically 'Do not be so hard on yourself, if you get your heart broken, it is not your fault, the heart-breaker has an unconscious drive to create perfect children it is not to do with your blemishes ' which does not explain for example a couple that constantly break up and get back together, then how does this unconscious drive make sense if they reject someone and accept them several times, these cycles of rejection and acceptance, defeat his logic. Also if the love is of a homosexual nature, the propagation of children is not even an issue, so how does he explain this love between a man and man or a women and a women or even a man and a sheep?

For me his ideas are too simple, to try to capture and reduce the essence of love in an almost scientific way, which really is a pseudo science of information he creates. No wonder love is such a rare topic for the philosopher, they wish not to approach a subject beyond reality, beyond reason.

Having said all this I will not be too rash with Schopenhauer until I actually read his writing rather than take my conclusions from a documentary. And some credit due for Schopenhauer to tackle a subject that no other philosopher has even attempted to approach. Here is the documentary segment for those who wish to view it:

Some Doggy Style Action

Lab treating his owner to some serious doggy style action.

Monday, August 29, 2011

Jim Carrey Confesses Love for Emma Stone

Jim Carrey sets the world straight on his love for Emma Stone :-)

**UPDATE** (Well clearly that was not supposed to enter the public domain)



Sunday, August 28, 2011

Fat Kid = Jabba The Hut/Cherub

Traffic Cone Trumpeting

Ok guys first of all I would like to apologise for how sh1t the blog has been recently. Myself and the other 2 main people that run this blog were all in the finishing stages of our Masters and things got a little hectic for a while. Also it didn't help that I moved to London this week also. Now after discussing it with "the lads" we are going to seriously start upping the ante on the blog and publishing a lot more of our own original content. I hope to start work in the next couple of days on cult/banned film reviews. I also intend on keeping in touch with regular vlogs and start using this blog not only as a place to share my thoughts and feelings with the rest of the world, but also as a digital diary of my move and everything that is going to happen as a result of this move. Anyways to keep you tied over and to put an end to this rant I am going to post a video recording I took yesterday of a homeless man playing trumpet with a traffic cone on Carnaby Street. Enjoy. Owlwink :-)

Monday, August 22, 2011

Getafe Use Zombie Porn To Promote Football


The concept behind this is Spanish football teams create advertisements to boost their sales in terms of match attendance. Getafe mocking their own lack of popularity and fans in the advertisement, devise a plan to get more fans by getting current fans to reproduce more babies to get more fans, they help the sperm donors by playing them a video of zombie porn!