Happy Gunhed Friday!

They stuff you makes stays with you.  15 years ago I worked in a completely different world.  I was in my mid twenties and living in texas working at small company (lets call it a startup!) that imported films from asia and brought them to american markets.  It was a fun, crazy business.  One of my jobs (and I had many) was video editor.  I would edit video pieces together but I was fantifcal about trailers and promotional videos for the company.  I loved building the brand of that company.  Building brands rocks.  Building emotionally engaging products with brands even better.  Gunhed is live action japanese movie with a typical bad scifi japanese premise, lets go far into the future where guy and gal have defeat an evil computer system with a tank.  There thats it.  Like many things in Japan, not everything happens in logical order, like movie, then toys etc, in this case, I think Gunhed was a model you could buy, and I think it was based on a comic, and then came a movie.  I dunno, I just know everything is connected in Japan, meaning that tasty sushi roll likely has a pencil set, a comic, a movie and maybe a band connected to it.  They merchandise masterfully there.

The other day I was humming this song in the car and my wife was like what are you singing, and I was like ummm I dunno, just came to me, and I was like oh yeah, its the theme to Gunhed, and she was like what the?!?!  The stuff you make stays with you.  You helped craft something.  The edits in this trailer are unique to me, they have my signature in the mix.  They’re fun to watch and revisit.

 

Playing with Plotagon

I’m always looking for fast and easy tools that allow me to express myself, either through purposeful means or purely for the heck of it.  Often time to make strange and funny videos for friends, family and the interweb.

The other day I came across Plotagon.

This app feels a bit like a rigid game where the sets and characters are fixed.  I’ve seen these before but not with this much flexibility to simply write a script and the software acts it out for ya.  Its fun to mess with, try it.  You can act out lots of varied scenarios with playful dialog, and laugh at the canned emotes and campy output.  But hey its fast, easy and well, done.  Do it.  Play!