Pushing It

 

Man, something about that picture is phenomenal. The lighting, I think. Dunno, I like it for more than just the amazing cleavage going on.

Anyway, things have been predictably busy for me. The actual job takes up a fuckton of my time. 

Somewhere in all that I had decided to try to get some of my flicks up on various other platforms now that A-Zon is dead. Bounty got approved and has now been selected by a bunch of platforms, with more showing up here and there.

I went ahead and submitted Ttory 2, cuz why not? Let's test these waters and see what's up. I'd talk about some of the various platforms, but don't want them to show up in a search engine. I'll show you my dashboard so you can see though.

I've blurred the title names, but you can see some of the platforms--after looking into them, many are like Tubi, ad-revenue supported from various other companies like Comcast. Whether there's any money there, who knows?

Vimeo is the only place I've found any of the titles so far--they get selected, then delivered, and I guess it takes some time for them to be made active on the platforms.

Have started helping Cutting try to get his thing up there, because his is just sitting at Azon also. I uploaded HH recently, had to redo the quotes and stuff for the trailer, because they're barely readable blown up to the proper size. That took me an hour or so.

Memorial Day weekend was pretty lame, since the weather was cold and rainy most of the time. Today, went over the inlaws and had a small cookout.

Not too much to talk about, so the blog suffers. Maybe something will come up this week...

 

 

Blog No One Writes In, AmIRight?

 

Not gonna say all that much here. The past week was hectic at work, and I'm not sure I ever thought I'd say that in a sentence non-sarcastically before.

I'm on two different projects being pulled in different directions. The meetings are out of hand(one day I had 4.5 hours of meetings...do they know how much work could have been done in that time?) but it's a paying gig, right?

One day I worked about 11 hours, which was pretty nuts. A programmer sort of conned me into taking some last-minute tests that would be "really easy" to run. Turns out, they weren't, and his program didn't work correctly, so I spent a ton of time trying to figure out why.

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That flick I was gonna shoot a section of this past weekend got canceled on my end. Was pretty happy to have the weekend off, since last weekend I had an auction all weekend, then right back to work.

They decided to shoot it near the director's house, since the FX guy didn't want to come all the way to MD to work on it. So I guess at least the movie going to look consistent.

My only other actual work on it will be to take a look at an edited version and give notes, and also to do a little bit of VFX work on it.

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Went to the Malf's for some day drinking. Had margaritas. We chit chatted, I tried to convince him to go to STC--he's leaning toward it now, but he has to pass it by his wife. He really SHOULD go, because his new book comes out that same month and he should be promoting it.

I feel like I should probably get a table, but do I really want to deal with it? I'd like to just go and hang out, not have to schmooze and sell stuff, even though I have a couple of books to pimp.

Am thinking about it, but I'm leaning towards going. I miss cons, man.

Not Making Friends At The New Job

 

 Well, work has been busy as shit. They keep giving me more and more to do, and I keep finding big problems that apparently nobody else has found. In addition, I'm finding that some of my fellow testers are, well, either dumb or willfully lazy.

The details of what they are doing would bore you, but the bottom line is that they are doing things that will make our tests inaccurate and unreliable. They've been told not to do this, but they've done this anyway.

So either they all know they've been doing it wrong and are keeping each other's secrets, or they all ignored the instructions on doing it right.

Either way, I've snitched. I brought it up at the meeting with my supervisors, said what I've found. The supervisors were REAL unhappy with the other testers, but I think they're digging me. In addition, there's a guy REAL high up as far as tech goes--he's the guy they ALL go to when they don't know how to fix a problem, and this guy fixes it fast. He's a genius when it comes to all the backend stuff going on.

Well, I found a sort of backdoor to see all of the processes he's running. Nobody should be able to see that. I pointed it out to him and he was like, "That's not good." He went and fixed it, and seemed pretty glad that I'd found it for him. 

But now that I'm performing, they are bombing me. I'm already on two projects at the same time, and now they've added a third massive project that I should try to do "in my spare time" between the other projects. I'm like, "Spare time?"

We'll see. It's weird, because there are so many complex things going on that it's hard to figure out all the specifics of some tests. There are different programmers on each ticket, so I'm always having to reach out to different people, and many of them don't work in the company I work for, so it's impossible to get them on the regular Teams chats.

Also, many of them are not native English speakers. Indian and Russian, so it's always a fight to understand them exactly. I feel like I'm back in my Assembly language class in college where the Indian teacher with the thick accent attempted to teach us literally the hardest computer language in the world to learn.

Anyway, got no time off this weekend. Auction both days, then back to next week of work. But man, the money is coming in hard core. That's just weird.

 

My Happy Thread

 A change of pace! You know, I follow this twitter account that posts all of these comic book covers, and every time I see one that I had as a kid/teen, I save it. They make me happy, and I intend to go get every one of them that I don't still own now that I've got some cash.

So I figured I'd post them all in one thread. I don't know if blogger will let me post that many, but let's find out!

John Buscema was one of the greatest Conan artists ever...

This one was funny because it was one of the first that I ever ordered through the mail. Came in a brown paper bag and was bent in half. Was nearly the last one I ever ordered through the mail back then.

This was one of the greatest storylines for the X-men ever when I was a teen, leading to the climactic end of the Brood saga.

I remember having to wait FOREVER for this storyline to finish. A couple of issues before this, Spidey's girlfriend(The Black Cat) was nearly killed in an awesome bloody clash with Doc Ock, and Spidey was out for revenge.

Man, was this storyline awesome, with art by the great John Byrne--who also did the X-men cover and interior below.

For my money, one of the greatest Spidey stories--a two parter where Spidey has to try to stop the Juggernaut from getting to Madame Web. He literally drives a truck full of gasoline into the Juggernaut and Jugs just comes walking out of it on fire--awesome art by JR JR., and Spidey figures out a pretty great way to take him down. (albeit temporarily)

This DD was badass--Wolverine comes in and starts wrecking people in ways DD doesn't like. Too bad, DD's never been a match for Wolvie.

This was the 2nd part that I talked about up above.

This is an issue I read when I was like 10, and to this day the Adam Warlock storyline in the end is stuck in my brain. I gotta get this back and see why it impacted me so much. (basically a woman is killed who was under the protection of Warlock---that's what I remember)

Whattaya know, it did! As you can tell, lotta Spidey/Conan/X-men. There's tons more, but I haven't come across them yet. I'll have to dig in my boxes to see which ones I don't still own.