Puerto Rico Here I Am

Landed in PR this morning and settling down while prepping up the studio
for our special live shows this coming weekend.

Stay tune tomorrow for more news and our lists.

Oscar Snubbs

http://www.darkhorizons.com/news/23159/votd-snubbed-2012-an-oscar-tribute

Great mini video on snubbs that didn't get nominated for Oscars.
Wow there is a lot in this video to make you what the hell were the
thinking?

Getting on the plane tonite. Hopefully I'll be able to post in time
for tomorrow with that list I promised. See u then....

Post Oscars

I got my wish: The Artist for Best Picture and Jean Dujardin for Best Actor. Sorry George.
Nice surprise was Michel Hazanavicius for Director. So while Hugo got the Tech Awards
The Artist was the big win with the top awards.

The other surprise was Meryl Streep. While she was great in "The Iron Lady" I didn't
think much of the film itself. But she was overdue, so good for her.
And the Muppets got best song considering there was no competition from "RIO"
and no other song was nominated which didn't make sense.

Our list for Best and Worst will be coming this week due to that I'm getting on the plae tomorrow night
and heading out to Puerto Rico. Then the live shows will continue this coming weekend.

I the meantime check out our shows on Justin.tv as we started the live shows with Justin
mainly because that is the easiest to use. Ustream.tv will premiere in PR.

Livestream will be used as our tv channel when it premieres later this spring.
See you at the live shows.

New show on Justin.tv! Pt. 2

We did our part 2 of our Oscar show and best & worst of 2011 now playing.

Our hit list and shit list is coming this week on this blog..
Also our post Oscar show tomorrow.

New show on Justin.tv!

http://www.justin.tv/videolandexpress/b/309667335

New show playing on Justin.tv: Oscars and Best & Worst of 2011 Pt.1..

Multi Video on Oscars Winners & Losers

http://fourfour.typepad.com/fourfour/2012/02/how-they-lost.html#more
 
Multi video showing the nominees losing to the winner through the years. The expressions are priceless when you see some of the nominees lose.Great video put together by Rich from Brooklyn.

Toy Story Soldier in NYC.

Toy Story Soldier hitching a ride on the No. 4 train City Hall station in NYC.
A little out of focus as this was a last minute host. Didn't even know he was
there until others started taking pix. LOL....

9/11 Memorial Visit

I finally visited the memorial in NYC. The weather was great and waiting in line was not that long.
When it first opened in 2011 there was at least an hour wait if you were lucky to get tickets early that there you choose. Yes the ticket are free. But there is a check in point like the airport but you don't have to take your sneakers off. LOL.
This was special as I worked in these buildings in the 80's and in which I live less than a mile away from the location. As a matter of fact I saw these buildings from by bedroom everyday.
What makes this special is that I knew one of the victims who was there that day.
More on this and more pictures coming next month. These will also be post on my Facebook
next month once I get the bugs out on my page.
This is the first waterfall facing Church st.

Coming soon: Best and Worst of the year 2011.
Then final predictions for Oscars: The Artist all the way!

Foo Fighter Grammy Speech Pt. 2

Sorry for the delay on this but here is the rest on the speech.

As an experienced musician recording in studios on analog tape
I welcome the digital era. Tape is expensive and trying to get
everyone at the studio at the same time per the hour is also
expensive, then recording the different parts like the guitar solo
then background vocals and layering the different tracks again
is time and money.
But the experience can't be beat as it makes a great musician
n the stage. Look at bands like RUSH who are tight as hell on stage.
The way we are recording with the digital equipment is not replacing
the old methods but making use of the new tools for more practical use
The programs we use are tools and are not replacing the instruments
themselves. Adding more efficiency to the overall product.
This is really great for us songwriters who can play multiple instruments
and show the band how the final song should sound like in the end.
In another month or so you will see us work in the studio with these tools
when we go live Livetream an Justin.tv.
More on that will be posted on our site and on this blog. Stay tune for that.

I Am Legend - The Sequel?

http://www.directorslive.com/articles/update-%E2%80%98i-am-legend-2%E2%80%B2-with-will-smith-is-officially-moving-forward/

I worked as an extra during the Brooklyn Bridge scenes and couldn't believed
it cost them over $2 million over the course of 5 days to do this.
And even I'm proud of working on the film I was disappointed
on the end results. So is this really necessary? I don't think so.

PS follow up to past previous posts are coming this week.

PSS Oscar final Predictions and my personal favs of the year also coming.

Box Office Weekend Feb. 17-19

http://boxofficemojo.com/weekend/chart/

So Safe House took over No.1 switching plaes with The Vow but...
Ghost Rider 2 came in at No. 3 but if you took away the 3D prices
it's actually No. 4 where Phantom Menace Premiered last week.
Now Phantom is No. 6 meaning it'll crash to the bottom top 10
next week and adios Jar Jar...Yep Lucas screwed up again....

Show today on MNN at 5 PM.

Yep, new show today at 5 pm. Hope you tune in.
Best and Worst and what I'm looking forward to next year.

Phantom Menace 3D

That Grammy article Pt. 2 will be posted later this weekend.

The 3D picture nobody went too. 

The tumbleweeds were Photoshop out of the photo.

Foo Fighter Grammy Speech Pt. 1

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/dave-grohl-on-the-foo-fighters-grammy-success-and-going-analog-20120215?utm_source=dailynewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter
First, sorry for these part 1 and 2 as I'm trying to catch up with different projects that
soon will be under one umbrella.
But for now I'm getting a lot of e-mails asking what I think of this speech.
Most of you know I recorded back in the old days with 4 track adn then 8 track
when home recording became available. And now we are working with Protools and
Garageband.
Samd as the old days we used old Sony Editing Videos machines and now we have
Avid, Premiere, Final Cut going digital as film is disappearing along with film for pictures aka
Kodak.

So what do I think? Well read the article and I'll give my response tomorrow.

BAFTA Awards 2012 Pt. 2

As I said in the previous blog "The Artist" deserves all the major awards
as it took the biggest challenge and made a silent movie and black in white.

As far as for the other catogories...

Animation: Rango ..all the way
Documentaries: Why wasn't Being Elmo nominated?
Visual Effects: Potter over Apes? Of course, the english gotta protect their own.

And last but not least I'm still scratching my headover Best Screenplay;
The Artist..and I'm like ..Whaaaaaaaaaa?

Best and Worst coming this weekend of February 17 or so...

BAFTA Awards 2012 Pt.1

http://www.imdb.com/oscars/nominations/baftas

Here is the list and winners of the English verion of the Oscars.

I have to agree with "The Artist", for Best Picture and Actor. Sorry George.
But Best Screenplay which took away form Woody Allen's win.
Ain't this a silent movie. That one I can't figure out.
I've seen this twice already and can't wait for the Blu-ray release.
So I'm glad this one th major awards. Sorry Marty.
As much as I love Hugo I have to give "The Artist" the nod.
Again they are both a tied for me. Apples and Oranges.



As Best Actress goes, I live Meryl Streep but the film
was disappointing and I felt it took away from her performance.
Of course this is ignored since Streep honored one of their own.

Part 2 tomorrow.

Grammy Ratings

http://www.thewrap.com/tv/column-post/grammys-draw-second-largest-audience-ever-35332
Let's be honest. If Whitney did not passed away the ratings would have been so so..
Even with Bruce opening and nobody knew about the Sir Paul ending. I myself would have
turned off the Grammy's once Sir Paul did his Valentine song.
And everyone Knew that Adele was going to sweep the awards.

And look at the sales at Amazon and itunes ofr Whitney's hits.
Hate to say it, in this industry your worth my dead than alive.

But man she had a voice, what a shame.

Star Wars Prequel Trilogy Better?

http://movies.yahoo.com/news/why-star-wars-prequels-better-original-trilogy-160300514.html
This article is funny as hell. And the writer is actually serious! That's what happens
when you do bad drugs in college.

Star Wars 3D

Phantom Menace is going to come in at less than $30M at the Box Office and the bad reviews
on the 3D conversion is not helping matters. And reports with half filled theaters is basically a death sentence especially the Romance movie The Vow is going to be No. 1. Ouch.

Yes I'm curious but knowing that this is just a cash in on the 3D wave is really bothering me fro me to see this. Being a SW fan I would have been at the midnite showing but we all know this is the worse of the bunch and not a good start for the Franchise. He should have started with SW:New Hope. Well Lucas screwed up again.

Will I still go? I don't know. We'll find out by Monday I guess. LOL....

Godzilla Blu-ray Criterion Edition Pt. 2

So far:
While you get both the Japanese and English versions you also get:
New print that corrected the Master Print with those scatches and cuts.
New commentaries from the Classic Media series. Those old commentaries are not on this disc.
New booklet which differs from the Classic Media veersion.


All this on one disc with new supplements discussing various parts of filmmaking,
this has a great filmmaking 101 that only Criterion can deliver adding new features that
the Classic Media doesn't have.
And to top it off it has a cute pop-up of GZ when you open the case. The one peeve is that
the booklet doesn't have a sleeve to hold so you have to keep it in the casing to hold it.

So is it worth for the double dipping. Yes this get 5 out of 5.
But still hold on the the Classic Media version for the old features and commentaries.
I wouldn't be surprise if down the road all these will be put together for the Ultimate collection.