GDAY WORLD VIDCAST #09 – Machinima 101 with Paul Marino and Tom Reynolds

by | Feb 27, 2007 | Melbourne, Video

ThomasR alerted me last week to a machinima festival taking place in Melbourne, so on Saturday I got a leave pass from the family and went to check it out. It was really amazing, lots of great content getting produced out there using gaming engines as a shortcut to producing on-screen characters instead of 3D rendering engines. The event had people such as Gus Sorola (Red Vs. Blue), Eddo Stern (Dark Game), Peter Rasmussen (Stolen Life) and Rod Maher (FRAPS) on stage. After Saturday’s event, I asked Tom to sit down with NY-based machinima guru Paul Marino (Director of the Machinima Film Festival and Executive Director of the Academy of Machinima Arts and Sciences) to give an overview of what machinima is all about, how it gets made, the legal issues and where it is going in the future.

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David Caruso – Badass.

by | Feb 25, 2007 | Video

I don’t watch CSI: Miami (really, Molly, I don’t) but I do love David Caruso. I thought he was a badass in NYPD Blue and then up against an insane Nicolas Cage in “Kiss Of Death“. Hell, I haven’t seen that film in YEARS. Must go find it. ROFL – I just IMDB’d him and noticed that his character in CSI is called “Horatio”? That’s too funny. Anyway… this clip is hilarious. His acting technique is nearly as honed to the bone as Bill Shatner. You gotta love this level of coolness.

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceHnUrUAbho]

How I Spent Christmas Eve

by | Jan 24, 2007 | Christianity, Video

Knowing my opinions on Christianity, you might think I would never show my face in a church. But you’d be wrong. On Xmas Eve I took my family to Father Bob Maguire’s quasi-interdenominational service.

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mti1qJ18tIo]