“What the hell is that kid doing?”

Another day another chance to make people stare with puzzlement as I attempt flips and kong tables…good times…Anyway i woke up late today (as always) to find out that my cousins are over my house and in my pool for what was a surprise visit to me, i always seem to be out of the family loop. After working a bit and brainstorming ideas i decided to go for a run a bit earlier then i normally do. It must of been the music i was listening to because after about 2 hours of parkour at my local park and 1 hour of pure running  i was still out and about and looking for more. I guess it could of also been the fact that it was pretty stormy today,  I enjoy it a lot, looking up at the violent sky with the wind nearly screwing up my jumps, its much better than 90 degree weather with sun beating down relentlessly in my opinion. Anyway it got too dark to even see more than 10 feet so i headed home free running the whole way, it was a lot of fun but i was kind of annoyed that i forgot to head over to my friends house for a surprise visit but i was hot, tired and needed a shower but lets stop there. Now I'm home and thinking about making a video to a song i just found but my friend Louie wants to use my idea for said video in “Fluffy Bunny” so i guess i wont waste it on a random movie about nothing. Also I'm having thoughts about bringing back the widely loved “Game Nights” i used to host on Halo 3, they were good times except for when it lagged but i might rethink and relaunch them.  So yeah nothing to eventful today but overall a fun day. Now i will leave you with your thoughts and this interesting fellow showing you how to get laid. You can buy the T-Shirt  here. I expect money for this shameless advertising BustedTees. Crap! I did it again!

The Golden Warthog

Interesting day today, got a good amount of work done on “Exodus” and I got accepted into the Xbox Live Preview program so i got the new Xbox August 11th update a week or two early. To those that are interested there is nothing groundbreakingly new but some interesting additions. The ability to rate games and downloads, 360 games on demand, netflix video parties, friend list sorting and the avatar marketplace just to name a few. I was going to make a video of the new features but its not worth it, if you have any questions shoot them my way ill help you out. So that’s all pretty cool but in other news i went parkouring today in the 85 degree weather…that was fun…hardly anyone was at the park I went to but i pretty much mastered that place and need a new training spot… Anyway yeah listening to a lot of Rise Against Lately, got their discography, completely legally of course, and besides there first album most of their songs are really good. I advise you to check them out if you don't listen to them already. So that's pretty much today in a nutshell (I know Tyler would probably say “who the hell says nutshell) well i do Tyler well not really but today i did!…Also a new Jake and Amir came out today good stuff watch it if you want a laugh. Oh and lets not forget the best part of the new Xbox update…..RC warthogs. Yeah its useless, but i bought one and its awesome! I also got bored and made a short clip of it :) check it out. Ok blog post done. Later.

The Past, the Present and the Fragmented Memory…wait what?

Another legit blog today that's like two days in a row….i should win something… Anyway, its time to take a trip down memory lane, back 1 year to a simpler time…well not really but still. A little over a year ago Louie and I had this idea for a story, we were into Machinimas and wanted to make our own. The idea was to focus all out effort to make something bigger better and more intricate than anything that was available. It would be like no other and push the boundaries of the medium…. but that was a lot to hope for especially because we had no experience. However after taking a break from what we code named “Fluffy Bunny” and working on “The War on Terror” which was supposed to be a social studies project for my teacher Mr. Moreno…but if you had him you would know why that never happened. Anyway… doing that machinima showed me a lot, like the fact that some of my actors *cough* Louie *cough* have to speak louder and more clearly… but other then voice issues here and there The War on Terror came out pretty much the way i wanted it to and thanks to the positive feedback of all you guys on facebook, we decided to push forward with “Fluffy Bunny”.

After about a month of returning to work on “Fluffy Bunny” we realized pulling off what we wanted to would be a lot harder then we thought, it got to the point where we became lost within our own work multiple times..but you gotta crawl before you can walk or in our case run upside down on the wing of a flying plane…yeah things get complicated sometimes but we’re working on it. At this point we realized that  flushing out all the events and planning everything would take a good amount of time and i wanted to get content out as early as the beginning of this upcoming school year…Thus “Exodus” was born or at least that's what I'm calling it for now because I'm not 100% on a final name. Exodus is a more action oriented machinima but it has similar depth to that of its brother machinima “Fluffy Bunny” (you can see we like code names). Now working on two projects at the same time Louie is taking his time with “Fluffy Bunny” while I work on “Exodus”. Mine is a bit easier to understand and write for so the series should start this fall, while FB will most likely begin in 2010 after Exodus raps up its first season but we’re trying not to rush things.

So that's where we stand today “Transcendence Films” working on 2 projects at once… well technically 3 if you count our upcoming comedy based in real life but that's more of “just for fun” thing than anything. If my friends still want to do it, haven't  spoke with them in awhile i should probably get on that…

Hello World

This is my first actual blog post thats not writing about media or games…kind of feels weird. Anyway I'm not to sure what to talk about but I'm sure i can find something to discuss to sedate my boredom at nearly 2 in the morning… I guess we can start with my Halo Machinima or i should say “our” Halo machinima’s… me and my friend Louie are working side by side on two different projects and both of them are no jokes… there pretty much up there with the “digitalph33rs” of the world and if all goes well “JonCJG” might have some new competition. Then again does competition really matter when your not making any money and its basically all for the fans? Anyway both projects, which at the moment will go unnamed, will be filmed and edited in 720p HD and as of right now both have very interesting plots and back stories and if done correctly rival that of stories from big budget movies. If you take a look at my first machinima “The War on Terror” which is on the net now, you can see that we don't just sit in front of our TV with a cell phone camera cursing at each others in game characters and calling it a Halo machinima. I like to think we take the whole thing very seriously and use it as a form of self reflection in many ways…. Anyway more talk on those two projects at a later point, lots of back-story development and tiny details to get through before ill have more to say. In something completely unrelated however today i found the sickest advertisement evar! Well at least i think so because I'm into parkour but check it on youtube anyway its sick…not to mention that the first modern warfare 2 multiplayer footage was released today or yesterday by time this blog is posted, check it out its pretty awesome. Ok…first blog post done and i think its time for me to get back to work on my projects…oh! enjoy this cat t-shirt from threadless i thought it was “interesting”… Alright peace!

 

My Most Anticipated Games

Check out this montage i put together of the games i look forward to the most.

The War on Terror – Transcendence Films first Machinima

What started out as a social studies project, turned into a 7 part mini series about "The War on Terror". All the parts of the movie are embedded below in order but if you want to view it in full screen and HD, head over to our fan page on Facebook. Transcendence Films Fanpage. Check it out and comment to let me know what you think. Enjoy!