The team continues to grow

It's official: The Jason Walsh stunt team has added yet another member to the ranks. Phil Tyler, who many of you know as Taz, is officially a part of the team now and has just made it up onto the website. To check out the JW stunt team site, which has been fully updated, goto the link at the bottom of the post. BTW the movie actually works now!

www.jwstunts.cjb.net

Upgrades.

We've all been busy as shit this week and it's taken a lot out of us. At the same time though, the pay off has been worth it. Since my phone crapped out, I got a new one. This one has a camera ability. So that means no matter where I am or what's happening, I'll have the ability to capture and throw pictures up here. We also signed for the apartment at River City!!! We move in July 15th. Tonight the we all went to see Star Wars, and you guessed it! It royally sucked. Anyways, tomorrow is another busy day, so once again I leave you with this quote.

When did we start jamming more than 24 hours into a day?

Only in dreams, quite literally

Today was the first day of shooting for Only in Dreams, and to put it very simply, everything that could go wrong did. My actress didn't show up, and we lost an hour of time waiting for her. There was a camera problem, and the first three hours of our shoot was a waste. Not to mention the damn thing is falling apart. My cell phone is permanently broken now. We ran out of film and weren't sure what was gotten and what wasn't.. it's just been a mess. But you can't freak out on days like this; time is too important to waste it like that. When the actress didn't show up Kat took her place. When the camera broke we came home and took out a video one, finishing the dream stuff on that. Tonight was the most difficult part of the shoot because Wes is shooting his final in the same apartment, half the time in the same room. Both of us ended up staging lights at the same time while trying to make sure everything was set.

As for only in dreams? Today has been a nightmare. Nobody said that the world was without them. The hard days only allow us to appreciate the easier ones much more.

I'm looking for a word...

Welcome to hell week ladies. As the last weeks of school come winding down the 8th street freaks are starting to witness the shit hitting the fan. Plans have changed a bit, with Wes having to shoot his final this week, so now on Tuesday and Wednesday we'll be shooting them both together, back to back. At the same time, I'm slated to have to turn in a 10 minute talk show ENTIRELY in Japanese, most of which will be shot this week. And if things turn out, Brave New World will be done this weekend. More wrenches got thrown into the wheel too with me buying my plane ticket home today. The bill destroyed my bank account, leaving me to live off of minimal funds until I go home next month. Toss in all my class finals, John Ross's angel movie that I got casted in, and the stunt work that I'll be wrapping up in Chicago with, and we've got one hell of a schedule laid out.


By the way, I found the word. Dedication.

Digital Ventilation Shaft

If you had been following the blog the past few weeks, my old buddy Crystal was supposed to come out here to chill for the weekend. At around 3 oclock today, everything was on schedule and going great. That is until of course I find out through a phone call that she makes to a friend that she's going off to hang out with other people at night. But she explained shit though, it was a kid she'll never see again in 2 weeks, so I'm cool with it. Who cares right? Anyways, we're trying to figure out what to do at night and OUR WHOLE NIGHT ends up being blown off waiting for these kids. So we're just waiting and waiting and waiting, and finally they show up after 11. We can't goto the sound show anymore, can't go see wicked, it's all too late. But It's still all good right? At least we can chill and hang around. Nope. Her friends weren't "expecting" me to come with them, and bitched with they found out I was. You guys know what kind of crap I've been through lately, this week especially. I wasna't about to put up with anything, so just told her to go. Besides, it'd be ackward with me there anyways if it was all her friends. So, for the rest of the night I just chilled, waiting for her. She strolled in at about 3:30 with him, breaking the tragic news to me that she decided to go home with him for the weekend. I want everyone to bear in mind at this point that the weekend wasn't supposed to be romantic for us, nor with him, by any means. But that's not the point. The point is that I really had to do a lot setting this time aside to hang out with her for the weekend. I mean you guys know how busy and stuff I am all the time. I literally have no life. I get excited about the stupidest shit just because it gives me a damn good reason to wake up the next day. The weekend may not have been much for her but I really realy was looking forward to it. Seeing an old friend that I hadn't seen in over a year was something that was really important to me. I can't finish this right now.

PS: Before Crystal left she said she didn't want to end up being another Randi. BAH This makes Randi's gay stunts look like live porno. There was definitely no romantic involvement with her either. The whole point of it is that I'm looking forward to spending my time with someone that is important to me and I care about, and them blatently being a disrespectful shmuck to me about it.

The Tale of the Pirate Kings

As many of you know, our internet has been out for the past couple of days. Being the computer junkies we are our patience wore thin quickly, and a resolve was needed. Today I took the initiative and called ADSS (our cable and internet people). Boy, what a fun day it was. After being juggled around by their tech support and customer service people (both who have no skills talking to each other), I finally got through and discovered what the hell our problem was. Aparrently we're being investigated by the feds because ADSS has "some" ability to monitor what we're doing, and what ever it is we're setting off all their bells and whistles. Yesterday a formal investigation was launched, and with out our knowledge all kinds of phone calls were made and stuff looking into the matter. We'll bring you more updates as this whole situation unfolds. Of course all of you know this is competely blashphemous.

The Jack of Trades

Well, you can add another job into my infamous list of accolades. Lately I've been getting really fed up going to a place like super cuts just to get all my hair cut off. If you've seen me before, you'd pretty much that you could be a braindead idiot and still get the haircut right. That sparked an idea. I'm a braindead idiot! So I can cut my own hair, right!? Well in theory it worked anyways. Earlier today Yusuke and I went down to Target, bought a haircuting kit, and I went to town on my own head. My haircut was coming out really good until i got to my bangs, and then I cut wayy to much off. So I decided to just give myself my regular buzz, and it doesn't look too bad. It looks now like it does when I normally get it cut. BTW Fallout shooting wrapped in the afternoon today THANK GOD. I'll be posting pictures soon of our second location, it was so awesome.

Feng Shui for dummys

Not much news today. Last night I decided to change around my half of my room a little bit. Frankly? I'm in love with it. I'm now under the bed, and able to access a lot more a lot fast. Wow, if you didn't know what I was talking about that wouldn't make much sense hahaha. I guess you'll just have to drop by and see it. 9 days till Crystal comes now, I'm so excited to see her again :o)

If you are the least bit into techno, I suggest you check out Paul Oakenfold's cd The Great Wall. It's a double album that's definitely his best work. The songs are ridiculously addictive. Yesterday while I was editing I listened to disk 2 like six times straight.

Speaking of editing...

I got the footage back from the rape movie and it's AWESOME. The fight came out really well, in fact everything did. We shot it high contrast, which means the difference between the lowest level of light and the highest level of light is a lot . IE there's lots of shadows. It gives it a really dark feeling. Very cool.

Brotherhood in Arms Unit 2

Welcome to the end of the world Gentlemen

So yesterday was the first shoot for Tim's Production II final called Fallout. Let me tell you, it was awesome. We shot out in the Indiana dunes, this huge set of dunes with a bunch of ruined buildings and stuff around it. Fortunately for us that was a perfect location considering the movie's plot. The movie takes place in the futuristic post apocalyptic world where there are few survivors. Two days of shooting are left! They'll be Saturday and Sunday of next weekend.

In other news today, the Jason Walsh Stunt Team website will get another overhaul this week. You can expect to find new pictures as well as movies FINALLY. I'll also be updating some new news about this summers events.
www.jwstunts.cjb.net