Tuesday, October 21, 2008

CREATURE FEATURE! (ON-LINE AND ANIMATED)

ON ROUTE 666, BABY
Two of my minimalists came out recently in the Microhorror site edited by Neil Rosen. I think it's for the Hallowe'en ish `cause the rules said the word count shouldn't exceed 666 words. How wasak is that? Hehe ; ) Thanks Mr. Rosen!

Anyhoo here's the link to "The Phantasma". . .
http://www.microhorror.com/microhorror/author/karl-r-de-mesa/the-phantasma/

. . .and "Lilith, The Unconsoled", part of the short novel Angelorio, which is in turn part of my forthcom ing second book of collected short novels.
http://www.microhorror.com/microhorror/author/karl-r-de-mesa/lilith-the-unconsoled/


FLY ASWANG (OR THAT "BESWANG" PROJECT) SET FOR RELEASE
In other news, an animation project I got signed on to earlier this year looks like it's all set for release. Basically this was made under CreaM Inc, a film company owned and run by Imee Marcos (yep, the senator), comissioned by the Badilla family to do a "superhero comics meets Nickelodeon's Totally Spies meets local lower mythology" with former supermodel Bessie Badilla and her children as protagonists in one of the coolest genre clashes ever.

This is an aswang caper, billed as an original Pinoy anime adventure, you won't soon forget.

I wrote the dialogues for this and basically acted as their, uhm, supernatural affairs consultant for the first two episodes. Since animation takes a gruelling several months to finish the product you see here, to look good as it does, was definitely done with much blood, sweat and sleepless nights by project director Mark Galvez and his legion of digital savants. In any case it looks way better than many of the recent animated movies made locally. Actually, it looks pretty amazing.

If you like it kindly support us by posting your comments on the Youtube thread. Now, dig this:

TRAILER


EXTENDED TRAILER WITH BEHIND THE SCENES

Monday, October 6, 2008

TRUTH IN SHREDDING

Because I'm in a fantasy metal phase right now and because I'm well and truly horrified at the amount of practice and work these guys must put in in order to perfectly burn the fretboard this way you must watch the Dragonforce video below. While I lean more to the neo-psychedelia repetition, grunge riffing and atmospheric minimalism school of axe thought (sometimes virtuoso wankery just depresses me), this still leaves me in total awe.

Hmmm, on the other hand the guy I bought a Line6 Ubermetal from told me Dragonforce's axemen are less than reliable live. Apprently because of the copious amounts of alcohol they consume to bolster their courage before a show. That may be but just for the shredding caliber, this is still an audacious way to compose and execute a song.

I mean, whoa.