SHORTS: SNAFU

The Doorpost video contest is over, so I can finally post the short film on-line. So you know I only starred in this film and nothing else, a first for me.

enjoy

Script – “The Window”

Sorry for not posting lately. But here I am.

I just finished co-writing a short film script with my good friend, Mike Pupo.

The film’s production name is “The Window” but I haven’t thought of any good names for the actual title, so if you have one, please leave it in the comments section please.

You can download the script in PDF below, please tell me what you think

The Window – Short Film Script – PDF Format

“SNAFU” film completed!

Alright, Chad Moulder’s short film “SNAFU” (Situation Normal, All Fucked Up) took two production days and overnight editing. But it’s up on-line and ready to go.

So head over to The Door Post and vote for Chad’s film (staring yours truly) and hopefully he can be in the final round of the video contest. I can’t legally post the film up on my site without Chad being disqualified from the contest, so I’ll post it up once the contest is over.

In the mean time, check out this montage of poduction stills below.

“The Spirit” Teaser Trailer

Alright this is a great one.

Frank Miller (Batman: Year One, Sin City, 300) Penned and Directed “The Spirit”. A long running comic book that wrote the book on how to write comics for adults. Even Alan Moore is inspired by this stuff.

Anyways, they showed the teaser trailer at NYCC (New York Comic Con) last week, but it’s been leaked. I’m totally stoked.

It’s Frank Miller’s first film and I can’t wait, I just don’t understand why they chose Brian De Palma’s “The Untouchables” Theme Song for the trailers score.

Weird.

Raconteur: Episode 1

Sorry this took so long. But here is my first video blog entry. I still don’t have a name for the series, so any recommendations? Comment if you got one.

Easily the best thing I’ve seen in weeks…

New Domain Name

Well, now that I have been setting up my new web resume/blog for my films and interests, I thought I would make this a little more professional.

So two new additions to the site.

1. It is officially www.brianolyaryz.com so it’s easier to remember (though I doubt people will spell it right).

2. My new web address is brian@brianolyaryz.com

The new web address is for business e-mails. But anyone can e-mail me at that address, it just redirects to my Gmail account anyways.

Well, gotta go work on the next post, Talk to you guys soon. Leave comments! They are good for the site!

I love my new browser: Flock

I have bounced around quite a bit with my web browsers. Safari 1.0, Opera, Firefox as well as that pseudo-media player/browser Songbird. But I never truly felt comfortable with any of them. I mean, yea they got the job done, but I felt there was a disconnect from the browser to the media I was viewing it with.

Let me explain.

When I edit on Final Cut I can manipulate, drag and drop and interact with the video’s I uploaded the moment I sign in. Similarly when I open up iPhoto I have all my photos organized by date and events. But with a web browser, there isn’t any of that built in functionality with the sites you visit regularly.

When you have a facebook account, it doesn’t change your browser, nor does it interact with it. You still need to go to Facebook, log on, add friends and comments. But the moment you log out, you’re browser is virtually unchanged and you are completely disconnected from the facebook world in which you so profoundly encompass.

Well all of that changed when I downloaded Flock.

As you can see, Flock is an adaptive web browser that specializes in social networking features built into its interface.  Whether you use Flicker, Facebook, youtube, gmail, photobucket or blog with blogger or WordPress; it fully integrates and interacts with your account so you’ll always be connected.

I can’t really describe it, you really should just check it out, it’s a teeny-tiny 20MB file size, so there really is no excuse.

It regularly checks your e-mail account so you can see at a glance if you have new mail. I actually use my Mail application less since using Flock seems easier. You can post a new blog article without having to sign in. It even highlights your friend’s Facebook, Youtube, flickr and many more accounts whenever they have a new post, picture or video. You just click their name on the People Sidebar and it will show you what’s new.

Another real cool feature is the Media Bar. It’s a speedy way of checking you’re friends facebook pictures or strangers public flickr images, you can even see your own pics as well. It’s a simple bar below the address field with thumbnails that you can highlight to view a larger thumbnail. If you click on the image you can either subscribe to the poster if its on flickr or view the full photo if it’s on facebook.

That’s all great but how does it function as a regular browser? Well, lucky for us Flock is powered by Mozilla, the same engine Firefox is built from. Even all the Firefox plug-ins I had perfectly migrated to Flock. My bookmarks and RSS feeds as well. Hell, I’d go as far to say that Flock has the best RSS reader I have ever had the joy to use.

No, I was not payed to write this, I’m just eager to share this delightful piece of software with everyone. I hope you try it out, it’s great.

SHORTS: Limonade

So now that I’m doing regular updates, I might as well show you a short I completed six months ago.

The short is entitled “Limonade”. I made it because a wonderful friend of mine, Chris Cortes, began a short film company called Robot Head. And he asked me to write and direct a piece for Robot Head. The first two scripts I had were too ambitious for the simple back-to-basics vision Chris had for Robot Head. So we ended up with what you’re about to see.

 Enjoy

 

A Brand New Day!

Firstly, I apologize for my absence. I promise you whole-heartedly that I will now update regularly. This is no April Fool’s Joke. I hope you enjoy the new web design, I’m not entirely sold on it yet, but I like it more that the old one.