Jonathan "Tempest" Phillips

Yeah i know its sad, But this put a huge smile on my face today.

I expect a cuddly toy in the post any day now

You remember that trailer for dead island. Not the one showing game footage. The one of the family being torn apart but the horrific events of the game. That’s the one. Slow motion, playing backwards, deeply emotional. Well lionsgate have teamed up with the producer of “the mummy” to turn that trailer into a feature length film.

Just to explain why, the trailer in question was viewed over 10 million times within the first 48 hours. The game to date only has sold 2 million copies. People latched onto the style of that trailer far more than the style of the game. But really can you blame them.

“This is exactly the type of property we’re looking to adapt” Lionsgate said “it’s sophisticated, edgy, and a true elevation of a genre that we know and love.  It also has built in brand recognition around the world, and franchise potential.”

Is there such a thing as a song that EVERYBODY likes? Working on a few video projects recently, I have been looking through my music collection and trying to find some music that would both fit well, and more the point, not put people off. So many times have i looked at demo reels or Gaming videos or even personal projects that people end my way that result in me having to turn the music off. There are some types of music that do not belong in a peice of media, that is going to be for a non musically targeted audience. For example. There are some song i listen to ALL THE TIME, That i would never dream of using in a video. No matter how much i love the song, i know that it is an aquired taste.

My musical taste can be discribed only as eclectic. My listening habits range from Very heavy metal, to swing jazz. From Prog Rock, to Industrial. From Opera to the blues. On one occastion, i went to a bikers festival and saw musical acts akin to ACDC and Black Sabbath, then the next day went to see Elton John live. How ever, i know that there is a wide selection of my music that most people just don’t want to hear. So that got me thinking. What type of music is the most accepted for people to hear, even if they don’t activly listen to it.

If i put some soft jazz into a video, people could still be entertained by the video, even if they don’t like the music. But if i were to put some Black metal into a video, it can be so offputting to most people that they will simply close the video. However i am currently looking for something in the middle. Before you start looking up black jazz metal (trust me, its out there) What i mean is I’m looking for a style of music that gives a video an UMPH but still won’t put people off. This seems like a musical chalenage that may never be compleated, but i will still continue my search.

So far this is the best kind of result I can find. Light EBM.

So I pledged to myself that i would add more blog posts about all my online activities. Well i have hit a major snag with that. In the last week or so I have been associated with 2 different projects. “Awesome” one might say, “I’ll have plenty to blog about” Yeeeaahhhh, Not so much. Both of these projects has something called a shhhhh policy. it means I can’t talk about them until they are made public. I haven’t signed any NDA’s, so i could talk about them if i really wanted to, but due to personal integrity and difficulty to spell some of the details

How ever I have been playing more games other than TF2 the past week. Minecraft updated to 1.8 and added a whole bunch of stuff that put the fun back in it again. That notch guy. Doing good work. Just that fact that there are villages, abandoned mines and strongholds to be found is awesome. it give me more incentive to keep searching the world. Keep up the good work mr notch.

If you can understand this, then simply enjoy.
$i = 99;
while ($i > 0) {
echo $i; print(bottles of beer on the wall);
echo $i; print(bottles of beer);
print(You take one down, pass it around);
$i = $i - 1;
echo $i; print(bottles of beer on the wall);
}

and a few extra for fun
we(do == false) { need ( !education ) }
if ( $no_woman == TRUE ) { echo $no_cry; }