Feb 17
I, after 2 years, managed to convince my dad to let me make a pneumatic cannon. The only problem is, I can’t use his giant air compressor, but I can use a portable air tank. I don’t have one, but was wondering if I could use 6 or 8 1’6" long tubes of 2-3" pvc pipe in junction to make a good enough air tank for maybe 3 or 4 good shots. I could use a little 12 volt air pump to pump it up using a schrader valve. Would this work well? The intended projectile is a tennis ball and the planned air cannon uses a piston valve.
12 volts car pump shall not able to product more than 50 lb. You air cannon need more than 100 lb air pressure. You may get this high press air free from some gas station if you have an air tank.
Or you can make your own compressor taken out from old fridge or air conditioner. It can pump up more than 100 lb easily.
Dec 21
Everything including the kitchen sink!
That pretty much sums this gig up
We shot motion control time-lapse and high-speed on 35mm Arri-3. Underwater, jeep and bike on-board rigs on a Bolex, and action handheld, high-speed and aerials on a super-16 SR-2
Those 1950 vintage cast aluminum diving-bell Bolex underwater housings are always a blast to usewe always stuff them full of tampons and test them first, this time at the hotels pool [always fun!], but riding the rapids on the Colorado River is a situation where prep is everything!
We rigged a Bolex all over Jeeps and bounced them all over Moab, Utah and then were chased by a shot-gun wielding ranch-hand when shooting motion-control time-lapse outside Bozeman, Montana…turns out we had parked and setup on actor Dennis Quaids ranch! After convincing the crazed guy that this giant rig was not a paparazzi systemand a few calls to Mr. Quaid, he gave us his blessing and then couldnt be nicer.
We had some large sweeping crane shots in the Rockies that were just majestic, and then the director wanted the crane driven up to the top of a butte. Well, this is a Titan style crane which is a big heavy dude! Little did I know that the only route would necessitate the removal of several dozen trees! During the slow drive up the incredibly steep hill, the crane suddenly became very unsteady and threatened to flip. With all the vertical mass of the arm and the weight [liquid mercury?] the center of gravity sits pretty highI cringed at the sight of this giant machine shaking side-to-side and teetering as it bumped upon the boulders. Thanks for the producer stepping in and stopping the madness!
Our incredible key grip: Chris Athy rigged some under water slide-n-glides so that the camera could dolly through a stream as Jeeps splashed through.
Chris also rigged a Bolex all over a mountain bike. Look closely at the on-board shots, thats Chris shapely calves! Once rigged and counter weighted, the actor wasnt man enough to pump the bike!
Last, dragging a motor home through the desert of Moab was fun to watchfun to watch the pieces fall off!
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Dec 15
I wrote this myself, and I want some oppinions, negative or not answers, I don’t care, I can learn from mistakes in negative answers, please be honest though, I really wont care what you think, I just want oppinions. by the way, I haven’t yet finished it, but I need some inspiration, it’s quite long so try to not get anoyed and not answer :
Mask
(New Improved Version)
The night was quiet and sleepy, the clouds glided slowly and gently across the sky, as the moon majestically shone in the chilly breeze of the darkness,
Then through the city walls came a small hooded figure, most of its body was shrouded by the darkness, the figure appeared quite agile, slim, and active, as it ran swiftly along the pavements. The figure appeared in a hurry, and ran faster, and turned right into an ally way and started to cough heavily.
The figure then took a sharp needle out from is long black cloak pocket and jabbed it into its wrist, the needle had imprinted on the tube ‘Jewvas-Corp’ on it.
The tube had a crimson green jelly like substance inside it, when the tube was empty, the figure threw the tube on the floor recklessly, then the figures veins then started to pump fast, the figure started to shake and tremble, falling to his knees in agony and pain, and shouting violently and loudly
“AARGH! AARGH!”
Then little bits of brown hair started to grow onto his hand, the figure then gazed upwards into the sky, the figures hood fell back, his face was revealed. The man was still in pain, and seemed to be getting worse; the man had short blond spiked up hair, big blue beady eyes, and looked quite aggressive, like a criminal, the hairs on his hands had completely covered his hand like a big glove, and was spreading like wildfire, it wasn’t long before the hair had spread to his legs, chest, back, and arms, all that remained normal from then was his neck and up, then his muscles started to bulge again, more pain struck the victim like lightning, sending the victim slamming back down to the ground head first, the man was angered by his injury and started to roar like a wildebeest, at this time the hair had spread all over him, his muscles started bulging again, the intensity was insane, the man could not take much more of the pain, but kept fighting it, the muscles got larger and larger, progressively enlarging themselves, thus becoming over twice it’s original size, with raging biceps and a huge abdomen, the man had been transformed into a giant brown haired beast, the beast’s cloak had been torn apart from the muscle growth, and there was a card on the floor from the cloak pocket containing secret information for that he works for, suddenly the beast the howled,
“I AM-AM-A-A-AARGH!”
And started to feel pain again, this time growing huge horns upon his head,
The beast then stood in a gorilla-like position, and then tried to speak again,
“A-A-…..I AM HOWLERBEEST! HOWL!!!”
The beast then stomped its way into a bar by the ally that he just stopped by, called ‘The King’s Pride’.
Because of his hulkish height, he smashed down the bar door down and about half of the rest of the wall around it by accident, the bar was empty but the bar tender was still there,
“Oi! Mate! What do ya think yar doing mate, eh?” said the bar tender, not seeing who was behind all the broken brick,
“UH?!” replied the beast in a dull tone, the beast flinched and then in a gorilla-like position again, lazily but stubbornly, made it’s way over to the snooker table,
“Yeh! You heard me mate! What are you oh-OH MY GOD!” “AGGH!” cried the bar tender in fear,
“ROAR!” howled the beast again as it picked up the bar tender in one hand, the bar tender was helpless to the beast’s solid grip, the bar tender was at the point of unconsciousness, and started to scream for help, the beast obviously had been angered but was foolish enough to let his guard down and be more sophisticated, and started to slowly put the bar tender back down.
Then the beast started to see blurred visions of him in a lavatory with him being tortured into mixing his DNA with a wildebeest, by a mysterious man who laughed at the sight of pain, Professor Jewvas.
Raging and ranting, the beast started to fume in anger, the tension got high again, the beast was frustrated, and he violently swooped up the bar tender and screamed in the bar tenders face
“PROFESSOR JEWVAS, WHERE?”
“W-what?” quietly said the bar tender, there was a silent pause in the scene, but the beast still grunted in the bar tenders face waiting for a answer,
“PROFESSOR JEVAS, WHERE, NOW!’ shouted the beast again .
“I…-I have no idea what your t-talking about!” squealed the bar tender, while shaking and whimpering,
“UH? AARRGH!!!” Screamed the beast yet again, with the beast in a short depression mode, the switch flicked, the tables turned, the beast was angry yet again.
“AARGH!” the beast howled in rage, the beast then lifted the bar tender higher to the roof of the bar, and slamme
Camden,
You need a little work on your sentence structure. I did a little editing on a few paragraphs to show you what I mean. Read it over carefully and then go back over what you wrote and try to duplicate the structure I created with my edits.
This is a good idea for a story, but if you want it to be taken seriously, you’ll need to bone up on your writing skills a bit more. Go to the library and get a few books on writing in general. Read a few books by your favorite author and look carefully how he/she structures her/his sentences and dialogue.
My edit:
The night was quiet and sleepy with clouds gliding slowly and gently across the sky. The moon majestically illuminated everything in the chilly breeze of the darkness. A small hooded figure walked slowly past the city walls. Most of its body was shrouded by the darkness, but the figure appeared quite agile, slim and active, as it suddenly broke into a run quite swiftly along the pavements.
The figure appeared to be in a hurry for some reason. It ran faster, ducking into an ally way only to stop and cough heavily. Taking a sharp needle out from is long-black cloak, it jabbed it quickly into its wrist. The syringe appeared to have words written on the side in bold letters. ‘Jewvas-Corp.’
Inside the tube was a crimson-green jelly-like substance. When the tube was finally empty, it was discarded recklessly on the road. Seconds later the figure’s veins started to pulsate. The hooded being began to tremble and shake violently. It dropped to its knees in what appeared to be a stance of pain and agony.
Good luck!
PJ M
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