More Halloween Fun

This time with Shotguns!

Happy Halloween!

Of course, there's no such thing as monsters.... they're just misunderstood.

Here's a Snuf Film I helped make this summer.

What?

And now for something completely different

for those of you who don't like good, clean, Gun Fun, I give you "Shark Pool." Be very afraid.

h/t to Lance T.

Set Phasers to "Fun!"

No, I'm not beating Gorn ass for the amusement of powerful aliens, I'm rescuing Bubba! Again!

The stage actually combined the "Forrest Gump" stage from last year with Jim Brown's charge during the "The Dirty Dozen."


The 2011 AZ State Sub-Gun Match would have been much more fun if my UZI worked right, but I got to play wearing shorts in the sun while those back East are under snowfall.

Jon won the Semi-Auto Division, and doing so with an AR, won an upper and lower AR kit from Sun Devil Manufacturing.

Rio Salado Sportsmen's Club did a great job giving us challenging shooting problems. Many thanks to the match sponsors, especially 5.11 Tactical, who replaced my sweat-stained 5.11 cap with a nice 9-11 Commemorative version. The Compleat List o' Sponsors:

Accuracy Speaks Gunsmithing

Admiral Products

CPWSA

Dillon Precision Products, Inc

Emering Tactical Solutions

FirearmDeals.com

5.11 Tactical

Lage Manufacturing

Merchant Firearms

Northern Arizona Munitions

Predator Tactical

Quentin Defense

Rio Salado Sportsmans Club

RTG International Surplus Parts

Sednatek

Streamlight

United Nations Ammo Company

UniqueTek

H01y 5h1t!

Here's something you don't see every day. Bob is a WWII re-enactor, model builder, and weapons buff. We knew he couldn't blame us for shifting our attention from his match performance to a low-flying B-25 "Mitchell" medium bomber.

We did a double-take at his choice of T-Shirt for today's match. Un-frikkin'-believable.

Halloween Rifles

Halloween Shotguns

Some guys shooting shotguns. Jon was smokin' with the coach gun.

Would You Like Some Cheese with That?

h/t to AleX

It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown!

Sunday was the Cactus League Halloween 3-Gun Match and Match Director Terry Allison put out a great course of fire! As a side match, shooters could pay a buck for an orange paper plate to enter the Jack-o-Lantern Challenge Art Competition. This year's winner was Jon, who brought home a Home Depot Gift Card, thanks to his artistry with a Para-Ordnance P14-45.




Big Bob, last year's Art Contest winner, carved the Runner-up with his GLOCK 34. Both Jon and Bob shot the regular match with pistol-caliber carbines, but brought out their handguns out of good sportsmanship. It's interesting that out of a shooting league dominated by pistoleros, including several Master Class gurus in attendance, the precision work was won by guys who brought handguns as an afterthought.





Yours Truly got an Honorable Mention with my GLOCK 19. The contest rules called for a HAPPY Jack-o-Lantern

Hey Blogger, Wanna Review a Movie?

My next Illustrator assignment will be to create a movie poster. I intended to make one for "Top Shot Audition" anyway, but one of the requirements is that I have to work in two movie reviews. There is a chance that Jean Jessup might have her November "First Friday Shorts "reviews up in time for me to squeeze it in, but that's only one review... and I might miss submitting in November if I have to work that night. Good thing I have all of you friends in the New Media!

Could you watch and post a review of Top Shot Audition on your blog? I value your feedback and want to get more than just the three YouTube comments, the first of which was mellow-harshingly negative.

You do not have to write a positive review. You do not have to link me or the video. You do not have to even mention the title, but if you're gonna be that vague, please let me know how to recognize the post as a review of my work. A link to your post in my comments will help my readers and me find your review.

What's in it for you? If I use an excerpt of your review on the poster, I'll post a Blog Ad for your blog on my side bar and keep it there for the rest of the year! Thanx in advanx!

(Of course, in it for me besides the feedback is greater audience reach and hopefully a growing number of folks who want to see a Cowboy Blob Production. Besides the dozens who only know them as shooting match videos.)

Shootin' Fool

I just realized I could be "shooting" every weekend until the end of November. Both SAT and SUN, with some Fridays thrown in too. With a mic and boom, with a SONY EX-3, with my 3-Gun gear, an Uzi... and a Flip HD cam too!

With two indie shoots (one a feature-length in which I had to pare down my participation), the school shoot, Cactus Match, and an annual 1-Gun match, I had to turn down a local director who wanted my help on an out-of-town shoot this month. Of course, I'd told him before that I probably wouldn't be very available until next year.

First Car Meme

The latest blogger meme going around is "Your First Car" and the adventures enjoyed therein.

I managed to live car-less after graduating high school, USAF training, and my first 2.5-year stint in Korea. With my first stateside assignment to Fort Meade MD, I finally needed some wheels. With Dad helping me shop, I finally settled on and paid cash for this '78 Buick Regal, modeled here by Lil Bro.

It was a blast learning winter driving in PA and MD and I made a quite a few road trips home for the Holidays and even long weekends. The Big Road Trip was with my buddy Dave, when we made a summer road-trip to Virginia, where we checked out Busch Gardens, King's Dominion, Colonial Williamsburg, and every miniature golf course between them all. It was on the trip back when we discovered the Buick had a leaky radiator... as we limped off the long Bay Bridge system spewing steam.

With my next tour to Korea, I discovered I'd be stationed in Texas next, so I availed myself of the awesome deals on factory-ordered new cars and picked out my first Ford Mustang. Dad bought the Buick from me for pocket cash and used it as his work beater for years until it started falling apart and Lil Bro offered up his Ranger pick-up as he moved up to an F-150. Dad was kind of bummed that my later taste in cars differed so much from the car he helped me pick out, but the Buick was just what I really needed when I started out driving. I've driven Mustangs and Rangers ever since.

Mr. DeMille, I'm Ready for My Close-up

I had as much fun on the still photography shoot for "Top Shot Audition" as I did for the video.

Actually even more so, because under the hot movie lights I used instead of flash, we had to fortify ourselves with frosty rum drinks*. On the movie shoot, it was too early in the morning for anything other than the stunt beer, though we would enjoy some tasty Maker's Mark once the sun was well over the yard arm.

I want to get some movies posters made, if only because Jon's family and friends think they're so kick-ass.

I'll premiere TSA (unfortunate initials, huh?) at the November First Friday Shorts at the Loft.

*Very much frost, very little rum.

Going to Hell

This is so wrong-- I don't wanna be right.

Peakah's Provocations...: 37

Happy Birthday!

Sigh... Another Movie!

This was last year's Adv. Cine./Location Audio work, a film noir.

Top Shot Audition

Based on a true story? Naaaw. Well, it is a true story in that it's a parody and Jon doesn't harbor any resentment over his rejected real-life audition. We'll see how it plays at the November First Friday Shorts.

Shot on a Flip HD camera with no off-camera mics involved, it's chintzy on purpose. Two of the older shots were actually taken on an old Canon PowerShot.

Before anybody sh*ts their pants over any perceived firearms safety violations, I advise the viewer that Jon and I confirmed the unloaded state of each firearm every time it was handled (Jon practices perfect trigger discipline even with AirSoft guns).

Shows you what they know...

about the meaning of "Occupation."

h/t to Bob S.

Octopi Wall Street

And Squid Quo Pro in DC.

I may have posted this before...

For some reason, 97% of my Dream Grrrls have been Brunettes.

Ya think a half dozen years in Korea might have something to do with that?

Nah!

Saturday Night's Alright

I don't know why YouTube has everything from my absolutely favorite MTV Unplugged album except for this one, but I guess I'll have to settle for this. Get up and dance!

Ribbed for your Pleasure

Giving graphic illustrators a bad name.

hat tip to Bill C.

"Always" Redux

The next movie in my production queue, "Top Shot Audition," won't be ready to premiere tomorrow night at the First Friday Shorts, so I plan to show the re-edit of my Advanced Video capstone movie "Always," starring Rachel Santay. At 7 and a half minutes, it's serious gong-bait, considering the late-night Loft audience usually has a short attention span and somewhat baser taste than a completely mostly sober audience. Wish me a broken leg!

In case those of you have who've seen the original are wondering, I trimmed 30 seconds out of the range montage sequence and reordered some of the action during the shooty-stabby part. Damn, I feel like George Lucas. Stop me before I edit this again!

UPDATE: The Review Here.

I was a little disappointed that the reviewer didn't catch that Lita lost her husband Gary in a separate accident months before losing her mother to her estranged psycho step-father Rick (wonderfully played by my buddy Jon), but that's what I get for having so much exposition in dialogue and not on screen. Still, over-all a good review, so I move on.

Small Pond

Met up with some fellow film-makers tonight, both retired LEOs. They're looking for cheap (free) and reliable movie labor/expertise. It's easy to find acting and film school grads in this town, but not so easy getting one to your shoot on a weekend, as most of them are asking whether their customer would wish to upgrade the portion size of yon side-dish and beverage. While I'm full up til the end of the year, I'll probably only take one or two classes in the Spring.

After I lamented the weak turnout to the school's casting call, Al showed me the casting book for a movie he wants to shoot soon. I was like, "Wow! She starred in my Advanced Video movie last year. I think she's working at Old Tucson Studios now." "Hey, he was in this year's movie!" And of course, "Linda's been in every other Pima movie ever made and about a third of the individual movies." Sure, there were lots of faces I didn't recognize, but I was amazed I knew so many of the talents of Tucson after two years in school and the occasional indie short.

I think these guys are going to keep me busy next year.

Weekend Caption/Photoshop Contest

Sticky until Monday -- Scroll down for new content.
Got a better caption or photoshop for this pic, courtesy of my film-making buddies? You could win a coveted Blog Ad on my side bar! If you're lucky, I'll be too busy to blog and you'll keep your ad up for weeks!

You need not be a blogger to win; however, if you post anonymously, it will be very difficult to recognize you again to design a Blog Ad.

Check out the links in Drinks Ordered for photoshops!

Judging begins Monday Night. Or not.

WINNER!

BobG of Near the Salty City wins with:

"Dude, the shadow isn't that scary. Get off my lap!"

Other Contests:

Support Your Local Gunfighter
Outside the Beltway
Wizbang

Kel-Tec Sub-2K Review

As if I don't get enough traffic from my buddy Jon's review....

Knock, knock!

Who's there?

Motorboat!

Well, at least it's not that landshark again!



hat tip to Jen-Jen

Fast Saiga