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NEW SHORT FILM UNDERWAY

BOOYA and MUFASA at it again

new short film underway

With a collaboration on the script with James Iles and Myself we decided the best way to work is to also co-direct. James is of course in charge of the camera and lighting and I do my best to prepare the actors and the script.

Most exciting about this project is we have brought in a team of new producers who are serious about set and assisting us with pre-production.  

 With our team growing, it's allowing us the chance to really develop a film the right way. Stay tuned, I'll be putting up some behind the scenes images and thoughts from team members.

VISITING MOM NOT SO EASY

A JOURNEY OF 8510 MILES BEGINS WITH A 3 A.M. TAXI RIDE.

Traveling from my home in Bangkok to my mother's home in Kearney Nebraska is extremely daunting, but for me it is always the first leg that stresses me the most. April 7th at 3 A.M. a taxi driver arrives in front of my home. He's wired from a long night of some kind of chemical blend of energy drinks, cigarettes, and youth. Its the rare time of day when there is NO traffic in the city and so he revels in the freedom of revving his modified Toyota and racing us to the airport in just under 30 minutes, a journey I had estimated would take closer to an hour. He helped me out with my bags and raced off and I stepped into the cavernous Suvarnabhumi International Airport. At this time of the evening the attendants and ground workers outnumber the passengers and in fact, I was the only one there when I found the Delta counters. I chatted with them asking if I was the only one flying today, which at 3:30 in the morning is not funny. 

So with check in completed, my bag checked, and a realization that basically the next 24 hours of my life will be spent in a state of half-conscious confinement, I found a kind of comfortably numb, zombie like energy, that moves me from security to passport check to duty free to lounge to gate to seat and to infinity and beyond.

My first flight was Bangkok to Tokyo: 5 hours 25 minutes. A pretty nice little warm up. Next flight, after a 2 hour layover, was Tokyo to Minneapolis: 10 hours 40 minutes. I had 1 hour to switch planes for the final leg from Minneapolis to Omaha: 1 hour and 40 minutes. All total just under 18 hours of flight time and about 6 hours of airport time for THE LOST DAY.

THAI FOOD is an ATTITUDE

THAI FOOD is an attitude

It's hotter than FIRE in Bangkok (95% yesterday) and when I duck into a local street food joint to grab some food the food is even hotter. Anytime I travel away from Thailand it only takes a few days for me to begin missing Thai food. I know every country in the world has Thai food now, but come on, I'm yet to taste any of it that maintains that ATTITUDE. 

It's fun to watch Thai folks eat, no matter how spicy or seasoned the food looks when it arrives at the table, their first question is and I am translating into English, "Spices please." And out comes a basket full of sweet, spicy, sour, salty or surprise enhancements. They add sauces and spices to everything and even to every bite if need be. They are patient, not gobbling down their food for it's sustenance, but rather delighting in the plethora of flavors swirled upon their spoons. 

The photos are my lunch, spicy noodle soup with pork and  an egg, and my dinner Sum Tum (papaya salad) and nom toke (onions pork chives).  

CHANGE OF FOCUS

                          Kaew and I work on her scene while Pookie prepares behind us. 

So many years ago I began this blog with the idea of writing about the unusual life I decided on by leaving the United States for a life in Thailand. Many years have passed and all the crazy things about Thailand and it's amazing culture have sort of become everyday to me. I notice my early blogs are really about this country, it's people and culture and that has fallen off to a point where my blog kind of dried up.

I think in general blogs have been hit hard by the Facebook timelines and LINE timeline kind of stuff and perhaps as I have been focused on promoting my comics and film team on FB and Instagram and thus my blog has fallen into attic dust and cobwebs.

So a change of FOCUS is absolutely required. I still will write, on occasion, about the unique life I lead here as an expat; however, I intend to focus more on the creative projects I'm involved in, my teaching/students, my interests, and whatever the hell else pops into my head IT'S MY BLOG so eclectic should be expected.

World of the Deathstick has joined WEB TOON

WEBTOONS presents DEATHSTICK

BEST SEEN ON YOUR PHONE! Web Toon is a BEAUTIFUL format for looking at comics and I'm excited to offer chapter 1 of WORLD OF THE DEATHSTICK on there now. Please go read chapter one on your iPad, iPhone or Android phone and give us some high rankings.

ENJOY!

The Astropath SHORT FILM

The short explores the guilt faced by Setthapong a character in THE JOURNEYS OF THE ASTROPATHS series. Setthapong has gone through the trials of the astropath wars and just wants to be left alone, but when you have special abilities life is not always so easy.

Please enjoy this short film. We enjoyed making it.

BOOYA BKK ACTING TEAM

BOOYA BKK ACTING TEAM is a wonderful group of people learning together about drama, film making and the elements of storytelling. We focus on having a good time, but are attempting to develop better and better short films and hopefully coming soon a feature film to showcase our talents. Here are some glimpses of our workshops and some of our hard working talent. 

INTERESTED IN JOINING? Contact me and you are welcome to come by a workshop.

Comics coming along nicely.

www.wotds.com is booming right now as chapter 2 wraps up. www.theastropaths.com is also uploading chapter 2 at a pace of about 2 pages a week. All is well.

Top Web Comics is Amazing

Please help us win by supporting this contest.
With all honesty, neither of my comics www.theastropaths.com or www.wotds.com are ready to become topweb comics--we just don't have enough content yet--but by spreading the word about this company and the work they do to promote web comics, I can perhaps win a bit of free advertising for my fledgling stories.

We are working on both these comics steadily. We are growing thanks to all of you who have supported by visiting and liking us on FB and so forth.

Thanks a lot.

Comparing Comic Book Legendary FILMS a HULK of a task

In truth Marvel rules the comic book world and films made from comics at this point. Stan Lee's visions of character and conflict driven graphic tales will forever change the way people both read comics and consider heroes and anti heroes. Perhaps no character better demonstrates this than THE HULK. Oddly, the two films we are talking about today are drastically different and yet both true to, in their own way, the vision of Lee. I won't even bring up the fact that a different actor is chosen to play The Hulk in the Avengers because that too has struck the comic book world as odd and a bit confusing.

So which of these two offerings was the best? Here are the trailers of the films below.


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Learning Process drawing with Alberto Verdejo

Learn the mastery of Chile's great cartoon artist Mr. Alberto Verdejo. Our work is at www.wotds.com.

DROP BOX

If you're not a dropbox user, you should try it. I love knowing my seriously important files are safe within the dropbox universe. I have lost so much stuff over the years, but this backup plan really works.

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