I am selling my Dodge Shadow. an image of it can be found here. DODGE SHADOW ES
it's a V6, 90K miles with power locks and windows. It's had recent AC work but needs a recharge and at 60K miles had a new transmission put in.
It runs great and is ready for Premium sound; This includes a $300 Alpine CD player w/remote and rear amp wiring.
the only major problem with it right now is that it has paint damage due to the Florida Sun. This is easly corrected
and I've reduced the price to reflect the 300-500 dollars one would spend to get it repainted.
I'm asking $2300, OBO.
Please call me if you'd like to come look at it. You probably got here via the Statesmen ad and my number should be on there.
"Final Fanstasy: The Spirits Within" - Where to start. This movie has been in production for over three years. It is a milestone in Computer Generated media. It is one of the most (and only) coputer generated full length features that shoots for realism in not only objects and enviroment but also characters. Things to look for in this movie is the different clothing types.. One of the hardest things to do in the computer is get realistic clothing. The other is hair. Real hair lays naturally, blows in the wind naturally and reacts naturally. FF:TSW does a great job at capturing these every day things. One the lacking though was lip synching. Yes the mouth moved when words were coming out. I'm not saying that wasn't tight. What I am saying is that the mouths of ALL the characters lacked the realistic movement and over exaggeration that the mouth normally has.The story was also another thing that had a bit to be desired. Dr. Aki with aid from Dr. Sid and a "Deep Eyes" military unit persue the search for the 8 spirits. When combined these spirits will cancel out the biometric wave of the "invading" aliens. The entire movie is wrapped in a meta-spiritual theme.. Who's right, Dr Aki and Dr. Sid or the military lead by General Hein who wants to use the Zues cannon against the aliens which may or may not destroy the earth in the proccess.. I wont say which way works out, or which way is better, or which way I would have choosen but I will tell you this.. a lot of things go "BOOM" at the end.
The voice acting in this movie is TOP NOTCH with many great preformers. Dr. Aki is played by Ming Na (Mulan) Dr Sid is played by Donald Sutherland. Other actors include. Steve Buscemi, Alec Baldwin, James Wood, Peri Gilpin, and Ving Rhames. All of them do a steller job.. All in all I would recommend that if you like CG or SciFi movies that you go to see this one. The backgrounds, technology and character animation are some of the best you'll see in any movie this year..
>M<
posted by Sten Hunter Thursday, July 12, 2001
Well it's "Official" I'm headed to Los Angelos in August for Siggraph 2001!!!. I'll of course be staying with my Bestest buddy Eric, famed 3D animator and legend in the LA. area..Not to mention I'll be hobbin and nobbin with the big wigs of the industry.. I'm gonna try and bust out some models so that I can print out examples of my work and take them with me.. (try at least) or find out who's hiring and send them resume's and reels when I get back.. Well.. I'm going to go be excited in my corner now.. yeah.. yeah!..>M<
posted by Sten Hunter Wednesday, July 11, 2001
"Kiss of the Dragon" - Not bad.. Jet Li is his old self. He even wrote the idea for this movie. In it he plays China's best police officer. Schooled in the highest martial arts and as an added twist, doesn't use guns but acupunture.. Briget Fonda plays a Nebraska X-junkie hooker who's daughter is being held by the "bad" guy. Murder insues, wrongy acused, Jet Li pursues until he's vindicated at the end and everything goes as planned..Personally I could have used some more finely tuned action scenes.. The ones in the movie seemed.. repeatative.. and just a tiny bit slow.. though there is a scene with a room filled with batton wielding police that Jet show's his true speed in.. I guess the one thing I didn't like.. is that though opponents were everywhere.. there were to many of them.. they came out of the wood work.. Jet must have beat at least 70 ppl in this movie.. I would think that if 70 people got beat up in one night around here.. the ARMY would get called in..
"Atlantis" -Very good. The voice action is top notch in this movie.. and the "atlantians" technology is both bery Mayan and very cool.. With "fish" looking flying craft and "Tron" esk body paint it mixes well. The story though at times predictable was still Disney.. The animation (were talking the traditional part here) was something to be desired.. That being said.. everyone's fingernails were triangles and everyone tended to have very sharp angular jaw lines.. This animation took me back to old school Disney flicks from the late 80's early 90's.. The Computer generated graphics were totally on the other side of the spectrum.. Very fluid, organic and top notch.. The "leviathan" creature was by far one of the best CG cartoon creatures I've seen in a while.. It blended well with the movie.. There were also WAY more CG background characters used in this film than previous Disney films.. Now I'm not saying characters that are WAY in the background like Mulan.. but characters that are in the mid ground just behind the main's.. Disney typically goes for hand drawn characters this close but choose not to this time and it did IMO work out..
Well that's if for today.. I'm pretty movied out since that's all I've done these last 4 days or so.. Maybe later this week I'll write what I thought about "Proof of Life".. with Russle Crowe and Meg Ryan..
Tata
>M<
posted by Sten Hunter Tuesday, July 10, 2001
"Wait.. Wait.. I never had a chance to love you... Wait.. Wait.." Yes that's what I relived tonight.. White Lion.. minus every one but Tramp the singer.. no Vitto.. no real White Lion.. but they did play all the hits, cept one.. No Radar Love.. =( Why?? there could be many reasons.. High on the list would be that they are tired of playing it.. low on the list would be that they don't have the rights to preform it.. I'm thinking the latter..Anyways.. it was great.. top notch.. rock n FUCK'n roll.. Tramp had a very positive message.. support local bands and old rock bands no matter what the cost.. We/they are a slowly dying breed..Later this month.. LA Guns, Faster Pussycat and Bullet Boys are coming.. I will not miss this!!! Talk about reliving ALL of the late 80's in one night.. all three of these bands scream 1989!! I can't wait to sit back and remember what the hell was doing when their albums came out..
Talk later..
>M<
posted by Sten Hunter Sunday, July 08, 2001
