The End of The World!

New poster for 'Captain Wilcox Vs The End of the World". The animators for this project are amazing...All I did was slap on the title.

FOUR TANKS AND A HEALER - EPISODE 1 & 2

Four tanks and a Healer episode 1 & 2 is now online...thanks to TheOneRing.net

If we get enough support hopefully we can make this in to a full fledged series.

Episode 1 - "From the Beginning"

Episode 2- "Of Men and Noobs"

J~R

FOUR TANKS AND A HEALER IS NOW ONLINE!

Hosted by TheOneRing.Net. A cartoon created by the legendary alliance of Larry Longstreth and Jacob Drake, know as, Four Tanks and a Healer, is now online for your viewing pleasure. Check it out!

Watch the cartoon CLICK HERE

J~R

BUY This movie with the really long title.

The Long, Slow Death of a Twenty-Something is now available for purchase and rent. Blockbuster, Family Video, Amazon, Bestbuy.com, Barns&Noble.com, ect.

Be sure to save it to your Netflix queue also so that it will become available faster.
Thanks to everyone that has already purchased a copy and has helped to promote.

Thanks again,

J~R

Captain Jet Wilcox

One Bad Ass Motha ****. Really excited to work on this...making the poster here was a lot of fun. Check it out. Also visit the Eddy Spaghetti Production facebook page for more concept art and hit the "Like" button.

LSD20 Maverick Spotlight

Buy it!

LSD20 Official Box Art

Here is the Official box art...it's been out a few hours and I've already received many messages about it. Let me know what you think.

The Long, Slow Death Of A Filmmaker

Through-out the past couple of years I have been lucky enough to find a group of like-minded filmmakers who don't look back or think twice about what they have gotten themselves into. Honestly, it takes a kind of fearless, ignorant determination from a lot of people to make a film work on a shoe-string budget. It's hard to find people like that about anything really, especially film, and especially in Ohio. So this is a "thank you" to them and a congratulations to a film finished and sold: "The Long, Slow Death of a Twenty-Something."

To sum up the past year through-out all the seemingly endless production days there were sleeping DP's, broken 180° lines, poorly lit greenscreens, reshoots, equipment transports, much surveying of the many streets of Kent, a make shift steady cam, jib, lots of duct tape, the long and grueling editing process of perfectly timed transitions, continuity issues, tweeking, color grading, tweeking, audio clean up, and more tweeking. And at the end of it all, A dry erase board with the title "The Long, Slow Death of A Filmmaker" hung from the wall with 50+ more tweeks to make.

After all this, it might sound like I'm griping. I'm not. I loved it. It's what I dream about and I wouldn't have traded it for anything.

Peter Jackson gave a word of wisdom to his producer, who has been a mentor and producer for us. A word of wisdom worth stating that "Pain is temporary but film is forever."

I am very proud to have been a part of LSD20. It's funny and has a very relatable, honest look at our generation. I have watched the film probably 100+ times and honestly, I never get tired of it. When it comes out on DVD I know I will watch it many more times.

To all that were a part of the film, "Thank you". I am glad you were able to share in the process, an experience that will never be forgotten.

"The Long, Slow Death of a Twenty-Something." is Available Oct. 4. On Amazon, Itunes, Netflix, and in stores. For more info, trailers, and updates, become a fan at Facebook.com/DeathofaTwenty

I've got a golden ticket!

Gentleman! Our video won The Saxxy Award under most dramatic!

This is going on my resume!



Thanks to all who voted!

J~R

I'm funny how? Funny like I'm a clown, I amuse you?

We are starting a new film project entitled "Patchy Middleton vs Death". I describe it as kind of "Big Fish" meets "The Seventh Seal". We hope to raise money through Kickstarter.com. If you are interested in helping out a couple of talented bum filmmakers, or if your thinking about becoming a future producer, Check out the link below. Pledge a minimum of just $10 to help this film become a reality.

CLICK HERE TO HELP KICKSTART OUR PROJECT




Thanks for Helping, if you didn't help, thanks for thinking about it, if you didn't think about it... "Get outta here".

THE FILTHY MAGGOTS: NEW TRAILER

New trailer for our 5-part web-series "THE FILTHY MAGGOTS". First episode coming Tuesday May, 24. CHECK IT.

Trailer has some strong language.



Go to: youtube.com/user/maggotsrise
and subscribe.

The Spying

Me and Oneofthosedays (Wahzineskey) just finished our submission for the Saxxy Awards. Check it out.

HASTE

The Anthology Adventures in Other Worlds arrived in the mail the other day. It contains my first published short story Haste. Which I would describe as a very pulpy space sci-fi story. You can read the story below. I have two other shorts coming out in another anthology, a short story I just finished and have submitted, and am currently working on a new one. Okay more to come.

HASTE

Jacob A. Ruby
First Published by Static Movement in
Adventures in Other Worlds

The mind of Jason Conway cranked like an unstoppable clock winding violently into the future. An incessant ticking echoed through the darkness before a blaze of florescent light came to life above, burning into his eyes. The blackness contracted in an ellipse, exposing a ring of murky blue membrane. His vision bloomed, blurry, causing his eyelids to timidly shutter and then blink rapidly. Tears streaked down his temples to his ears.

The room was familiar to Jason, but only in the way déjà vu is familiar. His hands and feet were bound to an observation table in the middle of the bright white room with no windows. Life support monitors surrounded him while tubes penetrated veins all over his body. He couldn’t move or speak; he seemed to lay there lifeless, but his mind cranked. He narrowed his eyes and rolled them to the right, towards the incessant ticking. It was all he could do to find some sort of discernment, to find some sort of sanity from a maddening sound. An electronic metronome blinked back and forth near two recognizable figures. The scientist and the businessman, both of whose names escaped the churning edges of Jason’s awakening conscious. They ignored their test subject as if he was a simple manifestation, a television left on from the night before. Instead they argued ceaselessly over a clipboard document, which the businessman waved violently at the scientist.

The businessman grew only more irritated and relentless as the conversation continued.

“I understand the implications of the process, doctor; I have been here, not only for ever Haste test, but for ever Modus Machina test as well.”

The doctor shook his head in disagreement.

“Every experiment prior has been of an isolated incident. We have tested the substance without the nanotechnology; and the nanotechnology without the substance. We are not ready at this stage to move forward. Enhancing the mechanism could cause uncontrollable, unforeseeable problems.

The businessman interjected ruthlessly unbending, “You can not pretend this wasn’t apart of the plan doctor. It always has been from the very beginning. In any case I have been ordered by the Alliance to merge Project Modus Machina and Project Haste. They are expecting to have results by the end of today; would you like to ask them to explain it themselves?”

The scientist put his head down vilified, wavering to speak again. But his head stayed down. The businessman held a faux gold fountain pen towards the scientist and smiled. He grudgingly took the damn thing and signed the document. The businessman looked up still smiling and then let out a quick gust of gratification from his nostrils.

“Truly, it is mightier.” With that the businessman passed quickly outside the peripheral of Jason’s vision.

The scientist squabbled to himself, washing his hands, finger by finger and then fixing a medical mask to his face and nitrile gloves to his hands. He finally made his way to the observation table bringing along a cart of medical supplies. There where four syringes. Two big syringes labeled MACHINA held a substance inside that looked like liquid metal. Two small syringes labeled HASTE, contained a substance inside that resembled blood.

Jason peered up at the doctor, his vision still full of what looked to be translucent worms that squirmed and wiggled on his retina, magnifying the light above.

“Hello again Jason, we have met before, but that was a different time and a different place. Let me introduce myself again, my name is Doctor Richard Quay.”

Doctor Quay spoke with sympathy but excluded his empathy.

“I’m not going to lie to you Jason, what is about to take place within the next few hours is going to be very painful. I don’t think either of us want to be here. I will try my best too make this procedure as painless as possible. The procedure is simple; it includes a series of injections. The first is the Machina injection, in which billions of tiny bio-nano-machines will enter your blood stream and inhabit every part of your body, fixing what needs to be fixed and improving everything else. After two hours I will then inject Haste.”

Doctor Quay took a breath, unsure how to explain something he did not fully grasp himself.

“Haste acts as a kind of adrenaline boost in support of the nanotechnology. So if you can imagine an adrenaline shot to the power of a billion. This is essentially the concept.”

Turning a nozzle underneath the observation table allowed Xenon gas to flow through the tube and into Jason’s mouth and nose. He then reached up to fix the intravenous drip, synchronizing it to the metronomes incessant ticking.

“Although you will be put under anesthesia, all past Machina subjects reported feeling significant pain.”

Doctor Quay began to fade from Jason’s vision. His world became a haze that evaporated to blackness, followed by a sharp white pain throughout his entire body. A flood of memories converged inside of him. He was transported to the brink of his life and to the moment when he had first met the scientist and the businessman.

****

Drop pods screamed across the night sky like a thousand bottle rockets being shot off by mischievous angels from heaven. They streamed down by the dozens. The entire 12^th space infantry division, nicknamed the grey division, had made their arrival to a new civilization, a new future, a new war.

They arrived on Theogon in the recently terraformed safe zone outside harm from the enemy. What the soldiers had come to know as titans. These gigantic slow moving creatures stood over two hundred meters tall and dressed in massive clunky armor. Completely shielded by their protective covering, the titans looked like spiky biped crustaceans that had crawled out of the deep sea abyss. They were almost completely defensive except when surrounded. If overwhelmed the titans would emit a bright coruscation from their fists, raise them high above their head, and then slam them to the ground letting off an intense flash of devastation. For years it took the One Faction Alliance and the lives of many soldiers to form a strategy that would take just one titan down.

“Jason Conway.”, the major general yelled across the field of grey suited soldiers.

Jason was busy readjusting the water output valve on his grey suit. All new recruits were subject to certain pranks since they wouldn’t see battle for the next couple of weeks. One of these pranks involved cranking up the water output to max causing the entire inside of Jason’s suit to get wet whenever he was thirsty for a sip of water.

“What now?” Jason mumbled under his breath.

Deek, another new recruit, tapped Jason on the shoulder.

“Hey, Jay, you better get your ass movin’, that’s major general Hammer calling you.

“Shit.”

Jason gathered himself and sloshed his way over to the major general, presenting a straight salute as best he could in the flooded suit.

“Yes sir? Major General Sir.” Jason yelled loudly, being careful not to look him in the eyes.

“At ease solider.”

The major general moved quickly, walking towards a large canopy set up away from the rest of the troops. Jason followed.

“That shit they taught you in camp ends once you hit alien territory, never do it again, you understand me solider?”

“Yes sir.”

“Private Conway, you have been called to convene with two very important men who have made this war against the titans possible. They have reviewed all of your physical and mental abilities and have chosen you, along with eight other soldiers, to participate in their next big project. This is so that people like us, can take those titan sons-a-bitches down. Understood?”

“Yes, sir.”

The Major General stopped just before the entrance to the large covered canopy.

“After this meet you will move up to rank private first class. Let me ask you something private; were you an eagle scout by chance?”

Jason smiled knowing the major general most likely knew the answer to the question.

“Yes sir, I was.”

Major general Hammer smirked back.

“Then welcome to E-4 Corporal, you can pick out your squad when you get back.”

Inside the canopy eight soldiers stood in firm attention towards the scientist and the businessman. Jason followed suite.

“Good morning soldiers. My name is Joseph Burr and this is Doctor Richard Quay. As explained by major general Hammer we are the core scientific and financial representation against the titans. In our efforts, we want to see Theogon become the new prosperous Earth for all mankind, and we believe that very future is standing here today. The nine of you have been chosen to participate in a top secret military project. And though none of you have yet come face to face with the enemy, by the end of this project you all will be the next driving force towards destroying the titans. At undisclosed times, four of you will be assigned to project Modus Machina, the other four will be assigned to project Haste, and one of you will be assigned to an amalgamation project that involves both. Information on these projects will be disclosed to you in progress of the project. All projects will take place at the Human Advancement Lab back on earth. Replacements have been chosen in the possible event of you being killed in action before participating in the project.”

Major general Hammer took a step forward towards the men. “Do you understand these terms?”

“Yes, sir.” The nine soldiers yelled in unison.

****

The land was forever flat and dusty. A few curious rain drops fell and then more and more followed into a downpour. Jason looked to the West, away from his scouting squad towards the setting sun and the distant silhouette of the many roaming titans. After a number of years in the trenches, the scientist and businessman had passed from Jason’s memory. How many years had it been, Jason thought to himself. He had seen the fall of two titans within the years gone by. Those battles he would never forget.

Deek climbed out of his trench belligerent.

“Fuck this shit hole, man. I hate this goddamn planet. Everything’s too big, like it’s important. Big desert, big aliens, even the raindrops are too big. It’s cats and dogs every time.”

The rest of the scouting squad was emerging from their trenches as well. The medic, Juan, yelled out to Deek’s complaint.

“It has to do with the different rates of coalescence.”

“Oh, hey, maybe you can explain what has to do with the different rates of me not giving a shit.”

“Fuck you.”

“Hey, hey, quiet.” Jason shouted, grasping the situation. However, his attention was somewhere else.

“There’s something close by.”

A slow stirring could be heard, like a low rumbling stomach.

“It’s thunder.”

“No, it’s not.”

“What is it then, is it a titan?” One of the new recruits questioned, clutching on to his assault rifle.

Deek laughed.

“Are you blind? Do you see a titan? If there was a titan close by it would be pretty freakin’ obvious.”

Just then, as if to spite Deek’s comment, the ground shook violently, knocking the entire squad down. A couple hundred meters from them dust and sand exploded into the air. A titan emerged, hidden beneath the surface, a rising monolith. Jason looked up into its eyes, burning like stars.

“Get back into your trenches now!” Jason roared.

The new recruit, filled with panic, locked back his rifle and dead griped the trigger. The other men followed in shock of the action, desperately trying to kill the unassailable creature.

“Cease fire! Cease fire! Jason’s voice was a suffocated breath underneath the cry of gunfire.

It was too late. The titan looked down, breathing out vehemence. Its fists glinted with light and rose towards the sky.

“Run! Jason yelled desperately trying to save his squad.

“Forget them, come on!” Deek yelled back to Jason.

Jason looked again towards doom.

“Come on!”

Jason gave up and ran with Deek. They didn’t look back again. They ran as far and as fast as they could until a bright light surrounded them. A thunderclap sounded before they were lifted off the ground and carried forward. White pain shot throughout Jason’s entire body. At the brink of his life he hoped they would bring his body back to Earth, back to his home.

****

Earth, Jason’s mind cranked violently, I’m back on Earth. His eyes shot open, his neck twisted into a dead stare. Doctor Quay stared back, eyes wide in a solid state of fixated horror. Jason’s body wrenched. His back arched towards the blinding lights above. Haste flowed through his body, tearing and repairing every muscle thousands of times a second. It was an incredible, indescribable pain. Every nut and bolt loosened from the observation table. Jason shook uncontrollably until he was free, free from war, free from Theogon, now able to once again roam the Earth. Doctor Quay tried to restrain Jason, but Jason push back causing Doctor Quay to lift from the floor and smash forcefully into life support machines across the room. Jason took a step away from the doctor’s lifeless body. He turned and stepped forward towards the exit. One painful step lead to another and another, a stream of air passed by him faster and faster, until Jason thought he would never be able to stop.

A deafening alarm blared. Jason crashed through the seventh floor window of the Human Advancement Lab. His feet yearned for the Earth below. As Jason hit the ground running, he looked in wonder at the modern electromagnetic skyscrapers with plasma windows and the city street superconductors. Earth had certainly changed from the time he had left so many years ago.

Jason senses the chase behind him. He ran faster with every step. He felt no resistance, he felt free, he felt unstoppable. He imagined this was how the titans must have felt.

As Jason neared the outskirts of the city, dark cloud formations converged overhead. Raindrops fell. But Jason knew something didn’t feel quite right about it. It was a different kind of rain, bigger drops. He fell to his knees at the city’s edge and looked out. There were no homes, no flowers, no white picket fences, no nothing, only the rising black dust clouds of war.

Jason looked back towards the replicate terraformation of a deceitful city. In the distance a tread of fuming tanks and armored grey foot soldiers closed in on him. He knew then where he was, he knew he had to get off Theogon, very, very, quickly.

Copyright © 2011 by Jacob Ruby

The Rise and Fall of The Filthy Maggots: Trailer

Trailer for the Mock-doc about a band that goes through everything a band goes through, except for playing music.

My Next Pay-Check is going to Cave Johnson

Portal 2 Coming Soon...Can't wait.

Published

Three of my short stories are going to be publish in two different sci-fi anthologies, Adventures in Other Worlds, and Science gone Mad. Very cool and exciting. This has inspired me to write more.

And Now for Some Eastern Film Selections

Anyone who knows me, knows I own a lot of Korean and Japanese films. And why not they have produced some really interesting stuff as of lately. Here are a couple flicks that look interesting.

From famed Horror director Takashi Miike (Ichi the Killer and Audition)
13 ASSASSINS


From breakout director Jee-woon Kim (The Good, The Bad, The Weird) <- Also good
I SAW THE DEVIL

Super 8 trailer

Looks like the magic/mystery that I discovered as a kid from Spielberg movies has returned.

The Tree of Life Trailer

Looks amazing...the trailer alone makes me reflect at the awesome and aesthetic power of the cosmos and the fact that we may be the only thing in the infinite, that has or every will conscientiously observe and create within it.

Sucker Punch: The Tastiest Rotten Tomato

I was going to write a long drawn out and probably disorganized rebuttal to all the critic bandwagon hate for the movie Sucker Punch...but I found a review that does that for me, so here you go.

The Rise and Fall of The Filthy Maggots

Work on a new production has begun in the same hit the ground running style we had with twenty-something. It's a comedy, a mock-doc about a band, "The Filthy Maggots", and how fame can get in the way of the "creative process".

KentPatch WriteUp

I thought I saw a couple of reporters at the Wrap party. Here was one of those reporter write ups from that night.

http://kent.patch.com/articles/from-small-town-to-big-screen

Top 10 Greatest Film Composers

10. Bill Conti
Created the most motivational music ever with Rocky.
Also did:
Masters of the Universe
The Thomas Crown Affair
The Right Stuff
and Karate Kid of my favorites





9. Danny Elfman

Tim Burton's go to guy.
Did:
Batman
and Big Fish
of my favorites.




8. Alan Silvestri

As Robert Zemeckis's go to composer,
He did:
Back to the Future
Forest Gump
also Predators
and The Abyss
of my favorites





7. Harry Gregson - Williams

Has done many of the Scott brothers films.
Including but not exclusive to:
Kingdom of Heaven
Man on Fire
The Chronicles of Narnia
Metal Gear Solid (I know not a movie but still Amazing)
of my favorites





6. Howard Shore

Mostly David Cronenberg's go to composer, (Scorsese also lately) but has worked with many of my favorite directors.
His Movie Compositions Include:
Lord of the Rings
A History of Violence
The Game
The Departed
and Seven
of my favorites.



5. John Murphy
Has created many of the themes we recognize today. He's Danny Boyle's go to dude and he's really good.

Has done:
28 days later
Sunshine
Lock Stock
and Snatch
Among my favorites






4. Clint Mansell

Darren Aronofsky's guy. His compositions are experimental and fantastic.

Has done:
Pi
Requiem for a Dream
The Fountain
Smokin' Aces
And Moon
Of my favorites





3. Hans Zimmer

When you hear a powerful score, your probably listening to Hans Zimmer.

Has done
Gladiator
Crimson Tide
The Lion King
The Last Samurai
The Dark Knight
and Inception
among my favorites



2. Ennio Moricone
If you love film, you most likely love westerns. Ennio composed for Sergio Leone the greatest of the spaghetti western directors.
His films include:
Fistfull of dollars
The Good the Bad the Ugly
Once Upon A Time in the West
Once Upon A Time in America
and Cinema Paradiso
among my favorites.



1. John Williams

John Williams ! Cause when you think about film and music you think of John Williams don't you?

Has given us
Superman
Star Wars
Indiana Jones
Jurassic Park
and Jaws
among everyone's favorites

Another Twenty-Something Review

Rogue Cinema Reviews "The Long Slow Death of a Twenty-Something"

"...both funny and poignant"