Your Random Creations (Page 11 of 27)

Ok. So. There's this thing on the internet called creepypasta. What is creepypasta? Hum. It's... basically amateur horror stories that get shared around all over the place.

There's one story, written by a 13 year old at the time, called "Jeff the Killer". Next to the Slender Man, it is arguably THE most famous creepypasta written to date. It's inexplicably popular. Its shitty writing, trope-laden mythology and cavernous logic gaps should be nails in the coffin, but for the 12-18 crowd it is HOT HOT HOT. Seriously, just google "Jeff the Killer": art, music, video games, fanfic, cosplay, movies, narrations. Love it or hate it, this fucking thing is a big deal.

There's another thing on the internet that's a thing: YouTube narrators. Specifically people who love to narrate horror stories. It's a thing. I don't know why it is, but it is. And it doesn't seem to be stopping anytime soon. Most narrators are god-awful. They're teenagers who record in front of shitty laptops on Radio Shack headsets in one take and then post it online. We do the same thing, but with (I hope) a much higher production value.

So like the whores we are, the channel I'm collaborating with and I set forth to produce the be all, end all version of Jeff the Killer. This is THE reading to beat all others. It's 40 minutes long, features 13 voice actors and has the highest quality sound design, audio production, motion graphics and composed music we could muster in 3 weeks with $0 budget; all done for the benefit of the channel and the risky dream that this thing could one day pay our bills. Being YouTube horror narrators, it would be stupid NOT to do this story, even if it's cringeworthy and awful. So here it is...

I acted as project lead, just under the owner of the channel, who provided direction and screenwriting. I narrated/produced/post-produced/sound designed/composed/motion graphics-ed and video edited this beast. It took 114 hours of my life to bring the end product into existence.

If you could find it in your heart, even if this whole thing is completely baffling, to click the link, watch the video, or at least click on the ad or the like button, it would mean the world to me.

Thanks man.  I think we toed the line, tonally. It's such a ridiculous story, it was kind of fun to take it so seriously.

We're getting a lot of positive feedback on it, which is nice.

A personal history told in mean averages.

Does he fight Octo-Devil?

That was a lot of fun.

We had an absolutely beautiful day here, so I thought I'd try out my newest toy on the walk to work.

The Olympus 15mm F8.0 Body Cap Lens. I love this thing. I really do. If you don't know what it is, it's a micro 4/3rds lens that is nearly literally just mounted inside a body cap. The end product is a little bigger than an actual body cap, but not by much. It's got a little focus slider under the lens for when you want to focus in close, but it also has an infinity focus lock that'll pretty much put everything past a meter or so in focus. So you can basically just throw it on, and walk around shooting everything without having to worry about this massive bulky lens sticking off the front off your really nice camera body. Basically it turned my GH2 into a point and shoot. The only downside is that it's locked at F8.0 so you really need to have some light in order to get anything decent, though I hesistate to say it's really a huge downside because the awesome thing about this lens is that it only costs 50 bucks (I got mine for $42, sales baby!).

So anyways, thought I'd run it through some paces and I gotta say, I'm really impressed. It's probably not a lens that's gonna win you any awards, but to be able to just turn your really nice dslr body into a point and shoot to just wander around with it without worrying is amazing.

Here's the top pick from the walk to and home from work today. Most of them are kinda blurry, but that's because 90% of the photos are took while literally walking down the street, not even stopping, so that's on me, not the lens (But I wasn't really trying too hard, I was having fun)

(These are touched up and pushed pretty far colour wise with RAW cause why not, if anyones curious I can post the untouched versions)

Image dump (Click for bigger):

And probably my favorite from today:

Like I said, I'm really rather impressed by this little doodad.

I also did a quick test with this thing on one of my extension tubes and it looks like it could be really nice for doing some super macro stuff. Will update when I have a chance to do some proper tests.

Last edited by BigDamnArtist (2014-01-16 02:05:54)

Picked up my new happy fun times lens today. Olympus 17mm F1.8.

The obligatory "shooting what happens to be directly in front of me at the time I get home" tests.

I love this thing.

Last edited by BigDamnArtist (2014-01-24 04:33:44)

Heh, yep, that is indeed a can of A&W Root Beer.

I took these a couple years ago with my Sony NEX-5N, kit lens and a cheap macro adapter I dug out of an old camera bag. I shot in JPEG like an idiot, but I think they turned out pretty well.

Thanks, all the flowers were live-sun and the baseball was just on my desk under a lamp. And for that one I actually used a vintage "beer can" lens I got on eBay for $20. 80-200mm f/3.9

http://moviefail.com/2014/03/06/soren-j … cast-2014/

My friend Soren and I did a podcast with our thoughts on the Oscars this year.