My Video Editing Project-DEAD SPACE CREDITS

So in all things coming to a end, I had a final project for my video editing classes luckly my professor said I could use my one project for all my classes. So talk about scoring but the downside was making it work for every single class which I did and I believe i made all A's. Anyways Here is my final project. 

All created with after effects and dead space concept art

What I think About Gay Marriage...

This is a very hot button topic that has been making the rounds in the media and all over the world. The president has now backed gay marriage. The first president who's primary focus has been change takes another big step forward. Now how do I feel about this? I honestly have no problem with gay marriage, it doesn't effect me in anyway shape or form. My world will not end just because Timmy and Jimmy got married or Sue or Ann tied the knot. This is more about the fundalmental right to allow them the rights to things that married couples have taken for granted certain married rights. 

Now I hear many people say that gay marriage is between a man and woman, says who? of course the quickest answer is always the bible. But I wish the goverment would go back to being focused on the seperation of church and state, where the state focused on the welfare of the people and not the religious beliefs of its people. But that is for another conversation, the whole idea is about the rights of gays, blacks and mexicans went through this already in the fight for civil rights! 

I want someone to tell me why other than religious idealogies  as to why gay marriage is wrong. I am just tired of the whole religious control over the goverment, this is not a attack on marriage, this is just from what I believe a evolution of marriage. Anyways Command is over and out

Nokia Lumia 900

The Nokia Lumia 800 was one of the few windows phones that didn't make it to the US but stayed overseas, but when CES happened this year, microsoft and nokia announced the Nokia Lumia 900. Now it has finally arrived the Nokia Lumia 900.

This new nokia phone features a 4.3 inch OMLED touchscreen, polycarbonate body, 1.4 GHZ processor with 512 megs of ram and 16 gigs of internal storage.  It also features a 8 mega pixal camera with a 1.5 pixel front facing camera. It also comes preloaded with the new windows phone update called windows 7.5 MANGO EXTENDED.

Running on the windows platform, in addition to this powerful tech, this phone is definitely fast, it takes a lot to even make it slowdown. Switching between apps is very crisp and precise, it feels light in your hand, feels durable due to the polycarbonate uniformed body. The screen is made to feel durable, it is a great touch screen and definitely feels very precise, images are clear and crisp, especially with the 4.3 inch screen making it a great size, not to big not to small.  Calls were very crisp and clean, my voice can be heard very easily due to the placing of the mic on the phone.  Also being a phone that supports 4G and LTE speeds, it means the phone downloads anything superfast, the internet, the zune player, apps, it all loads very clean and fast. Photos are very crisp and clean, but the only downside is that the video doesn't record in full 1080p just 720p.

Not evey phone is perfect, as you can imagine there are some faults to this phone, the body ,especially around the corners because very rectangular and not curved make it feel bulky. Being a smartphone you would expect a type of expandable storage but there still isn't expanable storage on this window phones, which with 16 gigs it can fill up pretty fast, better use that skydrive! Another thing that might take some getting use to, is on the side with the volume and the button that gives you quick access to the camera, there is the hold/power button, its right in the middle between the camera and volume which can add a scene of weirdness because most phones have the hold/power button on the top and not the side.  The battery life is decent, it lasts longer than my android phone but barely, clocks in at about 6 hours of life for me of constant use, not the best but not the worst.

Now if you are due in for a upgrade and you are thinking about doing the switch to windows mobile but don't want to spend 200 bucks on the Titan 2, then I highly suggest picking up this phone, it costs 100 bucks with a contract. Also right now you can choose from having this phone in black and or cyan colors. 

LOCKOUT

Action movies have evolved from the simple tough guy, to smart gritty realistic action movies. This is not one of them this is lockout.

Our story centers on around the character of "Snow" played by Guy Pearce, he is convicted of treason after a mission goes horribly wrong, now in order to clear his name he has to rescue the president's daughter from a prison in space.yes thats right a prison in space. Simply known as MS-1, it is a super max prison where somehow the prisoners have broken out and are making demands...yadda yadda yadda and its up to a real one man army to save the presidents daughter all while clearing his name...oh and the space station is falling to earth. 

The story is pretty straight forward, get past all the psychos save the presidents daughter, and get out. This movie has this sense of 80's classic action movie by just having a tough guy in a insane situation and not having really anymore back story just throw them into this impossible situation and just keep it from being as realistic as possible. And that isn't really a bad thing with this movie, it really never takes itself to seriously, its like a rollercoaster and its a fun ride.

Now what about the acting, well every character is really what they are, Guy Pearce or "Snow" he is just a guy trying to clear his name do his thing and not really caring about anything else...the president daughter played by Maggie Grace is actually a really good action female, she kind of starts out as the annoying princess in the beginning but then she becomes a solid badass. Now the psychopaths are played by Joseph Gilgun who comes off like a attempt to make him seem like the joker, while Vincent Regan plays the criminal who is trying to get all the immates to escape. Now of course you have a few more interesting characters such as Peter Stormare who plays a bunch of Russian characters but not this time around he plays the head of secret service. Also you can't forget about Lennie James, who plays Snows intel control buddy who is trying to help Snow find out what exactly happened behind the scenes.

Also Guy Pearce is definitely making a come by in the movie industry, where has he been for like the last few years? And now he is coming back and doing all these great movies, Maggie Grace is finally breaking out of her little princesses roles and it would be nice to see her do more action movies like this. Guy Peace never really breaks his characters strong tough guy role ever and that totally works, even if half the shit he does in this movie is impossible...also here is a small clip of just how insane the dialogue with how they throw back to how relationships in action movie were enjoy...

Overall this movie was a trip back into action land, where the characters aren't meant to develop past their means, and the action and sense of realism isn't going to make any sense. This works for this type of movie because it was made on a low budget, but the special effects actually look kind of cheesey at times but yet it works for this movie. The action in this movie never gets dull, because one minute Snow is jumping from a space shuttle onto the prison, next he is poking someone in the eye to save their life...yeah I know doesn't make any sense...to making witty banter about college. This is a trip back into the great life of action movies, it never takes itself too seriously nor lets the movie ever get boring its focus is entertainment and fun.

Now who will enjoy this? Is it worth my 7 bucks, definitely, it has giant action scenes, laughs, ooooss and ahhhhs, this movie is a fun thrill ride that should be seen at least once. More than likely older generations who grew up with 80's and some 90's action movies will definitely enjoy this flick, but if you are looking for smart realistic action go somewhere else. This movie I highly liked and really enjoyed even if it was just a one time movie.

SCORE:8.0/10 

I like this trailer the best more than the american one

Asus Transformer Prime

The Asus Transformer Prime, is probably the warship of the android tablets right now, and probably one of the few tablets that stands up and even surprises the Ipad in terms of hardware. This tablet is a beast, it is powered by the Tegra 3 Quad core chip, yes I said it QUAD CORE. In addition it has a GIG of ram, and 32 gigs of space, with about 8 to 12 hours of battery life. Now what makes the prime different from other tablets, is that it can be turned into a netbook, it contains this keyboard attachment which doubles the battery life, adds 2 USB slots AND a SD card reader.

Now this is all pretty impressive, but how does the tablet actually preform. The tablet can definitely do some high end gaming. I bought a few games for it all for cheap, so far I have been playing oregon trail by gameloft, and shadowgun which by far is like gears of war 1 on the xbox.

Now this photo will tell you how powerful this tablet is, now what about the other stuff? I can easily have like 10 things open and switching between my calender, my email, my tweetdeck, youtube, and music and not experience slowdown.

This tablet suffers from a few common tablet problems, such as its a touch screen, its glass, its a fingerprint magnet. You might want to put on the orientation lock because you slightly angle it and bam it goes to horizontal or vertical depending on how you hold it. Also being android, it can run background processes but now its easy to kill them, just press the app button, and simply swipe them off, so easy and now you save system memory.

Now the real question is should you buy this tablet? If you aren't a apple person or you want something that has more to offer in terms of scope and meat, you might want to go with this, yes it doesn't have the billion games the ipad has, but still I feel that this is the overall better tablet especially since the hardware is good and the new android software is definitely something to be amazed about. Also what makes it a solid tablet is that it comes with expandable memory, and hdmi output, and the keyboard attachment.. Buy it if you can you will not be disappointed