Thursday, April 8, 2010

EX: Zombie / KidNap / CrossWalk

Horror spoof.

Couple driving along after a party. Perfect rainy night, twisted road horror scenerio. They crash, she dies. Comes back as a zombie. Chases him through the woods. Girlfriend violence porn.

We could go over the top and do it Versus (Ryuhei Kitamura) and Evil Dead 2, insane camera angles and wrestling like violence.

But something about the straight forward horror is cool. Just have to find an angle so it's not just a guy smashing his undead ex.

***

Voyeur still camera on a couple on a date. Drinks, dinner, walking home, a kiss, he walks off with a spring in his step.

Three guys in ski-masks throw a hood over his head, throw him in a van. All POV camera.

Tied to a chair, hood whipped off, hot bulb in a damp basement. Three guys, all his friends, beating him out of his senses, as he told them to do if he ever said he was in love again.

***

CrossWalk

Slow-mo music video, low rez camera, melodic to jazzy to metal transition.

Guy walking towards us, crosses the street, spies his ex walking towards him, holding hand with another guy. Close up and speeding up camera shots, her face, his face, their hands, up her body, her face, her eyes. She doesn't even make eye contact. He's smiling, smug, sunglasses hipster punk fuck. They pass in slo-motion, he might just do something, say something, but he stops himself and keeps walking.

He comes in close to the camera on the other side of the street. Over his shoulder in the background, they walk off and away. He looks off a moment, the music shifts, he whips his glasses off, turns and charges at them.

Far shot down the block. We see the guy running right side of the screen to left, real time, far off, comical.

POV as he comes up on the dude, his fist cocked. The guy turns and throws his fist at him.

Worm's eye view, our guys spits blood towards the camera on the ground as his head whips towards us, the other douche following through with his punch. She looks on without any pity. Shake of the head. Slight frown.

They walk off. His arm around her. She barely looks back. Same shot, just as they disappear, the guy picks his head up, blood streaming from his nose. He turns around to look at them. Over his shoulder we watch as she pushes herself away, the guy's arm falling to his side.

Close up of our guy bleeding and smiling.

***
I'm thinking we can shoot those as shorts and then fill in the other scenes when we get funding and make it like one long night of seeing his ex's across the city, talking with friends and getting their ex stories.

I really feel like this could be a project that'd find funding easy and be viral.

Def check out Four Eyed Monsters.

K

Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Project Notes

TenTon Anthology
Ten-In-One
the Bomb

Legend of Liquid Fury
Weekly blog.
Fix image sizes.
Updates.
Influences.
Asian Cinema.
Animation.

Sub*Text
www.subtextzine.com

Marvel Two-In-One
Strange Tales
Backups of upcoming characters
Reprint material
Paper Magazine style
Interview newsstands of NYC and what comics they carry
Price point: $1 weekly, $5 monthly

EX
Anthology film.
Linklater.
Re-enactments.
Oliver Stone.
Music Vids.
Bromance Torture Porn
Cross the Street

Write Club
www.wearewriteclub.com
www.whatclub.com
IndieClub.
Ken & Tom.
Kenny & Tommy.
Hipster.

Comic Club.
Jon & Brien.

Write Club.
Tim & Kurt.

Indie Club. Emily Wernet. Ray is Dead.
Nathan Schreiber Spotlight.
Comics & Beer.
Rocket Science.
Craig Blair. Film.
Music.

4.8
Dinner. Dancing. Drinking.

4.10-11
MoCCA. Bar crawl.

4.12
indie club.
MoCCA review.
Photos.
Funnies.
Comics & Beer.
Roxann.

4.15
Rocket Science.
4.16
Date.

4.22
Date.
4.23-4.25
Jose

4.29/30
Craig Blair

5.6
Christian/Long Island

5.13
Christian/Long Island

Band?

Monday, April 5, 2010

TenTon 10-in-One

Collaborative effort. Script, layout, pencils, inks, colors, letters. Showing our possibilities as a fully functioning comic production house.

Autobiographical "Jam" piece.
Comicbook Rockstar
Samurai creators
10 pager
All genres
Guest pinups from F.O.O.T.T. (Friends of Ol' TenTon)

Thursday, April 1, 2010

Strange Tales: Healing Hands of Shang-Chi & Outline

Peaceful hands, the final form, created by Shang-Chi, his soul evolved. He hides in Brooklyn, near the Navy Yards, rumored to fend off ancient attacks. He lays low, waiting for the great evil to arise, teaching innocents the ways of tai-chi, making them strong enough to survive what will come.

The Mandarin, rings forged in a single band, great arcane energy spilling forth as Fin Fang Foom rises from the depths. A monster movie from Brooklyn into Manhattan. Kung Fu can only do so much, but can the Intern of Dr. Strange really be the key?

Flowing 70's style, red flowing jacket, wife-beater underneath. Bruce Lee meet Jet Li by way of Chow Yun Fat as a buddhist healer, repenting his violent past and seeing the peace he can spread through the superhuman community. Rechannelling the energy that is manifesting in the bodies of these ordinary humans.

70's flashback. Ghost Rider ala CHIPs/Peter Fonda meets Knight Rider. Luke Cage. Young. Keeping it real. Jive turkey. Iron Fist, sideburns and bellbottoms, hippy disco. Dazzler. Misty Knight.

Present. Cold, damp, wood, training dummy in the dark. Fists turning into palms and smooth gestures, sliding across the wood, serenity flowing into his movements. Then sudden grip, vice-like fingertips, rips it into splinters. His past not that far behind.

Training the future. A half-brother. Guilt over Moving Shadow. Father dead and gone, only in his dead sons body. Younger, faster, undead diabolical madman, clutching at life as he decimates, murdering all who enter his path.

The kid is difficult, promising, gentle, abrasive, and sixty other kinds of human. Aligned with Chinese mythology, divine intervention, chosen tool of destiny. Picked for his utter uniqueness and perfectly simple nature. His sense of the spectacle and its total enjoyment of adventure.

He seemed like he would enjoy it the most.

Redeeming heroes, preaching peace, defusing situations with his mere presence. What new influence, spiritual power beeming from his person, brought upon this transformation? A hidden secret. Sacrifice to set things right. He left another world as it expanded up out of this dimension. A reality where life was Happily Ever After.

Their kids all lived, they live together, happily married and functional. No one died and came back. Life was good, death prevented at all costs, saving babies from burning buildings and superhero ideal.

Dean brings his friend along for a ride out into Clinton Hill. They chat at Square Root Diner, hit up DopeJams, walk by the BQE and arrive at Shang's temple. A surprise visit reveals Manny's destiny.

Expanding storylines. Everywhere Dean "Walks", a new story opens. Unfolding universes. Storybook popup pulp.

***

SHIELD, slick, his cousin. Unknown Joe gets caught up in spyworld. Define HYDRA.

STARK. Financial. Business. Connected.
RICHARDS. Science. The field. Academia.
NAMOR. Secretly an atlantean. Surfer. Cali.
INHUMAN. Otherwordly. Hot. Badass alternative.

Running errands for Strange, dropping off packages at Nelson & Murdock, a reminder of an appt with the Doctor. Meeting one on one with all superhumans. To have an open discussion of a coming event. The rise of an alternate reality that will peel off the current 616 universe, shedding yet evolving. Training a replacement doctor. Redeeming Son of Satan's kid.

All Daimon Hellstrom's idea. Son of Satan meanwhile does Strange's dirty work. Killing those that need killing, rising to power behind the scenes. Retaking Hell for his own. Making coherence and Unity from Marvel's Darkness. Mephisto. Satannish. Cytorrak. Hoary Hosts. Getting affairs in order for the afterlife.

Hellstrom stays behind in evil power to save his son, guarantee that he'll be the Sorceror Supreme of M2. Son of Satan the true supervillain on par with Doom, Mandarin, Namor, Osborne. Loki. That bastard would have to go.

Satanna. 70's flashback here?

Research M2 Universe.
Spider-Girl. J2. X23.
ShatterStar. Rictor.
Paradise Arcadia Nirvana.

Tony Stark. Bucky. Beta Ray Bill. Silver Surfer messenger.

***

Dean. Strange. Wong. Mordo. Clea. Dormmamu.
Fantastic Four. Shield. Avengers. Jarvis, butler.
Nelson & Murdock. Daily Bugle. Rick, photo editor.
Harlem. Heroes for Hire. Brooklyn. Shang-Chi.
Brooklyn heroes vs. Mandarin & Fin Fang Foom.
Real life. Apt. Roommate. Tea with the Doctor.
Night Nurse, check up. Son of Satan Strikes.
Road trip. Deliver something sensitive. LA.
West Coast Avengers. 80's. Washout. Heroic ideal.
Satanna. Satannish. Son of Satan. Son of Son of Satan.
Ghost Rider. Inferno. Hellride. Satan.
Mephisto. Blackheart. Heirarchy.
Silver Surfer. Rising from Hell back into NYC. To Moon.
Inhumans. Watcher. Thanos. Infinity Gauntlet.
Dormmamu & Dread Dimension.
Battle for all dark realms. Prince of Darkness. Son of Hellcat. Higher realm, nirvana alternate universe.
Mom & Dad. A reality where he lived. Happily Ever After.

Tower of Brahma - I Saw A Mountain - 62a (of 64)

Valhalla. The point where two opposing forces begin to seperate, water vapor eradication of eternity, one drop at a time, a shimmering sphere wall, ever expanding.

Charles Crown stands before the crack of all reality. A dividing of houses, life crumbles all about him, shifting rifts tearing itself apart.

Fuck, he sighs.

That's what it all meant. He's the one who first sees the bubble begin to burst. Nothing special, just happens to be him. No great destiny other than being first in line at the dotted line, the parting of two parallel dimensions, Strange savage arayan norweigan wolfgod, and myself.

The Spider sheds its skin, leaving behind a venomous grin, seeping with sinister lies. The weapon with which to kill the serpent. But first, escape.

Run for your lives boys, this chapter is at an end.

Sunday, March 28, 2010

Defenders

Defenders
Hulk
Silver Surfer
Dr. Strange
Namor

Redefine. 3 page pitch.

Dumb superhero
New age intellectual
Occult teacher
Mythological prince

Son of Satan. Valkyrie. Hellcat.
Gargoyle. Moondragon.

Betty Ross
Shala Bal
Clea


Undying Ones.
Yandroth
Dormmamu
Umar

Red Hulk
Terrax
Baron Mordo
Tiger Shark


Marvel Cosmos
Skaar, Daken, Franklin Richards, Bucky
Spider-Girl, Baby Cage, Henry

Zombies, Apes


Champions
Ghost Rider
Angel
Hercules
Namora
Iceman
Black Widow

West Coast Avengers
Drama, reality show, celebrity

Los Angeles
Stadium
Ocean

Public do-gooders

Invisible. Sue Storm. Dr. Doom. Namor. Silver Surfer. Mephisto.

Dr. Doom foiled. Watches Sue.
Mole Man, kids, business.
Negative Zone Day Alone.
Storm & She-Hulk. Emma Frost.
Haiti relief. Namor. Humanity. Air Water. Silver Surfer calls Sue to
cosmic level. Galactus.
Avengers Picnic.

Wasp.

Strange Tales
Dr. Strange, Hellcat, Son of Satan
Ghost Rider, Silver Surfer, Namor
Hulk

Mephisto, Satannish, Celestials, Watcher

SpeedBall
Howard the Duck
Spidey & DD
Sphinx

Slapstick
Civil War


Squirrel Girlfddddf

Sent from my iPod

Thursday, March 25, 2010

Marvel Two-In-One: Strange Tales

Madripoor
Peter Parker comes ashore. No need for pretense, costume, identity. A score to settle. Logan hurt her, crossed a line. Firestar? Old school. Bar fight. Switchblades. Tarantino.

Dean Walker, Intern of Dr. Strange
College student. Runs errands for multi-tasking Dr. Strange. He guides the universe's soul. Dean picks up the mail. From the infernal motorcycle ride through Hell, to soaring the waves of cosmic radiation. Into the maw of Mephisto burning with lies, out of the gaze of the eternal Watcher. Dormmamu's Dread Dimension lies all around the entire known reality, Mindless Ones carving through vibrational quantum states, swarming all about us. The Son of Son of Satan's power and status as True Lord of Hell commands respect, and perhaps defeat the Dread Dormmamu by claiming his father's trident. Whatever form he wants. Yo-yo. Hipster healer of humanity. Jazz poet beat alternative. Seeing Marvel through fresh eyes. Betrayed youth. Not from that reality.

A reality where Longshot & Dazzler's child grew up to become Shatterstar. Domino is the old lady assassin. May Parker, Spider-Girl. Daken. Skaar. M2.

Tales to Astonish
A Stark assassin. Long lost Stark brother. Teenage Stark. Fakes evidence, false history. Gets a job undercover for Stark. Makes Stark recruit him. Devious.

A military guy. A nobody from nowhere. Didn't talk much. Spoke when spoken to. SHIELD agent in training, given special clearance due to respect and honor of the chain of command and several acts of bravery. A hero.

Partnered up to scour the globe looking for Stark plants with hidden weapon caches. Scavengers, mercenaries, gun-runners and supervillains all looking for a piece of the action, a chance to get some serious firepower. Safer weapons used in violent hands.

The Rose. Kingpin. Connected. Patient. Ready to take advantage of a situation. 

Harry Osborn. Heir to a fortune, son of a madman.

Business. Military.

Tales of Suspense
Pym. Banner. Lawson?
Teenage genius with an application of Pym Particles & Gamma Radiation. It cures the Hulk, and allows complete control of the transformation. The thing they didn't count on was the theory that the Hulk itself is the ever expanding gamma bomb, threatening to destroy all reality. Oops. Get smart Lawson! Think your way out. Amadeus Cho. He knew that the brains of the Marvel Thinkers were its biggest threat. The hero that rises from them is what matters. The Hulk. Mr. Fantastic. Iron Man. Professor X. Ant-Man.
Science heroes.

Namor is will. Dr. Strange is spirit. Silver Surfer is energy. Black Bolt is harmonics. Spider-Man is totem science.