So my dear dead, not alive friends... Have you all enjoyed the night of the Dead? The night when the veil between worlds is so thin, we, who are beyond the lands of the living, can return for one night... Our night.

A night too where the living hide behind masks so we would not know them... So we would not find whom we seek...

Regretfully I could not, even in my undead form, cross the lands and oceans separating me from the Dead not Alive party but I found a worthy substitute...

When still alive, during the day of the 31st, I was in Holland for a short viral for 'ChildsLife'. It was a good day and the filming went great. We wrapped up early eager to drop our disguises and reveal our true nature at 'the Mijehof Nightmare'...




Preparations were made



Pumpkins slaughtered and gutted and carved into horrible, twisted faces


We showed them no mercy.

The room, decorated til it appeased our morbid taste


The Supreme art of Made-up was wrought and applied by the Great Ilse


We owe her much. A great shame indeed it was she could not stay...



And then, as the light started to hurt our eyes, we killed it and plunged ourselves and the world around us into darkness... lighting fires along our path...





Then, as so many worthy undead couldn't make it on very short notice, we amused ourselves and ... yess... picturetime!





You'll see a pattern ... Candles are involved... (cause cameras don't take kindly to no light at all... and I shouldn't think that black is really all that interesting)



May I have the honour of introducing to you, our immortal lady host...
She takes pride in only inviting only the most succulant meat.


And the lord and Lady responsible for this nightmare...



And here once more the great pair...


The not so honerable Rik as the villan from 'Life is an Art' going only slightly insane



He was in good company ;)

and got to kill a few innocents. (Again.)


But the house was haunted... in greeeeeen...


And when Neely was sated


I helped myself to a bite of my own


hehehe



Then, as the night progressed, the skeletons crawled out of the closet


Of course, undaunted we, undead of our own devising, tackled it




And as the night progressed ...

More strangers came knockig and Even Nixon dropped by for a publicity stunt




And Nixon's offspring...


Also there was Singing... No, really. Give these two 'Tenacious D' and you'll wish for the night to never end...



Unfortunately, I was far too enwraptured to make many pictures and ... they're no good without sound anyways... If you're very lucky, a fragment of simmilar folly might end up on the dvd of Life is an Art, but I shouldn't think so XD

So as the night progressed into the early hours, things cheered up slightly so




Untill everyone went home just before the sun rose and things got quiet once more...



The theme of the night, as you might or might not have guessed was movies.
And it was AWESOME!

hope you enjoyed our crazyness! We know we did!

 And yes, I am referring, not to my very long absense, but to Samhain night tomorrow.

Let's all have a BLAST and take many pictures to share *mad grin*

"Even if something is left undone, everyone must take time to sit still and watch the leaves turn."
-   Elizabeth Lawrence

Video: http://www.vimeo.com/6168834

And some random teasing for the official making off to come

Video: http://www.vimeo.com/5793358

The latest project I've been working on Final Move was a very daring and challenging short about a post apocalyptic world where a demon took over after he escaped from the game he'd been imprisoned to.

The story begins anew when one of the survivors of the initial game sets out to finish it and undo the harm that came onto the world, aided by some unlikely friends he meets along the way.

This project was great. It combined a great story with a great group of people with a vision and drive and I think the outcome might well be a fantastic one!



Here are some screen shots (no grading yet, this is just the images how they were recorded with the filters used.






Notice Cela in the background!!
















Cela as 'the guardian'






Of the crew there are some people you might remember from previous projects of mine:

Yveline, who saved my sanity material-wise on Reiki and who makes one of the very best camera assistants I know


The director/cameraman who's on AnD as well (He and Yvi wrote the script together, if I'm correct and Team Awesome they make!)
This btw, was day four and he was getting ... edgy... pictures of him over the next few days are not for sensitive viewers and thus shall not be shown on the internet. (Only on the special edition of the DVD lol)

Meet Arne... if you dare

Great Annelien! Who came to help us out once again! She assisted in both Reiki and Life is an Art and continues to rock our socks


Rik co-produced Final Move and teams up for the occasion with Natasha Henri as battle-prone slaves.
Kick-ass!


Last but not least we have Mat Kemp, our wonderful sound engineer whom we were so lucky to steal away

He's still not sure what that thing does, but who cares! first met on Life is an Art, I tackled him and napped him to Belgium to help us out.


And Crane! Horray!

truely a behind the scenes shot ;)

ok, at this point I have to leave for work once again... Studio show (belgian version of 'hole in the wall', format brought to us from Japan, apparently ;)

Next week I'll be in holland assisting the camera department on a shortfilm.
I'll tell you everything when I get back!

take care!!

the absent

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