Thursday, September 23, 2010
Hurricane Earl: Watch The F*ck Out
A video I made a couple weeks ago, when Hurricane Earl was making empty threats to New England.
Also, you know my "Explosive Wink" video? Yeah, WheezyWaiter used it. (banjo face)
Friday, August 13, 2010
CarmoBlog #1
Yeah that's right. I do blogs too. (This is a Blogger site, mind you.) I guess "CarmoBlog" is one of my "things" now. What's that? I don't have a huge audience, so I can't have a "thing?" Well screw you, it's my website. Rebellion is awesome. WOLVERIIIIIINES!
Ever just find something laying around and go "wait, where the hell did that come from?" That happened to me earlier today. I was in my garage (or, more appropriately, "stuff warehouse") when I happened across a bin on the floor, and inside this bin was, among other things, a Nintendo 64 with a copy of "Super Mario 64." My immediate reaction was similar to that of a 6-year-old boy who receives a Nintendo 64 for Christmas: erupting into a deafening frenzy of joyous rage while his parents record it and put it on Youtube. (Has that ever happened before?) I dug around the bin some more and found, oddly enough, the innards of a PS2. Like, a regular PS2 with the top of the casing taken off, and you can see all the circuit boards and stuff inside. My reaction was similar to that of someone who was confused: confused. Pictures sometime soon, probably. Yeah.
Also, I just finished up my postcard project. It was sort of a last-minute summer project sort of thing before I start school at MassArt in the fall. That's right, I'm going to MassArt for a film/video degree. Know who else went to MassArt? The guy who made "Baman Piderman." Awesome face. Anyway, the assignment was to sum up what this coming semester meant to me, in the form of a work of art the size of a postcard (hence the name). Up until now, my schools basically valued curriculum over creativity, and as a result I never felt very creatively-engaged. I had ideas and inspiration, don't get me wrong, but my school environments weren't always supportive of that. In middle school, early fears of judgement plus not fitting in with either the popular kids or the not-so-popular kids equals "just get this over with, I'll be out of here soon." Because of this, it actually took me a little while in high school to get used to a school environment that was somewhat supportive of creativity, and there were so many opportunities that came my way that I wish I had in my sleepy little small town middle school, to the point where at my senior year I was socially what I could've been in middle school. So to go to an art school, a school that heavily encourages creativity, one that might as well have been constructed out of solid bricks of creativity, is a huge step in the right direction for me. Gone is everything that's ever held back my creative energy, gone are the days of "what will my classmates think of me," because now those classmates are people who think like me and possibly come from similar backgrounds. Now, if I need motivation, I'll just look around me. Let's roll. It's time to start. Rock concert movement number 7: making Blue Man Group jokes probably nobody will get. Ready, go. ...Oh yeah, pictures of the postcard will probably be up soon.
And finally, today was one of those days where I got nostalgic about the '90s. I don't know why, but for some reason I found myself typing "nickelodeon screen used props" into Google. (Hey, I'm sort of a movie geek, sometimes even in the way of props and costumes.) I was instantly reminded of something that happened in probably the early 2000's, where I alllmost got a hold of some real Nickelodeon props. I was watching an episode of "Slime Time Live," you know, that set of segments in between shows where they'd show Nicktoons and slime the crap out of people. It was right when "Jimmy Neutron" and "Fairly OddParents" were coming out, so it was an episode based on those two shows. They had people in the audience with Neutron wigs and OddParents wands, and I remember there was a sketch where one of the hosts had a prop hypno-beam thing. My let's-say-9-year-old brain saw all these props and thought "WAAAANT." So I hopped on the computer, found Dave Aizer's email address (he was one of the hosts), and emailed him asking pretty much "hey, can you send me over some of those props?" He actually replied, but I've since lost the email and I forget what he said, but I never did end up gettng those props. Sadface.
...You know, I've been kicking an idea around in my head to arrange a tour of the old Nick Studios building (well, the parts that aren't taken up by the Blue Man Group), film it, and post it on my channel. Maybe, if I get enough of an audience, and I can somehow manage to win another trip back down to Universal, that could happen someday. Let's see, shall we?
Ever just find something laying around and go "wait, where the hell did that come from?" That happened to me earlier today. I was in my garage (or, more appropriately, "stuff warehouse") when I happened across a bin on the floor, and inside this bin was, among other things, a Nintendo 64 with a copy of "Super Mario 64." My immediate reaction was similar to that of a 6-year-old boy who receives a Nintendo 64 for Christmas: erupting into a deafening frenzy of joyous rage while his parents record it and put it on Youtube. (Has that ever happened before?) I dug around the bin some more and found, oddly enough, the innards of a PS2. Like, a regular PS2 with the top of the casing taken off, and you can see all the circuit boards and stuff inside. My reaction was similar to that of someone who was confused: confused. Pictures sometime soon, probably. Yeah.
Also, I just finished up my postcard project. It was sort of a last-minute summer project sort of thing before I start school at MassArt in the fall. That's right, I'm going to MassArt for a film/video degree. Know who else went to MassArt? The guy who made "Baman Piderman." Awesome face. Anyway, the assignment was to sum up what this coming semester meant to me, in the form of a work of art the size of a postcard (hence the name). Up until now, my schools basically valued curriculum over creativity, and as a result I never felt very creatively-engaged. I had ideas and inspiration, don't get me wrong, but my school environments weren't always supportive of that. In middle school, early fears of judgement plus not fitting in with either the popular kids or the not-so-popular kids equals "just get this over with, I'll be out of here soon." Because of this, it actually took me a little while in high school to get used to a school environment that was somewhat supportive of creativity, and there were so many opportunities that came my way that I wish I had in my sleepy little small town middle school, to the point where at my senior year I was socially what I could've been in middle school. So to go to an art school, a school that heavily encourages creativity, one that might as well have been constructed out of solid bricks of creativity, is a huge step in the right direction for me. Gone is everything that's ever held back my creative energy, gone are the days of "what will my classmates think of me," because now those classmates are people who think like me and possibly come from similar backgrounds. Now, if I need motivation, I'll just look around me. Let's roll. It's time to start. Rock concert movement number 7: making Blue Man Group jokes probably nobody will get. Ready, go. ...Oh yeah, pictures of the postcard will probably be up soon.
And finally, today was one of those days where I got nostalgic about the '90s. I don't know why, but for some reason I found myself typing "nickelodeon screen used props" into Google. (Hey, I'm sort of a movie geek, sometimes even in the way of props and costumes.) I was instantly reminded of something that happened in probably the early 2000's, where I alllmost got a hold of some real Nickelodeon props. I was watching an episode of "Slime Time Live," you know, that set of segments in between shows where they'd show Nicktoons and slime the crap out of people. It was right when "Jimmy Neutron" and "Fairly OddParents" were coming out, so it was an episode based on those two shows. They had people in the audience with Neutron wigs and OddParents wands, and I remember there was a sketch where one of the hosts had a prop hypno-beam thing. My let's-say-9-year-old brain saw all these props and thought "WAAAANT." So I hopped on the computer, found Dave Aizer's email address (he was one of the hosts), and emailed him asking pretty much "hey, can you send me over some of those props?" He actually replied, but I've since lost the email and I forget what he said, but I never did end up gettng those props. Sadface.
...You know, I've been kicking an idea around in my head to arrange a tour of the old Nick Studios building (well, the parts that aren't taken up by the Blue Man Group), film it, and post it on my channel. Maybe, if I get enough of an audience, and I can somehow manage to win another trip back down to Universal, that could happen someday. Let's see, shall we?
Shaq's On The Celtics Now?
(Originally posted August 5, 2010 )
I find out that Shaquille O'Neal is playing for my friendly neighborhood Boston Celtics, and subsequently make sub-par references to movies he was in. Hilarious.
Afterthought: if "Shaq Vs." is still in production, could he have joined the Celtics as a stunt for the show?
I find out that Shaquille O'Neal is playing for my friendly neighborhood Boston Celtics, and subsequently make sub-par references to movies he was in. Hilarious.
Afterthought: if "Shaq Vs." is still in production, could he have joined the Celtics as a stunt for the show?
A Rather Explosive Wink for Wheezy Waiter
(Originally posted July 30, 2010)
If you watch Wheezy Waiter on Youtube, you'll know what this is about. If not, go watch his videos.
Wheezy Waiter's Youtube channel
Wheezy Waiter's website
It's Craigity-Craig... Craig with a wiiig! *ding*
If you watch Wheezy Waiter on Youtube, you'll know what this is about. If not, go watch his videos.
Wheezy Waiter's Youtube channel
Wheezy Waiter's website
It's Craigity-Craig... Craig with a wiiig! *ding*
The Skynyrd Concert
(Originally posted July 3, 2010)
I went to a Lynyrd Skynyrd concert a month or two ago at the Comcast Center, and my camera just so happened to be in my pocket at the time. Hijinks ensue.
I went to a Lynyrd Skynyrd concert a month or two ago at the Comcast Center, and my camera just so happened to be in my pocket at the time. Hijinks ensue.
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