https://mattkprovideo.com/2017/08/20/6th-street-alley-fight/
An oddly polite back alley boxing match / street fight on Aug 18, 2017. Some time after 3 am. I couldn’t tell if this was a “fight” or a semi friendly pugilistic bout.
They had a referee who got them to stop when he asked.
Shot with a Samsung Android S7 Phone and color corrected in Adobe After Effects and uploaded to YouTube.
https://mattkprovideo.com/2017/08/18/t-e-n-funding-motion-graphics/
Texas Entrepreneur Network (TEN) Funding Motion Graphics commercial made in Adobe Flash and Adobe After Effects, with a lot of Adobe Photoshop.
Kinetic Type Commercial made with Adobe Animate and Adobe After Effects.
The Texas Entrepreneur Networks (TEN) helps startups and growth companies raise funding from investors across the state of Texas.
Companies can raise between $5K and $50M using the TEN Funding Portal.
Once companies have raised their funding we provide ongoing support through additional services.
For Entrepreneurs: Why engage with us?
Often times, an entrepreneur doesn’t know where to start to find investment capital.
They don’t understand the process, what investors are looking for, nor how to find them.
We can show you the available funding options and help you decide which one is best for you.
We’re in Texas and we focus on Texas-based companies so we can meet and talk with you about your fund raise.
How does our program work?
TEN uses a funding as a service model in which you join the program for a monthly fee.
We help you prepare your company, your investor documents, and your campaign plan.
There are multiple sources of funding so you can choose the funding option that is best for your company.
In crowdfunding, the portal on which you post your deal is not as important as the network you engage and the campaign you run.
That is why we focus heavily on the campaign planning process.
We offer a complete fund raising program that can help any company raise from $5K to $50M.
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http://problog.weddingwire.com/index.php/education-expert/dos-and-donts-of-pricing/
Receiving a question about pricing can be daunting and tricky to navigate. On the bright side, receiving a price inquiry is a definite sign of interest and should be exciting! When a couple makes an inquiry regarding price, you should see it as a buying signal rather than a red flag. If they are reaching out, it means that they’ve vetted you and you’ve made it to the final round, so making an inquiry is simply the next step for them.
Education Expert Alan Berg shared some of his do’s and don’ts of pricing in our July Premium Webinar last week (Premium Members can watch the full recording in their account Education Center). We’ve pulled together a list of his best tips to help equip you for those often-dreaded pricing questions when they hit your inbox.
http://nofilmschool.com/2017/08/buying-camera-watch-first
Before you make that big camera purchase, Sareesh Sudhakaran (AKA Wolfcrow) has some cautionary advice. His most salient point: You don’t need a camera if you aren’t planning to make a movie immediately.
Still really want that camera? Only buy it if you have a detailed plan for how it can make you money.
Sudhakaran argues that, contrary to popular opinion, cameras are not really an investment. That’s because once you buy a camera, it loses value immediately.
“A camera has a certain time period after which it is no longer lucrative,” Sudhakaran says. “A camera today is only good for about two years. After two years, the manufacturer will release an upgrade or new model. By the third year, the camera starts to feel and look old. Clients won’t want it.”
Due to this certain depreciation in value, Sudhakaran says the worst thing you can do is purchase it on a credit card that charges interest. You’ll want to make your money back in two years; after two years, you can resell your camera at 40-50% of the original purchase price. And in the interim, you’re going to have to charge clients a premium to make that camera purchase financially worthwhile.
Sudhakaran also points out that camera-hungry newcomers don’t always understand hidden costs, such as maintenance, insurance, or travel permits.
So before you buy that shiny new gear, make sure you have a solid money-making plan and have done your due diligence about hidden costs.
https://mattkprovideo.com/2017/08/09/the-1967-plainfield-nj-riots/
The 1967 Plainfield, NJ Riots.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12329840
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967_Plainfield_riots
2 days after some Black folks began rioting in Newark in 1967, the riots in Plainfield NJ started.
Plainfield is 18 miles southwest of Newark, and 1/3 of Plainfield’s 48,000 people were Black.
Tensions remained high that summer through the night of Friday, July 14 when a fight broke out at a local diner, The White Star.
40 young black men left the diner and marched back to their housing project in the West End of Plfd.
Expressing their anger along the way by smashing store windows and tossing stones at cop cruisers. The group dispersed When the Plainfield police showed up.
On Saturday night trouble started again.
Lifetime Plainfield residents said that “outside agitators” from elsewhere came to provoke violence and to “rile up” the community.
Some of them were white males & some were blacks. The hate they provoked was infectious.
Looting increased & Molotov cocktails were hurled at fire trucks.
Cops from surrounding jurisdictions were called in and the rioters left as rain started early Sunday morning.
Several hundred on sunday people convened at a local park to hear the local Dir of Human Relns discuss the situation in the city.
Park Police, who had jurisdiction over the park, decided the meeting was unlawful and ordered the crowd to disperse.
The crowd broke up and reformed in West Plainfield where widespread rioting resumed.
the Pagan motorcycle gang entered the area and a confrontation between a group of young black men and the white Pagan gang was erupting.
Police Officer John Gleason got between the two groups and the Pagans left.
The remaining crowd of Plainfielders refused to disperse and Gleason became surrounded by the crowd which began to threaten him and close in on him.
Gleason feared for his life and fired a shot at a young man and wounded him.
When Gleason attempted to leave the area to get help, he was overtaken by a mob and was beaten with a steel grocery store cart, stomped and eventually brutally shot and killed with his own police pistol.
meanwhile in Middlesex New jersey, a gun factory was raided and 46 automatic weapons were stolen.
The Plainfield Machine Company produced M1 carbines for the civilian market.
The stolen rifles found their way onto the streets of Plainfield.
The cops were anxious because of the large number of guns now on the streets and the Plainfield Fire Department Station was under constant gunfire for five hours.
Bullet marks in the brick walls are still there. Finally,
Nj Army National Guardsmen, in armored personnel carriers relieved the station.
The Plainfield cops tried to have residents turn in the stolen rifles.
Black residents felt that having the guns in the community kept the police at bay and that they now had power over the police.
When none of the stolen guns were returned, the area was cordoned off and 300 heavily armed New Jersey State Police and National Guardsmen started a house-to-house search for the stolen weapons.
After an hr 1/2, with 66 homes searched, the operation was called off.
Plainfield New Jersey declined from the stigma of the riots and many of the looted/ burned looted businesses remained vacant for over four decades.
After leaving, since the owners didn’t want to live there anymore but couldn’t sell, they sometimes let them go derelict.
https://mattkprovideo.com/2017/07/29/walter-arelis-wedding-video/
Walter Ulloa & Areli Hernandez got married at Chapel Dulcinea in Austin, Texas on July 27, 2017. 7:pm.
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Walter Ulloa y Areli Hernandez se casaron en Chapel Dulcinea en Austin, Texas, el 27 de julio de 2017. 7: pm.
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https://mattkprovideo.wordpress.com/2017/07/25/the-scandal-behind-you-light-up-my-life/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Light_Up_My_Life_(song)
If you lived through the 70’s, you heard the Debbie Boone song “You Light Up My Life,” a thousand times. Some conservatives would have you think all music, our entire culture in fact, was “clean” in the 40s then Satan Elvis started dirtying it up and it got progressively worse throughout the late 60s and seventies. But theres all kinds of people and many want alternatives- G rated fare has never gone away.
Sick of it or not, this uplifting G rated positive song was the soundtrack of the 70s.
But theres a few not so G-Rated, not so uplifting, stories behind this song. Not about Debbie Boone, but about the guy who wrote it.
He was a thief and a serial rapist.
After being a successful advertising jingle writer ( a lot like Barry Manilow) Joseph Brooks came up with the idea for a movie and song.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Brooks_(songwriter)
he romantic drama about an aspiring singer, starring Didi Conn, became a box office success despite poor reviews.[2][4][14] The title song Brooks composed for the film was an even bigger success; a cover version by Debby Boone reached #1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart and held the top position for 10 consecutive weeks, at that time the longest Number One reign in the chart’s history.[15] With sales of over five million copies,[16] the song ultimately became the biggest hit of the 1970s,[17] and earned Brooks a Grammy Award for Song of the Year, an Academy Award for Best Original Song, a Golden Globe Award and an American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) award.[18]
In a 2013 biographical essay about Cisyk,[2] Cisyk’s second husband, Ed Rakowicz (who worked as a sound engineer, but not for this song), wrote that songwriter Brooks was initially pleased with Cisyk’s recording of the song with orchestra (and her version appeared in the movie and soundtrack) but “tried to evade payment by false promises and by asking her to be an incidental actor in his film, implying huge rewards yet to come…”[2] Rackowicz claimed that Brooks made improper advances toward Cisyk, and after being rebuffed, didn’t speak directly to her again, and continued to evade payments to her while commissioning another recording with Debby Boone. According to Rackowicz, “Besides wanting Boone to copy Kacey’s [sic][3] iconic hit reading of his songs, Brooks needed to cover up Kacey’s vocal leakage in the microphones in the piano recorded at the original demo session on which was overdubbed the orchestral track used in the film. Brooks didn’t want to pay to re-record the piano and orchestra again.”[2] In a 2003 interview with Entertainment Weekly, Boone said, “I had no freedom whatsoever. Joe told me exactly how to sing it and imitate every inflection from the original recording.”[4] Cisyk later retained a lawyer and sued Brooks for the fees she earned for her work on the record and for credit on the soundtrack, which she later received.[2]
In 2009, Brooks became the subject of an investigation after being accused of a series of casting-couch rapes.[5] He was indicted in May 2009 by the state Supreme Court for Manhattan (a trial-level court) on 91 counts of rape, sexual abuse, criminal sexual act, assault, and other charges. While awaiting trial, Brooks killed himself in May 2011.[6]
In June 2009, Brooks was arrested on charges of raping or sexually assaulting eleven women lured to his East Side apartment from 2005 to 2008. His female assistant, Shawni Lucier, was charged with helping him.[24] At least four of the women accused him of sexual assault. He allegedly lured the women to his apartment to audition for movie roles.[25] According to Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau, the women responded to a notice that Brooks had posted on Craigslist seeking attractive women to star in movie roles, and flew to New York from Pacific Coast states or Florida, usually at Brooks’ expense.[26]
He was indicted on June 23, 2009. He was to be tried in the state Supreme Court for Manhattan (a trial-level court) on 91 counts of rape, sexual abuse, criminal sexual act, assault, and other charges.[26] In December 2009, prosecutors indicated that they would ask the grand jury to consider adding even more charges, in part because “additional victims” had come forward.[27] However, Brooks died on May 22, 2011, before he could be tried.
Three days after Brooks’ death, Shawni Lucier pleaded guilty to ten counts of criminal facilitation.[28]
The original, lesser known version of the 70s song:
http://nypost.com/2011/06/23/joseph-brooks-leaves-250k-to-personal-trainer-nothing-to-four-kids/
https://mattkprovideo.com/2017/07/25/birthday-party-video/
I was hired to make a video of this mans’ 70th birthday. At one point, one of his relatives, a Christian comedian, performed his character ” Reverend Rail.”
Shot with a Canon T3i DSLR camera at 23fps, a Canon G20 Camcorder and edited with Adobe Premiere.
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https://mattkprovideo.wordpress.com/2017/07/17/rip-george-a-romero
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-me-george-romero-20170716-story.html
George A. Romero, ‘Night of the Living Dead’ Director, Dies at 77
George A. Romero, who launched the zombie film genre with his 1968 “Night of the Living Dead,” died on Sunday, Variety has confirmed. He was 77.
The director died in his sleep following a battle with lung cancer, according to a statement from his manager Chris Roe.
“Legendary filmmaker George A. Romero passed away on Sunday July 16, listening to the score of ‘The Quiet Man,’ one of his all-time favorite films, with his wife, Suzanne Desrocher Romero, and daughter, Tina Romero at his side,” the statement said. “He died peacefully in his sleep, following a brief but aggressive battle with lung cancer, and leaves behind a loving family, many friends, and a filmmaking legacy that has endured, and will continue to endure, the test of time.”
Made in Pittsburgh on a budget of $114,000, “Night of the Living Dead” made $30 million and became a cult classic. Romero’s friends and associates in his Image Ten production company pooled their funds to make the film. Influenced by Richard Matheson’s novel “I Am Legend,” the black and white film about a group of people trapped in a Pennsylvania farmhouse who fall prey to a horde of the undead was said to be a critique of capitalism during the counter-culture era.
After “Night of the Living Dead,” he directed films including “There’s Always Vanilla,” “Season of the Witch,” and “The Crazies,” although none had the impact of his first film. His 1977 vampire arthouse pic “Martin” was somewhat more well-received.
He went back to zombies with “Dawn of the Dead,” which made more than $55 million on a half a million dollar budget, then made his third Dead movie with “Day of the Dead” in 1985.
His non-zombie films of that period gained more attention, including “Knightridgers” about jousters who re-enact tournaments on motorcycles and the anthology “Creepshow” written by Stephen King.
Among his other films from the 1980s and 1990s were “Monkey Shines,” Edgar Allen Poe adaptation “Two Evil Eyes,” in collaboration with Dario Argento, “The Dark Half’ and “Bruiser.”
He exec produced and updated his own screenplay for Tom Savini’s 1990 remake of “Night of the Living Dead.” He made a cameo appearance in “The Silence of the Lambs.” Romero was originally set to direct “Resident Evil,” but left the project due to creative differences.
His fourth Dead movie “Land of the Dead” was made in Toronto in 2005, starring Simon Baker, Dennis Hopper, Asia Argento and John Leguizamo.
He followed that with “Diary of the Dead” in 2008 and “Survival of the Dead” in 2010. He also worked on video games and wrote comic books.
Born in the Bronx, Romero’s father was Cuban and his mother Lithuanian. He graduated Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, then began shooting shorts and commercials, including a segment of “Mr. Rogers Neighborhood.”
He is survived by his wife Suzanne and two children.
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