This last week I was traveling, first to Eugene, OR to hang with my sister, then to Bremerton, WA to see my Parents and Grandparents.

I saw a couple of movies over the trip, “Ghost Rider” & “Hot Fuzz.” I enjoyed them both, although for much different reasons.

Ghost Rider

I paid $1.50 for this movie. And let me tell you, it was worth every penny.

First off, Nick Cage was actually pretty decent…although the young version of him really looked more like Rob Low…

The fights were extra lame, Ghostrider didn’t even really trade punches with the guys – he just whipped out his magic powers and destroyed them.

Eva Mendes took the cake. She looked super hot in every shot, but had the worst dialogue ever. I can’t really blame her, unless she add-libbed everything. Line after line brought uproarious laughter from my sister and I.

Hot Fuzz

I cannot recommend this movie enough. It is so smartly made and so funny.

The team that made ‘Shaun of the Dead’ takes the same approach to a cop movie. Homages, references, and parodies abound.

The characters, especially Nick Frost’s appears to have learned everything he knows about policing from watching Hollywood movies. Especially ‘Point Break’ and ‘Bad Boys II.’ He asks Simon Pegg’s character numerous questions like “have you ever shot two guns while flying thru the air?” and “have you ever shot a gun while in a high speed chase?” And then…all these things happen. It’s amazing. It’s like every guilty cop movie pleasure rolled into one, but in a smart way, so you feel a little less guilty about it.

See this movie. Support good cinema.

Oh, also the editing was super sweet.

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Here are some pics from my trip…

The Sisters

Teal’s view

cinema rules. ummm….yeah.

Chester!

Northern bound…

Puget Sound

Next week I’ll have another new video.

-Luke

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I just updated it with pictures and stories from my Alaska adventures.

The Real Luke came together for several reasons – the first being that I had a friend who had done something similar. I was pretty dang poor, and didn’t think I could get a Christmas present for her…so I decided to make something that showed her my “true life.”

My sister Teal and I went out in the woods and spent a few hours taking pics. Then I spent some time trying to find really bad bad websites. Eventually I found one that was just right by searching “Bubba + Hunter” then looking at images in a google image search….

After I built the site and showed it around, people started asking me – “why don’t you make a short film?” And I didn’t have a good reason not too – so the next time I was home, I convinced Teal to back into the woods with me. Heh, I think I told her it would only take an hour. Or maybe she said she could only help for an hour. Let’s just say we went into “Golden Time” but I didn’t get charged extra. I guess that’s one of the benefits of exploit…er I mean “hiring” relatives. Teal is the best!

I sat on the project for a while, then my friend Ray told me about a contest that the Discovery Channel was having. He said this would be a perfect take on Survivor Man. I watched the show and afterwards I wasn’t sure who was more ridiculous – me or him. But I had the form for my piece. I wrote the voice over and recorded in my apartment. Then I had my friend Rus score it. Rus has done numerous projects for me – ZMO, Drive to the Border, Coming To…he never fails to amaze me how he can produce whatever style & genre of music I ask for.

The project was done…or so I thought until I showed it to a girl that calls herself Ferrari. She suggested adding a “GettyImages” watermark to something that I had shot…it was a good idea.

And that was that…it was included on my Year in Review DVD – but this is the first public offering of the video.

The Real Luke Video

For a pretty quicktime of it, click here.

-Luke

*EDIT*

Thanks to Jeremy who was my assistant editor and split up all them clips for me.