I played street hockey with sydney crosby growing up in cole harbour, also I stole is textbook in grade 8 that he had signed and dated but my mom threw it out. I planned on selling it for big bucks.
Ole' Sid spent his high school days down here in southern Minnesota. Not near me unfortunately.
I played street hockey with sydney crosby growing up in cole harbour, also I stole is textbook in grade 8 that he had signed and dated but my mom threw it out. I planned on selling it for big bucks.
Ole' Sid spent his high school days down here in southern Minnesota. Not near me unfortunately.
Grade 8 is actually junior high school here.
Didn't realize he was an 8th grader when he was here. That's junior high for us too.
Don't know much about Shattuck, they aren't in the MSHSL so it's hard to care about them.
I was in a GWAR movie. (I played a bunch of costumed characters)
Also, Dave Brockie (Oderus Urungus) loaned me his police costume for a project I was making for school in exchange for a bag of dog food.
Which movie!?! My friends and I would watch GWAR movies in high school all the time.
Probably their worst one, "It's Sleazy!"
Hahaha! I love it! It's Sleazy was want my favorite, but still worth a watch (or ten). That's really cool.
You can find it on youtube if you're curious. I played different audience member characters: a cop sitting in the front row, one of Cardinal Synn's synnite's, in other scenes as a mailman who gets strangled by Crankenstein, Monica Lewinski. I was also helping behind the scenes at the rock quary and at the park when they filmed the slaves get ground up. My biggest contribution was finding them one of the It's Sleazy girls, after the original girl flaked out.
Someone was asking me about this today, so I took a few screengrabs:
I was on set for one day and it was a terrible experience. I was an extra so far in the background, you can barely tell I'm a human being. They should have just used CG. There was so much waste, it was insane. Wasted time, energy, natural gas burning just to create smoke from buildings. Could have easily been done by CG. Wasted takes because the director added things, took them away, added them again. So much for the 11th hour, Leo.
It was a huge waste of time and I got crazy sick for standing outside in -8 weather for 12 hours.
I was on set for one day and it was a terrible experience. I was an extra so far in the background, you can barely tell I'm a human being. They should have just used CG. There was so much waste, it was insane. Wasted time, energy, natural gas burning just to create smoke from buildings. Could have easily been done by CG. Wasted takes because the director added things, took them away, added them again. So much for the 11th hour, Leo.
It was a huge waste of time and I got crazy sick for standing outside in -8 weather for 12 hours.
I was on set for one day and it was a terrible experience. I was an extra so far in the background, you can barely tell I'm a human being. They should have just used CG. There was so much waste, it was insane. Wasted time, energy, natural gas burning just to create smoke from buildings. Could have easily been done by CG. Wasted takes because the director added things, took them away, added them again. So much for the 11th hour, Leo.
It was a huge waste of time and I got crazy sick for standing outside in -8 weather for 12 hours.
That is still pretty cool!
Im sure there was plenty of wasted time and money. But reality is most of the time, doing things in Post or with "CG" is very expensive as well. So to pay people $50 a day or whatever it is now to be an extra, is sometimes cheaper than having a team of visual effect artists working on millions of dollars worth of gear (with insane billing rates) to put in what people think would be easily done in post. Then again it is hard to put a number or have any metrics to determine which route would be cheaper, but most of the time when it comes to simple things like adding people or smoke, it is cheaper than being done in the edit bay.
I was on set for one day and it was a terrible experience. I was an extra so far in the background, you can barely tell I'm a human being. They should have just used CG. There was so much waste, it was insane. Wasted time, energy, natural gas burning just to create smoke from buildings. Could have easily been done by CG. Wasted takes because the director added things, took them away, added them again. So much for the 11th hour, Leo.
It was a huge waste of time and I got crazy sick for standing outside in -8 weather for 12 hours.
I don't believe it.
Haha, I knew it. It's too glorious of a story to believe.
I was treated like shit and got dirt make-up on my face and hair. And I was 100ft from the camera. Very necessary. Now you believe me?
Originally posted by: Retrovision
That is still pretty cool!
Im sure there was plenty of wasted time and money. But reality is most of the time, doing things in Post or with "CG" is very expensive as well. So to pay people $50 a day or whatever it is now to be an extra, is sometimes cheaper than having a team of visual effect artists working on millions of dollars worth of gear (with insane billing rates) to put in what people think would be easily done in post. Then again it is hard to put a number or have any metrics to determine which route would be cheaper, but most of the time when it comes to simple things like adding people or smoke, it is cheaper than being done in the edit bay.
Meh, it would have been cooler if it wasn't freezing and I didn't get sick.
The actual process was very annoying, though. I understand that they have to get "the perfect shot", but it was a painful process t obe involved in.
If they can make a CG bear fight, I'm sure they could have added a little smoke to chimneys. Leo made a whole damn movie about not wasting natural resources! i'm sure it would have been more ecologically friendly to add them in post. We're talking minimal amounts of smoke from 4-5 buildings here, as opposed to having propane tanks burning 12 hours straight, JUST to create smoke.
Not sure if it would be considered appropriate about "something stupid that no one believed you about" such thing but in 1997 I was visiting my grandmother in Crimea (Ukraine back then, Russia now). The guy with whom I hang out at that time lived above my grandma on 5th level condo building. We were being stupid and were running from one level to another playing "you it" or something. It was about 6pm, I was running out from exit of the complex (to fool my friend that I am still in the building) when a strong hand grabbed me by my t-shirt and pulled into the hall. The guy had a knife in his hand and his face was very visible (I still remember to this day very clearly). He was very drunk and put his knife to my throat saying "Do you know that I am stupid? If you won't shut up I will kill! I will kill your if you won't shut up". I think he was referring to that I was being very loud with my friend. When my friend was running down and calling my name, the guy quickly let my t-shirt go and left the building in a hurry. I didn't tell my grandma or anyone about what happened besides my friend but I surely almost shit my pants. At around 2009 I watched TV show (I was already living US) but it was a documentary that I saw in Russian about some killers. There was one guy with a nickname "Tkach" who was caught in 2005. He killed over 40 young woman/girls before he got caught. When they showed his picture I couldn't believe my eyes because that guy was who pulled a knife to my throat. I thought to myself what I if I told to my parents or grandma about what happened to me, would they do anything about it? Like call police and then police try to find him by my description? May be some of those victims would never faced that horrible fate...but I was young and dumb, and I doubt my relatives would've paid attention to it, or police would've got serious about it.
Whoa man that's crazy!
And I wouldn't think that way either.
Had you told your grandma about it they police likely would have just filed a report - did a quick search and went back to business as usual.
It seems you were extremely lucky to actually (and literally) escape the clutches of a killer.
We are all thankful for that.
Came here to say the same. What a crazy and terrifying story!
I'm in a similar boat, OP. I'm 21...with a full beard and I'm around 6 feet 3 inches tall. All my coworkers thought I was 27 or 28 years old. Lol no belives how young I am.
My grandfather once said that he was in a swim meet with JFK. My grandfather grew up in Boston so the location and the math works considering he was 2 years younger than JFK. I believe he said it was JFK's college team swam against his high school team. I'm not sure anyone else in the family believed him, but I still do. Writing this post I had to look up JFK's birth year because I thought he was younger than my grandfather and started to question it. But with 1917 for JFK and January 26, 1919 for my grandfather it makes his story work even more.
Melissa McBride plays Carol in The Walking Dead. For years, she had an apartment in the same building as mine while in town to film the show. Her Bassett hound was named "Lincoln" (named for the actor that plays Rick Grimes). My sister looks similar to the Carol character and was asked more than once for an autograph
Country music legend Gordon Lightfoot is my cousin.
I don't know who that is but I don't think I knew that.
He's a big name in country music from before our generation, he did songs like "If You Could Read My Mind" and "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald". But yeah, my grandmother's side of the family are the Lightfoots. He's been to family events and everything but I've never bothered to meet him, I'm 35 and he's around 80, we don't share much common ground to socialize about lol.
It was New Years eve and I was downtown Vancouver at a friends apt and there was about 4-5 of us on his balcony on something like the 20th floor having a new years blunt and all of a sudden for about 3 seconds the whole sky turned green. I don't mean like the clouds lit up green from fire works, it was literally like if God flipped the wrong switch for a second and was like oh shit. The whole sky was bright green and evenly bright everywhere, it didn't fade in any direction. We all just stopped with eyes wide open and looked at each other and for the rest of the night we tried to reasonably figure out what it could have been with no good answer. Other than the people that were there no one else seems to have witnessed this, we weren't completely obliterated or anything just some casual drinks and smoke and nothing else. No one ever believes me.
It was New Years eve and I was downtown Vancouver at a friends apt and there was about 4-5 of us on his balcony on something like the 20th floor having a new years blunt and all of a sudden for about 3 seconds the whole sky turned green. I don't mean like the clouds lit up green from fire works, it was literally like if God flipped the wrong switch for a second and was like oh shit. The whole sky was bright green and evenly bright everywhere, it didn't fade in any direction. We all just stopped with eyes wide open and looked at each other and for the rest of the night we tried to reasonably figure out what it could have been with no good answer. Other than the people that were there no one else seems to have witnessed this, we weren't completely obliterated or anything just some casual drinks and smoke and nothing else. No one ever believes me.
I won't tell the story about it here since if someone told me, I wouldn't believe them, but did Warren or Matt ever tell you about the cloud formations over the field at the Gathering that one year? I think you were off getting a fuckin' turkey leg or something at the time. This was the year that moonshine almost killed me.
It was New Years eve and I was downtown Vancouver at a friends apt and there was about 4-5 of us on his balcony on something like the 20th floor having a new years blunt and all of a sudden for about 3 seconds the whole sky turned green. I don't mean like the clouds lit up green from fire works, it was literally like if God flipped the wrong switch for a second and was like oh shit. The whole sky was bright green and evenly bright everywhere, it didn't fade in any direction. We all just stopped with eyes wide open and looked at each other and for the rest of the night we tried to reasonably figure out what it could have been with no good answer. Other than the people that were there no one else seems to have witnessed this, we weren't completely obliterated or anything just some casual drinks and smoke and nothing else. No one ever believes me.
I won't tell the story about it here since if someone told me, I wouldn't believe them, but did Warren or Matt ever tell you about the cloud formations over the field at the Gathering that one year? I think you were off getting a fuckin' turkey leg or something at the time. This was the year that moonshine almost killed me.
YES! I forgot about that. Long story short for the readers, Gathering of the Juggalos and a straight up pentagram formed in the sky above in clouds. I was able to see the remnants as the clouds moved but that was fucked and unfortunately very unbelievable, but it happened!!!
Also, I was like in 9th grade and was chilling on the couch watching tv late as there was no school, the lights were off and I had the balcony door open. I start noticing what at first I thought were satellites or those weird eye floaties you see in your eyes. The more I watched the more I was clear that it was UFO's. They would make crazy fly patterns and disappear, they would change colors in groups and make strange formations. The problem was they were soooo far away that at times you had to look beside it to see it. I actually was so freaked out that I woke up my dad and he tried to look but he couldn't see where I meant as it was so far, he just asked me what I was smoking and went back to bed. I was legit scared that they knew I was watching and were coming to get us and he was like Sweet I'd like to meet them, but I was still scarred from Fire in the sky. No one ever believed me but I saw some crazy stuff in the sky.
It was New Years eve and I was downtown Vancouver at a friends apt and there was about 4-5 of us on his balcony on something like the 20th floor having a new years blunt and all of a sudden for about 3 seconds the whole sky turned green. I don't mean like the clouds lit up green from fire works, it was literally like if God flipped the wrong switch for a second and was like oh shit. The whole sky was bright green and evenly bright everywhere, it didn't fade in any direction. We all just stopped with eyes wide open and looked at each other and for the rest of the night we tried to reasonably figure out what it could have been with no good answer. Other than the people that were there no one else seems to have witnessed this, we weren't completely obliterated or anything just some casual drinks and smoke and nothing else. No one ever believes me.
I won't tell the story about it here since if someone told me, I wouldn't believe them, but did Warren or Matt ever tell you about the cloud formations over the field at the Gathering that one year? I think you were off getting a fuckin' turkey leg or something at the time. This was the year that moonshine almost killed me.
YES! I forgot about that. Long story short for the readers, Gathering of the Juggalos and a straight up pentagram formed in the sky above in clouds. I was able to see the remnants as the clouds moved but that was fucked and unfortunately very unbelievable, but it happened!!!
Yeah at one point there was like 10 of us just standing there looking at it , all just saying "You're a witness to this too, right? We're all here looking at the same thing, right?" to each other. Warren was losing his damn mind yelling for everyone standing around to look. I'm not saying it was put there by a mystical warlock, but it was way too in the middle of actual butt-stuff nowhere for an overhead plane to just inconspicuously do the world's most accurate skywriting over the campground without anyone noticing, so it was put there through some at least very-cool means. But yeah, total 5-point pentagram. Not like, "oh hey that kinda sorta looks like a pentagram, see?", more like "whoa look at that fucking pentagram!" but yeah this was in the early 2000's where cell phone cams were still pretty baller and nobody had one in-pocket at the time
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I played street hockey with sydney crosby growing up in cole harbour, also I stole is textbook in grade 8 that he had signed and dated but my mom threw it out. I planned on selling it for big bucks.
Ole' Sid spent his high school days down here in southern Minnesota. Not near me unfortunately.
Grade 8 is actually junior high school here.
I played street hockey with sydney crosby growing up in cole harbour, also I stole is textbook in grade 8 that he had signed and dated but my mom threw it out. I planned on selling it for big bucks.
Ole' Sid spent his high school days down here in southern Minnesota. Not near me unfortunately.
Grade 8 is actually junior high school here.
Didn't realize he was an 8th grader when he was here. That's junior high for us too.
Don't know much about Shattuck, they aren't in the MSHSL so it's hard to care about them.
I was in a GWAR movie. (I played a bunch of costumed characters)
Also, Dave Brockie (Oderus Urungus) loaned me his police costume for a project I was making for school in exchange for a bag of dog food.
Which movie!?! My friends and I would watch GWAR movies in high school all the time.
Probably their worst one, "It's Sleazy!"
Hahaha! I love it! It's Sleazy was want my favorite, but still worth a watch (or ten). That's really cool.
You can find it on youtube if you're curious. I played different audience member characters: a cop sitting in the front row, one of Cardinal Synn's synnite's, in other scenes as a mailman who gets strangled by Crankenstein, Monica Lewinski. I was also helping behind the scenes at the rock quary and at the park when they filmed the slaves get ground up. My biggest contribution was finding them one of the It's Sleazy girls, after the original girl flaked out.
Someone was asking me about this today, so I took a few screengrabs:
I didn't even know GWAR did movies. That's interesting.
Their first (and arguably best) movie, Phallus in Wonderland, was nominated for a Grammy.
I was on set for one day and it was a terrible experience. I was an extra so far in the background, you can barely tell I'm a human being. They should have just used CG. There was so much waste, it was insane. Wasted time, energy, natural gas burning just to create smoke from buildings. Could have easily been done by CG. Wasted takes because the director added things, took them away, added them again. So much for the 11th hour, Leo.
It was a huge waste of time and I got crazy sick for standing outside in -8 weather for 12 hours.
I was in The Revenant.
I was on set for one day and it was a terrible experience. I was an extra so far in the background, you can barely tell I'm a human being. They should have just used CG. There was so much waste, it was insane. Wasted time, energy, natural gas burning just to create smoke from buildings. Could have easily been done by CG. Wasted takes because the director added things, took them away, added them again. So much for the 11th hour, Leo.
It was a huge waste of time and I got crazy sick for standing outside in -8 weather for 12 hours.
I don't believe it.
Originally posted by: AirVillain
I was in The Revenant.
I was on set for one day and it was a terrible experience. I was an extra so far in the background, you can barely tell I'm a human being. They should have just used CG. There was so much waste, it was insane. Wasted time, energy, natural gas burning just to create smoke from buildings. Could have easily been done by CG. Wasted takes because the director added things, took them away, added them again. So much for the 11th hour, Leo.
It was a huge waste of time and I got crazy sick for standing outside in -8 weather for 12 hours.
That is still pretty cool!
Im sure there was plenty of wasted time and money. But reality is most of the time, doing things in Post or with "CG" is very expensive as well. So to pay people $50 a day or whatever it is now to be an extra, is sometimes cheaper than having a team of visual effect artists working on millions of dollars worth of gear (with insane billing rates) to put in what people think would be easily done in post. Then again it is hard to put a number or have any metrics to determine which route would be cheaper, but most of the time when it comes to simple things like adding people or smoke, it is cheaper than being done in the edit bay.
I was in The Revenant.
I was on set for one day and it was a terrible experience. I was an extra so far in the background, you can barely tell I'm a human being. They should have just used CG. There was so much waste, it was insane. Wasted time, energy, natural gas burning just to create smoke from buildings. Could have easily been done by CG. Wasted takes because the director added things, took them away, added them again. So much for the 11th hour, Leo.
It was a huge waste of time and I got crazy sick for standing outside in -8 weather for 12 hours.
I don't believe it.
Haha, I knew it. It's too glorious of a story to believe.
I was treated like shit and got dirt make-up on my face and hair. And I was 100ft from the camera. Very necessary. Now you believe me?
That is still pretty cool!
Im sure there was plenty of wasted time and money. But reality is most of the time, doing things in Post or with "CG" is very expensive as well. So to pay people $50 a day or whatever it is now to be an extra, is sometimes cheaper than having a team of visual effect artists working on millions of dollars worth of gear (with insane billing rates) to put in what people think would be easily done in post. Then again it is hard to put a number or have any metrics to determine which route would be cheaper, but most of the time when it comes to simple things like adding people or smoke, it is cheaper than being done in the edit bay.
Meh, it would have been cooler if it wasn't freezing and I didn't get sick.
The actual process was very annoying, though. I understand that they have to get "the perfect shot", but it was a painful process t obe involved in.
If they can make a CG bear fight, I'm sure they could have added a little smoke to chimneys. Leo made a whole damn movie about not wasting natural resources! i'm sure it would have been more ecologically friendly to add them in post. We're talking minimal amounts of smoke from 4-5 buildings here, as opposed to having propane tanks burning 12 hours straight, JUST to create smoke.
Not sure if it would be considered appropriate about "something stupid that no one believed you about" such thing but in 1997 I was visiting my grandmother in Crimea (Ukraine back then, Russia now). The guy with whom I hang out at that time lived above my grandma on 5th level condo building. We were being stupid and were running from one level to another playing "you it" or something. It was about 6pm, I was running out from exit of the complex (to fool my friend that I am still in the building) when a strong hand grabbed me by my t-shirt and pulled into the hall. The guy had a knife in his hand and his face was very visible (I still remember to this day very clearly). He was very drunk and put his knife to my throat saying "Do you know that I am stupid? If you won't shut up I will kill! I will kill your if you won't shut up". I think he was referring to that I was being very loud with my friend. When my friend was running down and calling my name, the guy quickly let my t-shirt go and left the building in a hurry. I didn't tell my grandma or anyone about what happened besides my friend but I surely almost shit my pants. At around 2009 I watched TV show (I was already living US) but it was a documentary that I saw in Russian about some killers. There was one guy with a nickname "Tkach" who was caught in 2005. He killed over 40 young woman/girls before he got caught. When they showed his picture I couldn't believe my eyes because that guy was who pulled a knife to my throat. I thought to myself what I if I told to my parents or grandma about what happened to me, would they do anything about it? Like call police and then police try to find him by my description? May be some of those victims would never faced that horrible fate...but I was young and dumb, and I doubt my relatives would've paid attention to it, or police would've got serious about it.
Whoa man that's crazy!
And I wouldn't think that way either.
Had you told your grandma about it they police likely would have just filed a report - did a quick search and went back to business as usual.
It seems you were extremely lucky to actually (and literally) escape the clutches of a killer.
We are all thankful for that.
Came here to say the same. What a crazy and terrifying story!
My best friends cousin is topanga from boy meets world (Danielle Fishel)
Necro bump!
My best friends cousin is topanga from boy meets world (Danielle Fishel)
damn... she was my first love.
I played street hockey with sidney crosby when I was a kid.
You're full of shit.
Necro bump!
Huge crush on her.
My best friends cousin is topanga from boy meets world (Danielle Fishel)
Country music legend Gordon Lightfoot is my cousin.
I don't know who that is but I don't think I knew that.
Country music legend Gordon Lightfoot is my cousin.
I don't know who that is but I don't think I knew that.
He's a big name in country music from before our generation, he did songs like "If You Could Read My Mind" and "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald". But yeah, my grandmother's side of the family are the Lightfoots. He's been to family events and everything but I've never bothered to meet him, I'm 35 and he's around 80, we don't share much common ground to socialize about lol.
It was New Years eve and I was downtown Vancouver at a friends apt and there was about 4-5 of us on his balcony on something like the 20th floor having a new years blunt and all of a sudden for about 3 seconds the whole sky turned green. I don't mean like the clouds lit up green from fire works, it was literally like if God flipped the wrong switch for a second and was like oh shit. The whole sky was bright green and evenly bright everywhere, it didn't fade in any direction. We all just stopped with eyes wide open and looked at each other and for the rest of the night we tried to reasonably figure out what it could have been with no good answer. Other than the people that were there no one else seems to have witnessed this, we weren't completely obliterated or anything just some casual drinks and smoke and nothing else. No one ever believes me.
I won't tell the story about it here since if someone told me, I wouldn't believe them, but did Warren or Matt ever tell you about the cloud formations over the field at the Gathering that one year? I think you were off getting a fuckin' turkey leg or something at the time. This was the year that moonshine almost killed me.
It was New Years eve and I was downtown Vancouver at a friends apt and there was about 4-5 of us on his balcony on something like the 20th floor having a new years blunt and all of a sudden for about 3 seconds the whole sky turned green. I don't mean like the clouds lit up green from fire works, it was literally like if God flipped the wrong switch for a second and was like oh shit. The whole sky was bright green and evenly bright everywhere, it didn't fade in any direction. We all just stopped with eyes wide open and looked at each other and for the rest of the night we tried to reasonably figure out what it could have been with no good answer. Other than the people that were there no one else seems to have witnessed this, we weren't completely obliterated or anything just some casual drinks and smoke and nothing else. No one ever believes me.
I won't tell the story about it here since if someone told me, I wouldn't believe them, but did Warren or Matt ever tell you about the cloud formations over the field at the Gathering that one year? I think you were off getting a fuckin' turkey leg or something at the time. This was the year that moonshine almost killed me.
YES! I forgot about that. Long story short for the readers, Gathering of the Juggalos and a straight up pentagram formed in the sky above in clouds. I was able to see the remnants as the clouds moved but that was fucked and unfortunately very unbelievable, but it happened!!!
It was New Years eve and I was downtown Vancouver at a friends apt and there was about 4-5 of us on his balcony on something like the 20th floor having a new years blunt and all of a sudden for about 3 seconds the whole sky turned green. I don't mean like the clouds lit up green from fire works, it was literally like if God flipped the wrong switch for a second and was like oh shit. The whole sky was bright green and evenly bright everywhere, it didn't fade in any direction. We all just stopped with eyes wide open and looked at each other and for the rest of the night we tried to reasonably figure out what it could have been with no good answer. Other than the people that were there no one else seems to have witnessed this, we weren't completely obliterated or anything just some casual drinks and smoke and nothing else. No one ever believes me.
I won't tell the story about it here since if someone told me, I wouldn't believe them, but did Warren or Matt ever tell you about the cloud formations over the field at the Gathering that one year? I think you were off getting a fuckin' turkey leg or something at the time. This was the year that moonshine almost killed me.
YES! I forgot about that. Long story short for the readers, Gathering of the Juggalos and a straight up pentagram formed in the sky above in clouds. I was able to see the remnants as the clouds moved but that was fucked and unfortunately very unbelievable, but it happened!!!
Yeah at one point there was like 10 of us just standing there looking at it , all just saying "You're a witness to this too, right? We're all here looking at the same thing, right?" to each other. Warren was losing his damn mind yelling for everyone standing around to look. I'm not saying it was put there by a mystical warlock, but it was way too in the middle of actual butt-stuff nowhere for an overhead plane to just inconspicuously do the world's most accurate skywriting over the campground without anyone noticing, so it was put there through some at least very-cool means. But yeah, total 5-point pentagram. Not like, "oh hey that kinda sorta looks like a pentagram, see?", more like "whoa look at that fucking pentagram!" but yeah this was in the early 2000's where cell phone cams were still pretty baller and nobody had one in-pocket at the time