My Blog… Now with Even MOAR Stuff!

Posted on December 28th, 2009 by Danny F. Santos

Just on a content binge!  There’s a bunch more artwork in the artwork section, specifically 4 paintings of my cats that I painted last year.  I’ve also uploaded some instrumental music in a new Audio section, at the moment it’s just a flash player but I intend to make each song available for download and use for non-commercial projects.  For convenience sake, I’ll just link directly in this post.

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Alas
Written & Performed by Danny F. Santos

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Nuts!
Written & Performed by Danny F. Santos

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Stormglass
Written & Performed by Danny F. Santos

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Troll (Variations on of a Theme)
Written & Performed by Danny F. Santos

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Avatar

Posted on December 22nd, 2009 by Danny F. Santos

So, I saw Avatar over the weekend in 3D because everyone, their mom and hidden space alien in the attic was curious what this game changer was going to be like.  In the end, the story was “meh” but the visuals were stunning!  You have to see this in 3D it’s just visually fantastic!

But the story is still bland and it bothered me because I just couldn’t enjoy the film from anything other than a technical standpoint.  Yes I know it’s Jim Cameron and he’s gonna give you something great to look at but predictable. Even so I wish they would have done something really cool with the story as opposed to “Dances with (12 foot) Smurfs”.  The good thing is that the story makes logical sense as opposed to something like Transformers 2. :: shudder :: Although the Na’vi could have used some better tactics during the final battle.

Want to know what I would have done?  A mockumentary of the excellent BBC series Planet Earth (Planet Pandora anyone?).  I think all Cameron really wanted to build this world in as much detail as possible with it’s own history, evolution and living organisms and then explore it.  I love world building myself and have several worlds and universes planned out to one degree or another.  I don’t really intend on doing anything with them, I just like to create new worlds.

So in the end, I would say if you want spectacle without much substance, you can’t go wrong at all, no one does it better or with more attention to detail than Cameron.  And it’s always great to see Ms. Weaver in action, she hauls ass in this movie.

My Comic Archive

Posted on December 19th, 2009 by Danny F. Santos

Found a bunch of old comics I drew when I was toying around with keeping a comic journal.  I still think I should start this up again someday as a side project, I kinda miss it.