{"id":1084,"date":"2012-01-13T21:50:10","date_gmt":"2012-01-14T04:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/?p=1084"},"modified":"2012-04-04T18:47:12","modified_gmt":"2012-04-05T01:17:12","slug":"a-mask-of-myself-the-rotten-tomato-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/?p=1084","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;A Mask of Myself&#8221; the Rotten Tomato Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><code><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kNOP4dwk7bw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_1093\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1093\" src=\"https:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/4.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"4\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1093\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/4.jpg 400w, https:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/4-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/4-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1093\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blah blah blah blah.....<\/p><\/div><br \/>\n<strong>Interviewer:<\/strong> So are you comfortable?<br \/>\n<strong>N.Dusk:<\/strong> What? What? With my life? In this chair? Is this the first question? What?<br \/>\n<strong>Interviewer:<\/strong> In that chair.<br \/>\n<strong>N.Dusk:<\/strong> Oh, yeah sure. That light is kinda in my eyes.<br \/>\n<strong>Interviewer:<\/strong> Oh sure sorry. There is that better?<br \/>\n<strong>N.Dusk:<\/strong> Can we just turn it off and light a couple of candles maybe?<br \/>\n<strong>Interviewer:<\/strong> This is an interview not a romantic encounter.<br \/>\n<strong>N.Dusk:<\/strong> I know. I know. But I need to be in the right mood to say the right things...you know...I..oh forget it.<br \/>\n<strong>Interviewer:<\/strong> Uh, I will. MMmmm...so what happened to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/neondusk60?feature=mhee#p\/u\/6\/kNOP4dwk7bw\">\"A Mask of Myself\"?<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>N.Dusk:<\/strong> Oh what a flop. It never had a chance.<br \/>\n<strong>Interviewer<\/strong>: Even with the Facebook exposure?<br \/>\n<strong>N.Dusk:<\/strong> Exposure? Ha ha ha. It had nothing to do with anything but being a very bad movie. Besides that I'm pretty clueless with marketing and YouTube has changed dramatically in the last few years.<br \/>\n<strong>Interviewer:<\/strong> How so?<br \/>\n<strong>N.Dusk:<\/strong> Well, first of all, it used to all the shit and now it's just not even half of that.<br \/>\n<strong>Interviewer:<\/strong> Because of Facebook?<br \/>\n<strong>N.Dusk:<\/strong> Not just FB but Tweeter, Tumbler etc etc. YouTube has just become a link to social networking, it's not really what it used to be. It's all about proper marketing though. Everybody wants their stuff to get a million hits and ultimately....<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/2workingREDgeo4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/2workingREDgeo4-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"2workingREDgeo4\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1094\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/2workingREDgeo4-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/2workingREDgeo4-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/2workingREDgeo4.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Interviewer:<\/strong> GO VIRAL!<br \/>\n<strong>N.Dusk:<\/strong> Right. And the chances of that are like hitting the lottery.<br \/>\n<strong>Interviewer:<\/strong> So what was the inspiration for \"A Mask of Myself\"?<br \/>\n<strong>N.Dusk:<\/strong> Well I kinda mentioned that in the closing credits. It just started as a small spark. Glancing at a photo in an art magazine. Simple right? But my mind carried that photo away to another imaginative world and it went away for awhile but the spark never went out. I just kept thinking about that photo, how cool it was and what I could do with it.<br \/>\n<strong>Interviewer:<\/strong> What was the photo of?<br \/>\n<strong>N.Dusk:<\/strong> It was a photo of a man in front of a wall full on TV monitors.<br \/>\n<strong>Interviewer:<\/strong> That's a pretty significant part of your movie.<br \/>\n<strong>N.Dusk:<\/strong> Well originally I thought the photo was sooo cool that I was just gonna steal the idea for my FB profile photo. Then while I was working on it, I thought about the whole profile photo idea, how important it is, how people worship themselves. I ended up doing a huge web research project on social networking as a whole. I started watching profile photos. Some people change them all the time, like me, and others can change every few months. I even had one friend for three years that NEVER changed it once!<br \/>\n<strong>Interviewer:<\/strong> Fascinating<br \/>\n<strong>N.Dusk:<\/strong> It really was to me. It becomes an exercise in \"self-discipline\" ... for me anyway. As usual I over analyzed the entire situation and broke it down into ridiculous layers of ego and self worth.<br \/>\n<strong>Interviewer:<\/strong> So you like to \"over analyze\" ?<br \/>\n<strong>N.Dusk:<\/strong> Yes. That's one of my problems....well, I guess it's not a problem really. It can be good. I can say that I'm \"deep\" but most of my friends interpret it as me being an \"over sensitive idiot with poetic eyes... delicate even.\"<br \/>\n<strong>Interviewer:<\/strong> What else are you?<br \/>\n<strong>N.Dusk:<\/strong> Weird as hell.<br \/>\n<strong>Interviewer:<\/strong> What do you mean by that?<br \/>\n<strong>N.Dusk:<\/strong> For as long as I can remember, I have a taste for the ordinarily weird. Things that are right in front of me. Life is a series of weird moments. One weird photograph after another. One moment I can be in a room with the strangest combination of people making the strangest combination of statements to each other and twenty seconds later I will driving down a wooded highway alone, watching an amazing sunset through my windshield.<br \/>\n<strong>Interviewer:<\/strong> Wow.<br \/>\n<strong>N.Dusk:<\/strong> Are you being sarcastic?<br \/>\n<strong>Interviewer:<\/strong> What do you think?<br \/>\n<strong>N.Dusk:<\/strong> That's exactly my point! You and 99% of the globe just don't get it. You just take advantage of lifes everyday moments.<br \/>\n<strong>Interviewer:<\/strong> That's not ordinarily weird it's ridiculously deep.<br \/>\n<strong>N.Dusk:<\/strong> If you stop and watch what happens to you during the course of a day, you may be amazed.<br \/>\n<strong>Interviewer:<\/strong> Yawn. Ok, so, back to the movie. How do you rate it against all your other weird movies?<br \/>\n<strong>N.Dusk:<\/strong> This was actually the only movie I made that had some sort of plot or even a plan.<br \/>\n<strong>Interviewer:<\/strong> Is that why it failed?<br \/>\n<strong>N.Dusk:<\/strong> Miserably.<br \/>\n<strong>Interviewer:<\/strong> So, why did it take you so long to complete?<br \/>\n<strong>N.Dusk:<\/strong> Well first of all, it wasn't easy. The movie is like 90 percent stop-action and that's a lot of work.... secondly, I have no real free time. I love being creative and being in front of the monitor at work 10 to 12 hours a day takes it's toll.....on my time and my creativity. I just HAD to do a project before the blizzard of work that comes Christmas time.<br \/>\n<strong>Interviewer:<\/strong> What is your fascination with animation?<br \/>\n<strong>N.Dusk:<\/strong> Ever since I was a little kid, I've been fascinated by animation.<br \/>\n<strong>Interviewer:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hanna-Barbera\">Hanna-Barbera<\/a> ?<br \/>\n<strong>N.Dusk:<\/strong> Ha ha....well, yes, of course, and the roughness of Courageous Cat and Minute Mouse. But really, I started doing flip movies in books at a very early age. Now there is stop action at it's rawest form. In the early days of the digital era I found Power Point.<br \/>\n<strong>Interviewer:<\/strong> Not really a great animation tool.<br \/>\n<strong>N.Dusk:<\/strong> No but with alot of thought and work it could be AND you can tell a story. But even bigger than that......you can add another huge element.......SOUND !  And by trial and error and many great \"accidents\" I was able to put some cool things together.<br \/>\n<strong>Interviewer:<\/strong> What's next?<br \/>\n<strong>N.Dusk:<\/strong> After this movie, I need to get back into something totally unpredictable and spontaneous like I have done in the past. Starting from scratch with no plot, few ideas and some clips of cool music.<br \/>\n<strong>Interviewer:<\/strong> If you had super powers what would they be?<br \/>\n<strong>N.Dusk:<\/strong> Oh oh....travel in time for sure!!!<br \/>\n<strong>Interviewer:<\/strong> Favorite software besides Photoshop?<br \/>\n<strong>N.Dusk:<\/strong> iMovie<br \/>\n<strong>Interviewer<\/strong>: Greatest single influence?<br \/>\n<strong>N.Dusk:<\/strong> Vonnegut<br \/>\n<strong>Interviewer:<\/strong> Favorite song?<br \/>\n<strong>N.Dusk:<\/strong> Norwegian Wood<br \/>\n<strong>Interviewer:<\/strong> Comfort food?<br \/>\n<strong>N.Dusk:<\/strong> Currently? Olives stuffed with garlic from the ShopRite salad bar.<\/p>\n<p>END.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interviewer: So are you comfortable? N.Dusk: What? What? With my life? In this chair? Is this the first question? What? Interviewer: In that chair. N.Dusk: Oh, yeah sure. That light is kinda in my eyes. Interviewer: Oh sure sorry. 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