The San Antonio Festival, thus far.

It turns out that the Harris twins are actually reporting what we're seeing in an extremely efficient and timely manner, on their fantastic blog.

http://rebelution.blogspot.com

I recommend checking it out, and reading about where we're at (psssst! They quote me in there somewhere...)

It's been an absolute blast thusfar, but unfortunately, we haven't taken very many pictures like we should have. I have been getting a little bit of video though. We just got back from watching Charlie Zahm sing some wonderful Scottish ballads. Great tunes from history past.

Ah. For pictures. I have none of him, but I do have a few of random goings on.

Today, we went to the Alamo, and while they don't allow pictures inside, we DO have a picture of Jack holding a mouse that David caught. David's an expert mouser. You'll notice he hates cat's. They're bad for job security.

;-)

Like I said, we were at the Alamo. We had a fantastic time, visiting with the Heustis family, as well as some new friends we made of some filmmakers. They made the films 'Clocks' and 'Finally Home'. You can read about them at the SAICFF website.

http://www.independentchristianfilms.com

We had a great time eating at the Riverwalk. While we were there, Reagan took some pictures of a duck.

Woohoo! Ducks are SO cool.... :-P

And this next picture is EXTREMELY fascinating. It's a picture of the adults eating in.... a pizza hut.

Wow.

It's not even in San Antonio. In fact, I'm not sure why I'm posting it now, but it is a good picture, and I think you'll enjoy it.

:-)

L8r!

San Antonio. Should be good fun!

Tomorrow we get in a southbound suburban, loaded with luggage and seven passengers, and make our way to San Antonio.

It's a beautiful city, well worth seeing, and seeing again.

Our schedule is as follows.

Wednesday, October 26'th.

We arrive in San Antonio, and unpack. If possible, we'll take a peek at the Alamo.

Thursday, October 27'th.

We go to the convention center and register. I'm not sure what everybody else will be doing, but David Heustis and I will probably be hanging out and speaking with the other directors. That'll be very cool, and make us feel awesome. ;-)

Then we go to the opening ceremonies of the festival, listen to the various speakers for a couple minutes, see a few trailers, then we go to the river-walk and watch Charlie Zahm, a Scottish balladeer, perform a few songs for the crowd. It's cold on the River-walk. We need to bring warm clothes...

Friday, October 28'th.

We'll go to hear Geoff Botkin, then to Kevin Swanson, who is actually the Mueller's pastor! Cool, eh?

Then we watch films for several hours. After each film, they have the creators stand up and hold a VERY brief question and answer section. We'll of course be at the showing of Bubble Trouble, or else it'd be difficult to do the Q/A....

After a while, we have a lunch break, then we come back and watch a film or two.

Then we once again come back to the River-walk, and watch Charlie Zahm sing, and George Sarris recite scripture and perform biblical plays.

Saturday, October 29'th.

The big day. After a couple hours of training, several hours of films (another showing of Bubble Trouble), and many other spectacular events, we have the closing ceremonies.

There, they'll announce the category winners, and of course the jubilee award.

The following awards will be given:

Best Narrative Film ( A story telling film. Bubble Trouble, etc...)
Best Creation Film
Best Political Film
Best Documentary
Best Youth Film (Directed by someone age seventeen or younger. I was fifteen when we made Bubble Trouble.)
Best Film Trailer (if you made a trailer for your film, you are eligible for this prize)
Audience Choice Award. (This is the one I REALLY want...)
Best of Fesitval: 10,000 Dollar Jubilee Award. (I promise I wouldn't complain if I got this one...)

:-)

After that, we head home in time to defend the ranch from Trick or Treators....

:-P


Ok, and now for a few responses to the comments.

Daniel Gardner: I'm sorry this took me so long to respond to.

I'm working on getting the film online, but we're having some problems with FTP and my friends DSL connection. I don't have a real high speed connection, so I can't upload the file.

We're working on it though! We'll see you at the festival too, right? That'll be awesome indeed!

Kuhns: Thanks for the response! Yeah, I know how techy you are, Mrs. Kuhn.... You technical wizard you!!! I hear you even check your email once in a while! :-P

:D I'm teasing! Really, I am... A little bit... :-P

David and Valerie: Good to hear from you! I shipped your DVD yesterday. Sorry for the long wait, but we had a problem with a lot of the DVD's, and I wanted to fix it first. My first batch was fine, my second batch wasn't. ANYWAY, you are gettin' yours.

Derrillynn/Llama/Delana/ButchWilcox: Happy Birthday! I shipped your DVD too. :-)





And, now I must go make more DVD's, in preparation for the festival.

I'll try to post pictures from the hotel, but ya never know how well that'll go.

We'll also try to get lots of video, for perhaps an online special feature for the film.

If you want to read more about the festival, the address is http://www.independentchristianfilms.com

:-)

Good stuff it is!

L8r folks.

Hmm.... Destiny, or Fate?

Is there really a difference?

Hello folks! How goes it with thee?

Sorry for the time out, I've been reinstalling my operating system and all my important software.

Important software.

This means,

Microsoft Frontpage,

Adobe Photoshop CS

Adobe Premiere Pro 1.0b

Adobe Encore DVD 1.5

Adobe Audition

Final Draft 7.1

PC Study Bible 4.1

OpenOffice 2.0

Microsoft Office 2000 (I know, old, and OpenOffice is better, but I like Word's grading proggy)

Quicken 2006

iTunes, Real Alternative, WMP 10, Limewire, and Quicktime 7.

And a few other productivity apps like 'MoviePlanner' and 'GetRight'.

Good stuff.

Also, I have to restore my email (if you've sent me an email that I haven't responded to, it's because I haven't had email for a couple days. Sorry!), my music, and my blog and forum checklist. Aim and Skype will need to be installed too.

A lot of stuff is required to be done!

And with that, I bid thee fairwell!

I'll talk more later. And post pictures of more demonic cats. ;-)

L8r folks!

Happy Birthday, To Me!

Aye. I'm sixteen today.

What to do with my newfound age?

Probably start something unusual. New resolutions and what not.

Cool projects involving... I dunno.

But, at any rate, here's what's on the menu:

Main meal?

Sloppy Joes, man! All the way!

Desert?

Forget this cake stuff, I'm goin' with Root Beer Floats! Yeahaw!

So, with that, I will now give you, the evil cat collection.


\\\\\Warning, some images may frighten little children, and human beings./////


:D











There are more to come, but on another day!

Bwuahahaha!

;-)

Hello World, I'm John Moore.

Nice to meet you.

Who am I?

John Moore. 6'1", 15 years old, 139 pounds, brown hair, brown eyes, Chippewa boots, Wrangler jeans, Carhartt shirt, 1911 pistol, and King James Bible.

Born and raised in Alaska, now living in Texas, and planning to move to Heaven in about 100 years.

I've seen the world in one light, exposing it's real darkness, and I've been called to do something about it.

Christian filmmaking is my calling in life. I've come to realize it more and more, and how I never get tired of it. It never bores me, it never tires me out. It only drives me faster onward, and I realize that the harder I try, the harder it gets, and the more satisfaction I feel in life.

In other news, I think singing is cool. Josh Turner, Randy Travis, Darryl Worley, Toby Keith.

I can imitate them, but I can't replicate them. Weird Al Yankovic? Same with him. I can imitate him, but I'm glad I can't replicate him...

:-D

Yawl are probably wantin' a picture or something like that.

I have one or two from FED, but that's it.

I'll post two.

That's it.

It won't be hard, but hopefully you'll like them.

:-)

This picture is of me. Yeah. Behind me stands Angela Coates, and to her right, her brother Greg, and the person just barely in the edge of the picture, is David. Or rather, David's coat. Derek took this picture in the few moments I entrusted him with the camera. I recall it being much darker outside, but my cam tends to negotiate with light sources rather well.

We were all headed to the Doubletree to drop Greg off, then travel over to the Opera House, in time for the meeting. Unfortunately, I got my times mixed up, and we were there an hour early. Well, to be honest, I didn't get them mixed up, but Mr. Daughrey told us that we'd better be there on time, and to him, that means an hour early. :-D



This is a picture of David. Derek managed to sneak in behind him though, JUST long enough to be in the picture... It actually worked out nicely. This was before we headed to the Doubletree.

Later that day, I would return with Greg and Angela, pretend to be falling into the water, and drop the cellphone in. It snapped out of the belt clip (which was actually for the iPod, which is why the phone didn't fit, and fell off), then jerked itself off the clip for the earbud, and went sailing dramatically into the water with a small splash. Oh well. I disliked that miserable Samsung phone anyway.

Let's just pray I don't do that with a nice Sony, or worse, a video camera.

:-)




And moving on, we have a RARE picture. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, we have Greg looking in such a way that the camera can see his face. I couldn't get him to do that most of the time. :P

This is the same bridge I dropped the phone on, still. In fact, Greg is standing about where I was when I dropped it.

:-(



And just for good measure, here's a picture of Todd. He's cool, and so is the picture. I like the picture a lot. This picture was taken indoors at the Hilton Doubletree Hotel. Nice place.

Nice picture too, IMO. :-D

Well, I promised two, I delivered four! Aren't you proud of me?

:)



Well, have a good one!


L8r.


~ John.

Well now. Shall we dance?

iPod's are awesome.

And to think my Father got one before I did! That's rather unusual, as Dad still doesn't know the difference between shopping on the internet and sending an email. :-)

In fact, he used to say that 'One day, we'll all be shopping on our emails, digitally!'

Ok, while that's true, I'll admit, he HAS learned a lot more about computers. In fact, just this last week, he learned that a microchip is NOT something found in the bottom of a potato chip back...

*Sigh*

So, about iPods. First, this won't make sense unless you've seen those iPod ads with the funny backgrounds. Blue backgrounds, purple backgrounds, green, red, orange, pink, etc. With silhouette of a dancing figure with an iPod on the top. It sticks in your head really well, so they use them. They can be seen all over Apple's Website.

However, I didn't know the power of iPod advertising, so I thought creating a simple poster would be a fine thing to do.



Ok, so, now you've seen the picture of Gator. You know his position, his attitude. The colorful grass behind him, the orange glasses on his head, the blue in his shirt.

It's STILL not enough to make the DVD sell!

So, Jeff Heustis has provided me with an advertising campaign idea, and I'm curious what you all would think.

I'm sure it'll be a big hit.

What do you think?



Heh, I'm sure that didn't take TOO much time, now did it Jeff?

Well, to boil it all down, I just wanted to say that HeuMoore.com reached the 5000 hit point, so I dated and reset the counter....

As well as updating a bunch of old pages.

Yes, go to HeuMoore.com, and you might be surprised.

The Siblings 2 DVD is here. Yup, it's here. A fantastic way to support us, and help us get our next film on the road. You can begin placing orders as soon as you'd like, *wink wink wink*!

:-P

Seriously though, everyone enjoy that.

As far as my entertainment/study life, I've been fascinated by Darryl Worley and Randy Travis for music these days. Avril just hasn't done anything new for far too long. Though I'll admit, she IS prettier than Randy or Darryl...

For reading, I've finished 'The four laws of debt free prosperity' just recently. FANTASTIC book, though I'm sure many of you have already read it, and know what I'm talking about.

Also, I'm rereading 'Success: The Glen Bland Method'.

As far as video, I've just started following Mason Weaver's Video Blog. Check it out. You'll hear some excellent teaching.

Speaking of Mason Weaver, an intern of his, Jennifer Barber, sent me an email regarding Siblings. It seems she enjoyed it, and I was very thankful she took time to leave the feedback that she did!

She said something in one of her emails though (we've been trading them back and forth) that I thought was brilliant! Here, take a read:

"We only get one life.. It is not like a movie where we can rewind it, or fast forward through the scary parts. We can't cover our eyes or just turn it off for another night."

Isn't that good?

Ok, I'm signing out for the night. More shall come!

One last thought, I only have 3 days left as a fifteen year old. Isn't it sad? Fifteen is such a wonderfully weird round number.... Or something like that... ;)

Anyway, GoodNight!

You all have a wonderful time!

In Christ, John Moore.

L8r.

Death and Repentance

'There is one single fact which we may oppose to all the wit and argument of infidelity, namely, that no man ever repented of being a Christian on his death-bed.' - Hannah More.

Wow, I just love that quote!

Congratulate us, we're semifinalists!!!

Well, we've done it. We're semifinalists in the San Antonio Independent Christian Film Festival.

Which rocks.

A full list of the semifinalists can be found here.

And, in other news, I just got back from FED, which rocked.

Mason Weaver is a genius, and seems to like Dad a lot, which is good. He's positively brilliant. Everybody needs to buy his book 'The Rope' and read it.

He had some extremely awesome things to say about Hurricane Katrina too. Heh, you had to be there!

While I was there, I hung out with the Rogers, Morelands, Heustis's, and Coates. Yeah, Derek, David, Greg, Angela, and Myself, were all having a grand ole' time in Spokane.

Sadly, we're all fool enough to not take very many pictures. However, David managed to get some good ones, but I'll post those later. For now, I must slump into a depression, and realize that in 6 days, I'll be 16. Err, wait, it's midnight now, so, in 5 days.

I'll upload a special song about my feelings on the 18'th of October.

Then, on the 27'th, we'll be in San Antonio for a second round of the film festival!

The sad thing about the festival, is that Rich Christiano, the only truly qualified speaker last year, will not be returning this year. He wasn't invited back, for some odd and unexplainable reason, which I shall try to squeeze out of Mr. Phillips while we're there.

I plan to haul him into a closet and BEAT the truth out of him! Mwuahahaha!

Oh, yeah, while we were at FED, I dropped a cell phone into the river.

Ouch.

Sorry.

:P

I did some calculating, and based upon a few bits of information from last year and this year, I've come to the conclusion that Bubble Trouble is counted in the top 15 - 20 films that'll be at the festival. Out of 140 entrants, being in the top 15 - 20 isn't bad!

Especially considering how poor the audio was (yet again) in the film.

Oh well, yawl will be seeing it soon enough!

I'm setting up an ordering page for the DVD, which will be 12 dollars, to cover disc labels, cover inserts, cases, discs, shipping, and hopefully still recoup a bit of the film budget costs.

It'll all be done via Pay Pal, but I hope that doesn't scare you away... :P

Also, an 'About Us' page should be up in the near future. Not TOO near, but somewhat near. ;-)

Yawl have fun for now though!