How To Destroy A Perfectly Good GoPro Camera

So I decided today was the day to modify my GoPro camera with an after market lens, I purchased, to reduce the distorted fisheye look the camera naturally generates. This distortion is due to the fact that the GoPro has such a wide angle lens, made for maximum view (like when mounted to a cyclist's bike helmet). So anyway, after viewing a tutorial on the modification, I slowly took the camera apart. The screws were tiny and I almost lost several on the floor. After I had the GoPro apart and after unscrewing the original lens (a process which included the use of a heat gun to loosen the threads), I began putting the camera back together. I broke one tiny screw off in the case and then proceeded to (almost) cross thread the new lens into the camera. The threads for the lens are very fine and plastic, so it doesn't take much. After I got the camera back together, I fired it up with an external monitor and low and behold, the image was really really blurry. I watched the modification video again and realized that I had screwed the lens in too far. I unscrewed the lens just a bit and it started looking good- but just then the GoPro's battery died. I ran to my laptop and as I was plugging it in, snapped off two of the pins in the camera's miniUSB port! HOW UTTERLY STUPID! In my haste, I had destroyed a brand new camera! Well after boo-hooing around my studio for an hour, I decided the only plan of action was to buy a second GoPro (I had planned on doing that eventually anyway, for multiple angles per take), so I could use the internal USB battery charger and file reader on the new camera for both GoPro HERO HD cams. Stupid me day.

Evil Undead Girlfiend Pre-Production Movie Poster

Did the first version of the movie poster for Evil Undead Girlfiend: The Re-Animation Of Issa Kross. I have been slowly scripting this one and am considering doing it as a graphic novel and motion comic before a regular film.

Rats & Gassers Filming Pin-Up Calendar Meeting

A few more stills from the GoPro HERO HD camera of the meeting we had last Sunday for Rats & Gassers: Kustom Kulture Takes A Ride.

Hot Rod Monsters Film Festival Meeting

Had an excellent sit down meeting yesterday afternoon with the Seattle Rod-Tiques Car Club about helping put together the Hot Rod Monsters Film Festival- especially the car show and help with street closures. The Rod-Tiques are a very well established club that puts on the massive Cruizin' To Colby event in Everett, Washington every year. We also discussed showing Hot Rod and Gearhead films during the Cruizin' To Colby car show at the Historic Everett Theater (which is on Colby- the same street as part of the car show).  Networking is a good thing.