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on April 3, 2010
Kent Fuselier
commented on a project updateCome on man. A proctologist maybe, but there can be only one legendary self certified gynecologist after an honest effort like this: http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0930041drdallas1.html While you may lack a long and trepid road to becoming the anatomical legend in this article, you're still a guy after my own heart. I wish you the best. You are headed down the right road and it will serve both you and the industry well to have your efforts continue to prove that technology is about to make this the norm while the major players of the past struggle for the first time in their lives to figure out how to operate a film as a business just like everyone else. They've managed to create an environment that only profits from senseless waste of epic proportions, and technology demands that their time has come. I have two projects at this level complete and in international distribution territories after mastering the capabilities of the RED and arming ourselves with it as if it were a nuclear weapon. 3D filming is a joke. Who's going to be watching a TV in 5 years in 3D with glasses while trying to check they're email in multicolor on a technology not suitable to afterwards watch the evening news? 4K and beyond is the future of entertainment. I saw a recent prediction 35mm would be around for another 8-12 years by the MPAA, and I question for what reason? I doubt we'll need theaters or have an industry that can support them in 5. Since a budget like this is laughable in the industry as well as parts of the community, consider elaborating some on what your tools allow you to do and in the meanwhile, your fans can see a complete RED project at this level with distribution at www.movieset.com/forwhomhetolls. Paranormal was a joke because of their selection of a weak camera given a RED could have rented for 3 days for a few thousand dollars and made that film 10X what it was. Nonetheless, we learned in audio recording a long time ago that playing crap on the radio long enough teaches people to enjoy it and desire to purchase it. We confirmed at Harvard years into the death of the recording industry that kids actually prefer low quality computer playback of music when compared to the same song and the quality of the gold master. They've learned to desire lower quality as they've adapted to it from continuous exposure. I wouldn't underestimate for a second that kids might pick they're favorite you-tube clips to pay to watch in a theater over the next Avatar if given the choice. Don't let anyone tell you that a combination of begging, borrowing, and stealing when combined with 4K and creative entertainment doesn't stand a snowball's chance in hell just because it seems to keep happening lately. Kudos on the trailer. Credit where credit is due and adapting one of the most brilliant marketing plans I've seen in this century from Paranormal I'm guessing isn't an accident. Don't show people content and let them decide its merit, show them someone reacting to your content and (teach) them how to respond to your work. You forgot to have your fans twittering other fans, though. And remember long long lines trying to get into your show, camping out overnight while waiting in line during that time, and let the Internet do the rest. Best of luck to you getting started out, my friend.
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on April 1, 2010
Kent Fuselier
commented on a projectI'm designing a film project that has live interaction with programming and setup needs you guys might have fun participating in. I also designed a robot in europe that burrows underground and pulls fibre optic network installations to entire metro areas in a matter of weeks and would love to discuss it with you sometime if you're into robotics applications as we pulled almost every metro area in eastern europe with it and we're still scratching our heads over here trying to figure out how to get google to pull just one. I'm a former chairperson for the IEEE down here in Texas and NASA research fellow and would love to help work with you guys and develop ideas. We may be about to bring a kickstarter project to the table as well, www.movieset.com/jeffersonnights as a group project.
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on April 1, 2010
Kent Fuselier
commented on a projecthey! love the project! pm me sometime as I'd love to help out! kent@diirerecords.com
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on March 24, 2010
Kent Fuselier
commented on a projectJames Cobb is far more than a newfound close personal friend. He is clearly a master film maker with a top notch film crew shooting this project on the most sought after cameras in Hollywood, the RED ONE. I watched Mr. Cobb attract our last film crew and producers one-by-one and knowing the caliber of the character of each one getting involved. This is a project of the most honorable and sincere intentions and now has a crew that can take those dreams and put them to the cinema and beyond. While it may not be obvious from a web video at dvd quality, this master is shot 16 times the resolution of even our highest HD TV standards, which makes it a clear 32 times higher definition in cinema and future 4k HD TVs than DVD's, and over 100 times higher than the web compression you see here. I know what this camera and this crew looks like in the cinema. The camera operator and DP at this point was involved with the #1 movie in the country on Movieset.com, 'Wrong Side of Town'. It was a pleasure to shoot another film in that top ten list on Movieset with him and their producer Kendrick Hudson recently as I executive produced 'For Whom He Tolls'. These are not kids playing with a camera on a free download site with a mixed vision of what to expect from collaboration at this level. They are, combined with producers and talent, one of the most sought-after production crews in North America, IMHO. Its been my pleasure to work with them and its a long-awaited call on this end from the man that put them together once again to assist them in assisting funding and promoting this project. I, like James spent long periods in Europe where the amount of incarceration upon returning to the US seems like a sickening waste of resources. I travel to places that send you to the same sentence in college over there for our sentence of equal jail time and 10 times the instant cost for the latter, 100 times the long term cost of teaching someone to be a criminal, or teaching someone science and math. These people work with me overseas and I can attest to the rehabilitation of even a single positive light in one's darkest moments. It was in my own experience at NASA that this country took some of a war's most devastating scientists employed with destroying things at gunpoint and took their combined intellect to land a man on the moon shortly thereafter with incentives. Our nation's pride in technology centered around an automobile invention and expansions of trains and manufacturing before we took this asset and soon discovered a new world. It would never be repeated to date on this scale to my knowledge. There is hope in these people that society has given up on through a legal system that has built up a cookie cutter efficiency in putting them away, and I've been clueless how to help until I was asked to look over funding this project by a friend. I now see a moment with James on film, after spending a trip to Europe and a multi-million dollar lifestyle to a new place in his life working as an assistant manager for a wage he likely wouldn't have paid his staff overseas that Jame's 'debt to society' had nothing to do with those four walls in a cell. This was a man that could have sat in a cell and walked away without this burden of helping others, squarely leaving it with the next guy and going back to what he was doing best, or hiding from it all together. It wasn't time in jail that paid back what had taken during that time - its what he can give back by teaching others not to do the same. His crime wasn't breaking a law, it was taking such a gift to humanity that was in his power all along and needing a shakeup to get it going. His crime was the path to his cell which became the education to where he's best situated with his positive influence to the masses - in print and video to his peers. I've personally seen what this production crew can do with $7,000.00 and a dream. They have what it takes to deliver what may become one of the most powerful motivational anti-recidivism programs of this decade with Jame's motivational presence and this crew's technical skill and mastery of entertainment and hence attention. James is where he needs to be in life. His job isn't going to be remembered for what he did for a grocery store, it will live on for decades with the people that had their first real positive influence in life that they could relate to. I just had to google recidivism to make sure I had the term correct, and no one could say it better... Verb 1. recidivate - go back to bad behavior; example - "Those who recidivate are often minor criminals" IMHO, welcome to North America. Jame's strategy is as opposite as mine. I'd like to change the laws and handling of these situations over the next decade. James would like to teach kids to play by the rules in the meanwhile. They're both as necessary as the other. This is one of the finer projects I'll get to work on in my professional career. I'll be happy to tell everyone that cares to listen how I feel about these voices of such a large percentage of our population cast away by what we've become for what starts as the most petty behavior some times. I personally had to stop testifying against a young man that stole something from me one time when my cross examination got so one sided the court appointed attorney trusted with this kid's life began crying. I was badgering her as a witness and being only a freshman in law school she had no clue she had a right to ask me to stop talking at any time. Her entire defense was based off of a crazy vigilante that held her client at gunpoint without realizing everyone in that court, including myself had a license to carry a handgun, or if that was even legal in this state. She presumed she could make me out to be the bad guy without realizing the first rule of that courtroom, I wasn't on trial. That trial threw a mistrial and I imagine that kid walked, and I would have served time for that kid had the judge compelled me to continue on at my refusal at that point. I watched him steal and it was confessed and there was no objection to the facts. They were going to send him to jail for 3 years, possibly parole in 1, and I begged his attorney to not put me on the stand with the DA that already had offered no jail time for a first offender as the item was in the bed of my truck and I wasn't present. I was taught he would be afforded an attorney if he was ever in this position, not a student with high hopes of graduating one in 5-7 years if everything goes well. Thats not the justice system I was taught we worked under. I've also been carjacked and stabbed by a gang, and found out after trial they were illegal in the country, involved with a gang attack on their first day here to live the out the only American dream they could see from where they sat overseas and join a gang. People will tell you that our criminals are different than those overseas and I'll agree. I'll also agree humans are nothing more than a sponge. We soak up the environment around us and become what we are taught. Ask a convict what it takes to survive time in a penitentiary and if they point to a KKK tattoo or some life lessons about power or physical domination, reconsider what we're giving them to soak up during rehabilitation that our constitution guaranteed even convicts would be afforded. Then reconsider helping us connect them to someone who cared enough to come back, to remind them that while it may take acts of congress to turn this situation around, simple acts of kindness can keep hope alive to make more role models to others accessible for future generations. James doesn't challenge the system, but rather challenges individuals to conform to the system they've been afforded. It works for a lot of people in the land opportunity we've created like never seen before in history. We have reached an imbalance that has replaced nearly ever social service with one appointed by a congressman through legislation armored by a division of an army dedicated to replacing the need for good deeds in human nature with three letters of the alphabet getting paid to do what volunteers once considered an occupation, and true needs of the depressed that haven't been met by this social network are a true inspiration to those that feel a need to always help out someone in any lesser situation. This is a group that needs our help, and helping them builds a foundation of skill, talent, and determination with resources and willpower we've somehow lost sight of in a society that profits a cookie cutter mentality to even those that haven't a clue what the mold is supposed to look like. I'm just an observer trying to help a published author and expert on the subject matter, so please feel compelled to donate $75.00 for a copy of Jame's published literary novel this film is based on and take on a cause bigger than any of us with a crew quite prepared to deliver on these promises. God speed James. Kent Fuselier - Executive Producer, Diire Records and Film -Senior Managing Partner, y3K360 films, consultant - Security Sales and Film FunD
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on March 24, 2010
Kent Fuselier
backed a project
No One Knows the Son by James Cobb
The secret son of one of Scotland’s most notorious criminals has told how his dad led him into a life of crime…Jack Mathieson, United Kingdom
Funding Unsuccessful (06/08/2010)
Kent Fuselier
Tyler, TX
We're working primarily on film projects after spending 10 years in executive-level productions and licensing. Our contacts to film and music represent our foot in the door to bring projects with a broad humanitarian consideration into each one right to t... view more
