Tuesday, August 29, 2006

Fight! Fight! Fight!

As it is the only fight I have ever taken part in, tell everyone to meet behind the high school down on the field and gather round in a circle to watch me take on my own brother in a Lightboxing match at Veer. Pass it on.

For more dysfunctional fun, here's something you won't see anywhere else: my deleted scene. Before I scrapped it and arrived at my final concept, I was going for more of a complicated narrative using a liberal amount of Photoshop's Perspective Transform and telling an undoubtedly darker tale.

Lightboxing Entry - Take One (click for the Ringside™ view)



Even though I was going for a creepy and uncomfortable look, the story I was trying to tell was a little out there. Basically, we see a happy family, in better days, now broken up by a new man in the house and a suggestion of Dad's head mounted above the fireplace. It's no Punch and Judy masterpiece, and my reasons for abandoning this project were threefold:

  • I didn't really like it.

  • My wife really didn't like it at all.

  • My very un-dysfunctional parents might have been sad.

  • With that said, I'm happy with the outcome, and regardless of his Lightboxing skills, we should all read my brother's new comic series and see if we aren't transported back to our high school days as well.

    And yes, I did mean to spell it like that. It's dysfunctional!

    2 Comments:

    Anders said...

    I love it! The head mounted over the door is priceless.

    Wednesday, August 30, 2006  
    Spencer Fruhling said...

    That's awesome! I wonder what the judges would have said. It's definitely creepy, like "Alice in Wonder Land" meets "Arrested Development." I like the forced photoshop smile in the happy family portrait, and the idea that mohawk-man had something to with dad's head on the wall. Hey, those brothers turned out pretty good, if the bear and the plastic doll are their biological parents.

    Thanks for the link.

    Wednesday, August 30, 2006  

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