Man, so many talented people!
Well, besides collecting things like Star Wars and Batman:TAS action figures and some comic series I like to make soundtrack medleys. You can see a few from Star Trek and one from Pokémon on my YouTube channel:
http://www.youtube.com/user/TyrannicalFascist1I also have a very big hobby of making a series of parody films with my high school and college friends:
It started after our freshman year in 2002 asking ourselves "could we make a Star Wars fan film?" And we did. It didn't have very good acting, costumes, choreography, video or audio quality, and the story was hard to follow with too many inside jokes, but it was our first attempt. And it got me to get a degree in Media, emphasizing in film. In 2006 we reunited to make some shorter follow-ups, and since then we've gotten 4 entries underway, including a heavily reworked version of our original, and a semi-weekly webseries called
The Rigors of Mortuus, now culminating in the sequel we always wanted to make:
The Plot Strikes Back. As some of you may have heard, we took our Disco Fett costume to the big Star Wars convention in August, and it was VERY well-received, with probably over 500 people stopping us to take pictures in around 2 hours, including Seth Green from Robot Chicken/Family Guy. And we somehow ended up in a music video...
I've been pushing a lot to include a lot of video game references thanks to my time on this site.
The Plot Strikes Back will have a lot, including repainted NES zappers, a Virtual Boy, lots of Star Fox references, and (picture this if you can) - a Darth Vader-like character, who has a chest box made from a model 2 Sega Genesis, with attached controller on his belt, along with several other game controllers and peripherals painted black and silver, and with a cybernetic right arm made from an NES Power Glove painted jet black (such as in the poster). We haven't filmed him yet, but this character, Dharth Tyrannical-Fascist, I think will be pretty hilariously awesome when done.
What originally started as a straight Star Wars parody has grown to a parody of many, many more things, from Batman to Power Rangers, Star Trek to Lord of the Rings. In a lot of ways this series is representative of our group's friendship - something we can all look back on if we end up going separate ways. Plus we just love coming up with new ideas!
<-- Me with long hair btw
Here is our website:
http://spoofwarsfilms.com/I'd strongly recommend you check out the videos under our WATCH > Short Films button, like our 2007 Mr. Magoo-inspired short film
Typhon, or our current webisode series
The Rigors of Mortuus (episode 8 is probably my favorite). We also have a Facebook, Google+ and Twitter account if you guys want to follow for big updates. We're also looking for people to be in it - we are limited to local people for extras and supporting characters since we have the green screen and costumes, but we can always use voices for Congressmen, Stormtroopers, Computers, Droids, Aliens, etc.
And, yes, we've had enough fun making the series that we even have a Wiki, most of which I've overseen:
http://spoofwars.wikia.com/wiki/Spoof_Wars_Wiki
