Best Laid Plans

Sometime last year I was working on a combo video for Lee from Tekken. I was going to use mainly Dark Resurrection footage but the best laid plans sometimes do not work out.

It originally started as a Lee meets James Bond concept (Quantum of Solace was on the verge of coming out). I interchange footage of the trailer with scenes of Lee kicking ass. I thought it was a match made in heaven. Bond is sauve and dressed in suits as he kicks ass and Lee is the same. To top it off I was going to use 'You Know My Name' by Chris Cornell, i.e the song he wrote and sang for the first Bond re-boot film 'Casino Royale'.

I was really running with the theme, I asked a person on YT to help me out with it because another visual effect I had in mind was the trademark James in the barrell of the bullet that opens most Bond films. The person on YT was surposed to do that for me but instead of James he was going to put Lee. That did not work out and I never got a response after our initial contact and I sent follow up messages that were un-answered (thanks dude, really). As time went on, the movie was released and the original trailer I created with 5.0 footage was music claimed by YT as well.

It look destined that my James Bond theme wasn't going to work out as planned so I went back to the drawing board. I began to work on a new theme, 'War' which was a clash of the two group of characters I used. High Mecha represented by Lee, King, Jack-5 and Bryan vs Dark Rain represented by Julia, Baek, Bruce and Paul. As you can see from the above video, this video was going to be a prelude to 'War' with a Lee focus. Some new, more stylish combos were added (I picked up some more tricks between videos) and once again I was ready to run with it.

However my plans got stalled again and I was never able to re-do the above footage on DR PS3 and direct capture it as opposed to a wobbly digital camera. I felt after my successful King combo video 'Resurrection' was direct captured that it would be silly to go back to my old style (i.e 'Dominator' which was done with a digital camera).

So here we are. DR is official dead, no-one really wants to watch a new Lee combo video anymore on YT, everyone wants to see T6 or T6: BR videos so I deaded the project. I did keep the footage tho and I decided to share it with you, my reader. It was fun to make and now it can be archived. Another thing is I do not have to worry about random noobs (which there are plenty of on YT) critiquing the video and not knowing what they are talking about. Oh and the music can't get music claimed as well which is awesome as well.

For people outside of my inner circle, this will be the first time you have seen this. Please enjoy what could have been.

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Ecstasy La Sober

Well it's a new month and you know what that means for my blog. New music of course. This blog title is of course inspired by the three songs I choose to be the soundtrack for this month. Kinda like the last title which used all three songs, Ecstasy La Sober actually makes more sense then Welcome to the Running Hurricane.

The explanation of it would be we all live in ecstasy but soon or later we will come back down and need to be sober. I can relate to this. I just completed writing 'Run' and I was on cloud nine. However as time went home the high went away and now I find myself trying to write again but coming up blank. I was on a high and now I am sober.

The irony of this through I did not think about this till I picked the title (literally 20 mins ago). I picked these three songs because they are among my nine favorite songs right now. So without further ado.

Sober by Pink: I'm a big fan of Pink especially her 'Can't Take Me Home' days. Over the years she has changed more into a punk rock chick and less the r'n'b diva she was. Sometimes it worked ('Like a Pill', 'Family Portrait') and sometimes it did not ('Trouble'). I can say through 'Sober' is definitely one of my favorite songs by her. From my first listen I knew I would grow to love this song and I have. It's a very deep song and anyone can relate.

Viva La Vida by Coldplay: Viva La Vida translates into Long Live Life and once again Coldplay makes an appearance on my blogger. Unlike 'Sober', I did not gravitate to this song from first listen. The video directed by Hype Williams however was definitely eye catching so it keep the song in my mind. However as time went home I listened to the song more and I grew to appreciate it more and more. One of my favorite bits is when the band comes in and chants with Chris. The lyrics are deep as well which is always good.

Ecstasy by Danity Kane: R.I.P. DK. I am among the Danity Kane fans that are sad that they have broken up and no longer making good music like this. Like 'Sober' I knew I would like this song from first listen. Sure Rick Ross' rap wasn't needed but as it stands the song is still awesome. I love the build to the epic final chorus. This song definitely takes me to ecstasy. No pun intended.

Well enjoy

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