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Hi, I’m JC Weatherby.

I graduated with a Bachelor of  Interdisciplinary degree I created myself in 1988.  The degree was based on the idea that film is the intersection of all arts, writing, photography, visual art, acting and theatrical arts.  This was before the digital revolution.  I learned film editing on a 16mm flat bed editor.

My first job was with Turner Broadcasting as an intern.  I produced on-air announcements, and was a P.A, and even puppet talent in a network promo.  Later, I became a camera man and floor director for TBS’s wrestling shows, and several shows at the then fledgling CNN.

My first ‘real’ job was as a theatrical stage technician at Walt Disney World in Florida.  I moved the world’s largest sets at the Indiana Jone’s Epic Stunt Spectacular, and drove Ursula at Voyage of the Little Mermaid.

In ’96 I moved to Los Angeles and became support staff for all the major entertainment companies.  I worked for Disney Consumer Products and Walt Disney Records underCarolyn Mayer Beug who was an awesome executive and the only one I personally knew who died in a plane on 911.  I managed DVD release windows internationally for Warner Home Video during Warren Lieberfarb’s tenure.  I worked for Disney Government Relations, Hollywood Records, ICM Music Division. I did a brief stint in the admin pool for Leslie Moonves at CBS, and toured through Movies of the Week, and Business Affairs. I worked at Interscope.  I worked at Dreamworks / Sega.  I worked in the legal departments at MGM and Universal.  Finally, I landed a job at Universal IT, doing special projects with the then fledgling web development tool known as Flash.  During dot-com 1 (1998-2001), I became an art director at 2 startups, Feed the Monster Media, building websites for CBS radio stations, then at iFuse, a youth-culture-lifestyle startup founded by former Fox Sports executive Rich Battista and an agent from Endeavor named Michael Dowling.

After dot com 1, I did cutting edge work integrating Quicktime and Flash to create DVD styled websites for movie promotion websites, and then met Rod Dyer, who was one of the great logo and graphic designers known in Hollywood for his work on movie logos, posters, and famous LA restaurants and shopping centers.  I had known Rod’s work since I was a kid, having marveled at the classic ‘future-forward’ logo he created for MCA records in the early 70′s.  It was my pleasure to have him as my mentor and co-creator for 3 years.

Over the last 10 years I have created interactive media for boutique ad agencies and large entertainment companies like Newline Cinema.

In addition to all this I have authored numerous screenplays and several novels, including“Outland Hotel,” which you can buy on Amazon.

In 2006, I created 6 episodes of “The Moogie Show,” a mix of puppetry, 2D and 3D animation.  It was the first of its kind on YouTube, and routinely played in the top 10 spot (often hitting #1) on the YouTube Comedy Chart.   This year (2010) I produced “League of Indecency” an improv sketch show, with members of Atlanta’s famed “Dad’s Garage.”

I currently have my own business, helping small and medium sized use the power of video online, and I am creating graphics for Farmtown, a popular Flash-based game on Facebook.

Tuesday
28
December 2010

The Joy of Working with (Other) Artists

Recently I’ve been working on a sci-fi project I’ve had in development for some time, currently called “Savage & Perverse” (working title). I don’t want to get too much into this, but if you friend me on Facebook, you’ll see excerpts from the early chapters of the novel I’ve been working on for a bit now.

Anyway, over time this project has been both a novel and a screenplay, and recently I’ve been putting more energy into developing it as a half hour series for nascent 21st century TV networks like YouTube and Blip.tv, with the ultimate goal being to have the TV series actually be a commercial and clue-base for an MMORPG, or persistent online world, based on the situations and characters from the story.

Fortunately, thanks to all the new work I’ve been pulling in, I’ve been able to bring in some other artists to work with me.  And I’m happy to announce that two terrific Atlanta based character artists, James Eugene, and Jon Galvin have begun designing characters for this project.

Our goal, at present, is to have the first episode ready by spring.  And to do this, we will be working in Blender, the open source 3D animation tool, which has been used to create some world class short films like Big Buck Bunny.

Monday
27
December 2010
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Astrology, Astrophysics, Interstellar War: New Age Predictions for Inquiring Minds

Ancient people believed astronomical happenings, like the lunar eclipse that took place this week, foretold good or ill for the human race.  Modern astrologers, voices of the new age, and religious zealots from every corner connect these seemingly random events with movement on the ground, the machinations of human civilization that grind against the hopes and dreams of millions.  You have only to look at what’s happening as North and Korea start rattling sabers after a half a century cease fire, to begin to think maybe astrologers know a thing or two the rest of us don’t.

Cosmic watch dogs and conspiracy hounds like Kerry Lynn Cassidy of Project Camelot troll the fertile mind-fields of ufologists and cosmic gazers, mystics, and dreamers (or those who are ‘plugged in’ to ‘what’s really going on’, for those of you who believe), tell us we are on the ‘verge’ of sweeping transformations of consciousness.  2012 is, by some accounts, to be the year of the return of mysterious ‘planet x’ or ‘nibiru,‘ – as some call it – a Jupiter sized planet that orbits every 3,000 years or so around our sun, creating havoc in the solar system like a giant wrecking ball.

Others say the black hole at the center of the milky way is ramping up with massive bursts of energy sending cosmic debris our way and disrupting the energy fields of whole planets, and yes, human beings.

One person in particular, Ashayana Dean, weaves ufo’s, 2012, nubiru, the Anunaki, and star gates, into a mythology so total it explains all the great mysteries of life with dizzying detail; how did the human race originate, are are we alone, is god real, what is our ultimate destiny?  According to Dean, the universe and everything in it is part of the body of god.  She also states that all of the world’s religions offer truth, but mess it up by allowing dogma into the equation.

According to Dean, there are different planes of existence.  Beings in lower states of existence (us) reincarnate until we reach the KRYST turnaround – that is, we ascend to the next plane of existence.  We go on like perpetual gamers trying to get from level to level, always advancing our skills and knowledge of the multiverse.

Dean says balanced life systems give and receive energy, are eternal and able to transcend time and space.  She says that the milky way was once such a system when it was joined with its mother the Andromeda galaxy, but that aliens (she lists the Anunaki and Reptilians among these) have been tinkering with our system creating wormholes and black holes to draw us into a cosmic fall from grace, which (if you can believe it) was supposed to happen in 2012, but which has been ‘postponed,’ till 2229.   But thanks to some “Ascended Masters,” we can circumvent this tragedy by aligning ourselves with higher energy dynamics which will literally prepare us to get off the planet through a system of invisible star gates emanating from the core of planet Earth.

These gates, Dean explains, were part of an extensive system of gates all around the Earth, but that most of the gates have been locked by the bad aliens, but that the select group of ‘core gates,’ as she calls them, will remain open for another 200 years.  But after that, our time has run out!

Well, as Ripley would say, ‘believe it or not.’ Dean certainly offers a compelling mythology for any fiction or fantasy writer.

Monday
27
December 2010

Christmas Blogging

To blog, or not to blog?  An odd question two days before Christmas.  But as the girlfriend wraps gifts down stairs and the dog – a white thing with guy liner and a heart of gold who looks somewhat of a cross between a retriever and a collie but is probably related to a ‘marema,‘ – lies next to me on a very large bed, I have Freedom Parkway east of the Carter Center to study as the cold air blows beneath a navy blue slate of dim stars, and my blog among the various and sundry subjects I have to contemplate – to recreate.

No one blogs, I read earlier this week in Google News.  That’s hardly true, of course, but among regular (and younger) folks it is a fact.  The trend line is toward the ‘grid,’ (and here I am reminded somewhat of the movie TRON and its recent follow up, which I happen to like quite a bit) of Facebook with its endless feeds and messaging options threatening to make email as well as this old trick here – the blog – a thing of pop culture past.

Oh well, I find it useful as a way to corral my thoughts, track a bevy of projects, and talk about things I find interesting…  Hmmm… yes.

Am I interrupting?  Carry on :)


Friday
24
December 2010
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