From the man himself:
"Just got home from the Tampa premiere of Static III. Holy Heyzuse!. So….I was flattered beyond belief by the turnout. Although it looked like a pirate convention and people were boozing it up and smoking weed in this super nice theater, we had Danny Renaud, Chris Williams, Ed Selego, Joe Perrin, Pat Stiener, Jon Newport, Jimmy Lannon and Rickie goddamned Dixon in the house. And that’s a serious S. East roundup right there. So thanks to all that showed, it was nostalgic to say the least.
Now….what if you worked for 2 years of your life, every damned day, on a video…spent every penny you owned and even took out a 2nd mortgage on your house to finish it, had your parents, your friends, your entire state, an amazing theater and all the positivity and support in the world……and right in the middle of your premiere, the projector shuts down?
And what if the projection booth is a 10 minute sprint away through elevators, stairs, theater staff, etc? And what if 15 minutes later, once you get it back up and running, half the theater has gone outside to buy more beer and smoke cigarettes, but it doesn’t even matter cuz the projector crashes AGAIN!!!…..and then, once you finally get it back and working, for some unknown twist in the Bermuda Triangle that is my life, the fucking film plays black + white the rest of the way through?
I mean, what the hell man….you couldn’t write this stuff.
And to top it all off people are thinking it’s a directorial artistic decision and congratulating me on the idea….haha.
On paper tonight was an absolute fuckin disaster…seriously, I mean that’s w/out question.
But, for those first 20 minutes that it played clean, getting to sit in the theater and watch the film projected the size of the Empire State building with all of Florida cheering on Pat Stiener and Danny Renaud, it was worth every penny and every projection problem that could come my way.
Thank you so much to everybody for coming out. Even with all the problems and failures, the feedback was incredible. People seem to be really happy with the skaters’ parts and I’m happy that I’ve learned to never play a video with time-code breaks in it at your world premiere.
No lets keep as many things secret as we can and not spoil stuff for the DC, Miami, NY, SF, Boston, London and Paris premieres happening in the next 2 weeks."
So... Who went and how was it? And if you post spoilers, please warn some of us who might not want to know until we see it!
Topic: Static 3 Premiere in Tampa/New York! (Read 5698 times)