Yesterday, at Bill's Chester Fried Chicken Restaurant....

One of my best friends, a guy named Bill Mayo, owns a restaurant in Davis, Oklahoma. I hide there some times when I do not want to be bothered. I will turn off my cell phone, sit at a table, and become enjoined in conversation with another close friend of mine, a guy named Sammy Kiser. Yesterday evening, Bill, Sammy, and I sat discussing how all three of us are severely technologically challenged. None of the three of us would qualify to be a nerd.



The particular issue yesterday evening was the fact that I do not understand cameras. More specifically, my digital camera. I like Bill's digital camera much better, it uses 3&1/2 inch floppy disks to download the pictures.

I went to the local Walmart to buy some floppy disks to use, in case Bill would loan me his camera to take some pictures with. I like storing the photographs on the floppy disks, then later I can put them on this blog, or email them to somebody.

The helpful lady at the Walmart store began to laugh, when I asked here where the floppy disks were. She promptly told me, "Nobody uses floppy disks anymore, you need to get a flash drive for storage."

I got frustrated and drove to Bill's Restaurant to seek comfort and reassurance from my two buddies. They were absolutely no help.

I will be glad when I am rich enough that I can just hire somebody to do all this tech stuff for me.

PEACE!

To Kevin, Kathy, and Natalie....

Howdy Y'all,

I decided to give you a greeting on this blog. You guys are really kewl. I am glad you enjoyed your meal at my buddy Bill's place. Just think about how good that food was, and that is the food which will be getting served three times per day on our movie set this summer. Stay in touch, you have my personal email address, and I will give y'all an invite to come up from Tejas and watch us film. Once again, blessings upon your family and all those you love. TwoWolf

PEACE Y'ALL!!!

Answers on camera questions.....

I get an unusual amount of email, for somebody who is basically a professional grandfather... One of the questions that many recent emails seemed to want to know is, what kind of equipment we use to do our filming? The answer is kind of complicated....



My family and I, sold off some belongings, and real estate, and basically just came up with money to make equipment purchases. We began collecting motion picture equipment years ago, we knew we would end up being in the business due to my being an author, and due to my sons also being writers....

On the camera end of things, we started out buying the bigger cameras that have been used for decades to film movies with. Most of those cameras are still in storage. We tried Arriflex, Panaflex, Bolex, and a few other larger cinematic cameras. These dinosaurs have to have a great deal of other equipment to get a good product together. We then decided to use smaller, digital type cameras. We chose two brands to experiment with, JVC, and Sony.

We do a lot of night filming, and Sony seems to fit the bill on everything we are trying to do. This is not saying JVC makes a bad product, we just like our Sony cameras a lot more. The equipment set up is much easier, and the end result when editing is greater. We are still using our JVC cameras to film daytime shots on OUTDOOR SURVIVAL SKILLS, WITH DUSTY COUNTS, but on all night shots, we shoot with the Sony cameras. I hope this answered the questions I have been getting.

One final answer, no, we will not be giving any equipment away to film students, or other interested parties wanting to become film makers. My simple reason for this is that we always keep extra equipment as back up, in case we end up needing it for a project. We do not view other companies as competition, we view ourselves as competition.

PEACE!

To my family, friends, fans, and readers of this blog....

I know I have not been posting on this blog like I said I would. You need to cut me a bit of slack. I also have not been answering the avalanche of emails I have been receiving. I need to give a few explanations, but will give no apologies. I had two close friends, and one of the women who raised me, die recently. I have been in mourning, and have not been in a good mood. I reasoned that I needed a bit of down time from life, and everything else that goes with life.


You folks need to understand another problem that has been approaching me on an ever increasing tempo. My sons own a motion picture company. They own it in name only, I put up the money, I make most of the decisions. Yes, it is a real company, and being such, it has to be fed on occasion. Well, right now we are feeding it to make up for the down time we have had recently.

We are currently involved in three projects that take a great deal of attention, and an even greater amount of time. The first project is titled, OUTDOOR SURVIVAL SKILLS WITH DUSTY COUNTS. This project has been on the boards for awhile now, and we have finally begun to film in earnest.

Filming takes a great deal more than just a four person crew doing the video and audio capture on site. We have to not only get raw footage, we then have to send it in to our in-house editing department, then after editing, we view the dailies, and if it is not right, we go back and do it all over again. This takes time, and it takes a lot of money.

Our company also has two immediate projects we are involved in. One is titled I AIN'T SKEERED, this is a comedy that is basically about folks sitting around a campfire, and telling each other scary stories. The second comedy is titled, MURRAY COUNTY WEEKENDS. I am not at liberty to disclose the content of this program, but it is very funny. This summer, 2009, we begin filming our first two feature length motion pictures. Yes, real live, big budget, movies. Replete with theater presentation, DVD sales, and everything else that goes with it. So to say I am busy right now is a major understatement. I am fairly well over my grief, and will try to put uplifting things on this blog from now on. I love all of you, and love the emails, keep 'em coming.

PEACE!

Patrick Swayze

To the best of my knowledge, I have never met Patrick Swayze, and may never meet the man. I like his movies. The point of this blog posting, is to ask all of you who read my blog, and who are into praying, to pray for Patrick to recover from his pancreatic cancer.





Like I said, I have never met the man, but my brother in Arizona, John, has. From all the sources I have at my disposal, I have gathered that Patrick Swayze is a very good man. Someone who is given to doing for others. His difficulties are very relative to me. I have beaten cancer twice, once in my prostate, again in my left kidney. Cancer hurts, it is a painful disease. It is also deadly.

I took all tracking mechanisms off this blog. Actually, off my old blog. I am not in a popularity contest. I do believe I have comparable numbers this time around, but, the main thing is that if you are reading this, and if you feel so inclined, pray for Mr. Swayze to regain his health. I am also going to pray that the pain abates, and he is able to rest. I personally would like him to be around for years to come, and to make some more movies for me to enjoy. But mostly, mostly I want his family to have him around. So in closing, Patrick, if by any chance you end up reading this blog, our prayers are there for you buddy.

PEACE AND PRAYERS!!!!

The Books.....

Several individuals have pestered me to the point that I have caved in....


Above is the first book in the series Waaaay Out There. It's title is Diggertown, Oklahoma. It has everything in it but the kitchen sink.

The second book in the ten book series is Waaaay Out There! Arbuckle Treasure Hunt. The book is a continuation of the first, as are the following eight books yet to be published. These books, are and will be published, by Dandelion Books. I have a link to the publishing company in my links column.

This is my first book published by Trilogus Publishing. There will be more books at a later date. This book is basically about the end times of our planet. It is a work of fiction, and my friend who published it said it best on the intro. You will find the link to Trilogus in my links column.

My son wrote this book and it was published by Trilogus this past year. This is the premier Vampyre book of all Vampyre books. It is a very good read.

Well guys, this is the best I can do for the time being, I am very busy right now and will post more in the following days.

PEACE!

Funeral Notice......

Many fans, friends, and a few family members have emailed me asking why I have not kept the blog active and fun. Well folks, I have been more busy than you would believe. We begin filming a new television series this coming Sunday. But most importantly, one of my favorite people in the whole world died last week. It still brings tears to my eyes to think about it.

This photograph is of a much, much younger Marie Price. Marie was my mother's sister, and died at the young age of 81 years. She went to Heaven in her sleep, painlessly. Marie, or Ain't Ree as I called her, was my second mother. All of the really important wisdom I learned in life, I learned from the ladies in my family. My mother, grandmothers, aunts, all these women made an indelible impression on a very open and fresh young mind. Marie was one of the hardest working human beings you would ever meet. When I looked down at her, as she lay in her coffin, she looked so tiny, so sweet. Her surviving husband, Emmett Price, looked old and withered at the funeral. He too has been a great influence for good in my life. Gentle, kind folks these. Hard working ranching family, always there to help others. I miss my aunt and intend to get over and visit my uncle a bunch more in the future.

Well kids, this is why I have not been posting. I will probably be away from the keyboard a bit more, but will try to post as I can.

PEACE!