American McGee visited us; we worked with him on Quake sounds and combat “feel” for internet multiplay. We were under contract with Id Software, so a computer was brought into our workspace for McGee to correct the inevitable bugs and gameplay stoppages. Here’s some direct video of American McGee playing pre-release versions of Quake during level-editing sessions at my Game Design Atelier ‘way back when Quake and Doom and Duke Nukem first started!!!
Here’s the video that mentions me and the other kids riding in the back of this Chevvy monster of the road. Today it could never happen, but back then, who knew from seat belts — and if you had them, you got made fun of!!!
http://youtu.be/oZ6wsQqlEpg
Welcome to the very beginning of my Outpost shop. I’ll be offering replicas for use in my Hollywood Fast-Draw Workouts. Here’s one example of a wall-mounted piece that is modeled after the six-gun used by the infamous Old West outlaw Billy the Kid. This setup costs only $109 — I believe that’s the lowest price you’ll find for this well-made replica. There are cheaper, but this is quality work, and is usable as a fast-draw practice replica when placed in your fast-draw holster. Merely take it off the bullet mountings and replace it into the frame when you’re done with your spinning practice or fast-draw workout.
I wrote a photo book a number of years ago — it didn’t get published and it’s still in my hard-drive, waiting for someone to come along and take responsibility for its production, copyright issue handling, publicity and release. It contains an “as told to” biography of Harry and my personal memories of photo shoots we did from 1967 all the way to 1993.
Since I’ve been posting on the subject of my Hollywood career in coaching fast-draw and gun-twirling — said career spanning well over six months, not necessarily in a row — I guess I should give you a short version of my Hollywood Entertainment Industry background:
As many of you know, I learned my gun-spinning and fast-draw from Sammy Davis, Jr. and Jerry Lewis when I was under contract to Universal Studios; I also worked at several studios as a coach and technical adviser, as well as unit manager and continuity.
This is an exact museum-grade replica of the pistol that was used by John Wilkes Booth to assassinate Abraham Lincoln on the night of April 14, 1865, the end of the Civil War. I had the idea that this, and other famous and infamous weapons, could be sold out of a small shop somewhere. I have civil war, revolutionary war, modern and wild western replicas, all of which are exact weight, size and balance of the original. They are the remainder of a quick-draw school I ran back in the ’60s. I’d like to train someone to take the business over. The entire shop is available, or I can make ten times as much by selling the items one at a time on eBay — or YOU could!!! My plan is to offer a demo of the exact use of each of the weapons. I was a Trainfire cadre at Ford Ord and I have the photos somewhere to prove it…
Yes, they are here; they arrived in a boxy, cratey sort of UFO and started singing the moment they landed on Earth, singing all those pop songs they’d heard on our AM stations on the way in.
Actually, the cantina scene on the cover of Galaxy was an idea that came out of my dad Horace’s mind — he got several artists working on the concept, and Ernie Emshwiller’s famous Galaxy cover was the result. Read on to see more…
Tamara asked whether she should go to a local magic school, and I told her that if she penetrated the French Drop & Heb Production with a Magic Bead, she’d be able to deduce all the principles of magic from that, provided she did so in front of an audience at least once per day, as well as before the mirror. The whole principle rests on the fact that you have to learn ALL the basics of magic — misdirection, pause, timing, passes — everything, in order to do what I do on-camera here:
http://youtu.be/Uj5AzahyacQ
Save yourself time, money & grief. Don’t enroll in an expensive, time-consuming Magic School, unless you plan to use it as a social networking gig as well.
Get a Magic Bead and Master the French Drop! You can order the beads from me individually — they vary in price, quality and rarity and run anywhere from $5 a bead to $5,000 a bead for a 4,500 year old antiquity with some pedigree papers.
You can also order my DVDs on the French Drop.
You may NOT order the Advanced French Drop until you post a video with your French Drop acceptably performed at least three times in a row before an audience — the deal is, they have to be equally astonished the third time they’ve seen the exact same trick two times beforehand.
You will note that I did NOT reveal the secret, even when showing the television audience the “unsafe” angle! Go thou, and do likewise! This blog, by the way, is an example of the real value of electronic blogs — we did the video just hours ago, it got posted and I wrote the blog just a while after that, and you have the opportunity, if you know to look here, to vew — note that I did NOT say “read”, but “view” — the blog. It has color, sound, movement, immediacy and immersion. You can’t get that on a sheet of paper, at least not yet.