Saturday, August 24, 2013

Grant's COMBAT SIMULATION VIDEO in China's DaZu Long Dragon Lake Island

Grant's COMBAT SIMULATION in China's DaZu Long Dragon Lake Island.

I went on a company retreat last weekend and part of the activity was CS (combat simulation games). Its a step up from laser tag because, well, just watch... the island (take a boat to get there), the jungle, the empty brick houses/compound, etc. and the uniforms, etc. Although he is not seen much in the video, you do see the view from his camera during the battles while shooting (looks like a video game, first person lol).  Watch:

I have never sweat so much in my life. Salt water constantly going in my eyes. It was hot, humid, the clothes were hot, and the helmut was hot. Like war (what would I know?). My backpack when I finally took it off, was also dripping, yuck! I needed water, and lots of it.

Afterwards we had dinner, played board games into the night, etc

Comments
KEB That looks fun.

CS That is amazing! How fun! I even had Jason with me, we were both glued to the screen watching Chinese laser tag. Love you all! xoxo

SJ That looks like fun! Mostly the terrain.. You would have a more realistic experience of it was paintball though.. Funny coincidence, you were playing Halo music through the video, and at 2:25, the girls number is 117.. That's the main characters number in halo.. Nerd moment over!

GJ too funny SJ. I thought of you when I was there. I thought how much cool this would be to actually do paintball, for you, not for me because it hurts too much ha ha. At first I thought we were going to be doing paintball, because I just couldn't understand the language. But then it turned out to be this

GJ my favorite part was at 4:50 where I did a suicide run just charging into a bunch of people blazing guns, camera rolling LOL

KM are you a game designer? or are you being prepared for what could happen in the future there??

SJ I would be more worried about here in America Krista.. In fact, go find some combat simulation somewhere near you and prepare yourself..

JRT When 5 year olds can be kicked out of school for pointing a finger and saying "bang"... are there really CS in the USA?

Thursday, August 8, 2013

PIRATES and STUFF 洪崖洞 hong2 ya2 dong4 Chongqing China 重庆中国 HD

photo © 2013 grant johnson enoch studios
Our family made a visit to the HongYa Dong area in downtown Chongqing in the YuZhong district on the peninsula there between the Jialing and Chang rivers. We went with our friend Lynn. We did all kinds of things that day and it was a complete blast.  One of the highlights of our trip was the street, A walking street, they had a lot of things to see and there was this pirates statue, the statue of the headless pirate and you could get up behind the statute and put your head or rather put your chin on top of this little platform and pretend you were the pirate. When Lynn got up on this ended up Pirates face our little girl Audrey just lost it fell to the ground laughing, For a long time.

We even saw a movie later that night, the White House Down movie, and I thought of all those secret combinations in play seeking for power and although it is only a Hollywood film, to me completely believable and plausible, because there's so much of that in our history of the world.

More Pictures from the trip!  A beautiful place.
photo © 2013 grant johnson enoch studios

photo © 2013 grant johnson enoch studios

photo © 2013 grant johnson enoch studios

photo © 2013 grant johnson enoch studios

photo © 2013 grant johnson enoch studios

photo © 2013 grant johnson enoch studios

photo © 2013 grant johnson enoch studios

photo © 2013 grant johnson enoch studios

photo © 2013 grant johnson enoch studios

photo © 2013 grant johnson enoch studios


Saturday, August 3, 2013

Our Music Studio Arrived... and we set it up!

Our STUFF from the USA arrived on the boat last month, and we FINALLY got things going on setup. 

Here's The STUDIO  and Adam is busy writing a bunch of new songs, and the rest of us are going to get busy! Practicing singing, writing lyrics, scripts, storyboards, videography...  Lots of fun creative stuff to do...

So we have a spot upstairs with a view of the lake, and lots of fans to keep cool, and studio monitor speakers plugged into a 240/120 V converter so it will all run. Now the chordboard is actually there to help create music tracks, but we are working on a new version of it called Meridi. New software in the works. Works on a touch screen monitor. So exciting...
Our loft studio in Chongqing China... the creative place
Comments:

JS Let the Studio games begin!

Grant Johnson Oh yeah! There's actually some really good places in here to hang some green screen (over the balcony, or from the high wardrobe cabinets, etc.) We even have LIGHTS ha!

JS YAHOO! I am thinkin of producing a High School Talent competition - could be great fun or great trouble - we'll see
... too bad I dont have GJ Services - but I'll make do
...Or...I can send it all overseas and have GJ Svcs do the editing etc.!

Grant Johnson ha!

LH So there really is a "Slow Boat to China."

GL Hey! Are those Mackie 8's or 10's? Setup is looking good. 

Grant Johnson Hey GL, those are actually Yamaha monitors. Smaller, but very capable. I got 5 for surround sound (if I ever get into that).

Grant Johnson LH, more like a slow moving company. I think our stuff sat in China for about a month before they finally got around to getting it to our house. Same on the other end in the USA. I think the boat ride was about two or three weeks. But total moving time? 11 weeks. It's actually okay, because we really needed to spend a lot of time getting a jump start on the language, and actually still do…

Grant Johnson The Chordboard STAC is fired up and running. Adam is once again making multiple track scores on logic Pro. I am also beginning to dabble in my music again too. So exciting times!

SRA And I just got my keyboard fixed again! Time to get movin!

Grant Johnson I meant to like your comment 10 TIMES!!!!!!!!!!