The Fantastic Worlds of Jason Heath

The latest news from my worlds!

Jason — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 19:27:59 +0000

Here are links to my active (and not so active projects) that I am working on. And this is a sticky post, so while the feeds may look they same, they are the latest and greatest!

Cthulhu Key: Legacy film project

Kristen Hall is The Entity - Kristen Hall plays The Entity.
Sunday Aug 8th 7pm central - Me and the cast will join horror icon Parrish Randall and co-host Kristen Hall on HMF Indie Radio. No need to signup or download any software, just click and listen.
Behind the scenes – Day 1 - One thing I realized is that by doing my own DP work (Director of Photography), I am out of the loop when it comes to shooting the cool behind the scenes stuff. It’s something that you think you will have plenty of time to knock out, but the reality for me is that I was [...]

Astro Noir the animated series

The Fixers! wallpaper - Here is the first download for The Fixers! This is one of the scenes from the intro credits, 1280 x 720 in size. Subscribe to the comments for this post? Share this on Facebook Tweet This!
First Look: The Zephyr - The Zephyr is the workhorse of The Fixers! Doubling as mobile headquarters and home on the road, the ship is very maneuverable and carries quite a punch. Subscribe to the comments for this post? Share this on Facebook Tweet This!
First Look: The new and improved GT - Yes, after talking with Brian Shirley, the actor playing GT, I realized I had to make GT a more dynamic character! Behold that character! Subscribe to the comments for this post? Share this on Facebook Tweet This!

I am so far behind

Jason — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 20:58:00 +0000

updating this thing.

But do check out the film site! Yes, I am making a movie.

The Cthulhu Key: Legacy

Wow, where does time go?

Jason — Tue, 04 May 2010 04:27:29 +0000

Working like crazy on Cthulhu Key
Met the lead actress this weekend, she will rock
I definitely need to get out and about more and say hey to old friends

Previously on jaheath.com

Jason — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 02:53:37 +0000

“Get to the chopper!”

Ok, I haven’t updated here in a while.

The chase:

Lewaine is opening an art gallery and photography studio.
I am shooting a horror film with Bianca Barnett and Alix Lakehurst (nsfw!)

Life is fantastic.

If I haven’t seen you in a bit, shoot me an email at jaheath at gmail dot com and say hi.
Or find me on facebook!
Jason Heath | Create Your Badge

A serious list for aspiring artists!

Jason — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 23:35:20 +0000

I found this on H.R. Giger’s website.

I think is says alot in not alot of space!

Dear Aspiring Artist:

Here is my advice. Think of it as a five-year plan:

Take whatever courses you find the most interesting.

Study closely the work of the Old Masters.

Stop making art that originates only from your own imagination.

Stay with one technique until you perfect it.

On any given day, always be in the middle of reading a book. When you finish one, start the next. Fiction, nonfiction, biographies, autobiographies, history, science, psychology, or how to build a kite. Anything but go easy on the comic books.

Buy and read the first 6 pages of newspaper every day and also the editorial commentaries. Skip the entertainment section. Su Doku is fine. Do the crossword puzzle.

Fill up a sketchbook every month with pen or pencil drawings of the world around you, not from your imagination.

Buy a book on figure drawing. It’s the only art book you will ever need.

Until you can draw an accurate portrait of someone, you don’t know how to draw.

Stay away from the airbrush. You’ll never master it, hardly anyone ever has.

Visit every museum in your city. Often, until you have seen everything in it. Every kind of museum. Not only the art museums but, of course, those as well.

Forget about contemporary art by living artists, at least for the next few years.

Stay away from most art galleries. Go to art auctions. That’s where the real action is.

Learn to play chess.

Take a business course.

Talk to you mother or father at least once a week.

Stop going to the movies until you have rented and seen every film on this list. http://www.time.com/time/2005/100movies/the_complete_list.html

Do not watch television unless it’s the news or documentaries.

Do not use an Ipod.

No video games, either.

Learn a foreign language.

Learn to cook.

Spend 8 hours in a hospital emergency room.

Save up money so you can travel to a foreign country within the next five years.

Do not litter.

Avoid politically correct people.

Vote in every election or never dare to utter a political opinion. You are not entitled to one.

Buy a digital camera and take photos every day.
If you see nothing interesting to photograph, you will never be a good artist. Keep only one photo of every ten you take. Delete the rest. It will force you to learn how to edit the garbage from your life, to make choices, to recognize what has real value and what is superficial.

Visit an old age home.

Listen to classical music and jazz. If you are unable to appreciate it at least as much as contemporary music, you lack the sensitivity to develop into an artist of any real depth.

Go to the ballet. Classical or Modern, it doesn’t matter. It will teach you to appreciate physical grace and the relationship between sound and movement.

Wake up every morning no later than 8 AM, regardless of what time you went to sleep.

Learn to play a musical instrument.

Learn to swim.

Keep your word.

Never explain your art. People who ask you to do so are idiots.

Never explain yourself. Better yet, never do anything that will, later, require you to explain yourself or to say you’re sorry.

Always use spell check.

Stop aspiring and start doing.

This will keep you very busy but it can’t be helped.
In my opinion, this is how you might, possibly, have a shot at becoming a good artist.

Hope this helps,

Les Barany

So somewhere along the way, I quit having fun

Jason — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 07:49:16 +0000

and I mean that in a pretty literal way.

I mean, I have *zero* complaints with Lewaine. None. She is awesome.

It was just most everyone else around me that was sucking the life out of me.
I looked up and realized that most of my projects had stalled out, due to an apathy that I couldn’t figure out.

Well, after talking with Lewaine, we decided to make a concentrated effort to clean out our lives of negative energy and people that simply took.
Took our time, or our energy, or anything, really.

And man, I mean not one week later, things have turned around so fast its crazy!

I picked up 2 new website redesigns, both having to do with horror, and both incredibly fun. I will be posting more details after the sites go live,
but I gotta say, this is a great time for me.

And Lewaine? She just signed the lease on a studio/gallery that will be opening in 4 weeks! Rock on!

I give you…DOC SCHLOCK

Jason — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 04:31:44 +0000

Here is a sneak preview of my latest side project.

I am launching this character in a week or so as a guest
blogger and host of a retro/horror film podcast on a major horror site!

Rumbling, bumbling and stumbling

Jason — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:18:27 +0000

Thats pretty much how I describe my continual trysts with synchronicity.

So I get on facebook and I “friend” a lady named Bianca Barnett,
a perky horror actress that I found via another “friend”, Debbie Rochon.

Well, long story short, I see where she has a contest to help her find her ideal role.

No rules, just be creative. Right up my alley! But oh snap, the contest ends at midnight that day!
Again, right up my alley!

So I work up a quick design of a movie poster, very rough, then write a short little snippet of a story to go with it.
Well, guess who won?

Yep, that little poster did the trick. I won some cool stuff from her, and a coupon over at Horror Movie Empire.

I used the coupon to enter a prize drawing and wound up winning a 10 dvd boxed set of horror flicks!
Even cooler, I got to talking to Demetrios, who runs the site, and found we had alot in common, and when I mentioned I did graphics and web work, one thing leads to a couple of others and now I find myself coming up with new designs for both www.horrormovieempire.com AND www.biancabarnett.com.

I gotta say, this is like a total breath of fresh air. Then new year was just totally sucking for both me and Lewaine. Not on an interpersonal level between us, but that we had alot of negative people in our lives that we just sucking the life out of us.
Too many relationships that were “scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours” and we were the only ones scratching.

Lewaine has gotten her modelling consulting and photography picking up steam, and with both Demetrios and Bianca bringing positive energy AND tangible goods and services to the table in exchange for my design skills, I am feeling really good about how things are starting to turn around.

I guess it goes to show that if you just knuckle down during tough times, and keep the people that matter close, you can weather just about any storm…

*by friend, I mean someone that looks like they are pretty cool, but I have never met and they have zero idea who I am…

Man, I really overthink things

Jason — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 04:20:44 +0000

I am going to be doing alot this year. Alot.

I can see where I have have been way over-thinking alot of things when it
comes to the micro-cinema scene. I sat down and started watching what is out there
on the market. And I realized, well, I realized that I have a whole lot to reconsider.

And that is a good thing…

So surreal

Jason — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:45:16 +0000

You ever work on something for so long, toiling and grinding, that you sometimes thing you will never get there?
Well, the time for all that hard work, all the studying, effort and endless nights of learning, learning and learning are finally paying off.

Those of you know who have known me for a while will know exactly what I mean. and I want to thank all of you who believed and supported me in
pursuing my crazy dreams.

I actually shot about 10 minutes of teaser footage for Cthulhu Key, and am working on getting that cut together.
I think you will enjoy it, and want to see more.