The Joki Chronicles

Video Ninja Super Genius Facebook Page

noreply@blogger.com (Mathew Joki ESQ) — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 17:35:00 +0000

Make sure to check out my Facebook page for all my latest videos, updates, etc.

Video Ninja Super Genius

My New Personal Dot-Com!!

noreply@blogger.com (Mathew Joki ESQ) — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 23:08:00 +0000

I finally for my ass together and set my own dot-com. It's still new and I need to get someone who knows how to do web design to sort something out with it, but check it out in the mean time!

www.MathewJoki.com

Twitterin'!

noreply@blogger.com (Mathew Joki ESQ) — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 17:59:00 +0000

Subscribe to my Twitter thing...

All about out of context quotes of hilarity that I've recorded over the past years. Definitely good for a laugh!

Follow @TheJokiQuotes

Sooooo Much Cabo

noreply@blogger.com (Mathew Joki ESQ) — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 10:56:00 +0000

Latest video that I made from my recent trip to Cabo. Check it out!

Tryin' Shit Episode 1

noreply@blogger.com (Mathew Joki ESQ) — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:35:00 +0000

Early Morning. Updates.

noreply@blogger.com (Mathew Joki ESQ) — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 15:37:00 +0000

Got to bed at 5:30am.

Got a call from set at 7:45am. They want me to come in to work ASAP.

Going in to set for 9:30am this morning. Going to be a long ass day, I'm sure.

Money's money.

And hustlin's hustlin'.

(8:40am)

Late Night. Updates.

noreply@blogger.com (Mathew Joki ESQ) — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 11:27:00 +0000

Up late tonight.

Worked on set as a Helper PA from 6pm - midnight. Getting paid for a 15 hour day. Niicccce!

Came home. Grabbed my camera. Went downtown. Filmed some nightlife. Awesome footage. Love this camera! <3

Working again on Sunday 5pm-?am. Staying up late tonight. Trying to finish editing this scene we shot way back so I can post it online.

Hoping to shoot again tomorrow night.

Keeping the ball rolling.

No sleep for the ambitious.

A Chord of Summer in Vancouver

noreply@blogger.com (Mathew Joki ESQ) — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 00:18:00 +0000

Just some stuff I shot with fancy new Sony EX1 and edited together last night.

Love this camera!

A Chord of Summer in Vancouver from Mathew Joki on Vimeo.

New TKD Videos Posted

noreply@blogger.com (Mathew Joki ESQ) — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 20:31:00 +0000

Check out my new playlist on YouTube with several new Tae Kwon Do forms that I shot while I was back in Lloydminster AB for my birthday and a friend's wedding.

Back on the Filmmaking Train

noreply@blogger.com (Mathew Joki ESQ) — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:02:00 +0000

Long time since I posted on my blog I know but things have been wicked busy this past month! My roommate Marc-Anthony and I have since put together a group of like minded filmmakers/actors/etc who are tired of waiting for opportunities to fall into our laps and actually make something of quality for ourselves on our own resources.

The focus of the group centers around a web series that we have been developing (more on that to come) with many other side projects branching out from there. Yesterday we had our first warm-up shoot were we filmed a scene from a play in a downtown nightclub that we got permission to shoot in.

The shoot went amazingly well! We ended up shooting 25 pages in one 7-hour day. Those who don't know what that means: television usually shoots somewhere from 8-10 pages a day, and feature films anywhere from 1-5 pages on a 12-16 hour day! So no small feet on our part at all.
It all came down to the spectacular group of people that we have working on this shoot.

We are still in process of getting a website up and running that will have information, bios and links to all kinds of great content but I'll make sure to keep my blog updated from here on out to keep everyone informed as to the new developments.

Here's to the beginning of a great thing in making. Cheers!

Veer Towards Support for the Local Boys

noreply@blogger.com (Mathew Joki ESQ) — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 05:26:00 +0000

My buddies from the band The Veer Union have finally got their first CD released nationwide!

I highly recommend you get yourself a copy! And easily enough, you can find it at Amazon.com
(direct link).

And if you really wanna help out, but are just short on funds at the moment, call into your local rock stations and request The Veer Union's soon-to-be hit song Seasons.

Spread the love and all the best to TVU. These boys have been on tour since forever, let's make their blood, sweat and tears worth it.

Respect!

Memoirs of the Blue: Vancouver Shoot

noreply@blogger.com (Mathew Joki ESQ) — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 16:32:00 +0000

"Marc-Anthony Massiah prepping on set of MotB"

I may or may not have blogged about this before, but there have been some pretty big developments in the way our mini-feature, Memoirs of the Blue, which we shot the majority of last year in Antigua.

We ended up doing some rather drastic script revisions and altered the storyline quite a bit through the editing in order to work out the kinks and altogether make the movie flow a lot better dramatically have a much more powerful dramatic arc to it. In doing these storyline changes we had some interior pickup scenes that we had to shoot. So we flew a few members of the cast and crew out to Vancouver in order to get these final revisions in the can so that we can push this thing out in editing as soon as possible.

I took this last Monday and Friday off work and we shot through the weekend at our buddy, Alijan's apartment, which we set-decked to look like a hospital. We're pretty well don't all the shooting that needs to be done here in Vancouver and the only thing that remains is a few insert shots that will be done today and some voiceover recording and ADR that will be done tomorrow.

After that, we'll be hitting the post production stage like a freight train and some really exciting things are going to be happening as this project finally comes closer to completion. Stay tuned and I'll keep everyone up-to-date on how Memoirs of the Blue is coming along.

Peace!

ShamWow Dude Arrested

noreply@blogger.com (Mathew Joki ESQ) — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 16:31:00 +0000

Remember this Guy?

Well he apparently was arrested for beating up a prostitute after she "bit his tongue and wouldn't let go." Yeah, I know, crazy huh!?

From The Smoking Gun:

Shlomi, 44, was arrested last month on a felony battery charge following a violent confrontation with a prostitute in his South Beach hotel room. According to an arrest affidavit, Shlomi met Sasha Harris, 26, at a Miami Beach nightclub on February 7 and subsequently retired with her to his $750 room at the lavish Setai hotel. Shlomi told cops he paid Harris about $1000 in cash after she "propositioned him for straight sex." Shlomi said that when he kissed Harris, she suddenly "bit his tongue and would not let go." Shlomi then punched Harris several times until she released his tongue.

Billy Mays muse be having a hay-day now, especially after Billy tried calling him out to a pitchoff:

"Billy May's doesn't take this! I'm the ultimate pitch man, if you wanna come after me I'm any time, anywhere!... I'm not the Beastie Boys or Run DMC, I'm Billy Mays and I'mma knock you down to your knees!"

A Return to Shaolin

noreply@blogger.com (Mathew Joki ESQ) — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 21:21:00 +0000

I've been watching a lot of Bruce Lee and kung fu movies lately and it's really making me want to train again. I found this clip of my Shi De Cheng, my Shifu ("master/teacher" in Cantonese) from when I used to train Shaolin Kung Fu in Dengfeng, China, doing the form Xiao Hong Quan (Little Red Fist) and thought that I'd share it for nostalgic purposes.

Below that I also have a clip of my doing the same form after 6 weeks of training under shifu Shi De Cheng.

And another of shifu Shi De Cheng just being an absolute don with the rope dart:

Prometheus: Online

noreply@blogger.com (Mathew Joki ESQ) — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 00:49:00 +0000

It's been a REAAAAAAALLY long time since I graduated from the Foundation program and VFS, and I just FINALLY got my final project on to YouTube! No, I don't really have any excuses for why it took so long, but it has now been tweaked a little bit to make it look a little bit more crisp and it's officially on there!

So check it out, if you were unable to watch it on the Babelgum site that I know so many people had troubles viewing it on in the past.

Hope you enjoy it. (And even if you don't, I hope you rate it 5 stars just because! ;) )

All Kinds of Awesome

noreply@blogger.com (Mathew Joki ESQ) — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 06:58:00 +0000

Don't know why I haven't shared any of this with my readers earlier....

Live it. Love it. Embrace it. Be it!

.....?

Editing the Memoirs

noreply@blogger.com (Mathew Joki ESQ) — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 03:10:00 +0000

Quick update on Memoirs of the Blue:

We've recently alterred the storyline of the film from the original script using editing to make it tighter and all together have a more powerful narrative arc. The film is starting to shape up really nicely and looks much, much better from the previous cut.

This postproduction story editing is going to require us to shoot a new ending to the film, most likely this coming May out here in Vancouver.

After that, we still have sound, visual FX, voice-over recordings, and scoring to do in order to get our final cut. And seeing as how we've exhausted most of our budget, we're trying to get the help of people, possibly students, who have some experience in the respective fields to give us a hand to get this done. We have a few people that we know and are graciously offering their assistance for little more than a screen credit, but if you know of anyone else who might be interested tell them to give me a shout at "mathewjoki (at) hotmail (dot) com." Any assistance would be greatly appreciated and of course credit is always given where credit is due!

Until next time,
Joki

Straight Up Regal!

noreply@blogger.com (Mathew Joki ESQ) — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 06:51:00 +0000

For those who don't know, I bought a car last week: 1993 Buick Regal Gran Sport

That's not my actual car, but essential it's the same.

It's a pretty pimp ride; fully loaded; leather, A/C, sunroof, power everything, keyless entry. P.I.M.P.!

And the best part: less then $800!

I figure I'll use this a stepping stone towards my next car...

Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Pur Sang:

...I wonder if they'll take my Regal in on trade?

"Patches" in Production!

noreply@blogger.com (Mathew Joki ESQ) — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 00:40:00 +0000

So some pretty cool stuff has been happening with our script, Patches in Perception, over the past week. I've been meaning to update this blog sooner, but things have been a bit crazy.

Start it off, we had a script read-through on Monday with a bunch of actors who were gracious enough to take time out of there evening to come and read for us. Millions of thanks go to Lori Watt, our producer who coordinated the whole thing. The read-through went amazingly! It was great to be able to hear the words off the page and to get a feel for the pacing of the script. Unfortunately, Marc was not able to be there as his is down in Antigua again, filming a feature-length action flick, so I taped the read for him to see and get a feel on what it sounds like. We also got a LOT of great advice and suggestions on what makes the script strong and what areas can be altered in order to improve it as a whole.

As well I sent the script to one of my instructors from VFS, Bruce Spangler, who is finishing his dual-masters right now in Filmmaking and Creative Writing as well as TAing at UBC, for him to critique and gives us some feedback on. The response we got back from him was very possitive and optimistic. He also pointed out a few of the week points in the script and gave us some great points on how to make the script a lot tighter, more to-the-point and engaging.

So now Marc and I will be brainstorming ways to conquer the script obstacles ahead of us and start editing it once he gets back. Feedback is also being awaited from some people that Lori knows and trusts as writers or directors, etc.

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On another note, through the course of the month of February, I have a bunch of workshops through Cineworks as well as other courses required to get Permittee Status to work as a Production Assistant under the Director's Guild of Canada BC. If all goes accordingly I should hopefully be able to start working in film before too long. I hear that there a lot of productions coming up so that should mean work. So here's hoping and looking in towards brighter horizons.

Stay fed.

If Life Wasn't Painful Enough...

noreply@blogger.com (Mathew Joki ESQ) — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 10:20:00 +0000

Here's something to make you lose all faith in mankind... ESPECIALLY if you're an MMA fan!

I hope to the loins of Satan that this is some sort of vomit-inducingly cruel joke because if this is ACTUALLY a movie that's being made, like clearly isn't worth living any more!

Enjoy! :D

GSP Baby!

noreply@blogger.com (Mathew Joki ESQ) — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 17:32:00 +0000

Check out this killer GSP (George St-Pierre) Highlight reel on the Spike TV website.
It's gonna be a deathmatch when he faces BJ Penn Jan 31!

And a cool Promo for the fight:

One Script Isn't Enough

noreply@blogger.com (Mathew Joki ESQ) — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 05:17:00 +0000

A few fun updates:

Marc-Anthony and I just started fleshing out yet another script. A vendetta-inspired action flick. We've got the story line pretty well hammered out over the weekend and what was originally planned to be an episodic web series of 3-5 minute segments morphed into a full feature story. We really like the storyline and the twists we came up with for the script and are putting pen to paper now.

In other news, we have an independent producer looking at our script Patches in Perfection -- a highschool based dramatic comedy sort of in the vein of Superbad meets Breakfast Club -- and she seems to really like the script and story so far.

On the front of our Antigua film Memoirs of the Blue, director Luke Hansen-MacDonald started meeting with our editor today to start some mentoring and editing to clean our rough cut up to a fine cut for special FX and sound to look at.

All in all it's some pretty exciting stuff and time will tell where things go from here.

Until next time, stay safe! ;)

The Begotten Craziness

noreply@blogger.com (Mathew Joki ESQ) — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 18:49:00 +0000

Now a follow-up from last post…
Sorry it took this long, but trying to fit it in between the whirlwind a family and friends deemed itself a tad bit problematic. But I digress, back to the Begotten Craziness.

Sunday:

It’s my last night in Vancouver before I head back home to Lloydmister, Alberta (home) en route to Mexico with my parents after Xmas. So with a group of friends, we went to the restaurant Wings on Granville off Davie for dinner and a couple drinks – excellent place I must add.

A few drinks ends up turning into quite a few drinks.

Quite a few drinks turns into even more drinks.

Last call, we polish off our drinks and head out. Three of us going in the same direction.

Walking down Davie, we stop to take a leek on the side of a building. (This is another one of those stories that I won’t mention names, by the way.) So me and “Joe” and joking around and kicking this granite pillar. Hahaha. We turn and start off again on our way up the street.

*CRASH!*

The loudest shattering noise I think I’ve ever heard.

“Bob” comes running from around the corner like, “Oh shit! I didn’t know it was going to break!” Naturally we all book it out of there.

A few blocks later, we stop… for no good reason I might add… to talk to with some guy standing at the corner having a smoke. Then up rolls a cop car. And a regular guy steps out from the back seat.

Me: “Wow man, did you just get a cab ride from the cops!?”
Cop Car Cab Ride: “Sir please put your hands behind your back.”
Me: “What?”
Handcuffs!
Undercover Cop: “You have the right to blah blah blah...”

Like five other cops pile out of the car like group of clowns, going over to Bob and Joe, cuffing them and giving them the same schpeel.

Undercover Cop: “…do you understand the rights and whatever as I have read them to you?”
Me: “Not really.”
Undercover Cop goes on about my rights again in confusing cop jargon: “…do you understand?”
Me: “Um… not excessively…”
Undercover Cop doesn’t like that I’m not understanding him because he has to repeat himself until I do. So bad start there.

Then he starts questioning me about “the damage done to the window” and what I know about it. I saw absolutely nothing and partook in no activities related to breaking a window, so I tell him: “Nothing officer. I know nothing about a broken window.”

Meanwhile I can hear Bob telling the other officer repeatedly, “I’m sorry officer, I didn’t mean to break the window, honestly. It was an accident, all my fault, let these guys go, they had nothing to do with it. They didn’t even know that I did it. I can pay for the window no problem. I just don’t want to cause any trouble for these guys.”

Meanwhile, an officer comes up to me and asks: “How much money do you have on you right now? You’re gonna have to give us money to pay for that window, or we’re gonna throw you in jail for mischief! You wanna go to jail?”
Me: “Not try to be smart with you officer; but that kind of sounds like extortion…”
Big Cop: “Extortion, huh!? You wanna spend the night in jail? Keep trying to be smart with me and see how that works!”
Undercover #2: “I’ve got three witnesses that say you’re the one that broke the window! You’re gonna get a criminal record if you don’t fess up and pay us this money tonight!”

At this point, respect for these officers goes directly to zero because I know that I didn’t break the window. And he knows I didn’t break the window. And Bob has been saying for the last 15 minutes that he’s the one that broke the window and accepting the responsibility for his actions.

Me: “Oh yeah? You’ve got three witnesses that say I did it, huh? Can you give me the first names of these witnesses? Because I didn’t break any window so I’m pretty sure you’re trying to entrap me right now officer. Are these witnesses willing to testify? Because I’m not falling for this.”
Undercover #2 is PIIIIIISSED for call him on his BS!
Bob: “No dude, I told you, these guys had nothing to do with it. It was my fault.”
Undercover #2: “Don’t call me dude! Step away and show some respect!”

So they take Bob off to the side to talk with him about the whole event in private, leaving me and Joe off by ourselves. Meanwhile we just shoot the shit and joke around a bit with the cop watching us. By now the officer can obviously tell that we’re not felons and that we’re obviously decent people who mean no harm to anyone.

Then Undercover #1 comes back and tells us: “We just talked to your friend over there and he’s telling us that he can’t afford to pay for all the damage tonight. The storekeeper has come down and estimated the damage at $500 but your friend can only afford to pay $400 tonight. Can you guys afford to spot him for the extra $100? This is the only thing that’s going to be keeping him out of jail tonight!”

Me & Joe: “Yeah, no problem officer.”
Undercover #1: “Your buddy’s lucky to have friends like you. We’re going to take you down to an ATM to get the money.”
Me: “Are we going to be able to give the money directly to the owner?”
Undercover #1: “Yes, of course. Let’s go, we’re not running a taxi service here.”

Then the patty wagon pulls around. And I’m not sure how much the general Joki Chronicle reading populace knows about patty wagons, but there is a section for groups of people of 3-5, then there’s another section for “solitary.” So they put me and Joe in the back and Bob up in solitary.

Little to the knowledge of Joe and I, Bob never had the money to pay for the window. Not a penny. He told us later that he lost his wallet and explained previously and in great detail to the officers the situation and that he would be not be able to pay tonight but that in the morning if they write him a ticket he can pay it first thing.

Now once we get to the ATM they let Joe and I out of the back and Undercover #1 says to us: “Apparently your friend there can’t way for the window tonight, he lost his bank card. So are you two going to be able to spot him the money for the window? This is the only thins that’s keeping you all out of jail tonight as accessories to mischief.”

…what?
“Accessories to mischief!!??!?!”
How in the name of Satan does that even make ANY damned sense!?

So anyway, Joe and I saw: “Yes, of course officer, we can lend him the money, no worries.”
They take Joe over and he gets them the lot of 500 bones out the ATM.
Joe: “So am going to give this to the owner directly?”
Undercover #1: “Well I don’t think the owner really wants to see you guys right now.”
Joe: “So how am I going to know that the owner gets the money?”
Undercover #1: “Well I’ve wrote down in my little black notebook here that you’ve given me the money…”
Joe: “…You mean that book with all the pages ripped out of it? I’m not going to lie officer, this all seems pretty dodgy…”
Joe gives Undercover #1 the money.

Cop: “Okay, your friend gave us the money so you’re all free to go.”
They uncuff us and send us on our way. No "receipt" or claim number, or any sort of proof that we actually paid them the money for window. My best bet; $500 split 5 ways amongst the officers.

[END… more or less]

No the lessons I left with that night:
1) If you don't understand your rights, tell them.
2) Ask for a badge number and the officers name before you say anything.
3) Handcuffs are not comfy.
4) Sometimes cops are so full of crap that they'll try to convince you that "accessory to mischief" is criminal offense.

…how’s for a hollow-up to Saturday night?

Craziness Begets Craziness

noreply@blogger.com (Mathew Joki ESQ) — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 08:27:00 +0000

A last minute post before I hit the hay and leave Van, back to Lloydminster AB at 5am tomorrow morning. >;-O

So let's quickly sum up Saturday and Sunday night... "long story short" version 'cus i really have to go to bed soon.

Saturday:
Started out like any other regular night, spent an hour and half waiting in line to buy a friend a birthday shot at Caprice, waiting meanwhile for Marc-Anthony (roommate) to get downtown from work and go hit the clubs with him. Needless to say, gave up on that endeavor after that point when Marc and Friend 1 (I'm just not going to use names here for reasons soon to be crystal clear... she's a female by the way) swing by Caprice to pick me up, go to another club, trying to get a bit of a buzz going again since that line waste most of my flavor so far. Club's dead, so we have a drink and leave to go to Friend 2's place.

Get to Friend 2's place, people there are Friend 2's Girlfriend, Friend 3 (female), and Friend 3's Co-Worker (female). Things are classy, all is copacetic, having fun. Co-Worker is kind of an odd duck, but still. Co-Worker jokes about cut on her wrist while she was cooking chicken as looking like a suicide attempt. We play a drinking game. Building that buzz back Then randomly Co-Worker starts trying to start shit with everyone, telling Friend 2 to "shut the *expletive deleted* up" and so forth.

Friend 2: "Please don't tell me to shut the *expletive deleted* up in my own house. That's the third time I asked you not to say that, next time you can leave, ok?"
Co-Worker: "Listen, my boyfriend's a cop -- I'm with the police. You don't wanna mess with me. Maybe there's something in your past that you don't want to have come out, you know!"
Friend 2: "Are you trying to say that I'm a criminal?"

Friend 2 and Co-Worker continue.

Meanwhile, Friend 3 is getting embarrassed for inviting Co-Worker and storms off.
Girlfriend goes to console Friend 3.
Co-Worker follows, feeling guilty that she's embarrassing Friend 3.
Girlfriend tells Co-Worker to just go back to the living room and let her talk with Friend 3.
Co-Worker doesn't like that idea.
*SCREAM*
Co-Worker: "She's MY friend! I want to talk to her" Meanwhile trying to rip Girlfriend's hair out.
Friend 2 rushes in save Girlfriend, wrestles Co-Worker away from Girlfriend and drags her to the door. "Get out of my house! You're not welcome here any more!"
Co-Worker drops purse: several bottles of medication fall out.
Friend 1 and I help her get her stuff together and try getting her outside into a cab. Meanwhile, she's crying and apologizing and confessing to us all the trials and tribulations of her life and how she just wants to end her life, et cetera, et cetera, going back and forth crying on different shoulders.

After 20 minutes or so of heart-to-hearts and trying to calm her down so we can go out and start looking for a cab, Friend 1 says: "I'm just gonna grab a smoke from you while I go grab you taxi, ok?" and reaches for her purse.

Co-Worker goes ape shit!
Starts swearing at and insulting Friend 1.

Friend 1 is fed up so she pushes Co-Worker out the front door and goes back up to the apartment. Marc comes down.

Together Marc and I go out in the snow to find this broad a cab.

A Half Hour, easy.

Nothing!

Co-Working is stumbling all over the place on ice in the snow in open toed heels. Marc and I trade off between cab searching and heart-to-hearts/keeping her upright.

Cab passes but doesn't stop. Who want so pick up two guys with one girl who looks like she could have been ruffied!?!?

Co-Worker shows me the other scars on her wrists. There's a lot of them.

Finally we flag one down.

She doesn't want to go, she wants to stay with us. She tries kissing me and getting me to come in the cab with her. Obviously not going to happen.

Give the cabby $20 and tell him that's his tip for bringing this girl wherever she needs to go. Close the door...
Cab leaves.

Time: 5:00am
Night: A complete and total write-off!
Buzz/Vibe: Thoroughly (and BRUTALLY) killed.

END

Wow, that was longer than I thought!
I'm going to save Sunday's shenanigans for another post... I'll give you this little teaser though: It involves handcuffs! ;)

Stay tuned!
(Flight in 6.5 hours... d'oh!)

Elektric Funk!

noreply@blogger.com (Mathew Joki ESQ) — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:35:00 +0000

Yo, check out my friend DJ Zeus' blog at www.elektricfunk.blogspot.com. He's got lots of great music on it. So check it out if you're cool and you want a source for music that's as cool as you are!

Word!
Joki out.