Friday, August 22, 2003

There's a new robot suit that the Japanese have created that is kinda cool.

It straps on like a backpack and it assists your legs in walking and running.

They say it's a new idea, but I remember watching that old TV show, "That's Incredible" or was it, "Real People" I don't know, but it showed an inventor that had a contraption like this that helped him run at over 50mph!

I'm ready for things like this after being stuck in traffic for so long yesterday.

I like the Segway thing, but you kinda look like a dork riding it. I've seen a few of those machines in my neighborhood, they look cool until you see someone actually riding one.

I've been talking with some Swedish friends who sent me pictures of their city and everyone is beautiful looking and seem to have clean transportation.

It would be so cool to live in a city where you could walk to work and not need a car.

Then of course you're trapped in the city if a disaster ever happens.

The Swedes were telling me how nice the people are and I could make my little movies there and people would welcome me.

Yesterday while shooting some footage in an area of Hollywood for a documentary on the history of one certain street, I stopped a girl about being on camera for some quick questions... She said I would have to talk with her agent first.

If there had been a disaster and a News crew were shooting interviews... She's say, "Talk to my agent first."

An actor who thought he was handed a gun with harmless blanks has been arrested after shooting and killing a colleague during the filming of an action scene.

Actor Flavio Peniche was arrested on suspicion of homicide, according to the attorney general's office of Morelos state, just south of Mexico City. He has been released $40,000 bail.

The incident occurred on Saturday during filming of a low-budget movie, "Juana The Scorpion," at a hotel in Cuernavaca, the state capital.

"I was handed the prop gun, and did the scene as I was instructed," Peniche told The Associated Press Thursday. "When I saw the blood come from his chest, at first I though it was fake blood."

Peniche said he quickly realized actor Antonio Velasco, 42, was unconscious and called for help and tried to stop the bleeding.

Velasco died shortly afterward at a Cuernavaca hospital.

Peniche said Velasco was killed by a blank that contained too much gunpowder. But Morelos state prosecutors said it was a real bullet.

If convicted, Peniche could face a prison sentence of 8 to 20 years.

Stuff like this always gets me...

When I was a kid watching, "Tora, Tora, Tora" with all the mayhem, my older brother told me that whenever a movie has people getting shot or blown up, they use deathrow prisoners and really kill them.

Sometimes they use people with fatal diseases who volunteer because through the film they will get a bit of immortality.

I believed him. But then I was probably 6 years old.