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Jon Ray

Independent Filmmaker - Game Developer

About Me

I'm an independent filmmaker who heads up LJR Productions. I hope to meet people mostly for networking in the film/acting business. Always trying to get my stuff out to the people and this is yet another try at self-whoring my warez. Cheers!
Director's Demo Reel 2007
To check out my personal site- www.lordjonray.com
To check out the film site and my movies- www.LJRProductions.com
I'm also on YouTube now, so you can see more of my films there. - www.youtube.com/lordjonray
You can also check out some of my music at my Music Site of MySpace here- LJR's Music @ MySpace.com
I recently uploaded a few of my shortfilms in the Videos Section here.
For your filmmaking and acting needs, check out the following group. Both Cast and Crew calls for films in the Arizona area are posted often. If you're a filmmaker in the Arizona area, join the group and post your needs or plug your new film.
Arizona Indie Filmmaker Group

My Interests

A few of these may surprise you... Filmmaking(of course), acting, playing music on various instruments(mainly keyboards for me), Egyptology, Cyberpunk, D&D, Samurai(Bushido), Japan-Japanese(Hajimenmashite! Dozo yoroshiku onaegashimasu!), Game Developer, Graphics Artist, Animation(mostly Flash), anything with a creative vibe....

GREAT MINDS talk about ideas, AVERAGE MINDS talk about events, and SMALL MINDS talk about people.

I'd like to meet:

Anyone... but most of all, actors and fellow musicians and filmmakers in the Arizona area.
In gamer circles:
Richard Garriott
Gary Gygax
Anyone else, who wants to help me bring in the next generation of gaming that will merge passive movie watching with interactive RPG. I have a plan for the future of gaming.Visionaries -- Quest Seekers -- Artist -- Musicians -- and finally... those who live the dream.

Music:

LJR's Music @ MySpace.com

I write music myself but if I were to say Genre it would be: Techno, Trance, Ambient, Industrial, Gothic, Rave, HipHop, House, R&B, D&B, Reggae, Jazz, Classical, Folk, New Age and anything with a futuristic vibe to it. Oribital, Rabbit In the Moon, Astral Projection, Richard Searles, Prodigy, Intelligentsia, Midnight Syndicate, Miklós Rózsa, Gardians Of The Earth, Morgan the Bard, Blackmore's Night

Movies:

Current favorite movie:

Blade Runner Dragonlance Movie

Television:

Project Greenlight, Ghost Hunters, Random 1, On the Lot

Books:

Game Programming All in One Dungeons and Dreamers: The Rise of Computer Game Culture From Geek to Chic The Riverside Shakespeare 2nd ed. How Not to Write a Screenplay How to Write Science Finction & Fantasy - Orson Scott Card Trippingly on the Tongue - Laura Crockett Infoquake - David Louis Edelman

I read a lot of books, but these are a few that I'm currently reading/reviewing.

Heroes:

Bruce Lee , Richard Garriott , Leonardo da Vinci , Mozart , Ridley Scott , George Lucas , Steven Spielberg , Akira Kurosawa

My Blog

"Data Stream" gets screening in Hollywood

This weekend, I'm off to Hollywood, California to attend a screening in Hollywood of my short Sci-Fi movie "Data Stream" as part of the Pre-Show of "The Dungeonmaster". It's an improv/theatrical ...
Posted by Jon Ray on Fri, 15 Feb 2008 08:51:00 PST

New Photo Gallery: Filmmaking

It finally occured to me, what the heck is a filmmaker, without a filmmaker gallery to show all the behind the scenes of my work!? So I went back and tried to dig up as many pictures as I could of va...
Posted by Jon Ray on Fri, 15 Feb 2008 08:49:00 PST

Tribal Wars!

Normally.. I don't have time for online games that much these days. But some guys from work shows me this MMORTS casual game and it's addictive! Its called Tribalwars and is made by a group in Denmark...
Posted by Jon Ray on Fri, 16 Nov 2007 03:38:00 PST

LJR Productions on Etsy.com

Well the artist in me needed an outlet, so I opened up a shop on etsy.com and have started a new series of polymerclay figures called, "Lil'Monsters". I also plan to offer my used movie props there fr...
Posted by Jon Ray on Mon, 24 Sep 2007 09:42:00 PST

Award Winning Filmmaker

Because I pretty much shot 2 movies back to back recently, I haven't had much time to post this. But just wanted to say that my 2007 Phoenix 48 Hour Film Challenge entry "The Addict" became an award w...
Posted by Jon Ray on Sat, 11 Aug 2007 01:49:00 PST

Casting Call: Digital Stream (Sci-Fi short film)

I'm in need of talent for my 3 minute short Sci-Fi film to be shot Aug. 8/4/07 - 8/5/07. Only lead actor will be needed for both days. Must be 18 or over. Shooting times should be under 8 hours on bot...
Posted by Jon Ray on Fri, 08 Jun 2007 04:12:00 PST

Furry Encounters

So I busted my butt for yet another film challenge. This time it was for Screenwars, only problem was I was using Adobe Premiere 6.5 and for whatever reason, could not get my completed film outputted...
Posted by Jon Ray on Tue, 16 Aug 2005 10:42:00 PST

New short Horror film: Cookin' Jacks

This past weekend I finished shooting a new short horror film called, "Cookin' Jacks". It will be screening Aug. 4th, 7pm at the Harkins Centrepoint Theater in Tempe, Arizona (University & Mill Av...
Posted by Jon Ray on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

48 Hour Film Project group looking for PAs

This month, I find myself taking on the position of Producer on a short film for the "Phoenix Indieclub" (http://www.indieclub.com) group. We have entered into the International 48 Hour Film Project (...
Posted by Jon Ray on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Looking forward to Coachella this weekend!

http://www.coachella.com My first time to get to Coachella!!! Can't wait till this weekend.. Bands I'm looking forward to see/hear: - Eisley - NIN - Weezer - Chemical Brothers - New Order - ...
Posted by Jon Ray on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST