Daylight Fades is a 2010 feature film produced by Memphis-based Old School Pictures in association with Southern Pics, LLC, written by Allen C. Gardner and directed by Brad Ellis. It stars Matthew Stiller as Johnny and Rachel Miles as Elizabeth. Principal photography was completed after a 38-day shoot in January and February 2009. The film premiered in Memphis on June 15, 2010.
Plot
Elizabeth, a tough, jaded young woman, and Johnny, a shy, kind-hearted young man, meet at a bar and quickly become an inseparable couple. Almost just as quickly, though, Elizabeth, who'd been abandoned by her father before she was born and whose stepfather is an abusive alcoholic, becomes uncomfortable with just how much she needs Johnny. Johnny, knowing he just wants to be with her, needs Elizabeth to commit and admit her love for him. When she can't, they have a falling-out. One night soon after, Johnny is in a car accident. The doctors determine that he doesn’t have long to live. Elizabeth is devastated and filled with remorse. At the hospital, Seth, a guarded, reclusive man with a mysterious connection to Elizabeth, takes it upon himself to save Johnny in the only way that he can: he turns Johnny into a vampire.
Struggling to come to terms with their past, present, and each other, Elizabeth, Johnny, and Seth must do nothing less than discover who they truly are and what they're really capable of. Daylight Fades is a film that explores loss, regret, love, redemption, mortality, and the bonds that can keep us together or pull us apart. It's a story about people who are desperate for a second chance, realizing it may be their last.
Cast
*Matthew Stiller- Johnny
*Rachel Miles- Elizabeth
*Allen C. Gardner- Seth
*Rachel Kimsey- Raven
*Clare Grant- Shauna
*Billy Worley- Rick
Plot
Elizabeth, a tough, jaded young woman, and Johnny, a shy, kind-hearted young man, meet at a bar and quickly become an inseparable couple. Almost just as quickly, though, Elizabeth, who'd been abandoned by her father before she was born and whose stepfather is an abusive alcoholic, becomes uncomfortable with just how much she needs Johnny. Johnny, knowing he just wants to be with her, needs Elizabeth to commit and admit her love for him. When she can't, they have a falling-out. One night soon after, Johnny is in a car accident. The doctors determine that he doesn’t have long to live. Elizabeth is devastated and filled with remorse. At the hospital, Seth, a guarded, reclusive man with a mysterious connection to Elizabeth, takes it upon himself to save Johnny in the only way that he can: he turns Johnny into a vampire.
Struggling to come to terms with their past, present, and each other, Elizabeth, Johnny, and Seth must do nothing less than discover who they truly are and what they're really capable of. Daylight Fades is a film that explores loss, regret, love, redemption, mortality, and the bonds that can keep us together or pull us apart. It's a story about people who are desperate for a second chance, realizing it may be their last.
Cast
*Matthew Stiller- Johnny
*Rachel Miles- Elizabeth
*Allen C. Gardner- Seth
*Rachel Kimsey- Raven
*Clare Grant- Shauna
*Billy Worley- Rick
Eric Kwasi Okine Turkson (born November 14, 1987), better known by his stage name Ded Buddy, is a Ghanaian American Singer,producer and singer-songwriter from Accra, Ghana,
Early life
Eric Kwesi Turkson was born in Accra, Ghana. He completed his Junior high school at Prince of Peace International School and completed his Senior high school at Havard college. Turkson began performing at age 6. He used to sing in churches and secondary school in Ghana. Friends used to call him "buddy music".
Music career
His first album in 1998, Sansankroma, had eight songs such as "Sansankroma", "Yebesa", "Pese Woho", and "Adjoa". His second album Tumuda has twelve songs, his EP Love the world includes seven songs. His third album Love has twelve songs, and his fourth album Akonoba has 22.
Ded Buddy gained exposure in NFL that led him to perform for Stevie Wonder during Panafest in 1994. Turkson's presence was established in the hiplife industry years ago. He then released his album entitled Abofra Wisua in December 2005.
Early life
Eric Kwesi Turkson was born in Accra, Ghana. He completed his Junior high school at Prince of Peace International School and completed his Senior high school at Havard college. Turkson began performing at age 6. He used to sing in churches and secondary school in Ghana. Friends used to call him "buddy music".
Music career
His first album in 1998, Sansankroma, had eight songs such as "Sansankroma", "Yebesa", "Pese Woho", and "Adjoa". His second album Tumuda has twelve songs, his EP Love the world includes seven songs. His third album Love has twelve songs, and his fourth album Akonoba has 22.
Ded Buddy gained exposure in NFL that led him to perform for Stevie Wonder during Panafest in 1994. Turkson's presence was established in the hiplife industry years ago. He then released his album entitled Abofra Wisua in December 2005.
Americans for Fairness in Lending (AFFIL) is a non-profit organization designed to draw attention to what it calls abuses by the lending industry in America. AFFIL’s stated goal is government regulation of the lending industry to protect American consumers from financial products which deplete assets and can lead to bankruptcy and foreclosure.
AFFIL is an umbrella organization for groups working on lending and asset-building issues. Its official partners include: ACORN, California Reinvestment Coalition, Center for Responsible Lending, CFED, Community Reinvestment Association - North Carolina, Consumer Federation of America, Consumers Union, Demos, National Association of Consumer Advocates, National Consumer Law Center, NEDAP, United Professionals, PIRG, Public Citizen and the Woodstock Institute. AFFIL also works with about one-hundred locally focused ally organizations throughout the country. AFFIL is based in Boston, Massachusetts at 7 Winthrop Square, 5th floor.
Projects
To spread its message about the need for the re-regulation of the lending industry, AFFIL has partnered with James Scurlock’s movie and book Maxed Out.
AFFIL has also produced print ads, two short videos, and maintains a website. The website includes information about: mortgages, payday loans, credit cards, debt collection, credit reports, car financing, car title loans, rent to own, and tax refund anticipation loans. The website discusses how to avoid predatory loans and take action to stop predatory lending. AFFIL and its Partners also wrote “Six Principles of Predatory Lending."
History
In 2004, a group of advocates and organizations began talking about how to combat the growth of debt, bankruptcy, and home foreclosures. They determined that regulation of all lenders is necessary to prevent a race to the bottom and to ensure that rogue lenders do not profit more than the responsible.
AFFIL is an umbrella organization for groups working on lending and asset-building issues. Its official partners include: ACORN, California Reinvestment Coalition, Center for Responsible Lending, CFED, Community Reinvestment Association - North Carolina, Consumer Federation of America, Consumers Union, Demos, National Association of Consumer Advocates, National Consumer Law Center, NEDAP, United Professionals, PIRG, Public Citizen and the Woodstock Institute. AFFIL also works with about one-hundred locally focused ally organizations throughout the country. AFFIL is based in Boston, Massachusetts at 7 Winthrop Square, 5th floor.
Projects
To spread its message about the need for the re-regulation of the lending industry, AFFIL has partnered with James Scurlock’s movie and book Maxed Out.
AFFIL has also produced print ads, two short videos, and maintains a website. The website includes information about: mortgages, payday loans, credit cards, debt collection, credit reports, car financing, car title loans, rent to own, and tax refund anticipation loans. The website discusses how to avoid predatory loans and take action to stop predatory lending. AFFIL and its Partners also wrote “Six Principles of Predatory Lending."
History
In 2004, a group of advocates and organizations began talking about how to combat the growth of debt, bankruptcy, and home foreclosures. They determined that regulation of all lenders is necessary to prevent a race to the bottom and to ensure that rogue lenders do not profit more than the responsible.
Autodesk Alias is a division of Autodesk which publishes software used in automotive styling.
The software allows to create 2D sketches and rendering and it features the use of modern Cintique Tablets. This digital workflow opens an entire new world of image creation. Different to software like Photoshop, Alias allows the use of 3D package data (curves, solids, surfaces) to give the sketching process a real 3d dimension support. An interesting effect when using 3D package data comes up when the same design has to be drawn and presented in lots of different perspective views. The underlying 3D package helps to keep always the correct and realistic perspective view.
Apparently, even hand sketches that will be scanned can be imported into Alias. Based on this 2D input the user creates 3D curves which are the base for automatically creation of a network of NURBS surfaces. These surfaces can be decorated further with sketches to allow a fast and nice presentation of the design without time-consuming modeling of the details. Often it is enough to do early concept decisions to evaluate the model just with mappings of sketched details.
Design does not always just start with concept sketches on paper. Sometimes the designer starts right away with physical clay models. Sometimes the client wants to have a partial re-design of an existing model. In this case the physical models can be scanned and imported into Autodesk Alias Surface. The designer (stylist) cuts out the parts of the polygon model that have to be re-designed and filled it with his own NURBS surfaces. Using modern global shaping techniques he easily can change and balance the proportions of his model or just parts of it. Alias Surface allows with this an interesting Coexistence of 3D-Polygondata (typical scanner output) with sketched pixel data and with NURBS surfaces. This is called Hybrid Modeling.
In addition to this, a styling idea can be modeled even traditionally as a NURBS surface model. For this Alias offers the conventional modeling tools. These tools mostly based on curve based modeling philosophy. In here four-sided NURBS surfaces will be filled in an appropriate Network out of curves. This workflow matches mostly the common thinking and behavior of the majority of Car stylists, thinking in Feature lines.
The high end discipline in surface modeling matches the quality level of Class A. This modeling effort needs advanced tools and different workflows as concept modeling.
In this discipline it is all about modeling of light and shadow. The highlights on surfaces are very sensitive and show every little misbalance and therefore the surfaces must be very nicely put together. For this special purpose the use of singe span NURBS geometry and its direct manipulation is preferred over the time by many automotive companies. This kind of modeling (curves as edges to manipulate the surfaces are not needed) is a good increasing of the traditional curve based modeling technology in Alias. On top of that Class A surfaces have to match special technology requests. For example, the radii have to have certain peaks and certain lead in. The design of shut lines requires special tools and diagnostics that are available in Alias too.
Especially when designing complexes of surfaces that include more than just one surface item (filet and flange) history-based tools allows the combination of several different commands in one tool. Such a tool creates the fillet flange in one step, or it creates a ball corner were three radii come together. These semi automatic tools are capable to save time during the entire NURBS modeling process, especially when doing technical surfaces like flanges and the mentioned ball corners.
With the development of Alias software line Autodesk puts a focus on automotive industry. Alias users take advantage from existing Autodesk technology and infrastructure.
The Alias software line supports industrial Designers focusing on capturing their ideas using a digital prototype. Requirement in here is to leave the creativity of the designer as most as possible untouched.
Autodesk understands this process starting with the concept idea until leverage of a 3D prototype. Autodesk draws the line in automotive with leveraging Class A surface data to engineering/major CAD systems.
Autodesk will combine the virtual prototype with other 3D-unspecific information to make the prototype richer. With this, its appearance and meaning for design decision processes can be lifted to a new level.
The software allows to create 2D sketches and rendering and it features the use of modern Cintique Tablets. This digital workflow opens an entire new world of image creation. Different to software like Photoshop, Alias allows the use of 3D package data (curves, solids, surfaces) to give the sketching process a real 3d dimension support. An interesting effect when using 3D package data comes up when the same design has to be drawn and presented in lots of different perspective views. The underlying 3D package helps to keep always the correct and realistic perspective view.
Apparently, even hand sketches that will be scanned can be imported into Alias. Based on this 2D input the user creates 3D curves which are the base for automatically creation of a network of NURBS surfaces. These surfaces can be decorated further with sketches to allow a fast and nice presentation of the design without time-consuming modeling of the details. Often it is enough to do early concept decisions to evaluate the model just with mappings of sketched details.
Design does not always just start with concept sketches on paper. Sometimes the designer starts right away with physical clay models. Sometimes the client wants to have a partial re-design of an existing model. In this case the physical models can be scanned and imported into Autodesk Alias Surface. The designer (stylist) cuts out the parts of the polygon model that have to be re-designed and filled it with his own NURBS surfaces. Using modern global shaping techniques he easily can change and balance the proportions of his model or just parts of it. Alias Surface allows with this an interesting Coexistence of 3D-Polygondata (typical scanner output) with sketched pixel data and with NURBS surfaces. This is called Hybrid Modeling.
In addition to this, a styling idea can be modeled even traditionally as a NURBS surface model. For this Alias offers the conventional modeling tools. These tools mostly based on curve based modeling philosophy. In here four-sided NURBS surfaces will be filled in an appropriate Network out of curves. This workflow matches mostly the common thinking and behavior of the majority of Car stylists, thinking in Feature lines.
The high end discipline in surface modeling matches the quality level of Class A. This modeling effort needs advanced tools and different workflows as concept modeling.
In this discipline it is all about modeling of light and shadow. The highlights on surfaces are very sensitive and show every little misbalance and therefore the surfaces must be very nicely put together. For this special purpose the use of singe span NURBS geometry and its direct manipulation is preferred over the time by many automotive companies. This kind of modeling (curves as edges to manipulate the surfaces are not needed) is a good increasing of the traditional curve based modeling technology in Alias. On top of that Class A surfaces have to match special technology requests. For example, the radii have to have certain peaks and certain lead in. The design of shut lines requires special tools and diagnostics that are available in Alias too.
Especially when designing complexes of surfaces that include more than just one surface item (filet and flange) history-based tools allows the combination of several different commands in one tool. Such a tool creates the fillet flange in one step, or it creates a ball corner were three radii come together. These semi automatic tools are capable to save time during the entire NURBS modeling process, especially when doing technical surfaces like flanges and the mentioned ball corners.
With the development of Alias software line Autodesk puts a focus on automotive industry. Alias users take advantage from existing Autodesk technology and infrastructure.
The Alias software line supports industrial Designers focusing on capturing their ideas using a digital prototype. Requirement in here is to leave the creativity of the designer as most as possible untouched.
Autodesk understands this process starting with the concept idea until leverage of a 3D prototype. Autodesk draws the line in automotive with leveraging Class A surface data to engineering/major CAD systems.
Autodesk will combine the virtual prototype with other 3D-unspecific information to make the prototype richer. With this, its appearance and meaning for design decision processes can be lifted to a new level.