It's not too late - See what you're missing! US Open PPV LIVE

["CaliRed".]

I whipped together this slideshow real quick (yeah, right.. 4 hours) because I wanted all of you that are not watching the TAR PPV going on RIGHT NOW, to see what you are missing. Maybe it will push you to give it a try. There is much more to come tonight, so for 10 bucks, you're good to go.

These are screen shots of various matches over the past week. This slideshow is showcasing the many different camera angles you will see. TAR is providing a stream, never before seen, thanks to a satellite feed (very expensive) HD cameras and a full crew manning the cameras.

I wanted all of you to see the shots that we see... shots of the players away from the table, close ups, shot from behind them when they are shooting, shots from the front, overhead shots, wide screen shots.. you get it all!!!

The quality is even better then shown in my slideshow, as it has went thru a few passes of different encodings to create the slideshow and then when upped to Vimeo.

Take a watch... I've included some music from Warren Haines, who I know Justin likes

To go get the PPV... go to www.theactionreport.com

Here's info from Justin from TAR.

I hope to make a nice slideshow and put some effort into it, to have something for all of us to remember this great event, later on. For now.. .. I present you this...........

www.vimeo.com/calired/2011usopen

Today is the final day of the CueSports International U.S. Open 10 Ball Championship. Here is the days coverage schedule on theactionreport.com



12:30 PM: Deuel vs Van Boening for Hot Seat
3:00 PM: 10 Ball Semi-Finals
6:00 PM: 10 Ball Finals
8:30 PM: Finals of 14.1 event. Race to 150.
ALL TIMES ARE U.S. PACIFIC TIME

STREAM GOES LIVE EACH DAY AT 12:20 PM


The winner of Haar vs Alcaide plays the loser of Deuel vs Van Boening at 3 PM in the semi's. Semi's are race to 9 and finals are race to 11.

As long as the finals do not run super late we plan on streaming the finals of the 14.1 event as a bonus to the people who buy the PPV. We will have a better feel for the 14.1 thing as the evening progresses.

You can see it all live on theactionreport.com for $10.

 

["CaliRed".]

Finals starting in a few minutes!

I can see many people viewed, and can only speculate that it was so awesome and inspiring that it rendered you without words.

 

[JMuck]

It's to bad more people in the pool community don't realize the power of those images.The characters and there relationship to each other and to the game.
I particularly liked the ones of Scott Frost and Alex.

Nice compilation.

 

[Getnbzy]

Thank you very much for this cali. I am sure others appreciated it as well. :thumbup:

 

[Rick S.]

Pretty cool!

Image quality was phenomenal!!


It was live on the hotel tv's as well.

I was foolish enough to think I could go to the room and watch the one pocket final match. (as I was falling asleep sitting up during the first game) Wrong! I laid down and that was it.

Thanks for putting that slideshow together...

 

[Fast Lenny]

Pretty cool!

Image quality was phenomenal!!


It was live on the hotel tv's as well.

I was foolish enough to think I could go to the room and watch the one pocket final match. (as I was falling asleep sitting up during the first game) Wrong! I laid down and that was it.

Thanks for putting that slideshow together...

Rick, I did the same thing, watched the first game or 2 and I fell out for a bit.

 

[JCIN]

Dude. I just had a chance to look at this. Holy shit!

Amazing job. I know how much work had to go into this. Thank you so much. Very cool. Music choice is the heat as well.

 

[pt109]

Bump

I'm gonna try to give you a little feed-back from now on.
What I do is subscribe to your threads and enjoy them many times...
...and show them to friends.
I really appreciate them...great job!

My only complaint about your posts is your avatar......
...man!...that's scarier than the Burger King...:grin:

 

[Holly]

This gave me chills. So beautiful Cali thank you for sharing. If you don't mind, I plan to place this on the CSI website (www.playcsipool.com)

Great work, you're an artist.

Hugs,
Holly

 

["CaliRed".]

I'm gonna try to give you a little feed-back from now on.
What I do is subscribe to your threads and enjoy them many times...
...and show them to friends.
I really appreciate them...great job!

My only complaint about your posts is your avatar......
...man!...that's scarier than the Burger King...:grin:

thanks for your comments. Thanks to all of you that have commented in this thread. I appreciate it very much.

I had started a thread here trying to find out why more people didn't comment on peoples efforts, and someone complained and it got moved to the unholy land

If no one comments.. then my thread dies, because I'm too proud (don't know if that's exactly the word for it, but I have strong beliefs on bumping by OP), so I have to sit back and watch it fade away into obscurity.

But thanks to Getnbzy, he brought it back to life..and now a whole new wave of people get to see it, evidenced by it showing 230 more views since it was brought back to life on the 21st. That makes me happy that more people got to see it.

As far as the avatar... Yeah.. I agree it is pretty unsettling, and now that you have compared it to the BK dude, it for sure is getting changed, because THAT guy gives me the creeps.

Thanks all of you!!!

And I plan in the near future to make a REALLY KICK ASS one!!!! I believe that one will capture the emotions of the Open. This one, I give myself a C- on.. simply because I had a short deadline and didn't have time to do what I wanted. Plus it was more to show the camera angles and clarity of the stream.

Next one is going to focus on the players... the emotion.... I'm going to shoot for a A!!!

 

["CaliRed".]

This gave me chills. So beautiful Cali thank you for sharing. If you don't mind, I plan to place this on the CSI website (www.playcsipool.com)

Great work, you're an artist.

Hugs,
Holly

Oh??.... artist??? I believe you're still recuperating from the long hours and have not quite got back down to earth yet and you are talking crazy talk.

I hate releasing stuff that I rush on. I feel funny being thanked for something that I feel I did badly on. Something inside of me doesn't want people thinking that is what I think, is good. I AM going to make a GOOD one and I will embrace that one 100%Maybe next week.. or who knows maybe this weekend. Remember I'm a "artist", I have no schedule.. I create when I'm in that zone.. when the voices are talking to me:wink:

Thanks Holly... I put a link to it on your Facebook page (CSI)... I also actually was working on a photo that involves CSI and TAR this morning, that I thought would be cool.. but ran out of time.. cuz this "artist" HAS to work full time.

Feel free to put it where ever you like, but promise me you will either swap it out with my next one, or at least add my next one. THAT's the one that is going to be the good one.

 

[Holly]

Oh??.... artist??? I believe you're still recuperating from the long hours and have not quite got back down to earth yet and you are talking crazy talk.

I hate releasing stuff that I rush on. I feel funny being thanked for something that I feel I did badly on. Something inside of me doesn't want people thinking that is what I think, is good. I AM going to make a GOOD one and I will embrace that one 100%Maybe next week.. or who knows maybe this weekend. Remember I'm a "artist", I have no schedule.. I create when I'm in that zone.. when the voices are talking to me:wink:

Thanks Holly... I put a link to it on your Facebook page (CSI)... I also actually was working on a photo that involves CSI and TAR this morning, that I thought would be cool.. but ran out of time.. cuz this "artist" HAS to work full time.

Feel free to put it where ever you like, but promise me you will either swap it out with my next one, or at least add my next one. THAT's the one that is going to be the good one.

Oh shush with your bad self... Long hours? I thought that was a life style like chocolat is a food group