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Remember back in August when I told you about a festival started by two guys in trucker hats? Well, I was just informed that our short film, “The Golden Egg” just won their audience award. It’s called the “Golden Toof Award.” How fitting.
The Golden Egg is about to make its Midwestern, Japanese, and Canadian premiere next week. In fact, over the span of 2 days it will screen in Michigan, Tokyo, and Toronto. I won’t be able to go to all three, but the Short Shorts Film Festival in Japan is sponsoring me to fly and stay in Tokyo for a week, and welp, I’m pretty excited. I’ll try to post some pictures while I’m there to give you a sense of what film festivals are like in other countries. Wow.
If you happen to be any of these places next week, you should definitely go! Read below for screening times:
And guess who wrote it? Us!
Creative Cow was so impressed with our spoof trailer for the movie “P2″ that they asked us to write an article about it for their website. For those of you who don’t know, Creative Cow is an amazing user’s group, forum, and magazine for media producers and artists, and we’re very very proud to be featured in one of the very places we’ve turned to for help so many times for technical questions.
For any of you who have ever wondered about how we make things over here at PB, the following article gets pretty dang explicit.
P2 is a movie about getting stuck in a parking garage and being held captive by a deranged parking attendant. Our spoof is about getting stuck in a parking garage and being held captive by a deranged tapeless HD camera.
http://library.creativecow.net/articles/spice_doug/P2.php
Hey all - just wanted to let you know that our short, “The Golden Egg” will be screening at SXSW.
http://2008.sxsw.com/film/screenings/film/F9651.html
11:00 PM, Friday March 7th - Alamo Ritz 2
*NEW DAY* 11:00 PM, Tuesday March 11th - Alamo Ritz 2
11:00 PM, Thursday March 13th - Alamo Ritz 2
I’m going to be in Austin from March 7-16th, so if you’re reading this and want to meet up at any point, please give me a call, or email.
Tubemogul, the awesome uploading & tracking tool that allows us to upload our videos to ten different websites (youtube, yahoo video, revver, stupidvideos, etc.) with the click of a button (instead of the painful and tedious uploading to ten sites, writing 10 different sets of tags and video descriptions), now has even more features. And I just so happen to love them.
The Boast Feature:
Looks like this! That’s how many views our spoof of the movie “P2″ has gotten across all the websites we’ve uploaded it to. No longer do you have to worry about only ushering people to one place because “the only views that count are on YouTube” or because “Revver is the only web portal that pays.” Now you can point people to wherever the hell you want, because now with Tubemogul you can show how all the views are adding up. Now, granted, of that 124,000 views (as of this post) 122,000 are from youtube, but every so often a video gets featured on Yahoo or Revver or Stupidvideos, and don’t you want those to count, too?
The New Link Feature
Basically, they give you automatic code to generate these links to your videos all over the web:
YouTube, Yahoo, MySpace, Metacafe, Google, Revver, DailyMotion, Blip.tv, Veoh, Crackle and Stupid Videos
No, I didn’t have to copy and paste 11 links, I just copied one block of code, and it felt just like slipping into silk pajamas. Actually, come to think of it, I can’t imagine the usefulness of that one, unless somehow giving web viewers the choice over which of the 11 websites to watch your video is somehow incredibly desirable. Maybe it is?
There is also a tool which lets you embed the latest Youtube comments into your own webpage, which is awesome, but I can’t seem to get it to work in this blog, so that’ll have to wait till I figure it out.
Our parody trailer “P2” now has more than twice as many views on YouTube as the actual trailer for the film “p2″ (109,908 and 39,593, respectively). I think this means that if we made a feature film of OUR version then its safe to say that it would gross at least $3 million its opening weekend, and not have the most abysmal wide release of all time.
How does a father tell his only daughter that there’s no Santa Claus?
View it in stunning Medium Definition on our Media of the Month site!
Happy Holidays, everyone!
The only thing more terrifying than recording to tape… is realizing that you’re not.
Watch it in higher quality on our Media of the Month site!
Because we are geniuses, we decided to parody the trailer to one of the biggest flops in movie history! So, on the off chance that you didn’t see it, you can check out the original trailer here. See if you can spot some of the sneaky trailer tricks they use in the real deal!
Special thanks to our special friends Kristen, Harrison (HVX puppeteer), and Mike!
Just to make our position clear, we actually love P2 and tapeless technologies… in fact much of this piece was shot on a JVC HD110, which is a very fine camera, but it’s so easy to forget what a pain recording and capturing with tape is once you’ve stopped doing it for a while!
When the Zero-Gravity Avenger sets down on the dusky surface of Mars, you know you’re going to be seeing ACTION!
This month we take you on a voyage into the ancient mythical past of the 1950s and ’60s, with a new music video for The Squares by our own Ricky Castanets. This time Rick brings us a high-energy combination of found footage and sneaky modern-day tricks. It was completed in just a week for a whopping huge budget of around $0. Please do enjoy it by clicking through to the post!