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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.
Intellectual Property law in the US has been getting tanglier and tanglier, what with Copyright extensions, fair use questions, the open source explosion, and the advent of digital technology that makes remixes and mashups into viable artistic expression. One thing advocates of the current (much too tight, in my opinion) IP regime keep trotting out is these figures 750,000 lost jobs, and $250 billion in lost revenue.
Sounds like a lot. Only problem is, those numbers appear to be made up. The article is good, and you should read it, but here’s the nut:
“Neither figure is terribly plausible on its face. As Wired noted earlier this week, 750,000 jobs is fully 8 percent of the current number of unemployed in the United States. And $250 billion is more than the combined 2005 gross domestic revenues of the movie, music, software, and video game industries.”
Besides, do you really want to discourage masterworks of creative re-allocation like The Other Family?
This past weekend, Psychic Bunny started production on its very first feature film, “The Echo Game.” It’s a low budget horror film in the style of the slasher films we grew up with and still love, complete with some pretty awesome murder scenes. It’s also a great chance to pull together with a lot of people we have worked with over the years as Psychic Bunny has grown and do something really fun. We’ll keep you updated on production and post as we move forward. It’s going to be a good time.
Here is an incredibly shabby cell phone photo I took on set:
Disfigured, the movie we did title design for a while back, just got a very good review in the New York Times. An excerpt:
Remarkable for its brutal honesty, fine acting and emphasis on personal accountability, “disFIGURED” recognizes societal norms of appearance but refuses to whine about them. When Lydia nervously asks Darcy what she thinks of Lydia’s body, Darcy doesn’t hesitate. “I think it’s disgusting,” she says without apology, and the exchange hangs in the air with shocking authenticity. In this weight-centric world, truth trumps political correctness every time.
Our friend and sometimes co-Producer Jeff Beard has completed his political doc, “Split,” about our great nation’s current political divide (I’m looking at you, Barack “Joker” Obama). He asked me to do some art for their viral campaign based on the movie’s highly designed versions of the ol’ Donkey and Elephant, and here are the results:
Click below the fold to see the inspiration for this highly patriotic image. (more…)
This series of webcomics about the recent earthquakes in Sichuan province are touching and very well executed. A wonderful use of the graphic medium to tell stories that bring home recent events.
Probably I’m the guy at the Bunny with the loudest tastes in music, but even so, I grew out of the phase of needing all my music to consist of shrieks and blistering guitar solos.
I do, however, like a good loud band that understands what rock music is supposed to be all about.
So you should check out these guys:
If you were to ask me what was killing the music industry slowly and steadily, I’d point to this group and say “the fact that these guys couldn’t seem to get a record deal.” That point is thankfully one I don’t have to make much longer because they have an album coming to stores in a few more weeks, but seriously, this is a band that’s been languishing in LA clubs since 2003. Check out their myspace but really, the recordings don’t do this band justice. Go see them.
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
A while back…everything blurs together, but maybe it was a year or two ago, we did some animations for the movie “One Day Like Rain,” a feature directed by our good ol’ pal Paul Todisco (who’s written with the likes of Guy Ritchie and practiced Yoga with Madonna!). Well, since that little movie came out, it soldout at Seattle International Film Festival, is headed to a festival in Amsterdam, and recently got reviewed on this website:
http://www.quietearth.us/articles/2008/03/25/My-review-of-One-Day-Like-Rain
The review features a couple of great stills from our animation sequences. Quiet Earth is a website that is “dedicated to genre film and everything Post Apocalyptic.” I find that pretty hilarious.
