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Something tells me that you’d like to win a $100 Best Buy gift card from your friends at Psychic Bunny.

But, how!?

During the month of June, spread the word about the Psychic Bunny Newsletter! When your friends and associates sign up here, make sure they put your name in the referral field.  The person with the most referrals wins.

Why would my friends want to subscribe to the Psychic Bunny Newsletter?

Our newsletter is unconventional and fun.  AND one randomly drawn new June subscriber will WIN a $50 Best Buy gift card!  Aw, isn’t love grand?

Drawing by Andrew Chittenden

More details:

New subscribers must survive one email newsletter without unsubscribing.  You wouldn’t want to make Rick sad, would you?  You may sign up your friends, but not without their consent.  The minimum number of referrals required to be eligible to win is 10.  We will contact both winners and post their names on this very blog.  The contest ends at midnight Pacific Standard Time on June 30, 2010.

Hey wait, what if I’m not a subscriber…can I win both prizes?

Goodness, someone likes prizes.  Yes, you sure can!  The drawing for the $50 Best Buy gift card is random, so it is indeed possible.

Can I re-post this?

Yes please!

Do you like having imaginary conversations with yourself?

Ok, I think that I’ve answered quite enough questions for now.  If there are further questions you can email me at jazz [at] psychicbunny.com.

To promote their bar and get in with the indie filmmaking community, Locals Sports Bar & Grill is offering an AMAZING deal:

- Free filming at their location (a great sports bar)

- Free lighting (a couple Kinos, among other lights)

- Free use of their camera (A Canon XL, not great but can’t complain about the price)

- Free security during shooting

- Free catered lunch and craft services. WHAT? Well, they’re a grill, so they’re going to cook for you for free.

- Free post screening and wrap party location for your movie as well.

What are the buts?They have a few requirements…

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Yeah. So this happened.

So some of you out there might have been following a (film critic I’m not going to call by name since that will drive up his google numbers and thus play into his hands)’s recent attempts to become relevant again by reaching out and picking a fight with games for no good reason.

I’m not going to link to his blog post as that would definitely play into his hands, but the short summary is that in 2005 this person decided to say something inflammatory about a different medium than he made his living critiquing and got himself a nice little storm of comments like you can count on the Internet to predictably provide. Then a few weeks ago, because, it seems, he’s at least managed to embrace one tenet of the 21st century (if you say something inflammatory on the internet, people will pay attention to you again!) he decided to revisit this unbelievable assertion and milk it like he was James Cameron hoping for some extra Avatar 3D money.

P.S. Mr. Cameron, we love you carnally.

Full disclosure: In revisiting this goldmine of “no such thing as bad free publicity,” the critic in question chose to go after a rebuttal talk delivered by one of my schoolmates, dearest friends and fellow game designers, Kellee Santiago. When this happened, I stayed out of the fray since I have an obvious conflict of interest. But then someone brought the above tweet to my attention, which appears to be another more shameless attempt to provoke outrage. On that I will comment.

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Here it is, printed in all its glory!

I feel like a proud papa this week. Some of you may recall a while ago when I first mentioned an in-progress game I was helping design called Pathfinder. The game, which is designed to inspire and prepare high school students to make their college dreams a reality, has gone through several exciting evolutions since it was first conceived of as a computer-based RPG (which I always sort of hoped meant I got to make Earthbound Goes To College). — In fact, in the end the first finished product from the ongoing Pathfinder Project is a totally delightful physical card game.

Squee!

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I am pretending that today is the two year anniversary of the infamous Loituma Day, a day of such intense productivity and industriousness that scholars have long written of its glory.

How does one celebrate Loituma Day?  Well, watch (and LISTEN) to this:

I’ma let you finish…

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Hey y’all,

Just wanted to let you know that I had a really great time at the Milwaukee Film Festival. The films were very good, everything was really well organized, and I got to meet Martin Landau!

Photo credit by Phil Koch of Firestarter Films.

It was nice talking to a film legend about telling a story and how to get a movie made. He was incredibly nice, and still making great movies, like his latest, “Lovely, Still.” Boy, I wish my eyes were open for this picture.

The Golden Egg got a lovely reception. The great thing about making comedies is that you can tell immediately if everyone is enjoying it. I also met some great filmmakers with other great movies, like Max Winston’s “I Live in the Woods!” and Carlo Vinnie Besasie with “The Violinist.”

Thanks to Jonathan, Angela, TJ, and Claire and all the other people who made the festival possible. Rock on, Milwaukee.

When I was a little kid, I spent a lot of my free time designing flying cars. In fact, frequently I have good ideas that are waiting for technology to catch up to being even remotely close to something I think would be rad. Lucky for us, this time we only had to wait about a year for ultimate glory.

Monday we shot a “demo” for a new IP we’re very very excited about it. It’s a narrative series, but it has a very strong interactive twist to it. The show is called QUALIA, and it is a crime procedural that does not give a damn about fingerprints or UV lights or microfibers or sunglasses or The Who because all the evidence you, the audience will need to solve the crime is in the heads of the witnesses.

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We are a hurricane of doing things over here at Psychic Bunny. As you can see below, we just completely finished a horror feature, and have now also completely finished our first web series, “Coma, Period.” It’s an existential comedy starring Rob Delaney, who we don’t know if you’ve noticed, has been blowing up all over the internet, starring in “Warner Bros Responds to Christian Bale” and this Mad Men parody from Funny or Die.

We have just completed 10 episodes comprising the first season, and are distributing them through Strike TV. They’ve been getting great writeups from Tubefilter, Markee Magazine, and NewTeeVee. Jill Weinberger, the reviewer at NewTeeVee Station, actually said that the result of all our work “fueled by Delaney’s pitch-perfect and exuberant performance, is a satisfying blend of dark humor and goofy whimsy - a fusion often attempted in web video that’s rarely done as well as it is here.”

Please watch a few of the episodes over at www.comaperiod.com! We’re very proud

Much thanks to Lawrence Everson (Sound Designer), Jeff Waldron (Cinematographer), Ringleader Stages, The Maybe Happening, and everybody else (and there are tons) who made this production possible. I think you’ll be hearing a lot more about Coma, Period. in the future, so stay tuned!

After months of planning and effort, we are pleased to announce that we have just launched LEAD BALLOON, our new original content banner. Our first two projects to launch under Lead Balloon will be the indie feature film “The Echo Game” and comedy web series “Coma, Period.” Along with feature films, web series, and TV, we’ll also be developing games, mobile, and interactive projects.

The much-maligned actual lead balloon really can float (we saw it on Mythbusters!) and we take our inspiration from that hearty little guy, flying high against all odds. Lead Balloon is all about ideas that are risky, exciting, and (though improbable) truly soar.

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Horror news site Dread Central just did a nice little write-up of the movie we produced, The Echo Game along with an exclusive premiere of the trailer.

Check it out!