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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…
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.
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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.
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.
Stills from some of our upcoming projects after the jump: (more…)
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.
Cool, right? Almost illegal in Texas.
In a stunning piece of supporting evidence for my long-standing assertion that “now that we have a country that’s been around for two plus centuries and generally agrees on how people ought to behave we don’t need fulltime lawmaking bodies anymore” — Texas has gone and passed a piece of legislation that will put anyone who is a lighting designer by profession out of a job.
No joke.
Look: you can read what the International Association of Lighting Designers has to say about suddenly not counting as people who have a right to call what they do a profession.
My thoughts after the jump.
Creative COW Magazine was so interested in our CineBingo project that they asked me to write an article about it for their latest “Games” issue. They wanted to know what kind of process we used to help create this live gameshow for movie theatres, how we got the job, and how we dealt with the interactivity of such a game. Trying to figure out how to come up with 2400 words, I actually got the chance to reflect how the job was a quasi-culmination of all of our graphics, interactive, and production experience. I also got the chance to reflect a bit more on our company mindset, and how that led us to here.
ALL THAT AND LIKE 10,000 BAGS OF CHIPS! Oh man, I wish that phrase was still in use after like ten years. Sigh.
Hope you enjoy the article! You can either read it on the Creative Cow website or download the pdf. It actually does look quite a bit better in the actual print magazine, so I’d suggest downloading the pdf.
Rick Castaneda CineBingo Article on Creative COW website
View Rick Castaneda CineBingo Article PDF
Our very first Make A World event was last night, and a grand time was had by all. If there is interest we will definitely make this a recurring thing, because we had a blast, and came out with one giant crazy new world full of atomic caterpillars, rocket(cro-magnon)men, and divinely ordained giraffes. You can see the bold new world that was created below, and click on the image to explore a much larger photo of the work.
A very special thanks to everyone who participated.
Also, a brief explanation and credits below the fold.
I’m probably not the first, but I just noticed the striking similarity between the Battlestar Galactica logo and that of our very own Consumer Product Safety Commission:
