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We’re almost halfway through our shoot here on The Echo Game. We’ve had a lot of laughs, a lot of love, and one crewmember death. Here’s some photos from the set!
Grip Armando Ballesteros puts his life in danger to bounce some light on lead actress Alisha Seaton.
More after the jump… (more…)
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.
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:
Disfigured, the independent feature that we did title design for last year, has gotten picked up for distribution by Cinema Libre. The movie is about an anorexic woman who tries to join a support group for overweight people, and the tumultuous friendship that she develops with the only woman in the group who will stick up for her. It’s a surprisingly funny and touching film, and I’m really glad it’s going out to a wider audience. So congrats to writer/director Glenn gers, and everyone else who worked on the film.
Here are the stars doing a little distribution dance:
It is now official! My Heinz commercial contest entry, “3250 MILES“, has been announced as one of the ten semi-finalists in the Top This contest! That means I edged out over 2000 other entries, which is an honor in its own right, but let’s be honest: there’s $57,000 on the line here, and it’s time to get serious! Please, please, please go to this page and vote! There’s a lot of good entries, I think you’ll agree, and it will be a real contest for sure. So vote! Tell your friends to vote! And (yes, I hate this too) vote once a day, because they let you do that.
For those of you who don’t know, to produce this commercial, Jesse and I really did travel the 3250 miles (actually, closer to 3900) on and off the beaten path between Los Angeles and Boston – with some major detours in between. Along the way we found a great many curiosities of Americana, many of which we sadly could not include in this thirty second piece. I owe a great deal to the many kind and sympathetic people we encountered along the way, without whom this project would have been impossible. I also owe special thanks to Austin Wintory for the beautiful music; Jesse Vigil for being my constant traveling companion and Murphy’s Pub drinking buddy; Todd Belcher for his exceptional voice talents; and Lauren Holt for not only doing some on-the-spot line producing upon our arrival in Pittsburgh, but also for kindly providing us with warm beds. And now, almost a year after we started this long voyage, all of those efforts have paid off!
The contest runs for three weeks and the winner is solely determined by popular vote at this point, so again, Vote Early and Vote Often! And please, please, please, pass it along to your friends!
Did you vote yet? Because you should!
Super thanks!
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.
As may not be apparent by our pictures of foosball tables and playing with Lego, we do a ton of work here, and since we don’t actually have the time right now to update the website, I thought we should at least mention one of our latest projects, Slacker.
Slacker Personal Radio is web radio that learns what music you like and adapts itself accordingly. You can listen on the web, or buy their Portable player and listen on planes, in trains, and even inside large cabinets if that’s your thing, jelly bean. OH MY GOD, but I don’t even have to tell you about it, because we made this video:
I finally met the guys from Slacker at the SXSW Music Fesival, at the Blender/Slacker after party, at around 2 or 3 in the morning. Our videos were playing in the main tent of the party while everyone was drunk on free beer and getting down to the likes of Diplo, A-Trak, and the Cool Kids. Slacker is based in San Diego, and we actually completed the entire project without ever having met face to face. See the rest of our suite of videos over at
This used to be all fake wood panelling, much of it chipped off to reveal the particle board underneath. Now it is a creative masterpiece!
We’ve been working on some new reels over here… here’s the first one off the assembly line!
Enjoy!
Doing some client work over the weekend, I accidentally created this rather lovely monstrosity… thought I’d share.
Available in full 1920×1080 resolution if you click through.