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I don’t think we ever actually mentioned this on the blog, but even if we did, it’s worth posting again. In early 2008 we decided the best way to promote our business was to create a fake company that makes magic vials that give your pets super powers, and create an exposé called The Truth about how they infringed on our rights by telling the world that they gave Psychic Bunny its magical powers.

We also created a whole Magic Vials website, a postcard mailer, a Truth DVD, a 1-800 number for Magic Vials, and a YouTube videos of pets with superpowers.

You should really check out the website. The FAQ page is hilarious. Sorry for being so self-congratulatory, but I forgot we did most of this stuff.

THE MAGIC VIALS PHONE NUMBER STILL WORKS!! Holy smokes, that’s amazing.  713-568-6426!

During the past week or so I’ve been in Production on a new short film called Rainbow.  It’s about a very sad woman having a very horrible day, who gets stalked by a Rainbow with a nefarious scheme.  You’ll probably love it!  We had an incredibly talented crew and cast, and the whole thing has come together quite well.  The effects are going to take quite a while, but I’ll keep everyone updated, and for now you can enjoy the teaser image above.

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.

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Got six minutes?  Then I’ve got just the espionage thriller for you!  “Dead Drop” is a concise story of intrigue and betrayal, and I’d say more about it but it would just be cutting into your six minutes!

You can download it in Quicktime at http://www.dvxfest.com/betrayalfest/

This film has been submitted as part of DVXfest, which despite the name is open to short films shot on all cameras on a specific theme. This season’s theme is “betrayal.”

If you have a spare moment, the festival is open to voting from the public – but you only have to vote ONCE, none of this “come back every day” nonsense. There are a number of good entries in a whole slew of genres. A couple I’d particularly recommend – that couldn’t be more different from each other – are “xepoj” and “Occupational Hazards.”  You can see the whole list, rate them, and go to the discussion threads at http://www.dvxfest.com/betrayalfest/

Psychic Bunny does a ton of work with the Institute for Creative Technologies and the US Army, everything from Interactive Design to Film Production.  A project we did with them last year has been getting a ton of traction, and was recently featured in The Atlantic.   We did world-building and scenario writing for the interactive experience, as well as a large educational motion graphics component.

Read all about it!

It’s priceless to get in some good creative exercise now and then, so for the past week or so I’ve been spending a lot of my time shooting a short film that I wrote, “Dead Drop.” The film is the story of Mark Granger, a man who is being coerced into betraying his country by a shadowy figure who has kidnapped Mark’s wife.

More stills and stories from the shoot inside!  Click the link!  Do it!

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When we were trying to figure out how to create the SPLASH effect for episode 10 of Coma, Period., after exhausting our library of effects videos, we finally decided that to get what we wanted, we’d have to shoot it ourselves. Practicals, baby! So we went to the market for some milk, and Jazz and I filmed a bunch of clips of her dropping a metal ball into a bowl of milk. I found the results beautiful in themselves, and finally decided to just edit them together into something. This isn’t some amazing piece of art, but maybe you’ll find it enjoyable.

Here’s the final product, which you’ll see before the credit sequence:

We’re very pleased to announce that our 2-month grass-roots campaign to raise money to start the immediate production of our first indie game was successful in the final day of the drive. In case this is the first you’re hearing about any of this, FREEQ is a delightful little game that is one of several small games projects being bootstrapped to get a new co-venture of ours going called The Singularity.

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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.

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The Echo Game cast and crew screening was last night, and a grand time was had by all.  We were at the Downtown Independent,  an extremely cool new theatre just blocks away from the PB office.  We had most of our cast and crew in attendance, the movie looked gorgeous up on the big screen, everyone had a blast, and to top it all off, it was Melissa (the young actress who plays Sarah) Lee’s first R-rated film.  We’re honored.

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