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That’s not actually a smoking burning part of Iraq, but rather the film set where we shot our latest. Fallen Eagle is pair of fifteen-minute films produced in conjunction with some of our favorite people over at the ICT that everyone hopes is going to do an awful lot of good for everyone downrange. The shoot was interrupted by the terrible fires in Southern California last week, but not even Doug accidentally invoking the ghost of the world’s first thespian and the notorious poor luck the mischievous ghoul brings to productions was enough to keep us from getting our movie. That smoke in the photo, sadly, is genuine smoke from actual ruin. I wish we could say that all the homes destroyed thus far were just one of our special effects.
But back to the positive stuff: Everyone here at the Bunny feels incredibly proud of what we are helping to accomplish. We can’t release a lot of details about the production itself, but we’re proud of the work all 80+ people involved did on the film and we’re proud to serve our country. More soon, including photos from the set.
We believe in you.
This past weekend I had a very unpleasant interaction with a fellow creator who is in the process of making a feature film. He’s written a script that’s very solid, good even, and he asked for people to read and critique it. I did. And then I discovered that he wasn’t looking for a critique at all, but for unabashed praise of his genius. He refused to accept that there were any problems or inaccuracies in his script, and an already unfortunate discussion just went downhill from there.
But there’s a silver lining to every cloud, right? This whole thing got me thinking about my creative philosophy for success, and how it might differ from other peoples’. I thought it might make a good discussion.
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.
The USS Kitty Hawk is one of the last conventional aircraft carriers in the fleet, and after 10 years stationed in Japan, she’s coming home. Japan, of course, is not too thrilled at the prospect of nuclear anything after their rather negative experiences in that regard:
So what’s a US Navy to do? We can’t send the Nimitz (architect of our pacific strategy), Enterprise (most famous ship of the Pacific theatre) or the Eisenhower (duh), so we’re sending the USS George Washington. A fine honor for the people of Japan, but it is a nuclear vessel. So the Navy has produced a 200 page Manga to help ease the transition!
Having done a fair amount of this type of work for the military ourselves, we’re pretty interested in this project. Unfortunately, none of us can read Japanese. But hey, maybe Rick can pick us up a copy when he’s in Tokyo for the Short Shorts Festival.
If you’re lacking in your supply of daily oneupmanship you’ll probably enjoy one of my favorite things
As I was on my lunch break the other day, May 1st to be exact, I took a few pictures of the Mayday march that was going on downtown. Later as I was looking through the pictures I looked closely and noticed this Praying Mantis had joined the march. Not to sure what the Mantis Struggle entails, but it looks like he just wants a little respect.