Archive for November, 2007
The only thing more terrifying than recording to tape… is realizing that you’re not.
Watch it in higher quality on our Media of the Month site!
Because we are geniuses, we decided to parody the trailer to one of the biggest flops in movie history! So, on the off chance that you didn’t see it, you can check out the original trailer here. See if you can spot some of the sneaky trailer tricks they use in the real deal!
Special thanks to our special friends Kristen, Harrison (HVX puppeteer), and Mike!
Just to make our position clear, we actually love P2 and tapeless technologies… in fact much of this piece was shot on a JVC HD110, which is a very fine camera, but it’s so easy to forget what a pain recording and capturing with tape is once you’ve stopped doing it for a while!
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.
Ok people, so this story starts out, I’m shopping for a new cell phone on http://www.wireless.att.com (I can never remember the web address for that site, so I always just type in www.cingular.com knowing that it will scoot me right there.) I’m waiting til midnight because I’m guessing that there will be good sales on thanksgiving day, and there are. In fact, the new Samsung Blackjack 2 just came out, and it’s only $150, which yesterday, is what the original Blackjack cost. Now the Blackjack 1 is only $75, new, or hey, you could buy it refurbished for $100! I really hope nobody’s that stupid. (I have decided to get the blackjack 2, which is twice as awesome in general and for once I’ll have a new phone on the day it came out. Suck on that, iPhone.)
While I’m shopping online for this phone, and checking on the various specs between the Blackjack 1 and 2, a window pops up. It asks me if I would like to chat to a salesperson about my phone choices. AGGGGHHHH!!!!!
I click “CHAT”….
Once upon a time, some guys calling themselves Team Lower Gatsby and some guys calling themselves Psychic Bunny (some of those guys from each actually being the same guys) got together and made an internet TV pilot. It was five minutes long and silly and made in about 5 days at a total cost of about $150. However, those guys, being ambitious tykes with poor judgment, decided to put all sorts of exotic locations and special effects in their show! Why did they do this? Who cares! The point is they did this all using the most run-and-gun tactics around, and somehow it actually came out looking pretty good, and some people on the WWW asked “Hey, how DID you do that?” and so here’s the brief tutorial. Enjoy.
The world would be more interesting if we still had stuff like this:
Also, while putzing around with this, I found this awesome story about a snake in a car engine.
If so, please watch our documentary, Thomas Green Clemson: A Life & Legacy, airing at 9pm on South Carolina PBS. Thomas Green Clemson, statesman, geologist, and founder of Clemson University, is played by Alex Trumbo,
who also plays this guy:
Classy.
Last weekend I officiated the marriage of Alex and Alison Muniz, two fine people who had the good sense to throw a wedding and feed a bunch of writers just after the strike hit. The theme was, at the groom’s request, “the civic religion of the United States,” and it worked out better than you’d think. Just another thing we do here at Psychic Bunny.
I was waiting to post this until there was a picture of them during the ceremony (you know, with ME in it), but it seemed like time was running short. Anyway, Congrats, you crazy kids!
So Google has announced its latest effort in pushing the technology envelope. They are moving into mobile phones. While this isn’t surprising in the least (its been foreshadowed for a while now), it does offer up some possibilities. Google, along with the partners of this venture are making an open source platform for mobile phone. Granted open source isn’t all that its cracked up to be if its only on one system, but this is where Google has succeeded, there are a lot of major partners in this venture Broadcom, eBay, China Mobile, Intel, LG Electronics, NTT DoCoMo, Nvidia, Samsung, Sprint Nextel, Telecom Italia, Telefonica, Texas Instruments (PC World Article).
What do you get when you team up a former Poet Laureate of the United States with a variety of talented and creative animators and motion designers? You get Billy Collins Action Poetry, which you should enjoy, enjoy, enjoy. Here’s my favorite, which I feel a special connection to, although I can’t quite remember why…
Enjoy, everyone, and have a great weekend!
WGA Strike Blog. Including fun updates, photos and horror stories about the fate of scabs. Also some good discussion of media’s wholesale move to the internet, and the idea that maybe networks and studios as we know them are a bit obsolete. I’m certainly not averse to the idea that the digital revolution hit the music industry first and hardest, but that change could spread fast.
This is probably the only place you’ll be able to get new product from some of your favorite writers for a little while.