Archive for February, 2008
Hey all - just wanted to let you know that our short, “The Golden Egg” will be screening at SXSW.
http://2008.sxsw.com/film/screenings/film/F9651.html
11:00 PM, Friday March 7th - Alamo Ritz 2
*NEW DAY* 11:00 PM, Tuesday March 11th - Alamo Ritz 2
11:00 PM, Thursday March 13th - Alamo Ritz 2
I’m going to be in Austin from March 7-16th, so if you’re reading this and want to meet up at any point, please give me a call, or email.
Want to buy some old crap?
Here at Psychic Bunny, we’re getting rid of some equipment. And Doug just wrote us some highly amusing Craigslist ads.
19″ Micron (Sony) Trinitron TFT Monitor - $25
PowerMac G4 - $25
Brother 7820N multi-function laser printer - $40
Thought this was pretty poignant for everyone who does art/film/fiction.
Hey, if anybody needs to rent a Red One camera package, talk to me, I know a guy.
Since Super Tuesday, the election coverage has been focusing a lot on Obama’s small-donor, grassroots support – a nice little story of how smaller donors have together financed the largest campaign fundraiser in history. This has been possible largely through collective action online (organized through MoveOn.org and the like) and by simple direct response. It’s easy for almost anyone to take a few minutes and Paypal $20, $50, whatever… and that is driving this kind of change.
So I started thinking, why doesn’t something like this exist for film financing? It turns out, it does!
This here is pretty great: This fellow bought a font from Letterheads, and it managed to get uploaded to a file sharing site. He refused to get it taken down, so they want to charge him for the extra downloads that have now been generated. This is a real case of piracy hitting home because the designer that made the font takes home 70% of the sales there, so this is directly affecting him. As the economy becomes more specialized and direct delivery of media becomes a reality, piracy will start to hurt the little guy more and more. Letterheads has had to up the price on that font to pay off the outstanding fee (and get that money back to the artist):
“In order to recoup these losses, LHF Garner must now sell for $39 (32% increase). $9.50 of each sale will go to pay down Randy’s bill. When Randy’s bill has been paid in full ($944), LHF Garner will revert back to it’s original price of $29.50. Of course, if anyone would like to purchase a single copy of LHF Garner for $1000… well, that would work too.”
Oh yeah, and they published Randy’s email address. I like it: Vigilante font justice.
Tubemogul, the awesome uploading & tracking tool that allows us to upload our videos to ten different websites (youtube, yahoo video, revver, stupidvideos, etc.) with the click of a button (instead of the painful and tedious uploading to ten sites, writing 10 different sets of tags and video descriptions), now has even more features. And I just so happen to love them.
The Boast Feature:
Looks like this! That’s how many views our spoof of the movie “P2″ has gotten across all the websites we’ve uploaded it to. No longer do you have to worry about only ushering people to one place because “the only views that count are on YouTube” or because “Revver is the only web portal that pays.” Now you can point people to wherever the hell you want, because now with Tubemogul you can show how all the views are adding up. Now, granted, of that 124,000 views (as of this post) 122,000 are from youtube, but every so often a video gets featured on Yahoo or Revver or Stupidvideos, and don’t you want those to count, too?
The New Link Feature
Basically, they give you automatic code to generate these links to your videos all over the web:
YouTube, Yahoo, MySpace, Metacafe, Google, Revver, DailyMotion, Blip.tv, Veoh, Crackle and Stupid Videos
No, I didn’t have to copy and paste 11 links, I just copied one block of code, and it felt just like slipping into silk pajamas. Actually, come to think of it, I can’t imagine the usefulness of that one, unless somehow giving web viewers the choice over which of the 11 websites to watch your video is somehow incredibly desirable. Maybe it is?
There is also a tool which lets you embed the latest Youtube comments into your own webpage, which is awesome, but I can’t seem to get it to work in this blog, so that’ll have to wait till I figure it out.