Archive for April, 2008
I saw this on a bus ad today:
Yes, because I want to buy my auto insurance from a crow making the “I dunno who did it. Certainly not me!” face. That’s a face you can trust!
Yesterday on my way to the train, I saw two cops riding around Hollywood on these three-wheeled Urban Assault Segways:
How long before we get this… ?
April is Jazz Appreciation Month, and in honor of this fine tradition we are introducing all of you out in the great wide internet world to the newest bunnies, Jazz and Aaron. They may even be popping up around here posting to the blog, so get used to them.
And as long as we’re here, let’s not forget this guy:
If you live or work in downtown LA, I’m sure you’re aware of how there is CONSTANT movie and commercial shooting here. You can see our own little corner in such movies as Transformers, Spiderman, Rush Hour 3, and tons of others. Our street corner is one of the few in LA that can double for New York, so it’s used in almost everything. Sometimes I’m completely disconcerted on my way to work by rows and rows of NY taxi cabs and hot dog vendors.
I thought you might like to see two pictures I’ve taken recently on my camera phone, of what I can only guess were commercial shoots.
We all know how much I love cereal:
And not too long ago there was a HUGE Slip’n Slide down Bunker Hill, on 4th Street! You can’t see too much from this photo, but it was about a block long, and there were a bunch of people at the top with inner-tubes, ready to take the plunge.
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!