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If you’re considering contacting a bunch of strangers (potential clients) in the hopes of getting paid work, then it’s probably not a great idea for that initial contact to be an email blast in which you write only one useless sentence (”Let me know if you have any projects coming up!”) and then attach a 20.5 megabyte PowerPoint file that presumably explains your business.  I’ll never know, because I deleted it instantly… once the email bottleneck finally cleared.

Sorry Randy _______, next time I’m looking for animals for my film productions, I’ll probably still look elsewhere.

"Sorry, Randy."

Last night down at the PB offices we made yet another world.  The title of this piece, thanks to Aaron’s choosing and cutting skills, is “Man-made Evolution.”  Unlike previous worlds, it isn’t so much a landscape as a sort of place on a great cosmic desk.  Check it out!

Man-made Evolution, featuring the Hawktopotamoose! (click for larger)

There were a ton of great games at the GDC Independent Games Festival this year, and some of the very best in my opinion were actually in the student category. Of course I’d be remiss in mentioning two that I’m in love with from the ol’ alma mater, Spectre and Paper Cakes, but I was also deeply captivated by the sublime pleasure of playing the opening levels of this game:

Continuity is part of that sweet new trend of reimagined platformers that does a very clever thing with a game format that we all grew up on by marrying it to another familiar mechanic that I’ve never seen combined in this way before. You’ll see what I mean. Go play.

But not this Zombie Cop.

Dead Heat stars Treat Williams and Joe Piscopo as two cops who have comically different styles and an angry black police Captain.  Can you feel the originality oozing off of this movie like the oil off of Piscopo’s arms?  Can you?  You can when I tell you that Treat Williams gets murdered and brought back to life by a machine that nobody is nearly as amazed by as they should be.  That’s right, Zombie Cop!  And Zombie Treat only has 14 hours to “live” before his body degenerates and he dies for realsies.  Of course that means taking out the bad guys, including Vincent Price, and their crazy resurrecting machine.  This might not sound totally awesome to you, but let me assure you that this movie is TOTALLY AWESOME.

For no apparent reason, there is another resurrection machine hidden in the chandelier of a butcher shop.  But then it is revealed that the reason is so there can be an AWESOME SCENE where duck heads and decapitated cows fight our heroes.  If I ever get my hands on a resurrection machine, I am taking it straight to the butcher shop (sorry, recently deceased loved ones).  Also, Joe Piscopo is later killed and brought back and after the zombie cops defeat the villains they walk off into zombie cop heaven together.  Damn straight.  It’s like the end of Battlestar Galactica, but less terrible.

Oh yeah, did I forget to tell you that Zombie Treat’s character is named “Roger Mortis.”  He really should have known he had it coming. (more…)

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/

Who doesn’t want to learn about science from the King of the Vampires and/or Davey Jones and/or whoever he played in Love, Actually?  Nobody, that’s who.  This hit series is ON THE WAY.

Year One isn’t terrible, it just isn’t very good.  It has a few legitimately funny jokes, most of which (gasp) aren’t in the trailer.  What little narrative the movie has is based largely around bible stories, which I guess are all taking place concurrently, because hey, it’s Year One!  As a general rule for this film, Caveman Jokes are pretty funny, Bible Jokes are almost never funny.  It’s a shame, because from the poster you’d think this would primarily be a Caveman Joke movie.

YEAR ONE

BAD-BAD <——————–X———–> NOT-THAT-BAD

Actually really funny jokes: 3

Actually really funny Michael Cera jokes: 0

Actually really funny Caveman Jokes: 3

Scenes that just end with no resolution: 6

Years that Harold Ramis has been coasting on the success of Groundhog Day: 17

Oh, Chopping Mall.  How 8-year-old-me yearned to peek inside your VHS box of wonders and see what mayhem awaited.  Check out that sweet razor gauntlet!  And the back of the box says something about killer robots!  Sold!

This movie was originally titled Killbots, which is a more accurate, and frankly, more rad, title.  There isn’t really a serial killer per se, and in fact these robots don’t even have hands, or good production design.  What they do have are blades and lasers and electroshock devices suitable for murdering the group of crazy kids who might as well be spending the night in the Camp Crystal Lake Gift Emporium for all the difference it makes.  They wander into the woods, err, mall, hoping to spend the night, drink booze, get a little action, and accidentally awaken Jason, err, the robot security guards.  Ruh roh!  Somebody should have brought their razor gauntlets!

FUN FACT: Bad Movie All-Star John Terlesky, star of the trashy masterwork Deathstalker 2, has a smaller role in this film, and now directs episodes of Castle.  Way to go, John Terlesky!

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If you’re a living human, chances are you’ve tried to send an important document via email to your attorney, John Arai Mitchell  – only to later realize that you completely forgot the little detail of actually including the attachment!  Idiot!  No wonder he never writes you back!  He’s got better things to be doing than helping you and your slowbrain recall how the little paperclip button works!  He’s a professional law person.

Well, if you use Apple Mail, fret no more.  Attachment Scanner is a little plugin that scans your email for words that indicate that you think you’ve included an attachment… and then stops you dead in your tracks when you try to hit send!

Now, it doesn’t do the hard work of helping you add an attachment automatically or anything cool like that, but come on, how lazy are you?  This is a nice, free little tool that will give you added peace of mind and a long, healthy, equitable relationship with John Arai Mitchell… nothing more.  Enjoy!