Summer Reruns: Go All the Way


In the not-so-distant past, I dabbled with animation. The times were young an frivolous. My experimentation was with animated gifs. Sure it was crude and sort of cheesy by today’s standards. Hell, it was cheesy back then. The only way you can grow is to expand and visit new shores.

The time was the Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show. You know the thing that no one watches on TV. Ms Jackson sort of exposed a breast to the whole of the USA and parents got their tits in a twist. At the time a friend pondered if the uproar was because of a bare breast or because that bare breast was african american. That’s a debate for another post.

Adult Swim, in their salad days, aired a bump that re-created the scandal in ascii form. This gave me the idea to extend the thought to the next level.



Show Tubes: THE REMNANTS


The Internet moves pretty fast. If I dare blink or put a find off until next week, the relevancy will be missed.

Shot during the writer’s strike last year, THE REMNANTS follows the lives of 5 strangers who’ve become friends in post-apocalypse LA. What I’ve gathered from this 11 minute pilot is:

John August wrote and directed this gem of a potential web series during the strike’s darkest hour. This may explain why everyone seems to click very nicely. It could also explain how he got so many fairly well known names to appear.



Show Tubes: The Indy Mogul Overload


From the depths of the Indy Mogul offices come their latest BFX test film: freeze face. And by film I mean music video with music provided by Keelay.

What is Indy Mogul?
They are young, gonzo filmmakers. They make, and show, other young filmmakers how to create cheap visual effects for their backyard films. Imagine what the world would have been like if Steven Spielberg had these tools available during his formative film years? Darren Aronofsky might have gotten the awesome of THE FOUNTAIN to our eyes a few years earlier. The creation catalyst potential is endless.

EriK Beck is your guide through: 1) talking about the special FX in question 2) showing a test film using said FX. It’s just that easy. Their blog features daily notices and I hear their forums are filled with its fare share of talented creators. They are basically super film geeks on a whole ‘nother level. That level being The Internet.

Sidenote: Another Indy Mogul favorite of mine is THE SPIRIT’S DAY OFF. It became so popular that they followed up with a behind the scenes look at that film. Let it be known that is about as close as I’ll get to watching The Spirit on film. That is until they do a reboot of the franchise 10 years later or when I’m liquored up late, on a Saturday night, and happen to land on an HBO viewing.

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