photo credit: muha… I have extended my contract at work through December, but I requested a month off after Benjamin Button, and I got it, so July is a No Work Zone for me.  So what the heck will I be doing with 4 whole weeks with nothing to do?  Quite a lot actually (a [...]

I saw “Wanted“. It is really bad.  So incredibly laughably bad.  I invented a word to describe it: “Rawful” Rawful = ROFL + awful.  I enjoyed my time watching this film, but not in the right way, and not for the intended reasons.  I will not give this movie the time it would take to tell you [...]

In preparation for the Beijing Olympics, the Chinese Police practice not looking scary.  Now all they need is loudspeakers playing Wagner’s “Flight of the Valkyries” as they roll down the street, Segways clutched betwixt their knees… /Chris

As a follow up to my previous post about my personal involvement in this upcoming film, I give you a link to a painstakingly proofread and typeset version of the short story that started it all. Jonathan McNicol has taken it upon himself to take the time to bring us a really beautiful set [...]

Watch this video at YouTubeThe title of this post is a stupid, stupid question. Of course you want to. A little science on what you see in this video: But why doesn’t the gigantic amount of current, which is in the neighborhood of 20,000 amps for a typical lightning bolt, harm the passengers inside [...]

As I opened up ye olde Bloglines this morning I was greeted with 14,621 new unread posts from BoingBoing since yesterday. I’m just going to guess that this is a mistake :). Sometimes when technology goes “Boink” it’s funny to me, so I thought I’d share this little chuckle with you. Carry [...]

The above picture goes with this story over on Defamer. Basic gist: developing story, no word on anything other than the fact that nobody was hurt (hopefully). In the picture is the IOWest Theater, which is where the majority of our members trained and many still perform. One of the best bars in LA [...]

The title says it all. This is a MAJOR game-changing revelation for creative industries such as the one I make my living in [entertainment]. Here is the heart of the issue: For U.S. books published between 1923 and 1963, the rights holder needed to submit a form to the U.S. Copyright Office renewing the copyright [...]

Over the last couple months, I have been working on a “top secret” Wall·E project that just went live at midnight. For those of you that have Flash, head on over to Disney.com and be sure to turn your speakers on! It will only be on the website for a limited time, so check it out while [...]

Watch this video at YouTube A little while back, I posted a short film I made in 2002 as I exited Film School, titled “Crushed”. I realized this week that as User-Partners, The AV Club can upload files up to 1GBto Youtube, so I decided to toss it up there for anyone who felt [...]

Have you been following the developing row between the Associated Press and the Blogosphere? Catch up on what is happening here, here, here, and here. The basic rundown is that the AP just announced that to quote any more than 5 words from any of their articles, you must pay them a licensing [...]

I wanted to post this a few weeks ago when the bootlegs hit YouTube, but I couldn’t stand how dark they all were. The film that shall appear very soon on my IMDB profile finally got a trailer released on the web in HD. It ran in front of Indy 4; for the [...]

As I said in the previous post about our recent experiences with the RED One digital cinema camera, there is a lot of info out there about the camera and its use. Instead of creating more noise, I’ll first link to those sites that I found most useful in my own search for info [...]

I have teased this story for a few weeks, but now there is some time for me to take a deep breath and finally write it all down for you guys. The basic version is that we finally got our hands on a RED One and shot something with it. I will be [...]

Watch this video at YouTubeI only just now caught this really kind and detailed review of Psycho Bob over on NewTeeVee. Here are a few quick excerpts, but the basic gist is that they like what we are doing, which makes us really happy. Director Andy Cochrane and cinematographer Craig Bauer deserve credit for developing [...]

I took the above picture about an hour ago between 6th and 7th on Wilshire in Santa Monica. That’s a bus. On Fire. It was one of those CNG natural gas buses so it was a tad concerning that it was in flames. The white dust you see all around the [...]

So Steve Jobs just left the stage after announcing a bunch of things that everyone in the world already knew. Never have I witnessed (via Mac Rumors’ liveblog of the event) an Apple product release that did not hold a single surprise. Well there was one- the damn iPhone 2.0 OS is not [...]

Watch this video at YouTubeCheck it out, yo, The Daily Tube saw fit to feature one of our first shorts, The Splooginator. Thanks guys! And thanks to Matt for the eagle eyes and the head’s-up.

It has been over a week now since we posted anything. “Why is that?” you ask. Because we are prepping for a HUGE shoot in just over a week. Details will be forthcoming on that, but I can say right now that it will be the biggest shoot of my life [...]

Watch this video at YouTube “Gee, Sam,”, you may ask, “what’s with all the hate?” Well, if you think back to the simpler days of late 2007, you may remember this post by Chris, where he mentions “Gorgeous Tiny Chicken Machine Show”, one of the most brilliant pieces of surreal fake Engrishness this side of Tokyo [...]