December 2009
11 posts
Inspiration comes in Blu
Christmas presents from my little sis! Cause a little Hi-Def Animated inspiration never hurt nobody. ~Jonny
Dec 31st
“There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do.”
– Bill Watterson (author, Calvin and Hobbes)
Dec 28th
Chinese Take-Off makes the Top 50!
You read that right! The short we helped produce for the Nikon Online Film Festival made the Top 50 cutoff out of over 1,200 submissions! And now the voting begins. There are two titles at stake - The Audience Award and The Judges Award, and both offer generous prizes. So check out the updated Nikon site, vote us some stars on our video, and help us become internet famous!! ...
Dec 23rd
New Digital Camera
My new point & shoot digital camera! Yay Christmas! It’s shock resistant and water resistant! For better to be updating the blog with. (Because iPhone pictures blow) I’m excited. ~Jonny
Dec 23rd
WatchWatch
Nikon held a contest to create a 140 second video to promote their new D5000, which shoots HD video. We took this as an opportunity to team up with Jonathan Strailey of Chocolate-Covered Hand Grenade to create a fun little short film that captures a day in the life of “Lou” – our poodle-loving, Chinese chicken-eating 20-something hero. It poured rain for the entire shoot, ensuring that most of...
Dec 19th
“Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens...”
– John F. Kennedy
Dec 16th
Pics from the set of "Chinese Take-Off"
Here’s a few pics from the set of the short film we worked on this weekend called “Chinese Take-Off”. It’s shot on Britt’s new Nikon D5000 DSLR camera, and it will be entered into the Nikon Online Video Festival. Check out the goods here - http://www.nikonfestival.com/ FBF friend Jonathan Strailey wrote and directed, Britt produced, Andy DP’d, and I was around...
Dec 15th
Poster Progression
Here is a progression of posters that Andy has designed for our movie GTG: This was the very first (to my knowledge). Andy designed this during pre-production long before we started shooting. I actually printed it out as the front cover for my production bible. That “Spring 2009” date was a little ambitious thou… This was in an early batch of designs right after we...
Dec 12th
Dec 10th
The Beginning
I had two big dreams - be a filmmaker / be a professional drifter. We wanted to make a feature length movie. So I started writing a script. This was something I had never done before and I was learning how as we went. Truthfully, I had a lot of help, great advice and criticism from my partners Andy and Britt, my girlfriend Athena, and my sister Linds. Without them, this would have fallen apart...
Dec 9th
The First One.
Dear Internet, We promise to be good to you. Please be good to us too. Sincerely, Andy, Jonny, and Britt
Dec 5th