This is as cute as I get. It’s also very odd, so it’s not all cute.
Riley sings “Don’t Stop Believing” from Ronnie Silos on Vimeo.
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Why do sandwiches cut on angle taste better? Admit to yourself they do. Apparently food tastes better when it’s easier to eat. This must go back to cavemen times. When we were all hunters, the food that was easier to catch was what you ate. Neanderthals were not eating cheetahs and kangaroos and peregrine falcons. They were eating cows, sheep… and presumably turtles?
You have to wonder how good a Larry David would taste had it been cut diagonally. Might have at least been on par with a Ted Danson. I’ll tell you one thing… I’ll never eat a sandwich that hasn’t been cut on angle ever again. I won’t. Won’t do it.
Folks. This is a glorious day. Many people know my love of 3D. It’s my favorite gimmick. I believe everyone should own a pair of good 3D glasses. Non-cereal box variety. That’s why I went on eBay a few years back and got a pair of 3D clip-on specs. This way, I could conveniently flip them up and out of the way when I’m not using them. Well, now I present to you my first 3D movie. Whip out your red and blue 3D googles and enjoy a wild ride in a stolen space ship. In multiple dimensions!
Here’s the original movie, posted yesterday. You can find the plot there. No idea why we’re calling it “Don’t Ask”. Don’t ask.
And here it is in 3D…
I was fooling around with some After Effects tutorials and created this hunk of silly. Actually I just followed Andrew Kramer’s great tutorial as closely as possible. The sound design makes me think of THX 1138, which in my opinion, is the coolest sound design ever. Thanks Walter Murch! I’m really not sure what this is supposed to be. It appears as though I’ve stolen a space ship of sorts and am trying to evade people trying to get it back. I really don’t know how to fly the thing, but I always did want to go into space. Figured this was my best chance. What do all the doohickey’s do?
Anyway, we’re going down!
Read MoreWhile this goes against one of my rules: Attempting to talk seriously and analyze funny things never works… (I hated The Comedians of Comedy and The Aristocrats) There is a new fan-made documentary on the greatest show in television history. The Arrested Development Documentary Project looks to have interviews by the main cast and crew of Arrested Development. I hope it’s a little more than a DVD special feature. I’m willing to make an exception to the rule in this case because the source material is so friggin’ good. And it’s just so ridiculous. Trying to wax poetic about a show as insane and over the top as AD is really stupid. But it’s our love for the show that will get us to watch. While I maintain that I’m glad AD ended when it did, I can’t wait for the full length movie. Until then, we have this….
This is a geeky little graph created by Dan Meth, who has a history of creating geeky little graphs. It just doesn’t feel right without Star Wars, which I would have put at the very top. But fun nonetheless. Check out the original post for a larger view.
I feel really guilty when someone says, “you’re gonna die when you see this.”
And then I don’t die. Awkward!
Read MoreThis is awesome. These kids look just like me when I’m singing it. Love the Sopranos ending too.
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I was sure this day would come. I thought it would come 3 years ago. But it’s here now and I hope you are all frothing at the mouth, chomping at the bit, doing whatever it is you do when you’re excited. Stall has been completed. A project that started in the summer of 2005, four years later is done. This movie has gone through so much since then.
Stall is a short comedy about a guy stuck in a bathroom. Paul just wants to get home, but that is easier said than done.
Lespants came to me in the spring of ’05 and said hey do you want to work on this movie I wrote? I thought it was a funny script and said sure. We held some pre-pro meetings and had a casting call. Our mutual friend Dave Schoner provided the location, and what a perfect location it was. We actually didn’t have the bathroom until the very last minute, but it worked out great. We had an empty building in Newark, NJ and an office for staging. 2 days in a stifling bathroom was rough, but everyone was just happy to be shooting it. That proved to be the easy part.
Our dear friend Dan began cutting it in the fall of ’05 and gave us a great first cut. But life took over and bills needed to be paid, so Dan bowed out of the project. That winter Christian took all of the footage to California with him and planned on finishing the thing there. A stolen hard drive and a year later, the footage came back east.
Other projects began to take priority, but Stall always lingered. Much of this is Dan’s original cut, which I basically trimmed and finessed. Ultimately adding music, sound design, and doing color.
There is so much footage littering the cutting-room floor. The original script was about 20 pages and we shot most of it. We were wet behind the ears back then and weren’t sure what we could do with it. 20+ minutes would have been too long. I toyed with the idea of making it a web mini-series. Though It probably was more like a TV pilot than anything else. In the end, I’m just happy it’s finished so we can put this project behind us. We owed it to Matt and Michael who are awesome in it and worked their butts off.
Without any further delay, I give you Stall.