Month: July 2009

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These Are Those Things

Do More With Less

When we were first trying to figure out how to make a lot of movie with a very little bit of money, our MO was to boil each scene down to it’s single essence. Or at least try to. Why fill it up? Why not strip it down instead? What was it that the movie truly couldn’t live without? Was the scene about plot or performance, beauty or energy, humor or emotion? I think this video could have helped us a lot…

Thanks to Matthew Ross for the tip!
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Bowl Of Noses

Let’s Go To The Moon!

Take you pick of Apollo missions here.

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Bowl Of Noses

Where We Are Not Going This Summer

Well maybe one summer we will get here.  I have never been, but I am glad I live in this age where I can have a 360 degree virtual tour of such wonders.

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Truly Free Film

List: Blogs That Will Review Undistributed Films v1.0

All of these blogs got recommended to me as being open to reviewing unreleased film.

I have placed the name of the individual who recommended next to the blog.

http://brendonbouzard.com/blog/ Brendon Bouzard

http://cinemaechochamber.blogspot.com/ Brandon Harris

http://wwww.cinematical.com Tze Chun

http://www.cinevegas.com/blog/ Christophe Lepage
http://d2dvd.blogspot.com/ Bill Cunningham action,horror, pulp,sci-fi, thriller
http://www.filmthreat.com/blog/ Christophe Lepage

http://www.hammertonail.com/ Ted Hope

http://www.sf360.org/blogs Christophe Lepage
http://www.slashfilm.com/ http://www.slashfilm.com/
http://www.spout.com Tze Chun & Christophe Lepage
http://twitchfilm.net/site/ Tze Chun

PLEASE NOTE: I have not confirmed this acceptance policy with any of the sites. Please confirm on your own and let me know.
This will be an ongoing to-be-revised list. Check back for updates.
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Bowl Of Noses

How Muppets Work

HowStuffWorks explains How Muppets Work.  It’s more than just putting your hand inside a puppet you know.

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Bowl Of Noses

Make Your Own Alphabet

A more accurate title for this post would be: “Make Your Own Font” because we aren’t suggesting you throw out our trusty twenty six or even alter how they are built.  We just think it’s fun to find the letters where you don’t usually look.  

Of course we found all of ours the easy way: on the internet.  Once you start looking, clearly you’ve got some projects to take you well into your Grown Up Years since where we found them they had alphabets made from things that should have “age appropriate” warnings on them (we will spare you those).  But of course some are just good clean fun too.
Like the food alphabet.

Nothing like having a reason to play with your food.  You can now tell your parents why: you are practicing to become a graphic designer and working on a new font!
Or the butterfly wing one.

Or maybe you just stick with food and go to hamburger meat.  

The first one I ever saw like this was made simply by staring up.  The creators were in the city so buildings always got in the way of a big clear sky, but they didn’t let that bother them — they turned it into an alphabet!  The sky spells all the answers.

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Truly Free Film

Needed: List of Indie Film Blogs Open To Reviewing Undistrib’d Films

In response to the LOVELY BY SURPRISE post the other day, filmmaker Ashley Meyers wrote in with this suggestion: What Indie Film Blogs will cover undistributed films? Please help us build this list. Let us know which ones you know about. Or better yet, make a whole list and send it in and get the gold star of the day!

I know one, but it will only run the positive reviews. Check out Hammer To Nail (and yes, I did help co-found it).