December 2009
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Happy Lanes: Making Question Crunch Our 2008 submission in Bangor’s 48-hour film festival. Prompt: Include the character Paul Bonion (to be played by a designated actor), a salt & pepper shaker salesman.
Dec 18th
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Happy Lanes: Dental Damn In anticipation for the next Kahbang 48-hour film fest (starts tonight!), posting our 2007 submission. Prompt: Include the song “Naughty Hula Eyes” by Andy Iona in the world of the characters.
Dec 18th
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Dec 16th
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Bruce Gowers and Robert Abel: The Jacksons > Can You Feel It? Nothing Else on timtim is worthy anymore.
Dec 15th
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Dec 14th
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Toshiba > The World’s Highest Commercial Stumbled on this while looking for the BEAR-4 video. I’ve been dreaming of doing something like the building fall-away for a while. Stay tuned. (German) mehr sehen. mehr erleben. = see more. experience more.
Dec 14th
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Dec 13th
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Motion Theory: Beck > Girl Awesome karaoke hostess not knowing this song the other night reminded me of its amazing music video. Again, really simple but awesome concept. Particularly impressive is the (00:50) flea market fold-in: objects that seem be 3D with shadows, but then fold flat — then equally impressed by the transition of the car to city street.  Reminds me that there are...
Dec 13th
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Tom Lindsay: Fujiya & Miyagi > Ankle Injuries Hours and hours and days and months of meticulous preparation - and you watch it in 3:17. Appreciation. I think Fujiya & Miyagi have really got it musically in their production, if it weren’t for the lousy-sounding vocals. I know it’s on purpose, but really guys? Come on.
Dec 12th
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Monday Night The camera was huge and the people were reluctant. Needless to say, this movie suffers from lighting and tripod deficiencies, and that may have been the cause. I loved the people and their earnestness.
Dec 11th
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Robert Smigel: TV Funhouse > What do We Know? A sketch from the short-lived TV Funhouse show. Why isn’t anything good ever allowed to thrive on TV?
Dec 11th
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Dec 10th
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Dec 7th
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Dec 6th
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Dec 5th
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Plane Stupid: Polar Bear Equal parts compelling and disturbing.
Dec 4th
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Keith Schofield: MIMS - Move I’m increasingly impressed with Schofield’s work. I actually have posted a bunch of his videos without knowing it was all the same guy! Including heaunh and heyunh. I have to go back through and look at more, but I love the ideas, and the look is pretty amazing as well. Oh yeah, and did I mention he posts the treatments for all his videos!!??
Dec 3rd
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Dec 1st
West Side Awardy
Hey All! I’ve gotten (and ignored) some requests to post the list of awards I made up and gave out after your fantastic, fantastic run. In an attempt to squeeze out the last few drops of WSS nostalgia… I’ve finally had the time to post them. So, without further adieu… Most Convincing Girl: Anybodys Most Convincing Freedom Hater: Rosalia The “Wow, Who Was That!?”...
Dec 1st