This past weekend, Psychic Bunny started production on its very first feature film, “The Echo Game.” It’s a low budget horror film in the style of the slasher films we grew up with and still love, complete with some pretty awesome murder scenes. It’s also a great chance to pull together with a lot of people we have worked with over the years as Psychic Bunny has grown and do something really fun. We’ll keep you updated on production and post as we move forward. It’s going to be a good time.
Here is an incredibly shabby cell phone photo I took on set:
“The Golden Egg” just got accepted to the Toofy Film Fest 2008 taking place in Boulder, CO on September 13&14. Started by two guys in trucker hats and named after an inside joke (the two used to place black licorice over their two front teeth and try to buy a can of beans with a bag of pennies at convenience stores at 2am), this festival…wait, no, I don’t actually have a second part to this sentence. That’s it.
But check out their awesome logo!
In other news, the feature movie we created an animated sequence for, “One Day Like Rain,” just got Honorable Mention Grand Jury Prize at the Dances With Films festival here in Los Angeles. Way to go, guys.
This past weekend I had a very unpleasant interaction with a fellow creator who is in the process of making a feature film. He’s written a script that’s very solid, good even, and he asked for people to read and critique it. I did. And then I discovered that he wasn’t looking for a critique at all, but for unabashed praise of his genius. He refused to accept that there were any problems or inaccuracies in his script, and an already unfortunate discussion just went downhill from there.
But there’s a silver lining to every cloud, right? This whole thing got me thinking about my creative philosophy for success, and how it might differ from other peoples’. I thought it might make a good discussion.
Disfigured, the movie we did title design for a while back, just got a very good review in the New York Times. An excerpt:
Remarkable for its brutal honesty, fine acting and emphasis on personal accountability, “disFIGURED” recognizes societal norms of appearance but refuses to whine about them. When Lydia nervously asks Darcy what she thinks of Lydia’s body, Darcy doesn’t hesitate. “I think it’s disgusting,” she says without apology, and the exchange hangs in the air with shocking authenticity. In this weight-centric world, truth trumps political correctness every time.
This comes to the attention of Bunny Blog via my colleague Nahil, who shared this article on Slate with me via various acts of Facebookery.
The problem of charging iPods seems to my relatively armchair self to be something far too much of the world is devoting time to finding innovative solutions for. For perspective, I’ve owned an MP3 player nonstop since the introduction of the Diamond Rio. I love music and listen to it constantly, and I defy you to find too many photos of me in which a pair of slim headphones is NOT around my neck with a grey wire leading into my pocket. Somehow, only about twice in my iPod ownership have I ever exclaimed “damn, the battery’s dead!” and not been able to do something about it fairly quickly.
You mean to tell me you’ve got your life together enough that you have the discipline to jog or bike regularly enough that you need music to relieve the monotony but you can’t apply the same regimen to charging a device with a 10-hour battery? And you further mean to tell me that of all the things you hope to bring to human understanding with a scientific inquiry into the nature of breast movement the one you remain extra excited for is the ability to charge an iPod?
Steve Jobs, you claim to be making computing devices sexy. But those devices are bleeding the sex out of the rest of our lives.
Yep, that’s right — Travel and Adventure!!
This email blast I just got from Spirit Airlines is pretty racy:
Obviously they’re playing on the alternate meaning of T&A, but they’re playing it smart. If anybody gets angry, they can calmly reply “What? We had no idea it meant that!”
Even Virgin America, which brands itself as the new “hip and cool and sexy” airline, doesn’t go that far. Spirit, on the other hand, had a Mother’s Day sale entitled “MILF.” As in, “Mothers I’d Like to Fly.” In an email Spirit has said these promotions are “designed to be entertaining, humorous, and of course, impactful.” And you know what? I think they’re dead on.
Yes, I know it’s been a while since I updated the blog about this trip, but can you really blame me for having such a good time in Tokyo that I only got about 4 hours of sleep each night, if I was lucky? Actually, it’s pretty much like it was at SXSW– stay out all night partying with other filmmakers, wake up early for panels and screenings. I managed to meet this schedule all week until I completely crashed out on the flight back. Now that I’m back at work, I’m reliving my trip through these blog posts. YEAH!
For those that don’t know, my film “The Golden Egg” was selected for the Short Shorts Film Festival, and they invited me (and paid for me) to fly out to Tokyo. They even paid for my hotel, which was an incredible room…