This first one is a project Andrew Gingerich and I shot last summer when we were trying to decide on a movie to watch, and instead decided to make this.  Remember Skin Removal Cream? Well that was for this same project. Enjoy!

Next is a commercial for Drunk Button, the button that makes you instantaneously drunk!  This is apparently for a multi-media play that’ll be showing in Santa Fe in the near future.

And finally… RRRR? That’s on the internet? Well okay, I guess this’ll work I guess. RRRR is from my Sophomore year of High School. It’s about Scrabble and the end of the world and… oranges maybe?

So there.  And, no, I’m not a one-dimensional actor.  Why would say that?  I’M THE GREATEST IN ALL THE WORLD!

If you wish to see a higher resolution file, please contact me. I couldn’t figure out how to do an HD upload on Vimeo.

In writing a letter, you are given a series of statements and questions about yourself which you address in your reply.  For example The sender writes “Linda just gave birth to puppies. How’s your wife?” to which you reply “My wife IS Linda, what have you done to her you son-of-a-bitch!”.  I treated the video correspondence the same way.

I Got the Poops was the letter.

In Fridge is my reply.

I shall now discuss the motifs and ideas I decided to elaborate on.  This may be very pointless and self-indulgent. If you wish to skip this, be my guest. Also, if viewing this post on The Facebook, please visit the mothersite to see the video.

I Got the Poops presented me with the basic format: We first begin with a long segment to weed out those who may not actually be interested in viewing the work. In I Got the Poops it’s hand-processed 8mm film of people walking on the beach.  In In Fridge, it’s the interior of a refrigerator.  Of course, to the spectator it just appears as blackness.  About a minute of blackness.

This idea of terribly long things where nothing happens is a motif I continued throughout the piece, also seen in the minute of me staring at the camera (as the color grows ever so slightly redder) and the ongoing Mudkip exchange.  I also feel this was a motif in I Got the Poops, the segment I’ll call “The Alpha Cat Adjustment” takes it’s time, Andrew blinking in Night Vision is also drawn out, and who can forget the credits?  I feel I expanded on this, however that’s how correspondences work.

After the browsers have been taken out, it’s time for us to move into the meat of the piece, meaning YouTube videos.  Andrew decided to work with funny cat videos, specifically cat videos that are internet phenomena ranging from the horrible screaming demon cat to the cat who iterates “Oh Long Johnson, Oh Long Johnson, Oh Don Piano”.  I decided to focus on a different internet phenomena: Mudkip, the mud-fish pokèmon.  Why? Because I want to be the very best, that no one ever was. Catching monster is my quest, to train them is my cause.  However this wasn’t it, for I decided to explore this strange new world of YouTube.  I also included a Perry Grip music video with rodents, you know the one, as well as thirty minutes of Disney Films (Which I of course reduced to thirty seconds).

So, we have two motifs that I’ve identified thusfar: The motif of something terribly long and the motif of YouTube.  There is one final motif I want to point out:  Andrew stole my Adventures through Art School.  I returned the favor.  Many of you either may not know or may not remember, but Andrew himself had an unsuccessful vodcast many moons ago, much as I do now.  It was called “The Diary of a Mad Filmmaker”.  I decided that if I’d be making a diary of a mad filmmaker, I’d be mad. I’d be REALLY MAD. I’D BE JUMPING UP AND DOWN I’D BE SO MAD. Need I go on? No. Because you’ve seen the piece, and you’re probably not reading this unless you’re me.

Once we get through the weeding period and the montage of YouTube videos, we move on to the Chapters. I Got the Poops included three I believe, In Fridge contains ten.  One of the chapters in I Got The Poops didn’t work, but this works in to the overall stylistic difference between the two works, of which I will discuss later.

No, I will discuss it now, because I’m tired.

I Got The Poops was edited together in a way that showed extreme skill with Final Cut and the editing process, I believe.  This is reflective of Andrew’s overall technique, for he’s been working with Final Cut longer and more seriously than I have. I Got the Poops was also much more focused on sound design than In Fridge.  From the dripping water blinking to the much more developed Alpha Cat Adjust segment, I Got the Poops does show that the filmmaker is very technically savvy.

I am not technically savvy, and neither is In Fridge.  However, what I lack in technical knowledge I’d like to think I make up for in ideation and gusto.  I’d like to think that In Fridge has the same sort of Chaotic, Manic, Surrealistic (Almost Nihilistic) energy many of my other pieces have.  It has been said of some of my other work that if the world ended and all was left was that video, no one would need any explanation.  I’d like to think that In Fridge is the same way. But what do you think? Are either of them better or worse, or are they just different? What motifs and expansions have you noticed between the two works?  How do you Powder a steak in the 3rd Dimension?

AND HOW DID IN FRIDGE TRANSFER TO TAPE?  Well luckily this question I can answer, because there are now in fact TWO versions of In Fridge floating out there in the internet.  If you dare, watch it again. It’s gained a much different quality through the transfer.

I had the tape dubbed, however my journey was only half over.  For the TAPE itself is only the goose you quest for: You think it’ll be great, but really it’s kind of stinks and it’s loud.

I had to create a package.

I had to create a cage.

This was shot entirely on VHS and is part of a larger work temporarily titled Plastix Ultimate. It’s a movie about soda, perseverance, and personal finance. Stay tuned for all of it.

Skin Removal Cream: If you were a product, it would buy YOU.

Bicycles.

Help! My Lawn Ornament’s Been Taken by ROBBERS! was filmed yesterday, and I’ve got some still photographs as you can see.

The shooting went surprisingly well, and we remained on schedule (more or less) the entire day. And, beyond and better than that, I believe we all had fun. Here’s a list of things we did:

1) We cooked a money omelette.

2) Blood explosion? Blood explosion.

3) Map licking in Storage Space 51.

4) We Killed a Lawn Ornament.

5) Shot a Camera into a speeding car as a Robber made his escape*.

So it was rather eventful. Stay tuned for the actual movie, as I’ll be working on editing it as much as I can during the upcoming month. Thank you, and good night.

*Hyperbole used to quicken the tempo of space-time.

As such when the film premiered at the Colorado Thespian Festival winter 2006, there were random frames of color, the footage froze at random intervals, and everything was basically shit.

So, last year I took the original cut into Final Cut and created this digitally re-mastered director’s cut.  You can see the same thing inside of Vvinni’s Adventures Through Art School Episoud 2, but why would you go through that whole ordeal for five minutes? You wouldn’t. So here it is.

There are still plenty of errors, but hey, it’s fine for a film from my transitional period from Basement films to Amateur films. What about you, anonymous reader? What be your thoughts?

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It was made for my sister’s friend’s bachelorette party, however I was told the wrong date so it became a wedding present. It was supposed to explain the story of how my sister’s friend, Treanna, met her husband, Jeff.  I don’t know what they think of it, but it’s my hope that it will become a family tradition. 

But what do you think? Any Questions? Any Comments? I’m thinking of maintaining my reputation at the Tri-Media film festival and submitting this to it.  Thoughts on that?