A Few Good Linemen
I'll get back to my twitter muckraking in a little bit, but first let's all take a moment to appreciate The Jeff (HHHisTime) and what he's done here.
(Also, did he misspell his own name?)
Diani & Devine Meet the Apocalypse
A few years ago, I helped make a feature film called The Selling. It's a horror-comedy about a haunted house, except instead of being scary for a family like in Poltergeist, it's inconvenient for a real estate agent.
It's probably the best feature film I've worked on so far.
Now Gabe & Etta are gearing up to make another movie, and they're raising internet money to do it. I want them to succeed, so I helped make some of their campaign videos. I'm part of the bloodthirsty mob. Go Bloodthirsty Mob!
These guys are also the most expert folks I know on crowdfunding, with a few successful projects to their names already. Etta has written some interesting things about how the landscape has suddenly shifted when it comes to using social media to get your indie film off the ground.
They have some distance yet to go in order to finance their film this week. Check out DDMTA.com to watch their dozens of short videos, check out the impressive sci-fi cast they've assembled, and of course, pre-order the new film. (And buy a copy of the last one, and all their other crazy rewards, some robotic in nature.)
Twitter presents: The Blockbuster Joke
Unacceptable, Part 12
Holy smokes! Two weeks away and Unacceptable is back on The Higgs Weldon! Check out this preview!
“‘I’m not trying to be difficult, but this is unacceptable?’” boomed the Chief. As soon as Colin was called in, we were all looking sideways toward the Chief’s office, but as soon as he said that, it was all we could do to not press our faces against his office windows.
Colin and the Chief never really got along. That’s probably because the Chief doesn’t have to get along with anyone; he’s the Chief. And because Colin is kind of a jackass to everyone; he’s kind of a jackass.
Hey! Colin appears in that excerpt! That means the point-of-view character changed! If I were you, I'd be reading the rest of this week's story right away!
If you were me, you'd be planning your next piece to SUBMIT to The Higgs Weldon!
Your mind! Facts! Explosions! Boom!
So here's something I made for Cracked.com.
It was written and narrated by someone called Cody Johnston, and he or another fine employee at Cracked added all that driving, important-sounding music. Oh, and the goofball title.
My pal Lewis Sequeira did some of the artwork, and I'm responsible for implementing pretty much everything else (more images, making it all sort of jump around on the screen, various whooshing sounds.)
If you like space-related information accompanied by drawings that move around in video presentations, you might also like The Transit, which I made last year with Lewis and some of my other friends.