Tomorrow I'm off to L.A. and VIDCON, followed by a few days on Venice Beach and then even more travels. This month is going to be an amazingly fun blur that I'll be trying to hold onto with photos and footage, both of which I plan to put up on here afterwards. When I get back it will be time for the moderately secret super Handful special as well as my friend Mark and I finally beginning the process of pitching our science fiction series with a complete and properly polished pilot. I'm very excited to see what in the heck will be going on with me and my career pursuit by the end of the summer.
In the meanwhile, here's a scene from a new television program by Louis C.K., Louie, that is not only very funny but really got me thinking about a word I haven't seriously considered for a very long time.
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Thursday, July 08, 2010
Saturday, June 19, 2010
Entropy is my homeboy.
So I've taken one big step closer towards becoming the kind of old man I'm planning to be and I figured it'd be worth writing something here.
I'm tempted to do a kind of overall appraisal but that's really what my annual End of the Year entries are for!
I will say that I'm increasingly excited about Vidcon in July. If all I do is have fun then I won't think it a failure, but I am of course hoping to promote the heck out of the show. I'm perfectly aware that while my traffic has been increasing and my subscriber base has doubled since the start of the year...I still have a significantly smaller footprint than your average photogenic teenager talking into a $50 webcam about their hobbies.
I say that without any bitterness or resentment! I'm very happy with what 2010 has done for the show so far, I'm just aware that in order to even make a part-time living I will need to increase my subscriber base to at least ten times it's current amount.
I've been experimenting, of course. The "Radio" show christmas special, some Project Wonderful advertising, taking a break in January to build an episode buffer, getting more out-of-studio footage, A Very Special Surprise I'll begin putting up at the start of August, taking a topic from a viewer's suggestion and generally busting my butt to keep improving the Basic Product (I've finally gotten Adobe CS5 so I can learn how to clean up my greenscreening and perhaps do some effects that won't be as cheesy as any number of Dragonball Z fireballs or their ilk).
The big thing is to try and escape a trap I've built myself.
By trying to stand out from the crowd in what I talk about, framing episodes as reviews to help make things (ideally) more interesting then a straight up rant, I've ironically made it much more unlikely for people to find me. It's no secret that there are far more people searching for popstars, movies, video games, bands and Sexy Things than anything I talk about. While I do think there is something to the idea of the Internet as a meritocracy, I think that the nature of search engines, Youtube and just plain ol' people do a lot to prevent it from being a "pure" one. It makes sense and hell, it's not like I'm some superior being who never looks up any of that stuff!
I bet I could do some could even do a pretty good show about that subject matter, but it's not where my strongest passions lay (for now, at least) and I have to wonder if becoming one of So Many wouldn't obscure me just as much.
My best boosts have always come from someone with a larger audience being kind enough to point them in my general direction and what's encouraging is that when I do get a big influx of eyeballs, the vast majority of them choose to hang around. But that sort of thing comes about almost entirely by chance and I know that one of the first things to happen to anybody with some decent success is for them to become, understandably, chronically irritated by requests for a link or a mention in a video or whatever.
Of course, I could just suck! Land sakes alive, I don't want to be one of those guys who constructs an elaborate theory for why they aren't having the sucess they'd like to have when the answer is plain to see for anyone who isn't him. But this conflicts with my natural desire to problem-solve, which means trying to come up with an explanation as well as a plan of action.
In non-Handful related news...
Though I've been thinking about it for a couple of months, I am now seriously looking at a trip to the Ukraine and Russia (the eastern bit) in fall of 2011. It should come as little surprise to most that my goal would be to traipse through the ruins of the Soviet Empire and that while this would certainly include Chernboyl & Pripyat, the Disneyland & Orlando of this kind of journey, I'd also be trying to get to a variety of other curious locations. I reckon I need to start planning now if only because I haven't figured out precisely where a lot of those things are! When I get closer to the date I think I shall see what I can do about contacting Russian urban explorers and maybe even seeing if I have any Russian fans who'd be willing and able to help me out in one way or another.
I figure that it's all very well and good to talk about Perfectly Wonderful & Horrible things but I also would like to see more of them up close. Plus, although I certainly did enjoy a lot about my trip to Athens I'd have to say the most valuable thing I took from that trip was a lesson in what kind of travel actually appeals to me. After seeing most of the classic ruins up close I found myself basically killing time until my flight back to England. Places to eat foreign (to you) food, places to swim, drink, dance and go for nice walks can all generally be found where you live - I'm not pissing on anybody elses parade but Athens taught me that doing those things in another country doesn't stimulate me enough to feel the expense is worth it. Maybe in time my mind will change or if I have the right company...but that's where I'm at now.
What absolutely feels worth it for me is not to take a vacation so much as to have an adventure. Meeting all sorts of Internet folk I've only emailed before, trying to promote the show and getting around a major American city that I may have to spend more time in if my career takes certain paths is a little adventure to me. Digging my way through the still standing bones of Reagan's beloved "Evil Empire", an entity whose imagery & culture have flooded so much fiction & non-fiction I've seen for my entire life, that strikes me as a big adventure the likes of which I may still be talking about when I reach that point I mentioned earlier.
I'm tempted to do a kind of overall appraisal but that's really what my annual End of the Year entries are for!
I will say that I'm increasingly excited about Vidcon in July. If all I do is have fun then I won't think it a failure, but I am of course hoping to promote the heck out of the show. I'm perfectly aware that while my traffic has been increasing and my subscriber base has doubled since the start of the year...I still have a significantly smaller footprint than your average photogenic teenager talking into a $50 webcam about their hobbies.
I say that without any bitterness or resentment! I'm very happy with what 2010 has done for the show so far, I'm just aware that in order to even make a part-time living I will need to increase my subscriber base to at least ten times it's current amount.
I've been experimenting, of course. The "Radio" show christmas special, some Project Wonderful advertising, taking a break in January to build an episode buffer, getting more out-of-studio footage, A Very Special Surprise I'll begin putting up at the start of August, taking a topic from a viewer's suggestion and generally busting my butt to keep improving the Basic Product (I've finally gotten Adobe CS5 so I can learn how to clean up my greenscreening and perhaps do some effects that won't be as cheesy as any number of Dragonball Z fireballs or their ilk).
The big thing is to try and escape a trap I've built myself.
By trying to stand out from the crowd in what I talk about, framing episodes as reviews to help make things (ideally) more interesting then a straight up rant, I've ironically made it much more unlikely for people to find me. It's no secret that there are far more people searching for popstars, movies, video games, bands and Sexy Things than anything I talk about. While I do think there is something to the idea of the Internet as a meritocracy, I think that the nature of search engines, Youtube and just plain ol' people do a lot to prevent it from being a "pure" one. It makes sense and hell, it's not like I'm some superior being who never looks up any of that stuff!
I bet I could do some could even do a pretty good show about that subject matter, but it's not where my strongest passions lay (for now, at least) and I have to wonder if becoming one of So Many wouldn't obscure me just as much.
My best boosts have always come from someone with a larger audience being kind enough to point them in my general direction and what's encouraging is that when I do get a big influx of eyeballs, the vast majority of them choose to hang around. But that sort of thing comes about almost entirely by chance and I know that one of the first things to happen to anybody with some decent success is for them to become, understandably, chronically irritated by requests for a link or a mention in a video or whatever.
Of course, I could just suck! Land sakes alive, I don't want to be one of those guys who constructs an elaborate theory for why they aren't having the sucess they'd like to have when the answer is plain to see for anyone who isn't him. But this conflicts with my natural desire to problem-solve, which means trying to come up with an explanation as well as a plan of action.
In non-Handful related news...
Though I've been thinking about it for a couple of months, I am now seriously looking at a trip to the Ukraine and Russia (the eastern bit) in fall of 2011. It should come as little surprise to most that my goal would be to traipse through the ruins of the Soviet Empire and that while this would certainly include Chernboyl & Pripyat, the Disneyland & Orlando of this kind of journey, I'd also be trying to get to a variety of other curious locations. I reckon I need to start planning now if only because I haven't figured out precisely where a lot of those things are! When I get closer to the date I think I shall see what I can do about contacting Russian urban explorers and maybe even seeing if I have any Russian fans who'd be willing and able to help me out in one way or another.
I figure that it's all very well and good to talk about Perfectly Wonderful & Horrible things but I also would like to see more of them up close. Plus, although I certainly did enjoy a lot about my trip to Athens I'd have to say the most valuable thing I took from that trip was a lesson in what kind of travel actually appeals to me. After seeing most of the classic ruins up close I found myself basically killing time until my flight back to England. Places to eat foreign (to you) food, places to swim, drink, dance and go for nice walks can all generally be found where you live - I'm not pissing on anybody elses parade but Athens taught me that doing those things in another country doesn't stimulate me enough to feel the expense is worth it. Maybe in time my mind will change or if I have the right company...but that's where I'm at now.
What absolutely feels worth it for me is not to take a vacation so much as to have an adventure. Meeting all sorts of Internet folk I've only emailed before, trying to promote the show and getting around a major American city that I may have to spend more time in if my career takes certain paths is a little adventure to me. Digging my way through the still standing bones of Reagan's beloved "Evil Empire", an entity whose imagery & culture have flooded so much fiction & non-fiction I've seen for my entire life, that strikes me as a big adventure the likes of which I may still be talking about when I reach that point I mentioned earlier.
Saturday, March 27, 2010
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Saturday, February 06, 2010
Baaaaaaack
So later today I'm putting up the first episode of what you could call "Season Three" of the show. I said I'd be working hard to improve the show and I have, but some of the improvements won't kick in until a little further down the road GOSH DARN IT.
But whatever man!
It was tempting to try and turn the show completely upside down with different fonts, a new intro and all the rest but in the end I figured it's best to be consistent with the general look. What will be new is (eventually) background music, which has proven a stickier wicket than expected, some new effects and better green screening thanks to Adobe After Effects CS4 (goal #1: obliterate the fine teal line around my body that I can never quite remove) and for every four or five "standard" episodes of the show I am going to try to do something irregular.
Now this doesn't mean that I'll be doing a completely different kind of show, I still want it to feel like In a Handful of Minutes. But I want to do more interviews with folk connected to past or upcoming episodes (one got filmed yesterday with which I'm very happy), try presenting the odd thing in a more anecdotal fashion (filmed one of those a couple weeks back) provided that thing is something that fits into the show's loose theme of "Perfectly Wonderful and Horrible Things" and...well I'll keep the third thing a secret for now.
Meanwhile, I've signed up for Vidcon 2010 and hope to use my time there to promote the show as well as meet in person some of the folk I've had the pleasure of getting to know via Youtube. Plus it'll be the first time I've been to the states since I was nine? I SURE HOPE AIR TRAVEL HASN'T CHANGED, FOR SOME REASON.
But whatever man!
It was tempting to try and turn the show completely upside down with different fonts, a new intro and all the rest but in the end I figured it's best to be consistent with the general look. What will be new is (eventually) background music, which has proven a stickier wicket than expected, some new effects and better green screening thanks to Adobe After Effects CS4 (goal #1: obliterate the fine teal line around my body that I can never quite remove) and for every four or five "standard" episodes of the show I am going to try to do something irregular.
Now this doesn't mean that I'll be doing a completely different kind of show, I still want it to feel like In a Handful of Minutes. But I want to do more interviews with folk connected to past or upcoming episodes (one got filmed yesterday with which I'm very happy), try presenting the odd thing in a more anecdotal fashion (filmed one of those a couple weeks back) provided that thing is something that fits into the show's loose theme of "Perfectly Wonderful and Horrible Things" and...well I'll keep the third thing a secret for now.
Meanwhile, I've signed up for Vidcon 2010 and hope to use my time there to promote the show as well as meet in person some of the folk I've had the pleasure of getting to know via Youtube. Plus it'll be the first time I've been to the states since I was nine? I SURE HOPE AIR TRAVEL HASN'T CHANGED, FOR SOME REASON.
Sunday, January 10, 2010
KAMERA UND TOONES
Dang, I finally got my own decent camera for use with the show. Amongst other benefits....now when I think of a shot I'd like to grab, I can just go out and grab it! That alone has me very excited!
Meanwhile, a fan of the show linked me to some of his music and I rather enjoyed this little tune. MAYBE YOU WILL TOO?
d_Verge - Brain Infection by d_Verge
I'm not the boss of you
Meanwhile, a fan of the show linked me to some of his music and I rather enjoyed this little tune. MAYBE YOU WILL TOO?
d_Verge - Brain Infection by d_Verge
I'm not the boss of you
Thursday, December 31, 2009
2010 - will it be an unsatisfactory sequel to 2001?
Well, will it? I hope not, since that'd mean we'd be getting a crop duster slamming into the side of the Seattle Space Needle, thus giving America the reason their current administration has been dying to have so they can invade...French Guiana? Bah, I'll leave the futurism to more talented folk.
So it's New Years eve and small wonder what a man's mind wanders towards...
But hoo boy, I could have used a bit more space between Christmas holidays and New Years this year. So many things to do, so many things done. In fact, I would like to take this moment to dub 2009 The Year Which Went Too Quickly but also The Year in Which Shit Got Done.
What shit got done? Well I...
But hoo boy, I could have used a bit more space between Christmas holidays and New Years this year. So many things to do, so many things done. In fact, I would like to take this moment to dub 2009 The Year Which Went Too Quickly but also The Year in Which Shit Got Done.
What shit got done? Well I...
- Finally took a writing retreat, something I've wanted to do since I was in England and reading about the Cotswolds. While there I...
- Made a serious stab at finishing a new feature length script. Unless a miracle happens, it won't be done before year's end but with a finished treatment and 37 pages written (as well as piles of notes) I know it's reached a crucial point that makes it a lot easier for me to return to the work and polish her off.
- Organized funding for shooting a small pilot I wrote, which my pal Mark then filmed. That was part of a lot of other writing and groundwork which was laid in preparation for pitching what I can only refer to right now as "A Science Fiction Series" early in the New Year (ideally late February).
- Busted my balls on Handful, of course, raising the quality of the show significantly and building a suitably large archive of episodes so as to achieve escape velocity from planet "Something I did for a little while and then got distracted". That...that is a terrible planet whose gravity is often much stronger then you might expect!
- This included another interview, which I actually managed to keep to a reasonable length! I'd like to do more, but it's tricky since my topics keep changing and I rarely know somebody relevant to, say, Seasteading.
- Got my first fan video!
- Broke both the one year and fifty episode marks.
- Through the show I attended my first TIFF event and learned more about Roller Derby, something I'd been curious about for a good while.
- Became a fan of The Pillow Fight League via the episode I did. When I went to another match in July I was actually approached by Olivia Neutron Bomb, who told me she enjoyed it!
- Pulled together the big special and thus introduced the world to SHAWN MACLEAN.
- Made some buttons, even if I am now deciding to give this batch away and do a fresh one with a new design to replace the "Lake Karachy Rowing Club" button. These and the business cards helped make it all feel less like a hobby and more like A Thing.
- Did some other fun little videos, mainly as a way to force myself to continue on with my bit of self-education & writing practive via Stephen Fry.
- This included another Urban Exploration adventure to Toronto's not-so-secret ballroom.
- Got my own dang longboard!
- Which made the 2009 board meet that much more awesome.
- Worked with my roommate Christina to decorate and otherwise set up what is easily my favorite place that I've lived in since leaving my parents after graduating High School.
- Did some more painting, though not quite as much as I would have liked.
- Went to my first North American webcomic convention and got to briefly meet & chat with Paul Pope!
- Got piles of proper use and enjoyment out of my membership at the AGO, which meant a lot to me as I didn't get as much use out of my membership at London's ICA as I would have liked.
I may have done some other shit, but those are the big things. True, Handful isn't making me money yet...but I think I was being a little naive. From what I've learned of other folk with webshows or webcomics, 18 months seems to be about half the amount of time it's taken most folk to be able to make any kind of living from their online efforts. I guess I should just quit! OH NO WAIT...
My other big goal for the year, to try and finally host a Handsome Boy Modelling School party may just have to go on the pile of broken dreams...but I think I can live with that regret!
So what of 2010? Well, I feel very excited to build upon what I've done this year and (especially after reviewing some of my pictures from London) I know I'd really like to get in a trip to somewhere other than Ottawa. It's been far too long since I've seen a concert in Montreal, but I'm also curious about New York since fully half the people I know visited there in the time since I moved to Toronto!
And then, there's this. Anybody want to sponsor a webshow hosts trip to L.A.?
Dang, I gotta get on with the day! So I think I'll close here for now and get into more depth about next year sometime in it's first few days.
Sunday, December 27, 2009
I feel like I just gave birth to ten whales
Long story short, Wordpress and Vodpod are ridiculous, so I'm putting this here for now! Anyways, this is a custom player that will automatically cycle from one video to the next so you can listen to the whole special without interruption or having to attend to it every few minutes. Please enjoy!
So here’s our big special for 2009! There are piles of links below for each artist, listed in alphabetical order, so you can find more of their stuff if you like what you hear.
If you enjoy our “radio” show format then PLEASE COMMENT or otherwise let us know and perhaps we’ll do it again!
CHAMELEON CIRCUIT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAi4izfvXo4
www.youtube.com/user/charlieissocoollike
http://twitter.com/coollike
http://www.youtube.com/user/nerimon
DANIELLE ATE THE SANDWICH
http://www.danielleatethesandwich.net/
http://www.youtube.com/user/daniellesmagic
http://www.myspace.com/danielleatethesandwich
JOSEPH THIBODEAU
http://www.youtube.com/user/HandsomeNarrator
PAPA JULES
http://www.myspace.com/papajulestheband
http://www.youtube.com/user/marlonminty
PAULA VARJACK
http://www.myspace.com/paulavarjack
http://www.youtube.com/user/mochachild
http://twitter.com/paulavarjack
http://paulavarjack.bandcamp.com/
POMPLAMOOSE
http://www.youtube.com/user/PomplamooseMusic
http://www.myspace.com/pomplamoosemusic
http://twitter.com/pomplamoose
TOM MILSOM
http://tommilsom.com/
http://www.youtube.com/user/hexachordal
http://www.myspace.com/tomandhisuke
http://twitter.com/Hexachordal
ZAYNA DAZE
http://www.youtube.com/user/zainabadam
www.myspace.com/zaynadaze
http://zaynadaze.bandcamp.com/
http://zaynadaze.blogspot.com/
http://twitter.com/ZaynaDaze
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Tuesday, November 17, 2009
And now I've filmed fifty...
Right then, I just survived the final filming of Handful of the year!
I had to take a liberty or two, but I'm now covered for the rest of 2009. There's still some work to do for the year end special that Joe and I have been planning for....six months? But whatever man! It feels good.
Also? I know anybody could just google my name anyways...but I still find it a little creepy that I got a google alert today letting me know that this website has assembled a kind of profile on me?
Sunday, September 20, 2009
FAAAAAANS
Holy mother of mercy!
So, whenever I see that someone new has subscribed to the show I like to send a little "Thanks for signing up! Feel free to yell about the show to strangers on the bus or something!" message of varying length. No matter how detailed, I always include the same two things.
1) Thanks for signing on.
2) Yell about the show on a bus.
Well blow me down, that has led to this video response made by a pair of superfans in Alabama!
LOOK AT THEIR T-SHIRTS
Monday, July 27, 2009
ONE MORE YEAR ONE MORE YEAR
Maybe even more?
It feels pretty good to have made it a year, since so many Internet things get abandoned before reaching any real conclusions or meaningful milestones. Aside from doing a gimmiky episode where I managed to recruit some pals to put their aesthetically pleasing faces in front of the camera, I've decided to mark the end of the first year by retiring the brown short sleeve shirt (yes it's on a female torso plastic dummy thing, my roommate doesn't make much in the way of clothes for men).
Dang, I still like some of those FWP strips. Anywho, now I have a year under my belt...maybe I'll look into them New Media grants or some other way to get a bit of money to invest in the show. Certainly, I'd like to get my own Camera of Quality. But enough about the show...
I can't believe it, but after all these years I seem to have broken down and found myself enjoying...Veeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelogggerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrs. Well, just the three so far. It's...it's uh...giving me temptations. In one form or another, I think it's about time to start a new blog - this one has sort of grown away from it's original purpose and though I couldn't bring myself to delete it...it doesn't really seem entirely fitting for what's going on with me and where I see myself in the next few years.
Any opinions?
Sunday, July 12, 2009
Monday, May 11, 2009
Pippity Pippity Pippity
So hip-hop hooray, another batch of shows in the can. Filming yesterday was pretty interesting since it was the first time I used two sets of duel-500W lights for more than a few minutes and the living room got pretty damn hot! Luckily we were able to cool things down by opening all the windows after we realized the microphone was directional enough to be able to get my voice while not registering any background stuff from outside.
I also had had a makeup student that my roommate hooked me up with. It was pretty funny whenever she worked on me as I sort of went into my default "Doctor or Dentist Mode" where I close my eyes, shut up and just let them get on with it. Twice she said "You can open now", meaning my eyes as she'd have finished my eyelids, and I opened my mouth first!
I took some photos through the celebratory martini I made myself after we finished shooting and I rather like the effect! (One part Amaretto to two parts Creme de Cocoa, by the way).
Today, feeling a bit cracked out since I'd been up late the night before and my treacherous body insisted I wake up at A QUARTER TO FIVE, I checked out TCAF. I was pretty pleased! It was the first webcomic/comic thing I've been to since London and I'm not entirely sure why - I'll have to make more of an effort in the future. Aside from picking up a couple of prints, one of Ryan's shirts (it only took me six years BEST BUD EVER) and Joey's new book, I had the unexpected surprise of finding out that Paul Pope (AKA my absolute favorite comic book artist) was going to be there for a signing!
I lucked out again by grabbing the last available copy (at TCAF) of his art book and then I got in the line up before it became unbearable. He was a very pleasant, totally affable fellow and he did my up this little number (Eloy is my favorite character from my favorite work of his. Favorite).
He told me an interesting story about how he lived in Toronto for a short time in the same manner as Eloy - inside a refitted grain silo. Between our short fanchat and what I've read so far in the art book, which reveals him to be far more thoughtful and literate than his comic writing (that is saying something), I consider my expectations met and exceeded. You can't ask for much more then that!
I also had had a makeup student that my roommate hooked me up with. It was pretty funny whenever she worked on me as I sort of went into my default "Doctor or Dentist Mode" where I close my eyes, shut up and just let them get on with it. Twice she said "You can open now", meaning my eyes as she'd have finished my eyelids, and I opened my mouth first!
I took some photos through the celebratory martini I made myself after we finished shooting and I rather like the effect! (One part Amaretto to two parts Creme de Cocoa, by the way).
Today, feeling a bit cracked out since I'd been up late the night before and my treacherous body insisted I wake up at A QUARTER TO FIVE, I checked out TCAF. I was pretty pleased! It was the first webcomic/comic thing I've been to since London and I'm not entirely sure why - I'll have to make more of an effort in the future. Aside from picking up a couple of prints, one of Ryan's shirts (it only took me six years BEST BUD EVER) and Joey's new book, I had the unexpected surprise of finding out that Paul Pope (AKA my absolute favorite comic book artist) was going to be there for a signing!
I lucked out again by grabbing the last available copy (at TCAF) of his art book and then I got in the line up before it became unbearable. He was a very pleasant, totally affable fellow and he did my up this little number (Eloy is my favorite character from my favorite work of his. Favorite).
He told me an interesting story about how he lived in Toronto for a short time in the same manner as Eloy - inside a refitted grain silo. Between our short fanchat and what I've read so far in the art book, which reveals him to be far more thoughtful and literate than his comic writing (that is saying something), I consider my expectations met and exceeded. You can't ask for much more then that!
Friday, May 01, 2009
Monday, April 27, 2009
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Annnnnnd breath!
Okay! So I have come out the other end of a stressful but productive stretch wherein' I finally got ahead on the show, upgraded the lighting & sound as well as got everything together needed for the show's launch on lifeforce.tv
I am satiated for a while, I think. By "a while" I basically mean a couple of days. I've been out for a drink and a movie for the first time in ages and I feel good. I've also finally framed a poster I had up in my room in London, which has in turn been rolled up every since I got back!
Now it is time to keep on top of things, work towards the return of the greenscreened backdrops and get out for the odd adventure which has nothing to do with the show.
I am satiated for a while, I think. By "a while" I basically mean a couple of days. I've been out for a drink and a movie for the first time in ages and I feel good. I've also finally framed a poster I had up in my room in London, which has in turn been rolled up every since I got back!Now it is time to keep on top of things, work towards the return of the greenscreened backdrops and get out for the odd adventure which has nothing to do with the show.
Friday, March 20, 2009
Who's a clever little sausage?
The answer: Nobody in particular, I've just been listening to Ricky Gervais stand-up most of the day and it put me in the mood to use that turn of phrase.
So yes, more Handful news. I know I know, but it really has been a rather large part of my life since the year began and I've been able to ramp things up to a respectable quality and regularity.
I've just agreed to a non-exclusive, one year distribution deal with a Toronto based web television network and I must say it's rather exciting. I'll get into more detail once we get closer to the launch date of April 12th but for now let me say that it should - if nothing else - result in a good deal of help for me in the area which I find I have the least time and energy for: Promotion.
It's also a nice little touch of validation since I was approached by the company, not the other way around. We'll see what comes of this...
Meanwhile, here is a very short urban exploration clip from Berlin that my pal Steph put up.
Good night you clever little sausages of New England
So yes, more Handful news. I know I know, but it really has been a rather large part of my life since the year began and I've been able to ramp things up to a respectable quality and regularity.
I've just agreed to a non-exclusive, one year distribution deal with a Toronto based web television network and I must say it's rather exciting. I'll get into more detail once we get closer to the launch date of April 12th but for now let me say that it should - if nothing else - result in a good deal of help for me in the area which I find I have the least time and energy for: Promotion.
It's also a nice little touch of validation since I was approached by the company, not the other way around. We'll see what comes of this...
Meanwhile, here is a very short urban exploration clip from Berlin that my pal Steph put up.
Good night you clever little sausages of New England
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Hot dawg
The last two weeks I have to admit I've been struggling to think of novel ways of promoting the show that don't involve being a human spam-bot. I had one good idea which I look forward to implementing soon but until then it's great to have things like this happen - not only for the traffic but because it shows that someone at Blip.tv has an eye on the show and if it continues to improve then I might be able to look forward to being featured in the big video clip thing (Featuring "The Crew" in the picture here) and other traffic grabbin' things.
Meanwhile!
Tonight I burned a DVD of the first fifteen episodes and then had a Handful marathon. I took notes along the way and hope this helps me improve the writing as my homework for the rest of this week is to get at least four episodes written for filming on Saturday.
I'd write more but the fact is that between the show and my full-time day job I am kind of spending a lot of time at the computer!
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Friday, February 20, 2009
Sometimes I like the colour textures...
....of a string of shots in the editing suite. This is possibly the most unusual episode preview I've done!
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