HOLY SMOKES!

This is one of the more impressive things I've seen lately. Very cool. Catchy tune too.

ALL THE SINGLE BABIES

We haven't blogged in forever, so we thought we'd share one of our favorite videos. We'll post more about what we've been up to soon, but in the mean time, in case you've missed this gem somehow, here's All the Single Babies:

Spanish Dragon Trailer

It's the same old thing, with a twist. Spain-Spanish dialogue. I thought it was enjoyable.

Having a Bad Day?

Let Jessica cheer you up.

Check This Out!

Inspector 42

So here's a clip by BYU about the film that one the Emmys. Nathan and Lyvia are featured in the interviews and there are some clips from the film and the making of.

You might want to watch it on YouTube, though. I apologize, but I can't seem to figure out why all the videos I post from YouTube end up cropped on the blog...

Correction: Just figured it out. YES!

Once Again

Eerily similar...

The Emmys

We've been meaning to post about this for a while, we took a trip down to Hollywood last week because a short that Kristi worked on was up for a Student Emmy Award. So we drove down Friday for the award ceremony and screening over the weekend and drove back on Monday.

We got down there in time to do some site seeing on Friday, and Kristi had never been down Hollywood Boulevard and our hotel was only a block away, so we went and saw the walk of fame, and the oddities that are Hollywood Blvd.


Wax Sam Jackson at Madame Tussauds.


Wax King Kong at the Hollywood Wax Museum.


This is the star that's waiting for Kris.

And here's the massive complex where the awards were held. It's like the Gateway shopping center in Salt Lake City, if it were built by Egyptians...and several stories tall.







This is a cell phone picture of the Grand Ballroom where the awards were held.


This was exciting...


Inspector 42 is the name of the short. Kristi was listed along with the film in the program.


Now before we continue, I've got to inform all of you about something. When you watch the Academy Awards, you can almost always figure out what film will win Best Picture because the editor of that film will win Best Film Editing. When making a film you write the best script you can, you shoot it the best you can, but eventually the edit is what tells the story. So deservedly, a film that wins Best Picture is presented by a superb edit.

So Inspector 42 was up for Best Drama and Best Director.


Waiting for the announcement about Best Drama...


It won!


Lyvia, the producer, giving a speech.


The award.



Kristi's thrilled. A great film by a great group of people, and most of all, a fantastic editor.



To make the night even better, Nathan won the Directing Award! Paris Barclay, producer of successful TV shows like NYPD Blue, and director of several episodes of successful television shows like Glee, NCIS: L.A., The Mentalist, CSI, Monk, and Lost, gave a very flattering introduction to the award. It was pretty exciting.


Red carpet interviews with Nathan.


Kristi and I on the stage, next to the wire globe holding, lightning winged angel lady statue.


And here's a cell phone picture of the Leonard H. Goldenson Theatre where the screening of the winning films took place. It was a blast. So that was how we spent last weekend. It was a lot of fun.

Logic

We Went Shoe Shopping Yesterday

And discovered this atrocity...


Nice looking shoe...



WRONG.

Late Monday Picture Post

Here's another from my recent kick of retro propaganda.




This one might take a little longer to figure out.



I promise I'll write a real blog post some day.

Color Fest and Propoganda

I thought I'd post some cell phone pictures from our adventures at the Hare Krishna Festival of Colors. It's a peace promoting event in which everyone hurls colored chalk at each other. Kristi's first attack was a blast of pink in the face from a total stranger. We progressively got more and more colorful as the day went on. It was a blast.













Here's Monday's picture post. It's a little piece of propaganda, mostly for Dad and Phil.

Kristi, The Color Correction Master

Above, Kristi Shimek hard at work, stationed at the newly formed color correction station in our living room. I thought I'd take a photo in case we get audited for claiming the TV as a business expense. It will still be a few weeks before we venture out into the light, so don't be shocked by our ghostly appearance should we cross your path.

The Truth About Story Structure: Part Two

Sorry about not posting a pic today. I'll make up for it with the second installment of "The Truth About Story Structure". Today's topic: Super Heroes...

I also must apologize about how all the videos I post from YouTube seem to be cropped. I'll try and figure that out and fix it. Let me know if any of you have figured out how to make Blogs and YouTube get along.

If Cartoons Were Real...

I'm going to give this Monday thing another try. So today I'm sharing a little bit of a themed picture collection.

It's funny to think about what cartoons would be like if they were real.


















Ok, maybe it's a little freaky. But it's freakier to think about what they would look like in real life with cartoon proportions.















In other news, Dragon Hunter received its first 5 star review on Hulu. He didn't discriminate against the movie, so I won't discriminate against his spelling.