New Work: Colton Ford, Bud Light

I have updated the "reel" to include a music video that I did for Colton Ford. It was a ridiculously low budget but a lot of fun to do. Serious thanks goes out to Tom Lazarevich, the director of photography for the job. He worked like a dog and deserves a lot of credit.

People who put their sweat and blood into it:
Joe Oppedisano - the director. Good, solid vision.
Josh Bodnar - Editor, extraordinaire.

I am pretty happy with the final product - it looks terrific.

Dexter Main Titles Win Emmy!

Woot!
We won!

We had great competition -- Path to 9/11 and Lost Room are both standouts -- but we managed to win the 2007 for Outstanding Main Title Award.

Woo!

I did a photo album up on Facebook...

You can catch a telecast of the ceremony this Saturday at 7 / 8pm on E!. The program is called (at least according to their website) "Award Shows The 2007 Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards". They announced that every award will get shown, just not every acceptance speech. So expect us to scramble up on stage and then pop off. Look for David Boreanaz for when our category is up.

Oil of Olay and Resident Evil - Separated at Birth?

As a new by product of working out a gym with TV monitors is that I am now watching a lot more commericals. And I saw these two commercials from Oil of Olay back to back. Which made me remember the Resident Evil commercial...

The packaging, the product demo, hell, even the product names: Regenerist and Regnerate?! Doesn't anyone at Oil of Olay pay attention to pop culture?

Evidence:
Watch these in this order. Keep in mind the Resident Evil one is about 2-3 years old

Resident Evil

Oil of Olay - Regenerist Commercial
Oil of Olay - Definity eye Goop

Fiber consumption

Well, not technically fiber. More like the audio version of books. I have been on a binge recently.

• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows. Shockingly good. Kudos to JK Rowling. So good, I am even starting to re-read it again.
  
• Soon I will be Invincible. Fun read, but uneven. A gift of the golden Patito.
  
• After Dark. BAD. I was really excited by the premise but the execution was really underwhelming. Perhaps it was the translation.
• Lamb. Fun. Sacrilegious. Chris Moore takes on the Jesus tale. What more can you want?
• You Suck. Chris Moore's fun style does vampires. Still not as good A Dirty Job. But still entertaining.
  

Other recent purchases worthy of note:
The new UNKLE album is outstanding. Pick it up -- the electrobeat and vocals are particularly outstanding.

New Work: The Company

Added a new piece of work that we did with TNT / Scott Free (yes, Ridley Scott) / John Calley productions. I took over about half way through -- the job was a little long but looks great at the end.

Distance - Night Vision

Just finished off a new music video with Noah, Nick and Josh (no website for him). All of us are DK Peeps... but this was a side project made the with support of Essanay, Vision Research(thanks Toni!) and American Signs by Tomorrow.

Quite proud of it actually...



Distance - Night Vision - 18mb QuickTime, 640 x 360.

Credits:
Noah Conopask: Director
Nick Campbell: Camera / Tech
Josh Bodnar: Editor
Colin Davis: Producer / Tech
Lights: Essanay
Camera: Vision Research
Break Dancers: Chicago Tribe
Background / Surface: American Signs By Tomorrow

Bubbles!

During the time when we had to play around with Phantom Camera, I worked on this short with Nick and Benny. One of the takes involved me beaning Benny with a water balloon, but it didn't make it into the final cut. Oh well. I still love it though.

Watch Bubbles, directed by Nick Campbell at Nick's Site, Creamy Orange

Giving up Yahoo

I have long been a Yahoo fan. I have customized MyYahoo and used it as my homepage for a very long time. But recently they have started deactivating modules in favor of new, re-written AJAX Web 2.0 ones. Which would be fine -- if they worked well and didn't bring my browser to a crawl.

As an example, the previous TV listing page was a simple table with text. The new list an AJAX nightmare that takes 5 seconds to load and makes it hard to scroll the page. The new page layout is wonky so it squishes or stretches modules making them hard to read.

I have poked around and decided to switch over to Google's version it -- iGoogle. Text and RSS feed based...

buy bye Yahoo.