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The road to success here

nicolle — Tue, 15 May 2012 15:40:26 +0000

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Viz y’all eyes.

nicolle — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 20:52:17 +0000

I’m always knee deep in another decade these days and needed a break from the 1930s, so here’s a clipping for something else I’m cranking out:

Gentlemen start your engines and all that. Originally peeped over at jalopy journal forums.

Inheriting toys…

nicolle — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 00:44:57 +0000

From the Grandparent’s estate:

FFC wrote ‘The Godfather’ on one of these, I discovered this just before starting a new spec that is somewhat resemblant. Stop goofing with me, Spacetime, I am masochistic enough to try and write a whole spec on this thing. As soon as I find a Victrola with which to blast some Irving Berlin.

Who you’re probably not gonna call.

nicolle — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:58:08 +0000

I’m bummed out, man. When there’s potential for futher exploration of something I really, really love, the anticipation and hope can kinda drive me crazy. If it then drags on with well-publicized difficulties and a growing incertitude, maybe I go to a dark place; maybe I try to fix it myself. I don’t know how to further justify this, except to say there was a deep-seated need to exorcise an idea (It’s a pun, yo).

Ghostbusters 3 Synopsis – 6 pages; 74kb PDF

Standard disclaimer, bitches ain’t shit.

The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore

nicolle — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 18:11:50 +0000

Random googling led me across some production art from one Joe Bluhm (http://joebluhm.blogspot.com/). If there’s one thing I love, it’s a professional artist’s sketch blog and happily many digital and animation professionals rock them these days. Joe’s blog revealed a brilliant-looking animated short he contributed designs for called “The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr Morris Lessmore” from Moonbot Studios. Here’s the Trailer (http://vimeo.com/17164728). Here’s a description:

“Inspired, in equal measures, by Hurricane Katrina, Buster Keaton, The Wizard of Oz, and a love for books, “Morris Lessmore” is a story of people who devote their lives to books and books who return the favor. The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore is a poignant, humorous allegory about the curative powers of story. Using a variety of techniques (miniatures, computer animation, 2D animation) award winning author/ illustrator William Joyce and Co-director Brandon Oldenburg present a hybrid style of animation that harkens back to silent films and M-G-M Technicolor musicals. “Morris Lessmore” is old fashioned and cutting edge at the same time.”

In other words, hovering dead center in my vortex of awesome.

Moonbot’s got a great series of behind the scenes at their Vimeo page (http://vimeo.com/moonbot) where they speak about inspirations, cherised animation, Katrina and “The power of story to change a life.” After watching the first of these making-ofs it’s clear that “Morris Lessmore” has been created with a deep appreciation for heart-felt storytelling.

I haven’t even seen the film, but over the course of 30 minutes I’d fallen in love.

The agonizing details are done. Screening this weekend.

nicolle — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 16:34:33 +0000

Well it’s been an interesting journey, but el short film San Souci Showdown is done and about to be tossed to the wolves this Saturday Oct. 22 at Mission Valley, 4PM. Come one, come all and enjoy delicious on tap NC beers at my favorite Raleigh movie-house.

6 days of filming, ~6k budget and some great local talent. I had maybe some impossible expectations, but I’m pretty content with finishing it up. I have learned many things, the most important being (once again)- anytime I think I know maybe a little bit about something, in reality I know nothing. (Yes, Jon Snow, there is no Santa Claus???)

So, learning things is good. Getting your ass handed to you by your own stupidity is necessary. It’s always a desperate quest to get out of my own head and actually put something together. We’ve got a finished product and that’s an accomplishment. There will always be parts I love and parts I hate, but it should manage a few laughs and it looks pretty sharp. I look forward to seeing and hearing some reactions.

A little poster action.

nicolle — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 15:28:19 +0000

Working out the final edits on San Souci and getting ready to release it into the wild. Here’s the one sheet I hammered out, a final nod toward the western vibe I tried to push, short of a big gunfight at high noon. Still have a bit of content to work out for the eponymous website before that goes live and then it’s all presskits and submissions packets until festival season rolls around.

Click to view embiggened.

Coffee Jerks.

nicolle — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 15:16:24 +0000

It’s officially, officially dead now. For reals.

nicolle — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 18:06:56 +0000

So. In case YOU didn’t know, Postmodernism’s long and never-ending demise has apparently concluded according to some comprehensive retrospective and some hack who uses Microsoft Word extension as a last name. Never mind the other writers, critics and shmucks who’ve already harped on this before, it’s for reals this time. I guess this means architects are going to be moving toward a mix of log cabins and soviet era functional spaces. No more commodifying individual consumerism.

I’m also going to take that to mean that from this point on, no further prequels, sequels, reboots or remakes can possibly be justified as ‘art’ in the Hollywood system. If you produce, market or push this shit I’m gonna lump you in with souless Nazi modernism… oh wait, I already do that.

For serious though, postmodernism is a self-replicating indestructible organism. It will infect everything, it will cannibalize and consume all. It will never die.

Banana slugs.

nicolle — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 02:16:16 +0000

So there’s this show that I really really liked at one point in time. It hit on a unique combination of genres and tone that I found absolutely charming. It’s a few seasons deep now, which is more than I can say for nigh on 50% my favorite television experiences, but I’m hanging in there.

Sitting here, watching this show right now:

“I hate [CHARACTER], I hate [CHARACTER], I hate [CHARACTER], I fucking hate fucking [CHARACTER] and his gratuatous bullshit. I fucking hate [CHARACTER], fucking asshole [CHARACTER] FUCKING fuck. Why can’t they bring [S1 CHARACTER] back. [CHARACTER] has robbed the fucking soul of this show, for the bullshit superficial corporate whores.”

It is not even to the title sequence yet. This show’s story has taken serious departure from my sensibilities. Fucking SEASON 1 CHARACTER, just bring him back, dammit!

But it has it’s moments.

On the other hand, The Man still cancels shit like Better Off Ted, and NASA funding so fuck those fucking fuckers. When is Downton Abbey coming back?