In retrospect, I don't think I've pimped The Interconnection of Mr. Daily enough. The short film version is embedded below:

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After nearly six months of production and post-production, my latest directorial effort, The Interconnection of Mr. Daily is finally here. You can head over to our website to read the release announcement that Joseph Schlegel, the screenwriter, wrote. Or you can go directly to Interconnection subpage. Or you can go do your holiday shopping. Your call.

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While pondering where the last nine hours had gotten off to, I realized I had set up a completely reconfigured Bombdotcom Productions website. It's a much cleaner and more elegant than the previous design, which I'll admit I was never quite happy with. It, too, uses Blogger integration, and will hopefully soon become a team blog.



And what's this? Why, it's Andrew Whittaker, prominently featured in the first released still from The Interconnection of Mr. Daily. The project is pretty much complete. Once I can orchestrate a screening of the finished product for the production team, I'll get it online. This means by the end of the month. Is it exciting? Yes. Yes, it is.

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For a couple of years now, I've been fumbling around in Flash, trying to convince myself I was something of an animator. Well, very soon I may be able to lay claim to that very title: my first animated short is nearly complete and should be premiering within the next week.

It's entitled "The Frog Prince," loosely based on a popular mutilation of the ill-understood story collected by those rascally Grimm Brothers. I started work on it something like eighteen months ago, producing most of the animation and a rough draft of the script. Then, as happens all too frequently, it just kind of got put away, stuffed thoughtlessly in the back flap of my wallet of projects, lost among a wadded mess of ticket stubs, postage stamps, and the souls of my enemies.

But, with the encouragement of a few friends to whom I read the screenplay, I decided to finish it. Frequent collaborator Enoch Allred came in and recorded one voice while I provided the other. In the last week, I've learned much about what I can do, what Flash can do, and what we just can't do together. Now, though, I'm putting the finishing touches on it in preparation for what should hopefully be its premiere at the Tower Theatre's Open Mic Night on Wednesday the 15th.



It's going to be a special kind of nerve-racking to watch my drawings projected onto a silver screen in front of hundreds of strangers. It'll likely be as anxiety-inducing as when I premiered The Mustache there last December. Still, I can't wait.

Also, just an update: The Interconnection of Mr. Daily wrapped production last month. It's currently in post-production, editing duties in the hands of the illustrious Patrick Svensson. We're hoping to have a a final cut within about a month. Meanwhile, there's a weekend shoot scheduled for the end of the month for a very short film I'll be directing.

It looks like we just might finally be getting off our lazy asses here at Bombdotcom.

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Tomorrow, we go location scouting for the next major project from Bombdotcom Productions, The Interconnection of Mr. Daily, a featurette penned by the singularly brilliant Joey Schlegel. I'll be directing. Hopefully, I don't ruin everything. Doing all this preproduction work has been invigorating.

Recently, a large group of us got together to shoot a project in 48 hours. We had missed the actual 48 Hour Film Project when it rolled through town, but still wanted a swing at it. However, doing the project outside of the usual theme or genre constraints prescribed in these situations, we wound up with roughly a dozen writerly individuals trying to pitch and write a film by committee. If you are or have worked with writers, you know what this meant: utter chaos.

We ended up producing a mockumentary about a group of adults trying to hang onto their childhoods by engaging in an annual game of Red Rover. Editing was part of the 48 hour project, but the ten minute cut that screened at the Tower Theatre's Open Mic Night still felt bloated to me. Patrick, one of our editors is probably going to cut about two minutes from it, making it tighter and (hopefully) more coherent. We'll wait to upload a copy to the website until we hav a more satisfactory cut.

Perhaps the best part of the shoot was a twenty minute, continuous take of a Red Rover game from start to finish, everyone firmly in character. The fact that I have this on tape is something truly awesome. A here's a special shout out to Jon Fairbanks, who suffered an injury in the course of his brilliant performance.

Perhaps we're on something of a roll here with producing our films. 2005 and 2006 were despairingly dry years for Bombdotcom (two short films in the last two years? for shame). This summer actually could turn out to be rather productive; we've got a couple other things on the slate.

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