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Tentacle Grape Art

Awesome Argentinian artist Luis Sencio has drawn this ultra-hip Tentacle Grape illustration. We’ve decided it’s going to be the new drink label, because it’s fucking rock. See the larger size at his Flickr page. Best part? Is that Krang??? Probably not. It’s similar, but different and distinct from Krang. (You heard me  Eastman). If if [...]

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The Arcadian Cometh

We’re almost wrapped on principal photography for my first narrative feature, The Arcadian. It stars Lance Henriksen (Aliens Series, Apaloosa), J. LaRose (Saw Series, Repo),  Bill Cobbs (Night at the Museum, That Thing You Do), Sab Shimono (Waterworld, Southland Tales), Adam Sessler (G4), Deshja Driggs-Hall (Poundcake), Brian Thompson (X-Files, Buffy), Bonnie Morgan (Terminator: TSCC) and [...]

Asides

• Blogging is an awful format for creative people. It really is. It shines with journalists (read: fact writers) and commentators (read: editorial opinion jockeys), but I really am failing to see the point of blogging for writers, directors, or artisans (outside of tutorializing or grand-standing). I read some of the stuff on technorati's top lists and it's an awful of lot of news and viewpoints. I'll never make it on a top list like that because I don't have a lot of either. #
• I'm in the midst of getting over a hump on a book I've been writing and I had a frank discussion today about Kindle and what it means to the publishing industry. Last quarter Kindle books out-sold Amazon's printed titles. That's a big red flag. So my discussion today was about marketing on a Kindle-specific release, if we choose not to invest in printed product (as I see the future not belonging to print anyway). The conversation was going nowhere so I asked the magic question... who buys these things? We can't market it likes it's a normal book. We should market it to people who own the damn Kindle. I found in my research that Kindle is 70% owned by readers 40 - 65. That's a narrow niche, but does that mean that reading in general is going out the window? It doesn't worry me so much because e-reader buyers are early adopters and those stats line up with people who bought DVDs and PCs at first. What does spook me is that people 40 - 65 are the buying center of the publishing world. I wonder how long it will be before booksellers are shit out of luck as retail businesses. #
• I had my birthday where John Belushi died from a tragic overdose of cocaine. I'm having a wedding ceremony (finally) on the island where one of the co-writers of Animal House fell to his death. I'm starting to see an eerie trend. (shiver) #
• Post production begins after some R&R in Hawaii. If you haven't checked out Yuri Lowenthal and Tara Platt's "Voice-Over, Voice-Actor" make sure to order your copy! http://bugbotpress.com #
• Sigh... I think the era of the music video is dead. I'm hoping I'm wrong, but it doesn't look like it. Time will tell. #