The First Week of October

It looks as though my little animated film is gaining some ground, I have been accepted into 2 films festivals that I was unsure that I would get into. The California International Animated Film Fest, and the Los Angeles International Children's Film Fest. To be honest I was hoping to get into the LA Children's Fest for a long time. I even skipped out on going to SIGGRAPH this year just in case I had a chance to get into the LA fest. Well I am on my way! September 28th I am headed out to Modesto California, and I will be staying there until the 4th of October while I attend the California Intl Animation Fest, and then I am driving from Modesto to Los Angeles where I plan to do some couch surfing while I attend the LA Children's Fest, before heading back to Fort Lauderdale on the 7th.
I have also been really excited to find out where my standing in the Digifest.net festival is, it appears that my campaign to get people to watch the film has been working. I have been hearing back from many people checking out the film and telling me what they think about it, I wasn't exactly expecting my film campaign to go viral but I am hearing from more people than I ever expected. It has also given me great inspiration to push even harder to get my next film rolling. So now I am in the process of setting up the scripts for the two that I have in mind, the biggest thing that will help me determine which one will get my total focus first is going to be where things stand financially. If I talk with a couple select people about my live action idea, and they show the interest that I hope they will have and are willing to help back me on it, then I will be doing everything I can to push that forward, if I am going to be put in a spot where I have very little financial support on the film then I will resort to going back to working on just my next animated film. This is because I already have a couple computers that I can use to model and render with, I won't need to acquire any fancy equipment like I would with a live action film, at the most I will simply have to upgrade one of my computers a bit to handle some of the render times, but it should be considerably easier than it was to work with all the fur that I used in the first film.
Well this Friday is the last day to check out "The Hard Life of A Dog" at the online film fest at Digifestival.net The more people I have check it out the better my chances are to move on to the next round. I hope people keep spreading the word for these last couple days and that the number of votes continues to go up, unfortunately they don't give anyone the opportunity to view the voting, and I think that is a good idea and a bad idea, its good in the respect that it keeps people from just going to see who is voting for one film and just going to watch that one. But it is bad in the respect that it doesn't give an accurate depiction of where people stand, so I never know how accurate the audience vote is, especially if someone that checks the votes and knows that one film was better made than the others because of a major budget and a lot of people working on it, they might just put them up as being the winner of the audience vote even if someone else did get more votes overall. Who knows, I'm keeping my fingers crossed, and hoping that the sheer number of people that have been contacting me will tell me that I have been doing as well as I think this one is going.
Well two weeks from Saturday and I am going to Cali. Wish me luck!

Its like seeing a train wreck...

Pudge Spears


First let me tell you, no I did not watch the MTV Video Music Awards. I gave up on MTV years ago. The channel has been absolute crap since the mid to late 90's, and it will never improve again. As soon as it was announced that Britney Spears would be trying to use that venue to stage her comeback I knew that this was going to be a massive implosion.
If you haven't heard yet, it was considered to be one of the worst performances ever seen, and many of the celebrities that showed up to the awards sat there with blank expressions and a deer caught in headlights look as she showed no enthusiasm, and completely bombed on her performance.
Now here is where hilarity comes in... she knows she did a horrible job. She knows she stunk up the stage worse than anyone would have imagined. She is still a mental case and she broke down crying backstage after the performance ended. Does she think that it is something she did that caused this horrible performance?.... Nope! She blames the whole thing on Sarah Silverman!
Silverman was the host of the Video Music Awards this year, and she did her usual out of control, over the top, and unmercifully politically incorrect style of humor, and her target became Britney. Apparently Britney over heard Silverman practicing her material and became so offended that she told MTV that Silverman was not allowed to talk about her kids. MTV said that they would make sure that she didn't, and well MTV learned a hard lesson today, don't make promises you can't keep. So before Silverman even got on stage, Britney did her "performance" and bombed in the worst way possible. She knew she was sucking so much that half way through the song she stopped lip-syncing to the song and started changing which part she was singing.
Well after Spear's bombed Silverman did to Britney the same thing that she did to Paris Hilton at the MTV Video Movie Awards.*
Well apparently Britney's kids became open season as Silverman (who had been told by MTV execs that, "You are not allowed to talk about Britney's kids") decided to go into her full routine and tear Spears and her kids apart. I have always had respect for Silverman because she is an obscure comic, yeah her jokes are very hit and miss, and her style is extremely selective, but she doesn't seem to care what anyone thinks. The greatest thing about it all is that if you want to see both the god awfulness that was an out of shape Spears check your stomach at the door, and get your eye bleach ready and just click here. Then keep watching to see Sarah Silverman ruin her... or if you just want to skip Sloppy Spears and just go straight to Silverman calling her kids "two of the cutest mistakes you will ever see" click here.

Well I think after this performance, we will soon be hearing about how Spears is back in rehab after a massive relapse into the drug world. She wasn't even off the stage from her "comeback" a days before she had another picture of her cooter appearing on the Internet as she flashed everyone while getting out of the car she was in yet again.... I swear a few more performances like this and she is going to be moving up on my celebrity death list. Soon enough if she doesn't end up back in rehab, she will end up on suicide watch.

*At the movie awards she ripped hardcore on Paris Hilton starting by getting major applause by saying "In a couple days Paris Hilton will be going to jail." and everyone went nuts... except Paris who was in the audience and she was trying to remain composed. She then made another crack about how the guards were going to paint the jail cell bars to look like cock's and Silverman feared that Paris would chip her teeth on them.