The Rose: Six New Preview Stills

while we await the debut broadcast date from bravofact for our sarah slean video, six new preview/low resolution framegrabs have made their way up onto our flickr page. come have a look?

Dead Hooker In A Trunk Wins 3 Awards At Pollygrind

the pollygrind film festival had the las vegas premiere of "dead hooker in a trunk" last friday which, the festival reports, was the most successful night of the five days - completely selling out with standing room only.

the awards were announced earlier today and the film was awarded "best feature - audience choice", "best screenplay," and everette hartsoe's "bad girl award" was co-awarded to jen & sylvia soska. everette is the creator of razor, a comic series noted worldwide for pioneering the "bad girl comic genre."

click here to read the full press release and rundown from the festival.

Elective appears on WCNY Connected!

sort of. kayleigh goldsworthy appeared with her primary band "the scarlet ending" and performed two songs acoustically on wcny connected. the clip has found its way onto youtube and is embedded below.



additional context: kayleigh (blond) is the american half of our musical side project "elective" and her twin sister kaleena (brunette) provided an original song to the feature film documentary"please subscribe." a co-venture feature length project we created with jen & sylvia soska of twisted twins productions.

additional co-venture news: the soska sister's film "dead hooker in a trunk" recently played to rave reviews from a sold-out crowd at this year's pollygrind film festival. awards will be announced monday morning!

Timeless Films Blog Reviews Circumference

This November 2009 review on Circumference was brought to our attention recently and it was very kind so we thought we would repost it here to save for a cloudy day:

"Allow me this time to deviate from my original form of exclusively discussing graphic design and I will be venturing into the art of cinema. Now as one who prides himself on his knowledge of film and everything surrounding it, I was surprised to find that I had not heard anything about the filmmaker C.J. Wallis until recently. So my guess is that there is a very high probability any who are reading this will not be familiar with his work either. But let me share with you one of his most original works. It is called Circumference, created in 2006 and shot entirely in HD.

It was created on a competition basis being chosen out of over 80 pitches in the Crazy8's competition. It challenges filmmakers to make a short film entirely within 8 days on a strict budget of $800 and only allowing you 30 minutes of raw footage to be shot. While all that is a separate task in itself, the astonishing thing about this film is that it is seems as one 10 minute long tracking shot that takes you through the story.

Now it is not exactly one entire tracking shot as they did need to take multiple shots and cuts, however they use extremely hard to replicate editing techniques to blend it all together and make it seem like one fluid tracking shot. So you might see the main character walking in and closing a door which appears to be a film set, but when someone else walks outside it is now the outside of someone's house, and when someone walks back into that door again it is the inside of an office building.

Frankly, I am still trying to figure out how he did it. You certainly can't just pick up a camera and wing it with that huge of an idea. Most people wouldn't be able to do what he did period, but the fact that he was able to accomplish that cinematic feat all under those competitive restraints shows how much careful planning and design went into every little detail before they could start shooting.

Furthermore, he is one who's style I will be looking out for, because his display of talent is very promising in my eyes. So if you can spare about 10 minutes to be amazed, I would seriously recommend you checking out the film, and I will even provide the link for you... http://vimeo.com/5148021

Hope you enjoy!

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Argentinian Article on "Please Subscribe"

click here to view the article. editor's note: we were given zero indication from webhostingpad that our domain was up for renewal and now several of our websites are filled with a smiling young woman having an awesome day while we are not. this will be fixed instantly.

Web Design: Dead Hooker In A Trunk

The Rose - More Behind The Scenes

20 more stills from the rose shoot in march have surfaced. these ones offer better looks at the set and various lighting set-ups. click here to view the stills.

there is still no word as to when bravofact will allow us to upload the video online at this point. rumor has it they loved the video a great deal and are trying to slot it in as early as possible into their schedule, unfortunately their schedule is often programmed a month or three in advance.

Mayhem - Dead Hooker In A Trunk

Photos From 'Bothered At All' Set

the first photos from the set of our video shoot with malcolm holt have surfaced online courtesy of the video's drummer tony dallas. those ten photos have been stolen and put up onto our flickr page. 

tony appeared in our angel lust video and drums in several different bands, but primarily promotes the ssri's. listen to them on their myspace page. the video for "bothered at all" will surface in the next few days. 

UPDATE, APRIL 5TH: 16 more tony photos have been added to flickr. and the video will be released online in 720p high definition later today. boom.