On The Road To Utah

Today was a somewhat silly day at PS, as Sarra did her best to deal with the high volume of bubble wrap that came into the office...


Luckily Kelley was around to help her sort things out.


But that's not the real issue here... No, the big deal at PS 260 today is the Sundance Film Festival. More specifically, the involvement of PS 260, All Day Buffet, and Brandname in said festival because of the movie On The Road With Judas, based on JJ's book by the same name. The film made it into the Sundance Competition section of the festival, to all of our great delight. So we had a little party before they left.

We had party horns,


Champagne,



and confetti. (it looked better in action)


We all toasted JJ and the fruit of his toils.


And Ronan too.




Kelley was so excited she got overexposed.




We send all of our On The Road With Judas friends off to Sundance with our best wishes, congratulations, and full support.


Someday we'll post about the Christmas Karaoke Extravaganza. Until then, keep a-rockin', America. Keep a-rockin'.

What's a Saturday if you're not at PS260?

Wow, it's been awhile! We've really missed you. Much has happened in the world of PS260, many birthday cakes and empanadas have been had, and we've gotten some new employees... all of which I will talk about at a later date.

First of all, we suddenly have a gaping hole in our office, hidden tastefully by a giant wooden perimeter.


We're building a stairway... not to heaven but close: to the Penthouse from the 11th floor.

(these are arial views from the PH)


And second of all, our very own Stephanie Land, receptionist by day, artist and photographer extraordinaire by night, had her first-ever trunk show in our office last Saturday.

By 1pm, an hour before showtime, she was scurrying around making all kinds of copies of price lists and such.


PS260 family friend Nicole, now working at Transistor, came over to help set up.


We cleared out the kitchen to make room for all of Stephanie's amazing photograph prints and hand-made cards, postcards and journals.




... and buttons!





We put up fliers so people would know they were in the right place.


First to arrive was Brandname artist Marlin with his wife Rhonda and little Ozzie Lask.


Nicole hadn't seen them since her Brandname days.


Throughout the afternoon the office saw many awsome people stop by to support Steph.





Even Dustin took a short break from his editing toils to join the perusal party.


It was like a PS260 alumni party. Along with Tom Colella, Bryan Wetzel made an appearance,


... as did Emily,


... and Madeleine.


It was the stationery social event of the season!


... with a beautiful sunset to cap it off.


If you are interested in seeing some of Steph's handiwork (which you should be, because she's pretty much amazing), please visit her website at:

http://www.stephanieland.com

or her Flickr site at:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/stephanieland/

The Trailer Tradition Lives On

It's been awhile, hasn't it? Let's get up to date. Last Thursday was the viewing party for the annual AICE Trailer Park contest. You may know this as the contest for assistant editors that launched PS 260's own Robert Ryang into internet stardom and was the subject of this blog's first entry. Last year, 2 peeps from PS placed (Rob in 1st and Tom Colella in 3rd) out of the 5 who entered. The challenge is to take one of the 9 assigned movies and cut a trailer for it... as a film of a different genre. This year the contestants were Ned, Jenna and Princess. You can watch some of their trailers here and here.


Rob and Dustin came along for support and cocktails.


The place was jumpin'. All kinds of networking was going on amongst the free pizza and gin and tonics.



We chatted with lots of folks, most notably a newly-promoted assistant, Ian, from Crew Cuts who ended up winning 2nd place with a blaxploitation comedy version of "Enter The Dragon." It was truly fab.


Also at the party was Paul, representing Avid and all its glory. He and Dustin got a little wacky together..


Soon enough, the party really got started... an hour of trailers.





After all the fun was over, we decided to make use of the taco truck outside. A real coworker-bonding experience.

The Birthday Sandwich

On August 22, 1980 God brought a little something special into this world and created Robert Ryang. The world rejoiced and 26 years later, the employees of PS 260 rejoiced as well.

For the last 4 years, Robert has asked for a big sub sandwich for his birthday celebration instead of a cake. And every year, when he got a cake instead, his face fell, and not in the subtlest of ways. This year we finally pulled together and got him a big sandwich.


We all waited patiently in the kitchen for his arrival. We remained steadfast in our silence so as not to ruin the surprise. (Sarra even hid.)


You know Jenna and Nicole were psyched.


But Robert kept not showing up. "Where is he?!" we all whispered. "Oh I think I hear him coming," somebody else said quietly.
He was pacing the hallway, on the phone with Dustin (who was at The Mill at the time).
He even drifted towards the kitchen, and we didn't know if we should jump out and yell "Happy Birthday!" or just stay clustered in the corner.


So we stayed clustered and said, "What the hell?"


But finally he emerged, telling Dustin, "I've gotta go, people are waiting for me in the kitchen," and acted surprised.


Upon seeing the Big Sandwich, his face lit up like we'd rarely seen.



(Though we also got him a regular cake [Superhero-themed] to go with it.)


Everybody celebrated the glorious day and had some sandwich-and-cake-and-ice-cream.



To some people's surprise, the entire sandwich was eaten... and only half the cake!


We told Robert we'd give him a dollar if he ate both (with ice cream) in one mouthful.


Not one to shy away from a dare, he piled on the Haagen-Daaz vanilla.


And threw in a He-Man for good measure.



We all owe him a dollar now (small price to pay for such entertainment).



Happy Birthday, Rigoberto!

Emily, We Hardly Knew Thee.

Sometimes in the PS 260 Post World, fun-filled field trips flow fabulously. Like when we get an invite to the frou-frou SoHo house for a ping-pong tournament.


Our fearless adventurers Jason and Dustin answered the call.


Dustin, hitting a high-seeded player in the first round regrettably lost. But his honor was saved by the ever-victorious Jason, who went on to win the entire tournament.


Later that week, they both found went to the Bloc Party Show.


At McCarren Pool.


And found an old friendly face from back in the shooting days of “On The Road With Judas,” production designer extraordinaire Jenn.


Thus we arrive at more sad news. Our dear new runner Emily thinks she is too good for us.


Look at her waiting for her replacement, all cocky.


Aha. There he is, and she won’t even look at him.


But wait, what’s this?


Oh no she didn’t!?!


Oh yes she DID! Damn! This is even worse than her introduction to the blog 8 posts ago.


Oh Em. You don’t have to be that happy that you’re leaving.


Or feign sadness.


Just keep being your cool self.


Emily O. The most ambitious, yet low key chillest runner that we ever hired. Take care, and good luck!


But worry not friends, we have a new replacement toutesuite! Austin L. from, believe it or not, Emily’s same alma matter, NCSA and originally the glorious Pennsylvania.


Welcome to the PS family, Austin. Let the fun begin.

Bye Bye Bry Bry

There has been a changing of the guard here recently, with many sad farewells. To this we add one more, our beloved Bryan has flown the coop, but we said our goodbyes in a classic PS 260 way: the exodus diner.


Every one came out.


And filled two large tables at the very loud tex-mex joint Tortilla Flats.


Check Jason out in the back, sneaking in to frame from the other table.


Even old assistant Patrick made it out say his adieus.


Every 20 minutes, a round of bingo would be played, and if someone at your table got it…


Then you get free shots for all!


Which of course leads to some crazy behaviour.


Or just being wild.


Or plain old cool.


And our favorite, frightened.


As the shots kept coming, the action escalated with an impromptu arm wrestling challenge. JJ and Bryan started it off, JJ taking the cake.


Followed by Jenna losing to the power of Nicole.


But she was a good sport.


Nicole crowned herself top female by defeating Steph.


Who went on to beat Mitch.


Who came in dead last when she lost to Jenna. It was a full on arm wrestling fest.


Then, even though it was not a Karaoke joint, Nicole played chanteuse and bid Bryan bon chance with a dulcet tune.


The other Nicole, Bryan’s girlfriend, really enjoyed it.


Oh Bryan.


What good times.


What good memories.


Don’t ever change. BFFs man. Forever.

Whips, Nice Shoes and Roni, Oh My!

So people sometimes get out of line, and when they do, we have a disciplinarian “clients be good” strap just for the occasion.


We also like to bust out with the hipness, and accessorize thusly.


But when you combine the two, its almost unstoppable! Watch out, and remember to Respect My AuthoratAY!


Which brings to summer. In Postproduction, that can only mean one thing: Nice Shoes BBQs.


Yes, these hallowed events pack it in.


But the burgers never dissapoint.


Neither do the cameos. Faces of PS of old peppered the crowd. Take out old runner Joe.


He seems well, now assisting at a rival house.


And old Ass. Pro. Lauren, now producing for Grey.


Thank you, Nice Shoes!


Then we got the surprise we had all been waiting for, the illustrious return of All Day Buffet producer, Ronan.


Oh how we missed him so.


He’s been out stormchasing for a Discovery Channel reality TV show on, well, storm chasing. Nice to have you back, Roni.


And stay tuned for a very sad and special post soon about our dear old Bry Bry.