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On The Road To Utah

2007-01-18T18:07:00.000-05:00

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?

2006-12-11T15:38:00.000-05:00

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

2006-09-22T14:31:00.000-04:00

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

2006-08-25T15:43:00.000-04:00

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.

2006-08-16T17:09:00.000-04:00

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

2006-08-11T16:16:00.000-04:00

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!

2006-07-31T18:19:00.000-04:00

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.

The End Of An Erik.

2006-07-07T19:32:00.000-04:00

We know that this blog has taken a terrible hiatus, but nobody really reads it, so f-u all non-readers. Because we will begin this post with the only way we can: even more sadie pictures.

It’s like the train that just never comes in late.

Next we dabble in a few different things. Like the fact that The Mill sent our producers their very own bikini.

Thanks Mill folk.

Then we will go through a certain PS oddities. Like when everybody wore green.

Or when Sarra and Zarina matched.

Or the day we all went Red.

Which brings to yet another sad event. Why are we all on the roof?

Why are the beers out in full force?

And what’s in the blue bag?

Well, its Erik’s going away fete. Yes, he is off to the greener pastures of documentary assisting, a slower pace, but less free food.

And we even got him a gift.

Just so he wouldn’t be late again.

Jenna ended the party with a pair of these.

And marlin showed off his baby-puked shirt.

Oh Erik. Don’t be sad.

But don’t playa hate either. (especially when you put your tongue on the wrong side of the cheek).

It was cool while it lasted.

But show us how you really feel.

“There he goes… one of God’s prototypes. A being so unique, it was never meant for mass production.”

Promote That B-Day

2006-06-17T03:02:00.000-04:00

Moday this will all be explained...

Baby Baby Babies!

2006-06-12T17:34:00.000-04:00

So we totally got invaded by babies. What f-in' cuteness! Look at JJ's beautiful Tyger in his mommy's arms.

And Marlin's tiny Ozzy in his mommy's embrace.

Zoe and Nicole make a cute couple as well, huh?

And the roof got used yet again for photo shoot. This time for Karl Lagerfeld, though im not sure if he made it in.

And in honor of the World Cup, we all wore green.

Praha Lovin

2006-06-02T10:00:00.000-04:00

Well guys, did you miss your PS 260 fix last week? So sorry, but things have just been crazy these days. Anyways, this weeks installment comes from all the way across the pond.

Yes, in a very tight schedule for a new Dell campaign, we had to send our very own editor Maury to Prague! Lucky Dustin went as well to assist, and we’ll let him fill us in on the details:

Well, we got off in the wrong terminal, so we Airtrained it over to Czech Air (the actual carrier, not Delta, who just issued the tickets).

After some serious delay, 45 min. at the gate, and another hour on plane, we finally got underway.

Both Maury and I were not to pleased to find this young lady and her little friend would be right next to us for the entire 7 hour flight, our allergies acting up, but we survived.

Arriving at our hotel safe and sound, albeit done with obvious jokes: Got your ticket? Czech. Where’s your passport? Oh, I don’t know, let me Czech. How was dinner? Fine, it just took forever to get the… you get it.

And what a hotel. The rooms all come with a computer and a dvd player.

And an orchid. Stinson would be lovin’ life.

The lobby’s pretty sweet.

And the roof deck offers killer views of the city,

And the hotel itself.

Our first day there was our only nonworking tourist time, so Maury went off to explore, while I took a dangerous nap (later that night I awoke at 1am wide awake for the next 5 hours). After the refresher, I went out into the great streets of Praha searching for adventure, only to come head to head with, who new, Czech hippies, banging on drums.

I crossed the infamous Karluv Most, or Charles Bridge to you and me.

Tourist action here is insane, it almost feels like there are no Czech people.

And wouldn’t you know it, just like my trip here a year ago, a soon as I step on this bridge, it rains. Some sort of stephens-karluv curse.

Oh, and the Czechs take their begging pretty damn seriously, this guy did not move at all.

Next I hit this main square.

Which houses this awesome clock.

That once again, tourists flocked to like starved piranhas.

I also had a taste of this delicious Czech sweetbread.

Roasted right before your eyes, rolled with sugar and vanilla.

Hit up the old jewish section, though too late to actually make it into anywhere.

That’s the famous Jewish Cemetery, if you squint hard enough.

And this crazy park, with some sort of soviet oil power symbol in the middle.

The next day, we went in to check out our Prahian digs, and sure enough, we were editing in a closet, but the avid works, and that’s all that really counts.

The set was pretty cool.

With tons of extras.

And I even got to do my part. (not really).

On the car ride home, I sparked a camera frenzy when the agency noticed me taking long exposure pictures, and totally aped my style.

Kinda starving, maury and I hit the restaurant next door.

Which featured a pleasant little table on the roof.

The next morning, we hit the amazing Aria Hotel spread.

With its ridiculous watermelon decorations.

And once more hit the studio for a set work day (they are not short),

While Maury cut, I watched master director Filip Engstrom work.

Czech craft services has some weird little quirks. Like this hot dog impaler machine. You thrust the baguette on the spike, then stick the hot dog in.

And the full on pork spit.

The set also featured fun little golf carts.

Which I took for a spin. (not really).

And on the way home, we caught an amazing Czech sunset.

Walking around looking for some place to eat, we randomly hit upon one of the hippest spots of Praha dining, Kampa Fish. They had these cool lights.

Invisble chairs.

And even the very same lamp that we have in Maury’s office.

The walk home garnered us this church money shot.

Which brings us to today. More set craziness.

Up until lunch.

If you bring a magnifier, you can see that this caterer has fed all the recent greats: from hell, van helsing, hellboy, and lets not forget about the mind boggling XXX.

And do you all remember high school lunch cafeteria sectarianism? It's even worse on set. The Talent over here, technicians over there, extras in another tent, editors in the middle... it feels so teenage angst.

And that’s all for now, folks. See y’all in a few days.

Blogmaster, back to you.

Gardening For Borgman

2006-05-19T18:08:00.000-04:00

Well, spring has finally rained in.

So plans are now in place to shape up our roof top for summertime. It’s like getting your body to look good in a swimsuit.

And here are our master planners now.

Assaying the land.

Arranging the look.

Fighting over final picture.

And going off to get dirty together.

You know Jenna’s excited. Or something.

Which brings us to a very nostalgic part of our entry, concerning pimp juice Ned.

His mom so loved his last appearance on the blog, when all the chickadees fawned over him, that she demanded we include him in his favorite childhood pastime: riding the mall merry-go-round. She says he used to just sit there, stoically, not even on one of the horses, preferring the gentle swan… over and over again. Oh the memories.

The Changing Of The Guard.

2006-05-12T14:04:00.000-04:00

Don’t know if you noticed, but our stellar editor Jason Kileen has been out for about a month. Most of it was for work, four-walling away from the PS several spots for Ask.com’s new push against google. But he also took a week for his annual Golf Post Production Invitational. These guys don’t mess around, so much so that they all get uniforms. Check out Kileens team.

It looks simple, but it’s more of a concept idea: Master’s Caddies. Not so shabby.

But their nemeses (which includes Sound Lounge’s Glenn on the right) outdid them with a feat of golfing creativity: white trash truckers.

And the third team just disappointed us all, with the uninspired and drab khaki shorts and polos.

After a week of golfing and good times, its obvious here that Jason is truly psyched to come back to work.

As you know, this blog is also obsessed with the PS quality of flowers, look at these close ups.

Does it remind you of something.

No, seriously, what does it remind you of? Know what yonic means? Look it up.

Anyways, John Zieman, interviewed about his thoughts this year’s NAB, gets quoted in two articles for this week's Shoot, so you should check that out. (or the our own version of the trip, two posts down).

Then, in a wonderful surprise, the Stinson himself arrived for some garden planning.

He seems well, a bit more tan, but still his irascible self.

Sadie also made an appearance.

Still cute as a mother f-in’ button.

Which brings us to yet another sad moment in PS history: Madeleine, “the Mad-villain,” is leaving our glorious office.

But who is this?

What is she doing?

Nooo, she wouldn’t.

Ooooh, snap. She did.

Totally replaced. Live, here on the blog.

Don’t worry, no real Mad-villain’s were hurt in the photoing of this post.

But we have found a new runner, the glorious Emily O.

She comes to us from the virgin state of Virginia, through NCSA, or North Carolina School of Arts to you.

Welcome to the team, Em.

But goodbyes, how sad they are.

Jenna here doesn’t know what she will do with her little Mad-villain.

But Mad-V assured her it would be okay.

Princess, rarely wanting blog appearances, actually asked to have her goodbye commemorated.

Oh Mad-villain. You’re surly wit, the dry sarcasm, the low key charm…

It shall all be missed. Good luck with your piloting career, and visit often.

For Whom The Errors Toll

2006-05-05T12:03:00.000-04:00

Coming in on a Monday morning to find this on your Shared media space is not what an editorial facility really wants.

For you non-vidnerds, we have to digitize all footage to cut with it. Now, audio files (real audio files, not your pansy compressed mp3s) are pretty big, but video, well, they are just huge. So you need big fast drives to handle that. We used to have separate drives for each edit station, but technology has advanced so that we can have one unified storage system. This means several avids can cut on the same material at once, which rocks. If an editor has clients, he can keep cutting and the assistant can load in another room.

The only problem is that all the eggs are in one basket, so once again, if you come in on a Monday and find this on your unity, its not cool.

So, this storage rack consists of 32 180 gig drives raided together. And one of the drives was acting up. We had to move a few projects around so that only the mirrored (the media gets written twice) projects remained on the faulty partition, which would get its drive replaced. But moving a terabyte is not a fast process, especially if you are wondering if the drive will make it.

And once the move was done, and we wanted to switch drives, we found that a few of them were quite dusty, so John did a bit of unity spring cleaning.

Fun, right?

Oh yeah, tons of fun to be waiting for all you media for every project to resettle in, at midnight.

The good news: after a few annoying hours, we placed in our replacement drive.

And everything was back to normal with no data loss.

Whopeee!

Hooray! (thanks jenna for the beautiful spin metaphor of happiness). Now, some people here are wondering if it is good PR to post that we had an error. Well, drives fail. There is no getting around that, it happens at every facility, and its how you deal with it that matters. In the two years we have had this unity, we have have lost only one day of editing, and we did not lose any media. So there, i think our track record speaks highly on how we deal with machine errors.

Anyways, as the spring keeps rolling, our flowers just get more awesome-er.

And on days where the real Sadie can’t come in, we all settle for the next best thing.

Which brings us to a new announcement, after a few weeks of looking for a new receptionist, PS finally found Stephanie. She hails from the great state of Ill-I-noise, and we think she is a fabulous addition to the team.

Welcome to the PS family, Steph!

Oh, Happy Cinco de Mayo!

Have some on Margaritas on us.

Are You NABsperienced?

2006-04-28T16:41:00.000-04:00

Well, the end of april means only one thing in post-production: NAB. For those of you not in the know, the National Association of Broadcasters throws down a humungous convention every year to show off all the new stuff coming out. It’s the second biggest convention of its kind, after CES, and it takes a fearless crew to maneuver through it. Luckily, PS 260 just happened to have two such brave travelers, and we sent them off to Vegas, camera in hand. Here is their adventure, take it away Dustin and John:

Day One.

We arrive at the airport at 7am Sunday morn and catch our flight with no big hiccups.

5 hours and four achy asses later, we arrive in The Vegas, where you can gamble right out of the gate.

And sit in the longest taxi line ever known to man.

Finally, we made it to our hotel, the Riviera. It’s old school, a bit ragged round the edges, a tad tacky, but it’s a walk away from the convention center, so it all works out.

Check in was totally automated through an atm-like contraption, but went smoothly.

Right away, I hit the poker tables.

And did rather well for my first time in Vegas (at a gambling age), winning 180 dollars in 1-2 no limit.

But the good times couldn’t just roll forever, for there was work to be done. John and I headed down to the Hard Rock for Avid’s user welcome party.

It was a well catered event, and they announced full Mac parallel to all the features the PC already had, which was great and a long time coming.

We even got interviewed by the students avid set up to learn some real life shooting experience.

And of course we got the money guitar shot.

We then hit a bunch of casinos on the strip. I got some booby action at the Mirage lobby.

The aquarium wall was pretty dope.

Only in Vegas does one run into forgotten thongs on the curb.

And the exploding volcano, though short, put on a good show.

At Caesar’s, the bubbles lured us in.

And we ended the night with more breast action. Unpictured is more poker, where I upped my take to 240 dollars in the late late night session.

Day Two.

John awakes early to hit the gym and finds the If, Ands and Buts statue.

I register and hit the Convention floor for the first time. It is freakin’ huge!

Check out the wacom pad where you can draw right on the screen.

The ginormous plasma.

And the adobe tutorial area.

Lunch we met up with John’s friend from college Brooks, who ran his own booth for Metaglue, everything you need to master crazy EDLs.

This is a feeble attempt to show how massive the Avid and Apple booths were, and how close together and archrivalrous the situation was.

Its really just a huge event, with almost 105 thousand registered attendees.

As part of the avid promo video, they showcased Arrested Development, a short film that John edited. How cool is that?

The nerdfest continued at the Autodesk booth, with major servers.

And a cool ass demo showing all the different parts that have to be composited together to make one 24 second clip for War of the Worlds.

For lunch we met up with Alan M. from Moving Pictures, who talked about his new Sumo wrestling project. Supposedly it’s the next big sport thing.

Virtual Media, our Avid resellers then set us up with a intimate demo, where we saw the new tracker functions and the stand alone Media Composer, with out the exta I/O box.

Afternoon brought us to the glorious Mandalay Bar.

All the way to the top, to the Mix Lounge.

What a f-in’ view.

Met up with Bradly from Go Robot. Schmoozed.

Did I mention the view?

Did I? These pictures do not do it justice.

They also had this crazy bubble bar, where we met Nicole from LAs Cutters (from whence the inventor of trailer park hails).

And yes, we did some work. It was an apple sponsored party for the AICE, so we talked with the Final Cut Project Manager about some of the short comings we felt in the system.

Late night, I lost a lot of money at the Madalay poker tables. A lot. Like 900 dollars, which put me at down 660. Not Cool. But I did meet up with Terrence from Digital X.

Watched a terribly schmaltzy rock show.

And finally said good night to all, including a bunch of the Nice Shoes cats.

Day Three.

We hit up the convention nice and early, this time starting on a different huge hall.

The Panasonic presentation was well edited, but not that informational.

And the Sony booth had a nice surprise, a 4k projector. (for non vidnerds, that means that every frame has 4000 by 2000 pixels, double HD).

The quality was stunning.

And we got another PS 260 surprise Plug when they showed Little Pony, edited by Maury as part of their media pitch.

Even though its not really our thing, we checked out cool broadcast features like this fully set up trailer, that can go anywhere and be prepared to master a full live show.

And the 100x zoom camera, whose lens alone costs about 160 grand.

Plus this crazy signal splitter that can survive hard core terrains.

NAB is this weird twilight zone area. The only place in the world where there is a line at the boy’s bathroom and not at the girls. (the male to female ration felt like 10:1).

We continued our tour with this funky lens that can submerge its long beak.

And met up with this compact steadycam operator and Gendra, who helped out with our Highline films.

Then we saw part of the Red Digital presentation.

They are bringing out a new digital camera that can take higher than 4k movies. It sounds cool as hell, but we never saw actual footage.

We ended the day with a 45 minute sit at apple, seeing a wordwind tour of Final Cut Studio, cutting, adding effects, cleaning up audio and sound designing, and creating a DVD.

On our way out John saw Caroline G. from Shoot Magazine, and said hello.

Afterconvention hours, the AICE was hosted by Avid this time (look, we're VIPs), again at the Hard Rock.

It was a good event where we talked to project managers about theupcomming release, hopefully not having to deal with the two second delay (mac adrenaline users know what I mean).

After that, John had dinner at Bellagio’s Circo, very fru fru, with old friends Samantha and Chuck C., as well as Eric M. of Omneon, and two great Australian gentlemen from Panasonic.

While I checked the infamous Bellagio fountains.

And yes, I headed back to the poker table. Where I promptly lost another two hundred. But I continued, and three hours later up to about six hundred, held a pair of queens, which tripped up on the flop. I raised twenty, got reraised twenty, then decided to end it there and then by betting a hundred. He called, on the last card I bet another hundro, he goes all in a I call, and take down a twelve hundred dollar pot.

I leave Vegas up 460 dollars. Hellz Yeah!

Day Four. The Last Day.

We started the morning at a DVD panel that Chuck was on.

Samantha was there listening to the very dry technical speak.

Then we hit the convention one last time, walking by my favorite subarea, Technology For Worship. No joke.

Then we stood in this long ass line to get into the Ultra HD theatre. Yes, UTLRA.

Its about 8k x 4k, 4x larger that 1080i. They didn’t allow pictures inside, so boo hoo for you, here, look at JZ drilling the tech and finding out that the camera chip actually only has 4k, and they upres.

Right next door, there was HD 3D, where this cooky japanese archer makes you duck cause the arrow is coming straight at you.

Heading towards the other convention hall we got stopped by this steadycam on segway which you drive with your weight and pedals.

And we both signed chess pieces for our troops.

We finally remembered to take a picture of the eatery that served such good Korean beef that it made us return everyday.

And of these crazy advertisers that carried LCDs on their backs.

Plus this poor girl who had to dress up like a lion. I guess there are worse things.

Then we made it to the Datanet (our label and shipping software) booth, where my comment was top of the list.

Here we are with the creator and ceo of the system, Ken E.

Next we hit the Omneon, a storage solution that can run 20 final cut stations using the same media.

This is Eric, who we met at Circo, and those servers back there are this incredible new way of building space AND bandwith with every sever you add, so that the size is basically infinitely scalable. They had tested a system to up to 2 (wait for it vidnerds) petabytes. Yes, that’s 4 thousand terrabytes.

On our way out we randomly met up with Chuck and Sam again, so we said our goodbyes.

Then we said goodbye to the convention. How sad.

Then goodbye to the Riviera (okay, this is really the security line, because we forgot to blog the end of the Riv).

Then John had to get extra checked cause he forgot to take his laptop out. Luckily, he's not a terrorist.

Then we got delayed an hour, so John showed us his parlor tricks.

Then we said goodbye to The Vegas.

And finally, we had the 4 and a half flight back, which I mostly slept through.

Hello New York! Nice to be back.

What a great trip.

Let’s do it again next year. Phew, what a post!

The Cuteness Arrivals

2006-04-21T11:23:00.000-04:00

While working hard over the weekend we had a surprise visit from a gorgeous rat with wings, haughtily perched on Bryan’s couch like a demanding client.

We tried to get him out but he’d made friends with the mannequin.

It took John’s laptop corralling skills to get it to the hallway…

and out the window. Sadly, the final takeoff is unpictured.

Our next visitors flew in from LA: we four-walled (for those of you unlucky enough to work out of the biz, this is the fancy term for “rent an edit suite”) the famous Kirk Baxter and infamous Matt Murphy from Rock Paper Scissors.

Here Kirk shows who’s top banana:

Then the cuteness overload began: What the f is that?? A squid? An enormous rat? Robert Ryang?

No!! It’s Sadie, Rob and Molly’s new pup. Aren’t these girls adorable?

Rob was a bit nervous about the responsibility

but you know he loves her.

Sadie, aren’t you the cutest?

Or are you? Maury’s gorgeous one-year-old Hannah gave Sadie a run for her money.

She seemed a bit overwhelmed.

Because of all the attention—everyone had to come say hello.

Fortunately her nerves didn’t affect her appetite.

Hannah, you beautiful girl, come back any time.

The End Of Something Beautiful.

2006-04-14T22:50:00.000-04:00

We thought it would end, that come some week, we would not post more f-ing birthdays. Well Marlin from brandname certainly ruined that. Look at his surprise.

At the delicious birthday cupcakes.

We were a bit disheveled, and Patrick had to light the candle right then and there.

But it was a success.

And in the reverse angle, please note that P-sauce kept a good distance from the flame (see post below).

Marlin, Happy Birthday!

Which brings us to some very sobering and somber news… Patrick Stinson has left the building.

Yes, after two and a half years of joyous sarcasm and unPC-ness, the wonder years must end. Patrick really broke the mold: He came in for an interview, and we explained that after some bad fast hires, we were going to intern him for a couple of weeks to make sure he clicked, only to be hired on the spot once JJ shook his hand. With no video experience, and only one month as a runner, we felt he was ready to be a full assistant. And finally, after buying the flowers for the office for a bit, we let him design and build the roof garden (okay, bryan helped with that one). Really, get a load of this guy.

And now, to the going away party. Patrick cracks up old PS Asst. Producer (a title called Ass. Pro. by some) Lauren.

While Bryan checks out what he thinks is important.

And Madeleine disapproves.

Bryan continues his rakish ways with Patrick’s sister Olivia.

Jenna gives her crazy giggle face.

And we strike a pose.

Look at Mitch’s intensity.

Could it have something to do with this?

Or what happened after that to create this other one?

Or did super client Jesse have anything to do with it? (he didn’t, but it makes better blog drama)

Madeleine gets it. She’s down like a mother f-in’ clown.

And right at the end, erik makes it in to give his best bugs bunny impression.

Patrick, we know this might be how you feel. But this is a heartfelt goodbye. You shall be missed.

There he goes, the man, the myth, the legend. Patrick Stinson.

The Princess Flame.

2006-04-10T21:34:00.000-04:00

It seems all this blog really has to give is… but of course, birthdays. So here comes another one.

It all seemed like a normal PS birthday gathering… the furtive signing of the card, the lies told to the birthday girl to get her in the kitchen, the even more difficult gathering of employees to the kitchen during business hours to wish her a happy day. But we all made it there, and happily so.

Princess was brought in and feigned her surprise.

Overcome with glee, she leaned over to blow out the candle on her vegan angel cake,

… and we all watched in slow-motion horror as her ebony locks actually caught flame and were set ablaze by a misfit candle.

Fortunately, Ronan was around to save the day.
And a good thing our blogmaster used this opportunity to try out his frame-by-frame filming.
Happy birthday, P-Cess. Watch out for those rebel flames.

Wrap Party, Not Rap Party

2006-04-02T19:49:00.000-04:00

Listen, we’ve been busy, we know we missed our Friday post, but worry not, things have happened. Like last Fridays On The Road With Judas Wrap Party.

Let’s just say fun was had.

And we will try to update correctly when time allows, for now, enjoy this.

Cookies, Cuts, and a Crazy Cat

2006-03-24T19:56:00.000-05:00

If you have never been to Da Sixty, then you have missed out on one of the worlds most amazing daily rituals: The Dessert Platter.

Doesn’t this look amazing?

What about this one?

We even switch up the directional flow.

Damn! They taste so good.

Look at one of the three artists at work, Mr. Adro Puff the Third.

In other news, we hope you remember all star runstress, Madleine.

Well, she wen all make over on us.

Welcome to the PS, Madeleine Degeneres.

Also, Assistant extraordinaire Eric turned itno a crazy blind man.

When he had ocular difficulties.

Pimp Juice…

2006-03-17T11:19:00.000-05:00

Yesterday, Ned was corralled by a herd of lovely coeds. His sister came into the office to peek at our glorious digs, accompanied by all her university friends, who fawned over our illustrious runner.

I wonder who the sister is?

And The Oscar Goes To…

2006-03-10T14:48:00.000-05:00

Well, before the Oscars, the arguments were heated: Could Brokeback sweep? Did Narnia really deserve makeup over Star Wars? Paul Giamatti or George Clooney?

All these questions and more were answered on Sunday. Monday, everyone eagerly awaited for Poolmaster Stephens to tally the results.

And what do you know, but PS 260, with a large amount of outside competition, stayed on top. Producer Mitch Stockwell hit the $375 jackpot with a stunning 52 points. She nailed 5/6 on the coveted four pointers, a tremendous 6/6 in the 3 pointers, and nice and tidy 7/9 of the 2 pointers. Wow! She deserves it.

Second place went to the Poolmaster himself (we checked his ballot for monkey business and he passed) with 49 points. His downfall was picking Brokeback over Geisha in cinematography, the one mistake that did him in. But he did beat 48 other people, so he got a cool $125.

Last year’s winner, Maury was distraught with his 4th place showing.

As a company, PS did very well, holding in most of the top ten (though we had few people in the way bottom). Do you want to see how it all came out? Okay;

1. Mitch S., 52 Points, PS 260
2. Dustin S., 49 Points, PS 260
3. Marlin L., 48 Points (+3 tie breaker), Brandname
4. Maury L., 48 (+5 tie breaker), PS 260, 1 one-pointer
5. Sarra I., 48 (+6 tie breaker), PS 260
6. Luis Jose S., 47, (PS 260, brother of Dustin)
7. Bill B., 46, (ex-PS 260 Worker) 1 one-pointer
8. Matt B., 44, Nice Shoes
9. Patrick S., 43, PS 260
10. Rhys T., 42, (PS 260, husband of Mitch)
11. Bryan W., 41, (+7 tie breaker) PS 260
12. Madeleine Sacknuts, 41, (+8 tie breaker) PS 260
13. Matt C., 40, (+4 tie breaker) Nice Shoes
14. Erik C., 40, (+6 tie breaker) PS 260
15. Amy S., 38, (+2 tie breaker) On The Road With Judas, 1 one-pionter
16. Ronan N., 38, (+6 tie breaker) All Day Buffet
17. Vincas, 37, (+2 tie breaker) Go Robot
18. Robert R., 37, (+4 tie breaker) PS 260 1 one-pionter
19. Stephen R., 36 (0 tie breaker) Nice Shoes 2 one-pointers
20. Denise S., 36 (+1 tie breaker) A-List
21. Alisa S., 36 (+5 tie breaker) Go Robot
22. Zarina M., 35 (+2 tie breaker) PS 260
23. Ned B., 35 (+10 tie breaker) PS 260
24. Chirs O., 34 (+6 tie breaker) Nice Shoes 1 one-pointer
25. Adam L., 34 (+7 tie breaker) Go Robot
26. Mark R., 33, Nice Shoes, 2 one-pointers
27. Ronda M., 32, (Brandname, wife of Marlin)
28. Schreck, 31 (+1 tie breaker) Nice Shoes
29. Craig B., 31 (+4 tie breaker) Go Robot
30. Grant G., 30 (+2 tie breaker) BBDO, 2 one-pointers
31. Dan W., 30, (+9 tie breaker) Go Robot
32. Lez R., 30 (+10 tie breaker) Nice Shoes
33. Katie S., 29 (+5 tie breaker) Nice Shoes
34. Kristen K., 29 (+8 tie breaker) Nice Shoes
35. Joe K., 29 (+9 tie breaker) Go Robot
36. Tim W., 28 (+8 tie breaker) Go Robot, 1 one-pointer
37. John Z., 28 (+11 tie breaker) PS 260
38. Ben S., 27, Go Robot, 1 one-pointer
39. Chris R., 26 (+5 tie breaker) Nice Shoes, 1 one-pointer
40. Damon C., 26 (+6 tie breaker) Nice Shoes
41. Jenna + Ria, 26 (+11 tie breaker) PS 260
42. Jay S., 25, Nice Shoes
43. Gene C., 24, Nice Shoes
44. Jennifer D., 23, On The Road With Judas
45. Jason K., 22, PS 260
46. Adrian G., 21 (+4 tie breaker) PS 260
46. George A., 21 (+4 tie breaker) (PS 260, Adrians Friend)
48. Nicole S., 21 (+10 tie breaker) Brandname
49. Marta M., 20, (no written company) 1 one-pointer
50. Michael R., 16, Nice Shoes

What a beautiful amount of players. Lets up it again next year, okay.

Oscar Pool Blowout!

2006-03-03T18:47:00.000-05:00

Oscar time at PS is always rather exciting. The Oscar Pool consumes us in an overly nerdy way, but whatever we're all A/V Nerds. This year, we decided to let other Post Companies in on the fun, and they responed with the same zeal. Look at all the entries!

And of course, with all those entries means all the Money!

450 american! Thats double last years take. Incredible. With all this outside competition, we hope that PS can keep this in the family. i guess we'll see. also, if you want to try at home, pleas use the official ballot. Note the weighted categories.

The man to beat here is star picker Maury. He has won two years. Let's see the breakdown:

2003: 3 Way tie Dustin, Maury, Ronan
2004: Bill (ex-assistant we let play)
2005: Maury, again.

Stay tuned for the winner and prize ceremony next week.

Dab Nammit, Enough With The Birthdays

2006-02-24T18:06:00.000-05:00

What is up with people making sweet sweet love in the vicinity of nine months ago? I guess it’s those hot summer months when all you want to do is procreate to create the future work force of the PS Companies. I just feel like we’ve only been blogging birthdays recently.

Yes, stellar runner Madeleine has finally turned 18.

She’s finally legal, too bad she has a boyfriend.

The cup cake blow out ceremony was wonderful.

You know Nicole loved it.

And then, one week later, who but the loveable brandname grouch turned the big Quarter?

Warren! He thought he was coming up for a meeting to work the week end.

But happily rejoiced that it was his turn to blow out the cup cakes.

We were late on the card.

But he still enjoyed it.

Like Madeleine did.

Okay. Enough. Happy Birthday.

The Birth Trifecta

2006-02-10T13:50:00.000-05:00

Yes, people be gettin’ down ‘n dirty in June, ‘cause we got lots of February babies. Three birthdays in the next week. So we busted out the cupcakes.

And all gathered together to wish our three cuties B-Dayers the most happiest birthday of everland!

Happy Birthday Barbara! (Feb. 6th)

Happy Birthday Bryan! (Feb. 10th)

Happy Birthday Patrick! (Feb. 11th) Doesn’t he just look overjoyed?

So we ate.

And drank.

And Maury loved the cupcakes.

And all was well in the world of PS 260, at least for a bit.

The Prodigal Son Returns…

2006-02-06T18:33:00.000-05:00

Don’t we all have daughters? Don’t we all cry when it rains?

Because we all had to start somewhere, right? Way back then, do you remember when YOU were on the bottom? We do.

So what better way to commemorate post-ness beginnings than by showcasing our current line up of awesome runners.

Madeleine (watch that spelling) loves getting caught off guard while diligently ordering the next Fresh Direct Order.

She came to us via Durham, North Carolina.

And she’s proven to be quite the catch. Don’t let her dry sarcasm catch you off guard.

Then there’s young Ned (-ediah Springfield). He ventured to our office through Bean Town, aren’t we glad we have him too.

He’s an Eagle Scout, so respek, and don’t let his innocent demeanor fool you, cause he’ll bring it. Oh yes, he’ll bring it.

Which brings us to our newest recruit: Adrian.

He got here through Ann Harbor.

But he’s not exactly that new, he worked here last summer as an intern, and has returned in full glory to Run Run Run. Beware, he’ll bring the hipness with a quickness!

On The Couch With Judas

2006-01-27T15:21:00.000-05:00

We have all seen these in edit houses.

The classic Aeron chair that saves our backs during the long hours of slicing and dicing. What you don’t know is, these mighty feats of style and engineering can mutate easily into…

The Audition Couch (it’s still just a chair, but you get what I mean).

Yes, PS 260 is now auditioning for the second shoot of our upcoming movie On The Road With Judas. Look at our amazing talent pickers. Amy’s always on the phone like a good producer should be, Casting X keeps it on the DL.

JJ has the camera and is ready for anything.

And Ronan works it out behind the scenes.

Obviously, this is the first blog mention of the film, but the project has been in the works for a bit now. We don’t want to give too much away, but lets just say we’re all pretty excited and we think you should too. Stay tuned.

The Year In Films

2006-01-20T17:18:00.000-05:00

Well People, we are an editing boutique, so most of us have a love affair (obsession?) with films. We don’t have a March Madness pool, we do the Oscars. Its been a tradition now for three years. And in that vein, another yearly event is the Year End Movie Recap. Anyone who cares enough makes a top ten list and breaks it down. Here are the answers so far.

Jason rocks it like this:

ok professor, here you go....

1. Syriana
2. Match Point
3. Good Night, and Good Luck
4. Munich
5. 40 Year Old Virgin
6. Sin City
7. Squid and the Whale
8. Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
9. Crash
10. Mail Order Wife

Best Movie on Nobody Else’s List
The Greatest Game Ever Played

Princess gives it to us straight:

Top Ten
1. Batman Begins
2. Crash
3. Munich
4. Grizzly Man
5. Rize
6. Sin City
7. Match Point
8. March of the Penguins
9. Syriana
10. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Worst Movies Of All Time
Domino
Diary of a Mad Black Woman

Wish I Would Have Seen
A History of Violence
Old Boy
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
The Constant Gardener
Capote
Boys of Baraka
The Squid and the Whale
Good Night and Good luck

Nicole, even though shes a Brandamer is allowed to go down like this:

Nicole’s Top 10 of 2005
1) The Squid and The Whale
2) Crash
3) Happy Endings
4) Brokeback Mountain
5) Walk The Line
6) March of The Penguins
7) Look At Me
8) Broken Flowers
9) Junebug
10) Me and You and Everyone We Know

Erik had some caveats about the year:

This year I only saw 12 new releases, so in the interest of being selective/critical, I'm just doing a very John Cusack "top 5".
1) I am a sex addict (Tribeca)
2) Brick (sundance)
3) Munich
4) Kung Fu Hustle
5) Syriana

To tell you the truth, out of those 5 I listed, the top 2 are the only ones I would call seriously inspired pieces. The last few are kind of filler. I need to see more movies.

Jenna was non too pleased, either:

Sadly, upon scanning The List I realized that I didn't like many movies this year all that much. Cinema failed to thrill or delight me this year. Here are the ten movies I enjoyed the most, though few of them would make it onto a true top ten list:

1. The Squid and the Whale
2. The Aristocrats
3. The 40-Year-Old Virgin
4. Batman Begins
5. Walk the Line
6. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
7. Shopgirl
8. The Beat That My Heart Skipped
9. (tie) Millions and Harry Potter 4
10. (tie) MirrorMask and Serenity.

That's a fucked-up list.

And here is my top ten movies that I really wanted to see and just never did:
1. Sin City
2. Mad Hot Ballroom
3. 5x2
4. Caterina in the Big City
5. Melinda & Melinda
6. Rock School
7. Murderball
8. Corpse Bride
9. Red Eye
10. Four Brothers
Just kidding...
10. Bee Season

Well, there are always DVDs.

Bryan always keeps it real (its a repeat picture, we know, but he wasn't here today so sue us):

1. The Devils Rejects
2. I Am a Sex Addict
3. The Three Burials of Melacodes Estrada
4. Capote
5. Boys of Baraka
6. Head On
7. History of Violence
8. Corpse Bride
9. My Summer of Love
10. March of the Penguins

Honorable Mention:
Land Of the Dead, Inside Deep Throat

Ned keeps it simple:

1. Match Point
2. Syriana
3. Batman Begins
4. Wedding Crashers
5. The Producers
6. Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
7. Millions
8. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
9. War of the Worlds
10. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

And Dustin just kept going:

Top Ten (Plus)
1. Sin City
2. Squid and Whale
3. Batman Begins
4. Crash
5. 40 Year Old Virgin
6. Match Point
7. Me You and Everyone We Know
8. The Aristocrats
9. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
10. Kung Fu Hustle
11. Serenity
12. Comedians of Comedy
13. Brokeback Mountain
14. Wallace And Grommit

Best Movies I liked but People Hated
1. Family Stone
2. Hitch
3. Howl’s Moving Castle

Best Effects that Did Not Pull Off a Good Movie
1. Mirror Mask
2. Star Wars III
3. War Of The Worlds

Best Under the Radar
1. Beat That My Heart Skipped
2. Jesus Is Magic

Best Need of an Editor (cut an hour, please!)
1. King Kong
2. Munich

Best Movie I can’t Place On A List
Harry Potter 4

Worst Movie
The Game Of Their Lives (on a plane, okay)

And finally, Wish I had Seens
Good Night, Good Luck
Syriana
Jarhead
June Bug
Broken Flowers
History of Violence
Three Burials of Melqueiades Estrada
Cinderella Man
Shop Girl
March of the Penguins
Rize
Capote
Constant Gardner
Kings and Queens

And there you have it. Some key debaters are missing, but im sure we’ll get them up here soon enough. Do you have any favorites?

Into The Mill

2006-01-13T13:09:00.000-05:00

Wednesday, runner extraordinaires Ned and Madeleine were busy keeping the office together.

Little did they know PS 260 was going on a fieldtrip to the Mill party.

Mostly the younger crew made it out.

And entered the Mill elevator which is somewhat infamous in PS lore for reasons unbloggable.

It ended up being a bit more low key, more reception than party, but the pear Martinis did flow.

And the cheese and crudités spread rocked it with normal Mill client services style. (they had a full sushi table as well that went unpictured).

Dustin enjoyed the TV fire.

And met up with flame artiste David for some band swapping. (Matisyahu and Wolf Parade were mentioned).

Princess and Sarra made it in a bit later.

Just around the time Ned left to be captured on Close Circuit Television.

Happy belated Mill holiday party! (they rescheduled because of the transit strike).

Producing Habitat

2006-01-06T15:18:00.000-05:00

(you should read the below entry with a cheesy national geographic English/Australian narrator accent)

Here we find the producers in their natural habitat (executive producer Zarina on the left, and Mitch on the right).

Usually very busy, they do not like to be bothered by trivialities such as blogs. Notice what happened to the last profiler.

They do surround themselves with lush green flora.

But be wary, if you approach with a camera, they can get skittish.

And runaway.

Join us next week, for another glorious exploration of the PS 260 jungle.

All Work And No Play

2005-12-30T14:48:00.000-05:00

Well, Christmass came and went.

And PS has been pretty slow. Except for the glorious Edit Room Four, diligently working through the holidays.

And it makes sense, with a Jewish editor, and a Muslim assistant, who cares about Xmass anyways?

The Full Eve

2005-12-19T16:12:00.000-05:00

Just in case you needed more, here is the full evening:

PS Holiday '05

Hot Holiday Action

2005-12-19T12:10:00.000-05:00

Much to our surprise, the holidays are here again.

So we had our annual par-tay.

And as dusk settled in, so did we for some glorious Secret Santa.

Maury got a snazzy GI Joe T Shirt, and guessed correctly whence it came from, Dave Moore.

Barbara enjoyed her new plant.

Jenna loved her new scarf hat gloves combo from Zarina.

Patrick almost wept upon receiving his beanie from Ria.

Warren got nailed by a black book and markers.

Ned got some delicious reading with Bar Mitvah Disco.

Jason fumed joyously with his arch nemesis beanie thanks to Jenna.

Dave prized his He Man dvd, well gifted by Sarra.

Patrick Lavin pondered the mysteries of his new Bonsai.

Mitch delightedly tried on her new Sherlock Holmes hat.

Ronan proudly displayed his butterfly gun care of John Z.

Marlin’s Lost t-shirt will arrive shortly, Nicole assured him.

Sarra tried on her smoking cap and Fela Kuti album.

JJ sat speechless with his Woody Allen documentary.

John showed off his new sculpture from the 'Cess.

Erik loved his trifecta of shirt, mirror, and Noam Chumsky and thanked Mitch just so.

Zarina could not wait to open the six different cooking hot sauces that Dustin purveyed.

Nicole bubbled over her flap hat.

Princess swiftly digested her raw food cookbook from absent (on vacation) Bryan.

Robert honorably accepted his Sibley’s North American Bird Guide, a noble present from Patrick S.

Madeliene got a slick new Ipod case from her partner in crime Ned, and guessed it.

Ria adored her chocolates and gift card.

Ben ho-hoed with the delight that only a bootleg Badder Santa can purvey.

Dustin got an enigmatic photoshopped picture with a shirt on the way (and new kix from Brandname).

So many hats!

Those were all the gifts, but the night had just begun, we all hopped on the F to go the charming Tio Pepe’s for some delicious holiday grub.

What a dinner.

How good does that fresh Guac look?

And those Sangrias and Margaritas? De-lish.

The Partners gave speeches, those cool cats.

And could this be a most awaited part of the night? The bonus giveaway? Why yes it is. Incredible.

What great times.

Even though its bye bye Dave.

Higher-Power-Whatever-That-May-Be-For-You bless us, everyone.

Nice To Meet You…

2005-12-09T12:15:00.000-05:00

Hey there. How you doin’? Long time no see.

Wait a sec, have we been formally introduced? I think not. We’re PS 260. No, not the school you schmuck, the post house.

But who are we really? Well, why don’t we start a little blog installment called (fanfare and drumroll please)

Inside the Rooms.

Today we will feature macdaddy Bryan Wetzel, proud proprietor of Edit Room Three.

Obviously you can check out his work back at the PS site, so lets get to know his room. Tons of hidden treasures here, like Ghananian Barbershop Art.

And the Tizzle himself.

Something crazy in the corner.

A growing collection.

And the rustic mirror that puts it all together.

And what would an editor be without a faithful and sarcastic assistant? Nothing. So meet Patrick as well. He loves long walks on the beach and is a kavorka for yellow cats.

And unbeknownst to most of you, this infamous team performs a double duty, being the master architects for the rooftop garden (which will be lengthily featured in better weather conditions). For the time being, their work has centered over the elegant Cactus Corner.

And the newly flowered Plumeria (Frangipani to some).

Beautiful, huh?

Booyakasha, Biaches.

Been Much Too Long

2005-12-02T11:45:00.000-05:00

Yes yes, we know, its been too long since we updated this area of the site. But people, let us assure you that we have been busy, and the thrill of blogging had take a back seat to getting cool spots on the air. But worry not, the push has been made and this blog will transform into a viable living breathing site. Check it out every week or so.

We don’t know if y’all are in the know, but a while back we found this quirky german site that lets you create yourself in South Park form. Obviously, we OD’ed on it, and did everyone in the office of back then.

So here it is, us like we were not so long ago.

Can you name everyone? Can you name the key missing characters? You just might win a prize if you can.

And just click here if you want to join the fun and do it yourself: South Park Studio

Tom Does It Again

2005-10-07T20:17:00.000-04:00

Tom was uncontent to let sleeping dogs lie, so he just had to work it one more time. Actually, he was contacted by the director of Cabin Fever, who saw that his music was used on the West Side Redux, who wanted a spoof of his own. So with out further ado, here it is:

Lo Res Style

Hi Res Style

Enjoy, goofballs!

E Dog Bust HIs Own Thing Out

2005-10-07T19:15:00.000-04:00

Yes, young Erik also can cut side projects. Take a look at his new fun claymation thingie

Lo Res Action

Mid Res Action

High Res Action

Yeah. You know we keep it fresh like that.

The Truth About The Virus

2005-10-02T13:21:00.000-04:00

Just so we are clear here:

The AICE only intended the trailers to be viewed for a private audience. They had no intentions for internet audience to view them and PS 260 did not intend for these trailers to be made for promotional or monetary reasons.

We put the links below because all of you were already coming and looking for them anyway. So enjoy.

Take 2 On Working Links

2005-09-30T23:12:00.000-04:00

Rob's Shining

Tom's West Side Virus

Dustin's Hit That Ship

Rob Is The Man

2005-09-29T19:01:00.000-04:00

So Rob's incredible reimagining of the Shining trailer has made its rounds around the internet, might as well show it here!

Take a look, its fucking amazing:

Rob's Shining

And while you are at it, take a look at Tom's West Side Story

Toms

And Dustin's Titanic

Hit That Ship

Hello

2005-08-11T23:44:00.000-04:00

Hello blog, my name is JJ, and I am very happy to meet you. I hope our friendship can withstand my sudden temper and my drinking problem. I smoke and eat cookies in the middle of the night while watching QVC. I am 5 1/2 feet tall and weigh 375lbs. But I have lost five lbs in the last week. I am going to quit smoking after this cigarette.

I'll talk to ya later, I have to change the cat litter, I forgot to do it in god knows how long. It's a good thing I don't have plants.