Allow me to introduce Derek, he is a good man and we are proud of him. Derek senses a storm approaching.

It's been a bloody long time since the last blog. Damn, lots to catch up on, old friend. But I'll skip most of it and give the short version of the rest.
The DVD. that's what's been going down. The menu screens are done, the buttons are done, the special features are done (unless I think of something else that would be special by the end of the week), I put it through the DVD studio pro simulator and it seems to work, I even put in these transitions between the menu screens that look cool. I hope that tomorow I can learn how to make a little animated 'hello' person pop up from the side of the screen if the menu is on too long. And I want to make a tiny little moment from the film (or something left off from the film) appear as soon as the DVD gets put into a DVD player. It'll freak people out, you know, they'll be expecting to see a nice little menu screen appear first (or a shity warning screen), but instead they'll see some other thing. Like me saying, "WARNING! Don't burn my DVD! It won't work ever again!" I'll be seen there with a flame thrower burning the DVD and trying to play it in a DVD machine again and it won't work. Haha.

So the DVD is coming along very well. By the way, that cup in that picture above is full of Pink Pump liquid, don't drink it, it's a cleaning product.

Congratulations to Maxx, for winning a Silver Award at the ACS doo on saturday night for his stunning cinematography in our film "The Little Girl and the Little Boy", which we made last year with MAPS.


I can't think of anything else to write about. The DVD is coming out soon. Stay tuned. There'll be a screening on December 1st with other MAPS Advanced films, it'll be a good night. Come along. I'm going to make a program for it. And I'm pleased with the prototype of the Fistfull of Maps poster that Alan made. I'm also pleased with the Buyers World Pink Pump segment that James edited. I'm pleased.

Out.