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This year’s lineup at Semi-Permanent looks pretty bad ass: Charlie White, The Orphanage, Lobo, Peter Sluszka, Joshua Davis and a slew of other folks who I’m sure kick all kinds of ass and yet I’d feel slightly uncomfortable putting their names here because I’m not entirely certain who they are.

A couple of nice people affiliated with Semi-Permanent have sent me nice emails, and because I want to be nice too, I’m going to pass along a nice offer: Go to sp05.thehappycorp.com and follow the instructions there for a special deep discount on the conference. I don’t know how deep we’re talking, but they put the word "deep" in all capitals on the site, so they must be pretty damn serious.

I really wish I could go myself. This looks like it’s going to be truly awesome. If any of you go, take good notes and please send them my way. Maybe I’ll even pay you for them if your handwriting is really nice and you send along some decent shwag.

(By the way, I have a ton of other news to post here, but I felt Semi-Permanent deserved it’s own special post. Expect more from me very soon…)

For all you Music Video junkies here’s another devoted blog – cliptip

Enjoy Greener Grass Anthony Hurd (formerly of exopolis) and Mike Kellogg’s new company.

Hired Goons Great Name, great work. Formed by Dennis Cheung (daft kraft) and Jodi F. Terwilliger (actual factual)

some interesting short films on this site…
+ www.moviesaskew.com

short films and live comedy…
+ www.theminorprophets.com

Nick Lofting and Happy: Fever
Union Editorial’s Nick Lofting teamed up with Smuggler’s Happy to create a zany re-telling of the Pied Piper story set to the Adam Freeland remix of "Fever." (I can’t believe I just used the word "zany" with a straight face.)

Lofting and Happy also worked together on a short film entitled "Jane Lloyd" that will be showing at this year’s RESFEST.

National Television: Doritos and ESPN
National Television has updated with new work for Doritos and ESPN, both of which can be found in the Work section on their site.

Man, these guys are kick ass. The Doritos spots are endless streams of seamless eye candy that made me almost (almost) think that eating corn chips was cool. Maybe if the spots were in Farsi instead of Spanish…

Qube Konstrukt: Noise Festival
Australian studio Qube Konstrukt created a very nice ID/opener kind of thing for the Noise Festival. To see the spot, go to Qube’s site and click Selected Works to access the Motion area. While you’re there, check out the rest of their work. Very nice indeed.

(Big ups to Jon Gorman for the last two bits of news.)

Reel FX is Hiring
Multi-talented studio Reel FX is looking for a creative director. Here’s the scoop:

Must have excellent client skills, strong experience in creative for films, television, and commercial. Must be knowledgeable of the production process, able to manage a team of supporting artists, and able to work well with agency creatives. Should be able to run a job with little or no direction. Must be able to handle multiple projects at any given time. Must possess strong conceptual skills and the ability to work quickly.

And they should be able to move to Dallas.

Drop them a line at humanresources@reelfx.com if you think you’ve got what it takes.

The winners are up: http://www.stashmedia.tv/gsaa/

I had a blast helping judge this event. My warmest congratulations go out to all the finalists and winners.

All 16 of the finalist and winning films will be on Stash 13, to be released on October 4th.

this is fun..

Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Title Design & Special Visual Effects Peer Group Presents its first “Bake-Off” and Nominee Reception.

The event will take place on Friday, September 9 at 6:30 p.m. at the Television Academy’s Leonard H. Goldenson Theater in North Hollywood.

RSVP for the event (deadline is 9/1/05) at either (818) 487-3607 or tdsvereception@emmys.org, and that seating is ‘first come, first served’, so plan to arrive early.

For more info, go to…
http://emmys.tv/news/2005/august/rel_bakeoff.php

I apologize to all those who are about to be linked up. I’ve got a buttload of stuff (most of it good) going on in my life at the moment. There’s a lot in this post, so don’t be like me: take your time to savor each and every item.

Loyalkaspar: Microsoft and Live8
I’ve posted love letters to Loyalkaspar before, and their new work for Microsoft (spots one two and three) and VH1’s Live8 have my heart fluttering again. Fantastic work. Just fantastic.

Cypher Audio Development: New Work
Cypher Audio collaborated with Nakd to create some really slick work that’ll be screened at ResFest soon, including an interesting short entitled "Box." Go to the Cypher Audio site and get caught up on all the news. Great stuff.

MAkinE: Chromed Control
Newcomers MAkinE (I’m not sure if the capitalization is important, but I’m going to keep it that way just in case) pumped out a frenetic, blinged-out spot for Jeep featuring the musical stylings of Missy Elliot and more shiny stuff than you can shake a stick at. Truth be told, I can’t stand Missy Elliot’s music, but I dig the visuals very much.

Joshua Nichols
Former Sci-Fi Channel director Joshua Nichols is now flying solo. There’s some very nice, high-polish work in his reel.

4stroke
In the fair city of Toronto, a new studio that goes by the name of 4stroke is creating some quality animation. I really like their Fruitopia spots (here and here). The amount of painstaking choreography in those is amazing.

Sea Level
Check out the work of Sea Level, a triumvirate of VFX badasses from Venice, CA. (Thanks to Matthew Lydecker for the tip.)

Chris Cunningham: Rubber Johnny
For what is quite possibly the most disturbing music video I’ve seen since Tool’s "Sober," check out Chris Cunningham’s "Rubber Johnny" video with music by Aphex Twin. If you want a little more info, read Pixelsurgeon’ review or check out this page from Director File.

Thanks to my buddy Matt Mangum for bringing this video to my attention and ruining what would have been a perfectly peaceful night’s sleep.

Flash 8: I Told You So
Some inventive geeks have figured out how to reverse engineer parts of Flash Player 8 to demo some of its new capabilities. Check out some of the new features in action here.

This is going to change everything.

Okay, maybe not everything. But a lot.

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