Woo-hoo! We won the Second Funniest Filmmaker in Austin Contest!

That’s right!  Last night The Onion, Austin Film Festival and Cap City Comedy Club held the Second Funniest Filmmaker in Austin Contest and we blew them away!  Sure, some other jerk won the Funniest Filmmaker in Austin Contest (being held simultaneously), but Bob Ray (armed with his cartoon “Platypus Rex in: Hymenoplasty”) totally took the gold in the silver medal competition of the Second Funniest Filmmaker in Austin Contest!  We rule!

 

Due to technical jargon and insider-speak, the official word is that Bob Ray is the “runner-up” in the Funniest Filmmaker in Austin Contest, but for anyone with half a brain, it’s clear that Bob totally won the shit out of the Second Funniest Filmmaker in Austin Contest.  Totally, totally won that shit!

 

 

 

Not impressed yet?  Well wait, there’s more: Austin has 1.5 million people and we’re assuming all of them are filmmakers.  So by coming in as “runner up” in the Funniest Filmmaker in Austin Contest, Bob Ray officially a waaay funnier filmmaker than 1,499,999 other filmmakers calling Austin home.  Suck on that 1.499999 million mofos!

 

Swing on by and revel in our glory and watch the funniest cartoon ever: Platypus Rex in: Hymenoplasty at www.CrashToons.com

Bob Ray is a finalist in the Funniest Filmmaker in Austin Contest

Bob Ray’s twisted short animated flick Platypus Rex in: Hymenoplasty has been selected as a finalist in the Funniest Filmmaker in Austin Contest screening on Monday

Platypus Rex in: Hymenoplasty has been selected to play the Funniest Filmmaker in Austin finals on Monday August 18th!  A jury of Austin’s film and media professionals will pick the winning film that evening.  Former Funniest Person in Austin winner and Comedy Central favorite Matt Bearden will host the event.

Austin Film Festival, Cap City Comedy Club and The Onion are proud to announce The Third Annual Funniest Filmmaker in Austin contest!

FREE!!

Monday, August 18 at 8:00
Capitol City Comedy Club
8120 Research Blvd # 100
Austin, TX 78758
www.capcitycomedy.com‎

Mondays suck a bunch of Chupacabras, so what say next Monday we…

We’re thinking about launching the long-awaited ‘toon: Spanish Lessons with Chupacabra Volume 7: Conversational Spanish on Monday.  What with Mondays always sucking and stuff, it’d be a perfect day to debut a Chupa ‘toon, right?

 

keep you sucker glued here for the surprises: www.CrashToons.com

Night of the Kung Fu Zombie Bastards from Hell! (Redux) screening in the Slamdance Film Festival’s online Anarchy Short Film Competition all month long!

BIG NEWS:

Night of the Kung Fu Zombie Bastards from Hell! (Redux) screening in the Slamdance Film Festival’s online Anarchy Short Film Competition all month long! Watch and vote! Share the love!

All August long the fine folks over at the Slamdance Film Festival will be screening Night of the Kung Fu Zombie Bastards from Hell! (Redux) on their site.

The screening is part of an online competition called Anarchy. Please go watch Night of the Kung Fu Zombie Bastards from Hell! (Redux) and vote for it in the competition! The winner gets their flick screened at the Slamdance Film Festival in Park City in January of ‘09.

Night of the Kung Fu Zombie Bastards from Hell! (Redux) is a surreal stop-action animated, negative-projected, in-camera-edited kung fu zombie flick shot on super 8 film. What the hell were we thinking?

So spend the dog days of summer hunched over your computer watching some zombie action and supporting your loco filmmaker pallies.

Here is the direct link to NOTKFZBFH!(R): http://www.slamdance.com/videos/products/640.html

Hell on Wheels DVDs at RollerCon

just announced: http://hellonwheelsmovie.wordpress.com/2008/07/29/get-a-dvd-at-rollercon/

We’ve got some big news we’ll be announcing soon.  Something about something related to what’s going down this weekend at RollerCon. 

  

Tangentially, for the first time ever, we will have Hell on Wheels DVDs for sale!!  No lie!  We teamed up with the kick ass indie outfit IndiePix and put together a RollerCon special edition version.  It’s a taste of more to come.  But, hold on… I’ve said too much.

  

We’ll have more big news on that in a week or so.

 

Bob Ray and Werner Campbell will be in Vegas from Thursday night through Monday morn and on Friday, IndiePix ninja Jason Tyrrell gets to town with a ninja-bag of DVDs.  So hook up with us and we’ll hook you up. 

 

We’re screening the flick on Sunday afternoon at 1:30 PM at the Double Down, so drag your drunken carcass down to the DD and have a Bloody Mary and watch the flick with us.  Bob & Werner will do one of those Q&A thingies after the flick.

 

Now’s your chance to own a piece of history!  “Hell on Wheels” is the “Birth of a Nation” for the derby set!

 

Wanna hear it first?  Sign up for the Hell on Wheels mailing list and get the low-down.  Roll down to the bottom of this page: www.HellOnWheelsTheMovie.com/index2.htm

bastard

well, sometimes this here site gets neglected a bit.  sure, all the big news lands here, but if you want gory details, you’ll need to swing by these sites specific to the various ongoing projects we have set up around here.  So please peep this:

Hell on Wheels
http://hellonwheelsmovie.wordpress.com
for more info on the RollerCon screening and maybe some DVD tid bits?

CrashToons
http://crashtoons.wordpress.com
recent sightings of a Chupacabra sucking things

APESH!T
http://apeshitcartoon.wordpress.com
rumors of a Pecker-pine about to poke you in the eye

more Hell on Wheels DVD info

as reported in the Hell on Wheels blog (http://hellonwheelsmovie.wordpress.com/)

We’re gathering goods for a DVD release.  We don’t have a date set just yet, but are getting all our ducks in a row.  We recently recorded three audio commentary tracks:
Bob (dir.) & Werner (prod.)
BGGW: Nancy, April, Anya & Luna (Lunatic)
TXRG: Lane (Strawberry), Lorie (The Wrench), Rachelle (Sparkle Plenty) & Amy Sherman (Electra Blu)

We also have a mountain of extras for ya (trailers, tons of deleted scenes and some music vids maybe).  More info to come.

Also, Bob Ray will be in OKC for the screening there on  July 5th.  We hope y’all can come out for the show.

Hell on Wheels in OKC, SLC, Birmingham UK.

from sea to shining sea and a hop across the pond, Hell on Wheels screens in triplicate on Fourth of July weekend.  Check it:

upcoming “Hell on Wheels” screenings:

Oklahoma City, OK
Saturday July 5 @ 5:30 pm and 8:00 pm
Oklahoma City Museum of Art
415 Couch Drive
Oklahoma City OK 73102
405-278-8237
http://www.okcmoa.com/film
sponsored by the
Oklahoma Victory Dolls
http://oklahomavictorydolls.com
***Director Bob Ray in attendance for post-screening Q&A

Birmingham, England
Saturday July 5 @ 1:00 pm and 11:00 pm
The Electric Cinema
47-49 Station Street Birmingham B5 4DY
0121 643 7879
www.theelectric.co.uk
A day of derby mayhem sponsored by
Birmingham Blitz Derby Dames
www.blitzdames.com
Hell on Wheels is premiering as part of a full day of roller derby delights, including:
-Two showings to allow as many people as possible an opportunity to
see this film for the first time ever outside of North America
-Open scrimmages, where you get real experience playing
the game with skaters from all over the U.K.and Europe.
-Sessions designed just for fresh meat to get rolling
towards passing basic skills in a hurry
-Late night afterparty with all your rollersisters at Subside, Birmingham ’s
premiere alternative rock bar, until the wee hours
-Special rate at partner Birmingham Backpacker’s Central
for accommodation, while rooms last.

Salt Lake City, UT
Sunday, July 6
Brewvies
677 S 200 W # D
Salt Lake City , UT 84101
(801) 355-5500
www.brewvies.com
sponsored by
Salt City Derby Girls
www.saltcityderbygirls.com

Cincinnati , OH
Friday, July 18 @ 8:00 pm
Know Theatre Of Cincinnati
1120 Jackson St
Cincinnati , OH 45202
(513) 300-5669
www.knowtheatre.com
sponsored by:
Cincinnati Rollergirls
www.cincinnatirollergirls.com

more screenings just announced on the Hell on Wheels page: www.HellOnWheelsTheMovie.com

Hell on Wheels DVD stuff, and OKC screening w/ Bob Ray

We’ve got some kick ass stuff for a Hell on Wheels DVD.

And there’s an upcoming July 5th OKC screening w/ Bob Ray in attendance for a post screening Q&A.

Get all the details over at the Hell on Wheels blog: http://hellonwheelsmovie.wordpress.com

Rock Opera review in Skunk Magazine

there’s a great review of Rock Opera in the current issue of Skunk Magazine.  Go see for yourself if ya don’t believe me.  It’s cool… real cooooool.  The review is in the “Killer ‘dro Jobs” issue.  Fuckin’ cool.