Tag: Film

  • Conventional Thought Tea

    that new new green
    that new new green

    Desedo resident polymath Paul Kamuf has managed, in the midst of our current goings-on, to complete a short starring one of his favorite beverages. Tea. Here’s hoping that the next time we mooch off of him, there will be some more great flavors in the cupboard. Until then, you can find the goodness here.

  • On Set

    gaff that for me homie?
    gaff that for me homie?

    For the record, the Desedo homies have been making it happen with the crews and the lighting and the actors. We even get to use the words “in production.” We’ll have something to show for all this silence at some point, but for now trust that we miss having something to say.

  • Ad Age: Meanings of Media

    If a black kid in the woods gets 20 million views, will the advertising world notice?
    If a black kid in the woods gets 20 million views, will the advertising world notice?

    Raafi wrote an article for Ad Age about YouTube representation and content creation – and how this dovetails with the marketplace of race, still not understood by advertising.

  • Windows Vista: Predator Edition

    Frank Harts (Darnell)

    Debargo Sanyal (Nasih)

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    Dropsquad Desedo director Paul Kamuf is working with Crew Cuts editor Jon Daniel to slice and dice his short film Windows Vista: Predator Edition. Above are 3 stills from the shoot and below are some of the fine folks behind the camera. What we love about this biz is that we get to make the donuts with our friends.

    Brad (dp) and Paul (dir)

    Jen (art dir)

    jeff (cam op), Hans (1ac) + Brad (zee deepee)

    Karen (h/mu) and Trayce (costume)

  • Predator

    Paul Kamuf, Brad and MHB teamed up to make this short film about dial tones and predator drones. It’s been flying around the festival circuit from the hills of Italy to Cali-for-ni-ay.

  • Unused Locations

    double entendre

    hanging around

    Occasionally, an unused idea for a location or shot will be called into service for another production — a tracking shot of the New York skyline, say — but the ones that are temporally dependent like construction sites fritter away slowly on the vine. We hope that somewhere, in that great location graveyard in the sky, all the shot ideas that never quite made it onto film or tape loop endlessly to their heart’s content.

  • The Year in Walls

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    Here’s something from the lab.