CopyCatFilms

On the Table: Current Projects

Our current project is a much more involved episode of Obtuse, using a few new techniques and incorporating many of Mariela's recently aquired Gimp'ing skills. Our plan is to shoot this script next, making it Episode 5, but sometimes they get switched around and other projects pop up and put themselves on the front of our burners...but we're about to open up a whole new door.

Schooooo is Where its At...at the moment.

Our independent projects have been stalled for a little while. This dynamic duo is recharging their batteries with some filmmaking skillz courses at NU.

Mariela recently finished a basic scriptwriting course and plans to take the upcoming comedy scriptwriting course in the Spring Quarter.

Farrin had to take a boring old psychology course to finish a worthless degree from Washington University in St. Louis. She is now thoroughly amusing herself with basic film production (cinema = image + sound) and Media Cultures (with Mariela)...a male bashing, media hating class that is tons of fun.

The moral of this story is that school should be fun and for the first time, it finally is.

A Head a' Dreads Ain't Easy... (or cheap for that matter) Mariela, the dark one, recently decided that it was time to dread her magnificient black locks of curls... She'd had the same hairdo for about 29 years and felt that dreads were the perfect change. Farrin was quite concerned that they would be dirty, stinky, gross, and all those other horrible myths that everyone thinks of dreads. But Mariela pushed on with her dreadlock research and after an exhaustive internet search they discovered that the only place to buy dread wax was some strange little place called "LaGrange" and Milwaukee. So this crazy duo set out Saturday, Feb. 3rd for LaGrange and the mission of Dread Wax and Dreading 101 Introductory course to follow for the next solid 24 hours of sectioning and backcombing. So what's the cost of a full head of tiny well groomed evenly sectioned and oftenly waxed dreads? ...an iphone is the cost to get ya started! See your local dreadlock specialist for a specific quote today! and the extensive routine maintenance on a weekly schedule will end up costin' ya a Canon Rebel XTi 400 Kiss .... but hey, don't think of it as a high price to pay...think of it as investing in every haircut of your future all at once -- because eventually it'll be maintenance free! Stay tuned for a spot on that project coming soon...
Building a Loft Bed: The Ultimate DIY Project We take it to the limit in designing and implementing a way to raise our queen sized pillowtop mattress and boxspring --over 6 feet off the ground! It was an incredible feat for us...and the ultimate DIY project. We took along our trusty camera (watch the behind the scenes footage here and on iTunes). Stay tuned for an upcoming desk modification that is outta this world! (visit oploftbed.com for plans to make your own crazy setup) [flickr photo gallery]	MIFF: Milwaukee International Film Festival Making the short trek to Milwaukee for the annual Milwaukee International Film Festival was well worth it. I can't say enough, how incredible it was to see so many people coming out to see MOVIES, waiting in lines, waiting for tickets--even on standby...it was pretty exciting to see people that actually want to do something besides sit at bars. We attended two screenings: King Corn w/producer commentary at the end Midnight Delirium at the delicious Oriental Theater in Milwaukee’s east side of town. Not much for an entire film festival with the length, breadth, and duration of the MIFF, --but when you’re out of town guests that are relying on your friends–then you take what you can get–last minute seats to the only not sold out movies and plenty of opportunities to drink beer along the way. Our chosen movie “I want someone to eat cheese with” looked like fun unfortunately this must have been the safe bet for everyone in town. So next Midswesterner’s choice was of course king Corn. A (nice) little documentary about corn…that makes you want to avoid all the foods you know and love –especially the ones you are currently eating while watching film festival movies–popCORN, candy made of solid CORN syrup, soda that is liquid CORN syrup… Midnight Delirium was extremely popular as anything else and the line to get in wrapped all along the building. All the freaks and hipsters and normals were all about this weird wacky shorts program. The films were fun, from a dorito-ized feliniesque film to a modernized Louis Caroll tinman story to some really disturbing “I hate your pet–fatal attraction” story, there was a little something for every warped or normal mind in the house.

12 Hour Film Festival: "Quick--Take Our Money, Part II" Make this two times that someone took our money on Clark St... *I'm Sew Sorry* - 12 Hour Film Edit & 24 Hour Director's Cut will both air when the teeth are IN!	....the clock is ticking on this one...

“As I laughed--I lost everything .”-Mariela on Arkanoid

Feeds:

On the Table: Current Projects

Schooooo is Where its At...at the moment.