Congratulations to our festival winners:
1st Place – Tim Keller
2nd Place – Brooke Warren
3rd Place – Enzo Del Calzo

We’ll post more pictures and some of the :30ish films soon.
Right now, we’re going to take a well-deserved nap.

Don't let the picture fool you!

Yeah, you all know Marj. She is the gate keeper of our facility. She will be the gate keeper of 30ish as well. If you don’t RSVP, she will get all crazy and won’t let you in. Absolutely terrifying if you ask me. No need to worry though, there is a quick fix, just send a quick e-mail to info@crosspoint.com

Done. You’re in and you kept Marj happy. That’s really all that matters after all.

[Via Jezebel]

You’ve got the creative juice. Put it to use making something you enjoy without doing client monkey work. That’s right. No tags. No legal. No format whatsoever. Enter your video before it goes viral in the :30ish Film Festival, brought to you by Crosspoint.

This is how it works:

Create a :31 to :39 movie (camera. cellphone. webcam. whatever.).
Submit your video to Crosspoint by June 28 July 7*.
Your film will be judged, laughed at and mercilessly scrutinized by a jury of your peers.

Then join us in the Crosspoint parking lot on Thursday July 21st, from 5pm to 9pm, to witness what the best creative minds in Denver could come up with. You could end up with the $300 Grand Prize. Food will be provided by three of Denver’s hottest food trucks. If that’s not enough, FREE BEER and wine. No celebrity swag bags at this festival, just door prizes provided by the finest establishments along West Colfax.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
1. Entries should be :31 to :39 seconds long… or :40. Whatever – as long as you don’t cut a boring :30 with 10-frame fade ins/outs.
2. Quicktime ProRes HQ or H.264 is easiest, but we’ll find a way to project whatever you send us.
3. Please submit your entries no later than June 28th July 7th* via Dropbox (dropbox@crosspoint.com); or in person at 940 Wadsworth Boulevard, Suite 200, Lakewood, CO, 80214; or contact us at info@crosspoint.com to set-up an FTP connection.
* When is the last time a client gave you a deadline extension?

CONTEST RULES
1. A panel of judges will rank the top three entries.
2. 1st place wins $300 cash. 2nd place wins $150 cash. 3rd place wins $50 in gift certificates to Casa Bonita.
3. All cash prizes will be paid to the winner if present at the end of the event on July 21st. If a prize winner is not present, a check will be mailed, eventually. In other words, you don’t have to be ‘present to win’, but we’d like to hang out with you, so come by and have a beer.

I stumbled upon this link while surfing Reddit today. It is a great collection of behind the scenes photography from iconic film shoots. Films like Metropolis, The Shining, Ghostbusters, Star Wars and Requiem for a Dream are included in the compilation. Not only do these photos show candid moments of actors out of character, but also the rigs and sets used to create such iconic pieces of popular culture. Very cool.

via (angurshamal.com) and (aintitcool.com)

I will admit, back in 1989, this spot could have inspired the minds that animated “Waking Life” and “A Scanner Darkly.” I’m sure it also took ages to render.

(via Tasteologie and Plywerk)

Continuum Fingerboard

One day your iPad may be able to do this. Until then, I WANT ONE!

I can’t stop thinking about the scene in Tim Burton’s Batman, where Mrs. Wayne’s pearls fall to the ground as her son witnesses their murder. I don’t think this slip and fall really warrants that much drama, but what do I know. It’s like comparing apples to oranges.

Also note the excellent job at looping the final shot… Just make it a freeze frame.

First, he rolls in driving a 2×2 1985 Toyota truck. I mean come on, Marty McFly rolled in the same year vehicle, but at least they sprung for the 4×4! I hope he has a boat load of sandbags in the bed because that rear-wheeled drive 2×2 is going to slide around corners as if it were “Too fast, too furious. Edgewater drift.”

Second of all, he’s rocking a pair of cowboy boots. Anybody who has sported a pair of those knows, there is absolutely no traction whatsoever on the soles of those bad boys. He might as well be wearing hockey pucks for shoes, because when those soles freeze, they are slicker than Barry Melrose’s mullet.

I just can’t get past how much that probably hurt. There are no crash pads, no spotters, just straight up coccyx to concrete.