World Premiere

Cowboy Blob Productions is proud to present Outtakes from a Silent Western, starring just about everybody on my blogroll (and some who ain't) who's ever posted a pic. This project started out in my head as I was driving cross-country this spring, but I turned out to get twice as many ideas as I was working...not a real good idea when you're working with Flash.

Kirk of Fun Turns to Tragedy gets on the movie poster shot since I had to P-Shop a sneer on him. It's a a tad under 1.5 MB (the ImageShack limit). Please right-click and save, then watch.

I can hardly wait to read what the critics say in the trade papers....

Update: If the audio craps out on you during playback, just close the file and reopen it. I don't know why it does that; it's not reproduceable.

The file is best viewed not at full screen.

If enough people are interested, I'll post a Making of: Outtakes documentary to explain some of my production limitations, and maybe some of the other decisions I made, like "How dare I put the two gay bloggers in a scene and make a joke about it?" Let me address that one right now. This was one of the last-minute inspirations that struck, primarily because working with a limited number of photos, I have very few pics of friends and family in profile, and fewer pics of bloggers in profile...and the picture called for it. Once I had Bug and Jeff in the scene, I pored over my miscellaneous picture files and lucked into a partial profile of Exciteable Andy in a group pic with other bigwig bloggers (I couldn't use Prof. Reynolds because he always wears dorky glasses, and I'd already used the non-period eyewear schtick). I didn't have a joke in mind for the pic at first and "flubbed dialog" schtick isn't nearly as funny as Bug's Dilemma would be. Since both male bodies had lawman badges, the joke wrote itself from there.

I'm always looking for ideas, so if you have some, cough 'em up por favor. I can make ya a Star!