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Cast Retrospective: Sam Anderson

Peregrine Slinger — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 04:16:57 +0000

Over the years, Strike a Pose!!! Films has worked with a ton of talented people. As a group, some of our best memories feature Sam Anderson in wacky, and sometimes serious roles. So to celebrate the 5th Anniversary of Strike a Pose! Films, Sam wrote up a little memoir for us to read about his experience on one of our most legendary movies, CURSE OF BODANGOFISH!

If there was ever one Strike A Pose!!! Films movie I was in that I will never forget, it had to be “Curse of the Bodangofish”. Dylan and I filmed this movie in Cape Hatteras after a body surfing incident left a scrape on my hip. What better inspiration to make a monster movie? Through a Ferry ride, a drive home, and at least 10 dug holes, we produced a movie that only a select few ever got to witness. My favorite part of the whole adventure was in the last 5 minutes of shooting when a scene had a frisbee being thrown, and in one of the takes it went a bit too high and hit me square in the lip. Did I mention that there was a cut-out piece of a plastic cup in my mouth at the time to create buck-teeth for my costume? And that there was ketchup in my mouth used for fake blood? There is no beter feeling than hearing the words “Cut!” and running into the ocean to clean out the sand, ketchup, and blood from your mouth. As our motto goes, “Good Times”. – Sam Anderson

In celebration, we will now post a never-before released full scene from CURSE OF BODANGOFISH, reformatted in HD and featuring some new tracks by the Funkyman himself! Enjoy, and hopefully, if the response is solid, we’ll have more scenes to show you before releasing the entire film on an order-only DVD!

Search for Bodangofish

Be sure to keep up with our blog! There will be more Cast Retrospectives coming throughout the end of the year!

The Fifth Anniversary Strike a POST Special!

Peregrine Slinger — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 16:47:32 +0000

On November the 5th, 2011, STRIKE A POSE!!! Films celebrated it’s fifth anniversary as a website and creative institution.

It’s been a somewhat slow year in terms of new content and videos for the site, but we assure you that will soon change. I personally make a State of the Pose address in the following video, co-oped by Joel and Denise Loukus of Apsis Motion Pictures- one of our potential future partners! Oh, and just so you all know, this video features a very, very special guest that I have never had the personal pleasure of meeting before. In person.

For the video and more news, click below!

Special thanks to the APSIS crew! And an even BIGGER special thanks to all the fans of STRIKE A POSE!!! Films. We have over 350 of you on the Facebook group, and a rising 60 or so on the page, so be sure to keep adding your friends to this band of merry crazy people!

As discussed in the video, we will soon be featuring:

Cast and Crew retrospectives
Never before seen videos!
HD-upconverted re-releases
A retouched episodic release of Curse of Bodangofish- the lost STRIKE A POSE!!! Classic
New HD shorts!
Updates on BITE THE HAND!

So be sure to give us a look, and show your friends! After all, we’s here at STRIKE A POSE!!! Films are just here to entertains ya!

INTERVENTION 2010 SHOUT OUTS!

Peregrine Slinger — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 01:38:08 +0000

I just wanted to make a brief post with shout-outs to all the wonderful people whom I had the pleasure of meeting at the 2010 Intervention Convention in Rockville, MD! It was a great time, and I look forward to being as big a part as I possibly can next year!
Here’s my report:

I went to the convention for only one day, Saturday, not expecting anything too intense but hoping to have a good time. Well, it just so happened that for a virgin convention that came out of nowhere in a Rockville Hilton- I totally had a HELL OF A LOT of BOTH!

For starters, when I got there, I made sure to visit this awesome panel hosted by webcomic creators Dern, Drowemoss, Bill Holbrook and Rob Balder. The panel was called “Revenue Streams: How to Make Ten-Tenths of a Living” and it provided quite an inspirational and entertaining time! Who would have thought a panel dealing with making money on the internet could be so enjoyable?! Thankfully, I got to throw a Q out there at the end, and got lot’s of really great A’s from the panelists. Look forward to some form of merchandising or membership options from the website in maybe…well at some point dammit!

Next up I checked out the rest of the con just to see what was up. There was a lot to do at the newborn event, including a HUGE dealer room of comic books, toys, music, and lots and lots of art! I got to pick up contacts and merch from various people including Meg from Blackaswhite.com and the creators of retailgods.net .

But wait- what else possibly happened? Well around 3PM I noticed there was a projector room off to the side that wasn’t getting too much traffic- all the gaming and webcomic-ing seemed to be keeping people together in tight groups having a blast with each other! Who says the internet destroys social lives?! Clearly not at this con.

Well, as it was, I decided I needed to take action and asked if there was any potential chance for Strike a Pose!!! Films to hijack the video room. This guy, Terry I think, (let me know if you read this, dude!) said he’d have to as Someones of Higher Authorities. It just so happens he was gone one second, and back the next with two companions, you know, just every day, run of the mill…

CON FOUNDERS AND INTERNET ENTREPRENEURS ONEZUMI HARTSTEIN AND JAMES HARKNEL!!!

The contagiously motivated co-creators of Onezumi.com and Intervention itself most gregariously greeted me and provided me with a 2-on-1 private conversation outside on the terrace of the Hilton, giving me lots of info on how Intervention got started and what they wanted to accomplish with it. Not only that, but they managed to educate even my thick head with a couple of really great pointers of the internet business world, such as how to use my twitter more effectively! I’ve never met such friendly people in such high and exciting places. So thanks for that, Onezumi and Harknell!

They also allotted me the time and chance to show off some of our very own STRIKE A POSE!!! Films in the video panel, thus ensuring MAX ACTION could take over the projector for a solid hour and a half! It was a great experience and hopefully will continue next year if we play our cards right- yep: I’m going to campaign with the Intervention convention to run the video panel and hopefully bring in some outside talent to show off the power of Internet Video Entertainment groups just like us!

Before the video panel though, it was time for MAX ACTION to suit up, hand out cards, and meet some other exciting people. One of which was Master Anthony Stevens, who was shooting interviews of con-goers that day, and just so happened to be the first person to interview MAX ACTION from the other side of the coin! Hopefully that interview will hit the net shortly and we can see what crazy action packed insanity ensued!

As the video panel commenced we got some excited audience members shuffling in to check out our videos, such as Line of Sight, System Shock 2, Jasper Conroy, and of course the classic Man of Action. It was a really fun time, getting to show new faces our old vids!

Later in the evening it was time to unwind and get my morals doubled-down, with Cosplay Burlesque’s show on vibrantly awesome display. Portal, Robot Unicorn Attack, Dr. Horrible, and much much more were all on display from the crazy minds of Madison Bartholomew and her incredible cast and crew!

At the end of the night it was time to say goodbye, shake hands with all our great new friends, and get one last picture with a man who was floating around the con the entire time, with an eerie aesthetic similarity knocking deja vu against m cranium… Draw your own conclusions…

All in all, I’d have to say Intervention 2010 was a huge success, not just for us but for Onezumi, Harknell, and all those who put effort into it! I’m proud to report there’s a new Con in town, and STRIKE A POSE!!! Films is here to support it!

Tron: Legacy Trailer

Peregrine Slinger — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:04:17 +0000

I don’t know a lot about this upcoming movie, but I remember the original and its cool, ahead-of-its-time SFX, and some amazingly trippy ideas. Before video games got serious, Tron made them epic in a way that changed our perspectives on the digital world and created a mainstream example of the cyber-punk genre. Today, we are putting up a high quality trailer of its sequel, thanks to Neutralx2, our neighbor site for video game and PC related news and reviews. Here’s his opinions on it:

I posted the Tron Legacy Teaser a while back, but that was more of a visual effects test. Now we have an actual trailer to look at. I cannot wait to see this film. Hopefully it will go over better with audiences today then the first film did back in 1982. Also, I have to say that I like the direction Daft Punk is taking the music. It is a departure from the original’s music, but this movie looks darker and grittier, and the music reflects that well. ~Neutralx2

Here’s the vid, and boy oh boy look at how tight it is! Those effects are lightyears beyond the original, while still maintaining its original artwork. I am honestly very excited to see this in 3d, and haven’t wanted to see a 3D movie since Avatar.

Tron Legacy Trailer:

John August: Why You Should Join WGA

Peregrine Slinger — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 07:32:53 +0000

One blog I love to bring up quite often is written by John August, the guy who wrote Big Fish, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (the Tim Burton one) and Charlie’s Angles. He’s done quite a few other interesting works, such as his directorial debut The Nines starring Ryan Reynolds, and was set to work on SHAZAM! when the company took the project, sadly, out from under his feat. On his website he offers wonderfully insightful and amusing anecdotes to writers, as well as some glimpses into the industry as a whole. It’s been a ton of help for me, and this article is no different. In fact, its REALLY DAMN helpful.

In a recent article, John wrote about why it is a good idea and why it is REQUIRED that young writers (or older ones) join up with the Writer’s Guild of America (WGA), the guys behind last year’s fiasco.

Here’s a snippet to tell you why:

Let’s say a studio reads a script it wants to buy. The writer isn’t a member of the WGA. If the writer weren’t required to join the union, the studio could save a lot of money and hassle.

* It could pay less than minimums.
* It wouldn’t have to pay into the health plan.
* It wouldn’t have to pay into the pension plan.
* It wouldn’t have to pay residuals.
* It could decide which name would be listed for “written by.”

Given these advantages, a studio would certainly prefer if the writer weren’t WGA, and could make purchase of the script contingent on the writer agreeing not to join the WGA.

I recommend you guys interested in writing read the whole thing. It’s certainly opened my eyes a bit. I think last years strike was a public disaster for the WGA, but they are useful, and since they’re mandatory, we better get what we can out of them.