Dog Blog

I have been away a bit and now its time to get back, and start fresh! I got the office all clean and tidy, it was really great to get the place all organized! Next up is a bit of redecorating, making the place I spend the bulk of my work time comfy and interesting has been a HUGE thing for me. At some point I will be sure to have photos up!

So I hope most of you have seen the Paris Hilton response video to the McCain ad. It was AMAZING! I totally changed my opinion of that girl. If you haven’t seen it take a peek, it’s on youtube; she basically points fun at herself and offers a solution to our growing energy issue. And the kicker is, it’s better then the current options offered by either candidate. So amazing! I think this really shows how absurd the race for president has gotten. I mean, once upon a time, Paris was just a starlet who got famous for showing up and acting like a ditz, now she has a viable political opinion. It’s a strange day when I think about the possibility of Paris as president!

So the new comic is up and I thought I would talk a bit about the current story line. The Dog House comic is an amalgam of a few of my living situations; the last few strips are based on my first apartment in Boston, myself and a few friends got a 3 story house off the Green Line. When we moved in we found the house was completely trashed! It really was amazing the level of destruction we faced at that house. Wall sections had gone missing, the 3 story stair case was turned into a beer waterfall whether by choice or by a few choice spills - I can’t tell. I wont go into the bathrooms, but lets just say I refused to use the first floor toilet until the day we moved out, all this and our land lord showed up with a mop to help out… yeah…. A mop. We had beer bottles up to our knees and enough DNA to clone an army the Emperor would be proud of and a smell that could stop a charging moose in heat! Yeah, a mop should do it! Anyway he then left us with a one person clean up crew who stayed at the house for a week till finally we had the walls fixed, the grime gone and the floor re-done. It was crazy, but it was a fun bonding experience with my roomies at the time. I figured since the comic is going to be about the group in the house I would have a few comics all about the first move in, and the bonding they all got. I hope you all enjoyed it and keep checking back! Im really trying to get the comics up to once a week, here’s hoping I make it.

So, I have been keeping some crazy hours for work and the up side is I have decided to take the blog far more seriously! I wanted to move the Blog to an everyday thing and ya know, I think I might be able to manage it! here’s hoping! So whats going on with us you ask? well dear reader, I shall tell you!

Yesterday I was up at 6:30am and off to work for the day shift, soon as that was done I rushed home to meet with Steph to review a few of our projects. Even though she was still really under the weather she trudged over to the Dog House and we spent about 4 hours reviewing, re-hashing and reworking 2 of our current projects. The first being our new music video “Code Monkey” the next being our extended cut of “Family Treasure” our entry into the 2008 48 Hour Film Project. It was so good to have a sounding board and a fresh set of eyes.

So that was all wrapped up and it was off to work again for the midnight shift. After that ill be heading home for a bit of editing and then some well deserved sleep!

Hey All,

So its more than about time for the production blog for our last shoot to be up. So here we go:

Day 1 Friday- Prep day. Equipment is all set thanks to RCTV for the use of the 2 A1’s and thanks to my Papa for helping get it all. Costumes, and props are all paced away. I am just one stop and shop trip away from ready!

Day 2 Saturday - Shooting. So after some excitement in almost losing my phone…. yeah I almost pretty much died. We are all set and ready to go. Our awesome sound people Steve and Will are getting all the gear into the studio wile Steph goes over costumes with our actors!

We filmed some of the rock out scene and almost lost our lead to traffic from the pride parade. But all is well and we ROCKED OUT! I feel so glam rock god like! (stills coming soon)
Lunch Break and then its back to work. Moving to our second locations down the road, we set up for all our office scenes. We all had a lot of fun goofing in the meeting, and now we wrap all the extras while Steph, Jim and I get some B-ROLL and close ups.

Sarah cant make it back so we pack up and set up a date for a pick up. Now it’s home to rock out the editing! More to come after its logged!

Doug

Hey y’all I’m Terri, Doug asked if I’d contribute to the blog and I agreed only once I pushed the site live.

Well lookie-here, the new site is live! There’s a lot going on here and I’ve still a few bugs to fix but I promise you we’re workin’ on that.

We’re trying to highlight all that Dogtoon has to offer you here from the stores, to the videos and don’t forget the dog blog and the dog cast.

We’ve thrown around a bunch of really great ideas for the site and if you have any more ideas or complaints direct the all to Doug, harass him about them actually!