More PistolShrimps

Here are a bunch of our latest YouTube videos:

The Science of Blowjobs and Throbbing Hearts

Here’s the first short film I made at Columbia. I wanted to write a longer post about the production of it, but I just can’t seem to find the time to do so.

But in short:  I’ve always had a tendency to overanalyze everything, so I wanted to find a way to visualize that. And so the idea was born of having a group of scientist stuck in this boy’s head, doing the calculations for his every move.

Anyways, I’m so grateful for all the people who helped out.

From Nordhordland With Love

“From Nordhordland With Love” is a commercial we shot this summer for Nordhordland, a district back in Norway. They had seen the films we made for The University og Bergen Library, and wanted something similar. So basically they gave us a lot of creative freedom, which is always rewarding.

I always wondered how a supervillain goes about picking the location for his headquarter. So I came up with the idea of an evil megalomaniac and his #2 going location scouting in the area. I’m quite happy with the end result, since it’s rather different from the typical ‘postcard’-commercial we normally see for places like this.

The feedback we’ve gotten has been great. The travel website Gadling referred to it as: “..this is one of the most creative promotional videos we’ve ever seen. Well played, Nordhordland.”

Border Crossing

We still like to play around with toy guns. Pew! Pew! Pew!

New Videos

It’s been a few months since my last post. The summer was incredibly busy so I sort of forgot about blogging for a while. I’ll try to get back into it.

Well, anyways, we’ve started uploading PistolShrimps videos again. Unfortunately our first video of the season got taken down, and we got banned for two weeks. Seems the content was a bit too much for YouTube.  You can watch it on our Facebook site though.

Here are a few more of the new ones:

Columbia Film Festival Trailer

I did some effects work on the trailer for the Columbia Film Festival which my friends Robin and Keola put together. Check it out here:

Star Wars – Return of the Porn

We continue our childish quest to spoof all of our favorite films. This time it’s Star Wars.

Man Vs. T-Rex

Finally we got the video done. Check it out here:

I’ve always been fascinated by camp, so we wanted to do a campy take on the Rocky fight-genre. It’s an alright video, but I feel we kind of missed a bit on the tone.

But it feels great to have it finished, and even though it’s not my best work, it was fun to do an animated thing again.

Man vs. T-Rex – Coming Soon

Last summer I wrote a script for a cartoon, and had my friend Tom animate it. Since it’s a project without a hard deadline it’s constantly being pushed back in the work queue. However this week I finally had time to get some actors come in and record the voices. Hopefully I’ll have it finished soon.

Tom has done a great job with the animation. Here are some stills:

New Short Film – Science of Blowjobs dot com

I am currently working on a new short film by the name “The Science of Blowjobs and Throbbing Hearts”.

Childish? Yes.

But here’s the film’s website.

There’s not much there yet, but hopefully we’ll fill it up soon with info about the cast and crew.