2NuGPixPgs!

Over the past 10 days, starting before my technical difficulties arose, I began incorporating Lytebox while creating two new GPicturama pages! It was about time, too, since there haven't been all that many pics pages yet this year.

The first one (for July 10th's entry) displays moments from a recent trip of mine to Marina State Beach with my girlfriend, Kory. It was during my extended visit at her place at some point during the July 4th weekend, but not actually on that date.

The second one (for July 20th's entry: today's) conveys two more Thomas Productions films unfolding! The Production Photos from both Abrupt (2005) and Scenes from Being John Malkovich (2006) are shown there. They don't yet reflect on those movies' official pages yet, but they're slowly comin' together in a world without GoLive. Check 'em all out!

The Class

This Tuesday, I'll be sharing some movies of Thomas Productions with a middle school class of Mrs. Barg, who was my very first video production teacher! I took that six-week elective in the beginning of 1997, and it was for that class that both Tons of Sugar Cereal and My Teachers Are Aliens (the first projects of Thomas Productions) blossomed.

So, I'm developing a list of what to show the class. The catch is that it must be age-appropriate, and I'm finding that's actually somewhat difficult -- blasted college freedoms!

Actually, I could probably even include some behind-the-scenes vids & production photo slideshows, even if they belong to movies I cannot show!

The First Fest

It's official: At the Core (2006) is soon to be entered into the 2009 Mill Valley Film Festival! Early entry deadline is May 15, and the festival itself is in mid October.

No clips of it are online yet, as I want to make sure doing this wouldn't prevent any sort of festival "world premiere" attributes. Nonetheless, there are several stills and production photos that hold up just fine for now.

BTW, I simply couldn't believe that The Last Kiss (2000) had never been embedded in a News Blog entry before this one! Tada!

BTW#2, The Dog of Pompeii (1999) has now reached 2,000 views on YouTube!

Core Photography

In what is the 2nd GPicturama entry of 2009, the official production photos from At the Core (2006) have been posted!

There were actually quite a bit more photos taken, but most did not symbolize or represent that a movie was in production. Instead, they were nice shots of a ranch! So I had to choose wisely, and these were the results.

Soon enough, they'll be viewable from the Media Layer of the movie's page as well, in a scrollable format first introduced by the page for The Nightmare (2007).

Reconstruction

As was mentioned in the previous blog entry, now all of the "Thomas Productions" logo images atop each movie page link back to the main page. Even though there were other parts of the page that also did this, thinking in a moment of logic led to my conclusion of doing this.

More importantly, the process of redirecting any sort of images from the old 2nd site to the new one (directorG2.com to jimthzz.bingodisk.com/public) has vastly continued, with the best example at current being displayed at the page for The Nightmare. The entire segment for Production Pics, complete with a translucent layer of thumbnails to select from, has now been fixed. The process continues...

Cannery Row Doc

There!  Not only have the movie lists been touched up to be more organized, but now there is a page in existence (finally!) for the movie, Cannery Row Documentary (2006)!

Technically, it does contain production photos that are already online at GPicturama here.  It will just take time to weave them into this page, see...

Wowsers, 6 Months!

Holy mama, it's been 6 months to the day since this new News Blog began! Well, there are at least a few things to celebrate!

First, the Production Photos segment of Photagrizzly Man (2007) is practically finished! It's the second film on this site to take on the scrolling effect applied to The Nightmare (2007) just a few weeks ago.

Second, the Social Bookmarking feature from addthis.com (which already is in use on this blog) is now starting to be applied to movie pages! It's much, much, much simpler to utilize!

Three Shorts is coming to YouTube soon... It must be broken into pieces first, though, to fit the time limit. Give it time, and some tender loving care! (Or give it a week.)

GThieferama

Yup, that's right. More Production Pics have been added to GPicturama, this time for Thief (2006)! I don't know why I didn't do this naturally with all the movies since Three Shorts...

It's in the plans to do like with The Nightmare where these images will be accessible in scrollable form soon. So much to do, so much in mind...

New Design!

Wow, this new design for production pics is quite an improvement, I must say.  Though it's only partly completed, the Production Photos for The Nightmare (2007), which were recently posted at GPicturama, are now also displayed directly at the movie's website!

It's a newer design, complete with scrolling thumbnails and full size capabilities.  Descriptions, too.  Check it out!

Production Nightmare!

Actually, the production of The Nightmare was anything but, because it was excellent! Now, finally, the production photos from that are on our site, at GPicturama!

Soon, they will be viewable through an embedding directly on the movie's page! Until then, they're all still online at the same ol' site. Will keep ya updated on that.