Go Aarti!!!!

Although we don’t watch a lot of reality television, one show that we are hooked on (we have been watching it since the first season) is The Next Food Network Star on the Food Network.

We were so excited to hear that one of our friends is on it this season!  Her name is Aarti Sequeira and she is kicking butt!  They are down to five contestants and she has been winning challenges left and right.  We think she’s going all the way, which means she would get her own show on the Food Network!!

Here is her Bio at the show’s website:

http://www.foodnetwork.com/chefs/aarti-sequeira/index.html

She also has her own cooking blog.  You can find it here:

http://www.aartipaarti.com/

So if you get the Food Network, check it out and root for Aarti!  It's on Sunday nights at 9pm (for those of us on the Pacific Ocean) and, if you miss it, they replay it several times the following week - no excuses!

Cheers!

Daniel and Brigitte

The Stalker Chronicles

As promised, here is a link to one of the projects that we have been working on here at Tower 26 Films.

Daniel was the editor, colorist and assistant director on a music video for a web series called The Stalker Chronicles. The video is chapter 3 in a 9(?) episode series. Each episode has a different theme and this one was inspired by a blend of Vaudeville, Old World Carnivale, and Silent Films of the early 1900's (specifically George Melies). Jamie Moniz and Genie Willett created, write and produce. They bring different director for each episode - fun, right?!

This episode was directed by our friend Todd Stashwick, who actually requested Daniel for the project. Thanks Todd!

To see the other chapters go to: http://stalkerchronicles.com/

You can watch it below. To watch it in HD, watch it here. But, please, go to their website and check out the rest of the series and click on the episodes there so they get the youtube views that are such a valuable commodity in the digital age that we live in. The first three episodes are up now with more to come soon. The website also has descriptions of the different film and theater styles that they are referencing. They are all really fun so go and check it out.



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Cheers!
Daniel and Brigitte

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe...

Our friend Todd Stashwick has, of late, been living a geek's dream life.  He has been a costumed/makeupped(?) demon on both Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel, a Vulcan on Star Trek Enterprise, Dracula on Supernatural, a terminator on Terminator: The Sarah Conner Chronicles, and a costumed/super-powered villain on Heroes.

There are trading cards of his character from Buffy and Angel.  Pretty cool right?  Right.  But now the game has changed.  He is in the webcomic for Heroes.  You can check it out here.  Apparently it's chapter 153 so you will have to catch up.  Hurry, I'll wait.  Although I have never seen Heroes (I missed the boat in the beginning and then it was too late to catch up) this looks really cool.  We are going to have to get caught up fast so we can watch it when Todd's episodes start airing.

So, there it is, he is forever immortalized in a comic book.  What is that you say?  It's only a web comic?  Well, I guess you didn't know that at the end of every season they print a graphic novel of the entire season's webcomic, did you?  No, I guess you didn't.  O.K. then.

So to sum up, for the slow ones in the crowd, there is nothing greater for a geek than having yourself immortalized in a comic book.

Except being made into an action figure.

Congratulations Todd.

Cheers!

Daniel

P.S. Somewhere in our apartment is a picture of me as a Simpsons character drawn by an actual Simpsons illustrator.  It was given to me as a gift and I love it.  If I could find it I would show it to you but right now I can not, for the life of me, locate it.