The Tease

•August 12, 2009 • Leave a Comment

Alas! After a many long sleepless nights and slaving away all during the day, i have finally finished a teaser for Oh Violet. Yes,  my newest film Oh Violet, have, with the hard work of my crew and I, made a teaser to tease your hearts to love a very dear girl and her friends. It is a story that we have all gone through at some point in our lives, a story of finding who we are, as humans, as artist, as friends. We follow Violet, a young girl searching for who she is and and living through the cruelty of sameness when trying to be different. please enjoy! :)

The Interview

•July 2, 2009 • Leave a Comment

WOW!!!! ok so I just got back from Salt Lake City, Utah yesterday! My film, Twitter, played the Utah Arts Festival! It was AMAZING to see my film playing alongside films that are fantastic…that have REAL crews and actors and budgets and that have played Sundance!!!

I got my first interview as a film maker and about my film Twitter.

Here is the article:

Written by, Les Roka

Charis Tobias – Twitter – Fear No Film

At 17, Charis Tobias from California is the youngest filmmaker being represented in the 54 offerings of Fear No Film. “Twitter,” her six-minute short is the fresh digital version of the old “six degrees of separation” game as Tobias smartly weaves a web of at least two dozen tweets taken directly from the popular microblogging service that, in some way, ultimately link the characters involved in those 140-character messages.

The film is being shown in the When category presentation of the Fear No Film portion of the festival today at 2 p.m. and Sunday, June 28, at 1 p.m. Utah is the first festival stop for this intriguing short.

Tobias epitomizes the digital-savvy early adopter in several ways. She’s already finished her junior college degree with “Twitter” as a college course project. In fact, the Violet Productions film – produced with the help of Marylew, her mother, on a shoestring budget that amounted to buying food for the young cast and crew – was completed well before the big publicity buzz earlier this year that saw Twitter’s popularity mushroom by 15 times in the last year.

The film succeeds because Tobias manages quite surprisingly to get audiences to care about the characters in such a short span of time. In a peculiar way, she capitalizes on that curiosity about whether it is at all possible to communicate meaningfully in a 140-character environment. Indeed, if it is achievable, the opportunity best rests in the hands of a young multitasker like Tobias who has spent all of her years in an exclusively digital environment even without the benefit of a TV set.

Just last Sunday, she participated in an unusual project directed by Frank Kelly, an Irish documentary producer, in which 140 filmmakers in 140 locations around the world were cued via Twitter to film 140 seconds of footage at the same moment. In Tobias’ case, that was mercifully at noon and not in the middle of the night as was the case for some participants.

The rules were simple: no editing, just raw footage, and it could be anything connected to their home location. Tobias chose Yosemite. (Incidentally, two Utahns also participated: Ryan Little and Adam Abel.) Kelly plans to release the documentary later this year.

Tobias counts among her cinematic influences Kenneth Anger and David Lynch, strong representatives of experimental art and postmodern films. Her next project is an art film titled “Oh, Violet.”

If you want to read more about other film makers CLICK HERE

Webby duck i love you

•June 11, 2009 • Leave a Comment

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Today my duck webby died…i found her 2 years ago walking around my nahborhood. she a white miscovie duck has been the best pet…she was my lucky duck…when anything bad happened she was there for me. she always had a solution to every problem and that was to hug! i am going to miss her tons…

here is a poem i wrote when the first time she got lost but the next morning she was out in the garden looking for bugs….

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gone, gone
She has gone away forever
Left me alone
Lost in the dark
Disappeared into a world that i have not known
She has left for the shark
In which has eaten the grass
To which made her take flight
I have lost all my might
For I wish her not to have left
If it was not for the shark
Who ate the grass
You would have heard her laugh
She left without a mark
As if she was never there
Oh! But if only she was!
Gone, gone
She has left forever
To leave me alone
alone with the snails
and their sticky trials

— For Webby my Duck

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A DUCK JOKE:

A duck walks into a pub and orders a pint of beer and a ham sandwich.
The barman looks at him and says, “Hang on! You’re a duck.”
“I see your eyes are working,” replies the duck.
“And you can talk!” exclaims the barman.
“I see your ears are working, too,” says the duck. “Now if you don’t mind, can
I have my beer and my sandwich please?”
“Certainly, sorry about that,” says the barman as he pulls the duck’s pint.
“It’s just we don’t get many ducks in this pub. What are you doing round this
way?”
“I’m working on the building site across the road,” explains the duck. “I’m a
plasterer.”
The flabbergasted barman cannot believe the duck and wants to learn more, but
takes the hint when the duck pulls out a newspaper from his bag and proceeds to
read it.
So, the duck reads his paper, drinks his beer, eats his sandwich, bids the
barman good day and leaves.
The same thing happens for two weeks.
Then one day the circus comes to town.
The ringmaster comes into the pub for a pint and the barman says to him
“You’re with the circus, aren’t you? Well, I know this duck that could be just
brilliant in your circus. He talks, drinks beer, eats sandwiches, reads the
newspaper and everything!”
“Sounds marvelous,” says the ringmaster, handing over his business card. “Get
him to give me a call.”
So the next day when the duck comes into the pub the barman says, “Hey Mr.
Duck, I reckon I can line you up with a top job, paying really good money.”
“I’m always looking for the next job,” says the duck. “Where is it?”
“At the circus,” says the barman.
“The circus?” repeats the duck.
“That’s right,” replies the barman.
“The circus?” the duck asks again. “That place with the big tent?”
“Yeah,” the barman replies.
“With all the animals who live in cages, and performers who live in caravans?”
says the duck.
“Of course,” the barman replies.
“And the tent has canvas sides and a big canvas roof with a hole in the
middle?” persists the duck.
“That’s right!” says the barman.
The duck shakes his head in amazement, and says . …
“What the hell would they want with a plasterer??!”


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The Count & Sinden [Free Music!]

•June 3, 2009 • Leave a Comment

TRACKLISTING:
Tempa T – Next Hype (Starkey Remix Instrumental)
Joker & Ginz – Purple City
Untold – Anaconda
Metronomy – Radio Ladio (Radioclit Remix)
Schlachthofbronx – We Run This
Douster – Ladinian
La Roux – Bulletproof (Zinc Dub Remix)
Detboi – Get Low
Orbital – Lush (Herve Remix)

DANCE DANCE IMMOLATION

•May 28, 2009 • Leave a Comment

Remember that post “playing with fire”, where i talked about going to NIMBY in Oakland CA to DDI? Well i got to make a video with so awesome people….here is a video for BoingBoing.net that i hosted along with Aaron Muszalski (aka SFSlim) and SF-based shooter-producer Eddie Codel! :D

DDI is Dance Dance Revolution but with flame throwers blasting you with fire!

Here is the link to boingboing video to read more! Or watch it here!!!! :D

NYLON summer play list (free music!!)

•May 26, 2009 • 1 Comment

ANJULIE – Boom
CRYSTAL ANTLERS – Andrew
GAY BLADES – O Shot
HEARTS REVOLUTION – Ultraviolence
LaROUX – In For The Kill
LISSY TRULLIE – Self Taught Learner
LITTLE BOOTS – Meddle (Ebola Remix)
MAPEI – Public Enemy
OF MONTREAL – For Our Elegant Caste
PASSION PIT – I’ve Got Your Number
PHOENIX – 1901
PLASTISCINES – Barcelona
SANTIGOLD – LES Artistes
SPINNERETTE – Ghetto Love
STARDEATH AND WHITEDWARFS – I Can’t Get Away
SUCKERS – It Gets Your Body Movin’
THE HORRORS – Sea Within a Sea
THE PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART – The Tenure Itch
THE SOFT PACK – Bright Side
THUNDERHEIST – Jerk It
TINY MASTERS OF TODAY – Skeletons
WHITE LIES – Death (Crystal Castles Remix)

Click here to go directly to iTunes for the free download!

Open Digital

•May 23, 2009 • Leave a Comment

What can YOU do with technology that can change the world or make life more AWESOME?

The Institute for the Future wants you! We are asking young people, ages 17 and under, around the world to show us how you are using free and open source innovation. To join us or learn more, go to digitalopen.org.

Here is a commercial i made (wrote and hosted) for IFTF a thinktank that is looking for youth around the world to tell us how you are changing the world!

Tiny Masters of Today

•May 23, 2009 • Leave a Comment

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Shit! These kids are GOOD!!!!! Their name is Tiny Masters of Today. The pre-teen punk band, Ivan (age 13) and Ada (age 11)  are touring the UK and have two sold-out singles with rave reviews plus BBC and XFM airplay. David Bowie also has declared their first single “Genius.” Its AMAZING what such young brill kids can do today in this world! I work with a thinktank that looks for awesome kids and Tiny Masters of Today are Brill!!!! :D …my mate read about them in Wired magazine and told me to check out this band. I started listening and was like this is a pretty good band. my mate was like you know how old they are? i was like..nnnooo…? 11 and 13 years old! and they ARE tiny and they have mastered the music of today! hope you enjoy the treat La La Land!

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Listen:  La La Land

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You Talk

•May 13, 2009 • Leave a Comment

…Utah, remember Utah in the rain…

I am going to Utah! At the end of june for a art festival because my film Twitter is gets to show at it! its Fear No Film Festival! I AM SSSOOO EXCITED!!!! I hope you like the video from my dear pete doherty <3

xxx

The Hunt for Gollum

•May 4, 2009 • Leave a Comment

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The Hunt for Gollum…….an AWESOME film….if u like LOTR u will LOVE this!!!

This is a film made by fans for fans.
Today is the World Exclusive for The Hunt For Gollum.

It is inspired by the appendicies of JRR Tolkein’s classic trilogy, ‘The Lord of the Rings’.

its 40 minutes.

watch here:

The Hunt for Gollum film