The Joy of Books

Who doesn't enjoy loitering in bookstores? I know I do. (I also wouldn't mind if bookstore owners and buyers contacted us about carrying Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Robotic Edition here info@dianidevine.com)
If you've ever wondered what those pesky books are up to while we're sleeping here's the super cute video for you.
It was filmed in Toronto's Type bookstore.
Enjoy.

Diet & Exercise

The new year brings fattys everywhere out from under their elastic waist bands and into the light for some good ol' moving around. While scientists have pretty much proven this is useless for weight loss nobody listens to scientists.
 This video will either make you feel better or worse about yourself. It might also make you order a giant pizza.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Robotic Edition Trailer

We made a trailer for Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Robotic Edition. The music may be the most awesome trailer music ever.

Everything can be a Ukulele

Playing the Ukulele is something I have always intended to do. I have so far miserably failed at this. The first step away from utter failure and towards success at anything these days is a good google. So here is Etsy's answer to my shortcoming.

Does ukuleleing get better than this?

How cool are these!??
http://www.etsy.com/shop/celentanowoodworks is the shop. Paul Celentano is the mad genius. He says
"What Would Your Dream Instrument Look Like? All designs can be made into a ukulele,guitar,bass,mandolin,and more. Contact me for estimate."

Selling Your Film Without Selling Your Soul

Last month I touted some books that will save filmmakers tons of scratch.
It seems that Jon Reiss, author of "Thinking Outside The Boxoffice" has a new book on that devil distribution coming out.

Looks very useful. 

From the description on YouTube:
"SELLING YOUR FILM WITHOUT SELLING YOUR SOUL is the first book to strip away the mythology surrounding independent film, providing real data and results of the techniques filmmakers have employed to connect films with audiences. 

The book presents revenue models, marketing strategies, distribution spends, crowdfunding, community building and detailed ancillary and digital distribution numbers for the following films: Ride The Divide, The Cosmonaut, The Best and The Brightest, Sita Sings the Blues, Note by Note, Bass Ackwards, Adventures of Power, American: The Bill Hicks Story, Undertow, For the Bible Tells Me So, Violet Tendencies and the webseries PioneerOne.

SELLING YOUR FILM WITHOUT SELLING YOUR SOUL peers behind the curtain of secrecy surrounding distribution, and celebrates the spirit independent of groundbreaking filmmakers who take matters into their filmmaking destinies into their own hands."

Huckelberry Finn: Robotic Edition mentioned in the NY Times Magazine!!!

Guess what Batman! Our project Replacing the "N-word" with "Robot" in Huck Finn was mentioned in this great New York Times Magazine article about Kickstarter. They mention a bunch of other very cool projects and it's a neat look into how Kickstarter works.

Here is the article by Rob Walker http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/07/magazine/the-trivialities-and-transcendence-of-kickstarter.html

If you HAVE to have this book we will soon be selling it on our website http://DianiDevine.com.

Thanks NY Times Magazine! 

A Robot That Flies Like A Bird- TED

Are you ready to see something amazing?

Markus Fischer and the rest of those crazy kids at Festo have built this SmartBird. It's modeled on the noble seagull, but flaps it's wings to fly instead of slurping gross stuff off the sidewalk.

Here is the TED talk where you get to see this super cool robot in flight and work on your German accent.



I don't know what kind of pressure this guy is feeling these days. But it has to be intense.

 http://burrowburrow.com/robots.html