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Comic Strip: Vitreous Humor
Warren Blyth completed 93 of these comic strips in 2008 and 2003. The strip is called Vitreous Humor. It's about a blue VHS guy and a red DVD guy (Viddy and Disky) discussing cinema and matters of the mind. It's highly unusual and quite good in its own way. It is funny in a way that it challenges strangers! Creator Warren Blyth lives near Portland, Oregon and is known for his experimental filmmaking and artwork.
Read the first comic from 2003
Read the first comic from 2008
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Comic Strip: James and His Toy Robot
In 2002 and 2003, Oregon's Kitano Sans created 16 installments of James and His Toy Robot, a comic strip starring James and his toy robot. Pretty self-explanatory, really. They celebrate Christmas. They sell lemonade. They take no prisoners. Join the fight for the future! In James and His Toy Robot, many things will happen. The virtuous will be rewarded, the bad ones punished. Some will lay down their lives. Can your heart stand the shocking facts of the true story that is James and His Toy Robot? Click and read, my friends, click and read. You really have no choice.
In 2008, James and his Robot were brought back for another story. Visit JamesandRobot.com.
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Camp Fastforward 2003 Website by Jonason Ho
Jonason Ho wrote this unusually entertaining website dedicated to the second Camp Fastforward. From June 20th to June 22nd, Camp Fastforward 2003 was held in the lounge at Troy East apartments, USC, Los Angeles (although, as fits Camp Fastforward tradition, no one was there on the 20th). Filmmakers Mike Stoklasa, J. Brugmann, Warren Blyth, Jonason Ho, Jason Gutierrez, and Garrett Gilchrist were in town for the quote unquote "hilarity," which also involved recording some voices for Mike's film "Oranges: Revenge of the Eggplant" (involving actors Katherine Carpenter and Riley O'Malley). But mostly, everyone spent a long saturday night talking, eating pizza, drinking, and ... oh yeah, watching some movies, including "Karate Pate 0," "For Science" and "Quit." Was it worth the drive/plane ticket? You bet your sweet bippy, and Jonason Ho's got the website to prove it. Behold, the glory that is the Camp Fastforward 2003 website.
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Jonason Ho presents The FF I.Q. Test!
"10. Carl came to Fred's house to borrow Fred's record player. Ooops, Fred isn't home! Can you help Carl find the record player?" It's always good news when Jonason Ho creates something for FF, and today we're proud to tease your brain with his latest creation,The FF I.Q. Test! Ten deceptively simple questions will separate the smart people from the morons. How well will you score? With the ladies, I mean. Your score on this test is probably meaningless. Come to think of it, if you're smart, the ladies probably won't like you as much, thinking you're a nerd. Maybe you should try to score poorly on this IQ test. Who knows. Anyway, click here or else: it's Jonason Ho's FF I.Q. Test!
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Camp Fastforward Three
On November 15th and 16th, Pacific Apartments in Los Angeles was home to another fine mess - Camp Fastforward 3, the second in our alcohol-fueled geek parties masquerading as film festivals. We all just quietly hung around and talked. There was a lot of waiting. But much fun. Attending were Mike Stoklasa, Jesse Maddox, J. Brugmann, and Rob Kraetsch. GMP Pictures' Mike Stoklasa has edited together a short and meaningless film from Camp FF 3. It involves me as an alien, Mike as a man selling time travel insurance, and a lot of awkwardness. Enjoy Camp FF 3, the Movie. (10.7 megs, 5 minutes, Realplayer) For pictures from Camp FF 3, click here.
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Camp Fastforward Four
From January 15-19, 2004, we assembled in Los Angeles once again, for the five-day celebration that was Camp Fastforward Four (or Slumberfest 2005), our third official FF get-together and a party of great magnificence. Easily the best Camp Fastforward yet. Present were Lisa Renley (formerly of Blanc Screen Cinema) and her friend Marjorie Peer, Mike Stoklasa and Rich Evans from Chicago's GMP Pictures, Jesse Maddox and Erik Anderson from Empire Excape/Dislocated Boner, musicman J. Brugmann, Striped Hat's master DP Rob Kraetsch, and of course myself and Transcend Entertainment's Jason Gutierrez. SCFX's Amy Mehlhorn also stopped by. We showed a bunch of movies, including some long lame ones (involving ghosts and gorillas), and Rob Kraetsch impressed us with his DP reel. We also shot new scenes for Ghostbusted 3, featuring Rich Evans and Lisa Renley as news reporters.
Photos from Camp Fastforward Four
Photos from the Ghostbusted 3 Shoot at Camp FF4
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Camp Rewind 2002
Marc and Michael Linn held the second Camp REwind Film Festival in Rapid City, South Dakota during July 2002.
I filmed the short Ghostbusted 2 at this fest (view the Ghostbusted 2 Image Gallery).
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Camp Rewind 2001
Marc and Michael Linn held the first ever Camp REwind Film Festival in Rapid City, South Dakota during July 2001. This was a chance for amateur filmmakers from all across the world to meet one another. I filmed the short Ghostbusted at this fest (view the Ghostbusted Image Gallery), and appeared in Torgo and the Quest For Fuck and Transients for other directors. REwindvideo.com was a Canadian website dedicated to the no-budget filmmaker. This was before Youtube, and for a lot of young filmmakers meeting in the forums there in 1999 or so, this was the first time we'd realized there were other people out there shooting movies for no money. The first seven issues of Fastforward were written just before this event.
Camp Rewind 2001 Image Gallery
Ghostbusted Image Gallery
Transients Image Gallery
Torgo Image Gallery
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Camp Rewind 2003
Marc and Michael Linn held the third REwind International Media Festival in Rapid City, South Dakota during July 2003.
I filmed the short Ghostbusted 3 at this fest (view the Ghostbusted 3 Image Gallery).
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 Moon Beast
An old joke from 2001. But I'll keep it up for nostalgia's sake. A classic prank from the old forum. Mike Stoklasa had something to do with it. But eventually everyone joined in. And I mean EVERYONE. Stoklasa was convinced that the webpage for an unproduced amateur movie called "Moon Beast" had to be fake. He posted as a Dreamworks employee, offering 6 figures for the rights to Moon Beast. This triggered off an insane bidding war among dead directors like Orson Welles for the rights to the Moon Beast concept. Eventually, somehow, an enormously fat cat named Scruffles got put into the leading role of the film. And it no longer had anything to do with the original Moon Beast. The original "Moon Beast" filmmaker wasn't offended. I saved all the original forum posts and made a site. Look out - it's MOON BEAST!
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 CAMP FASTFORWARD 2002
Seven days of increasingly scary videos from an "event" held in October 2002.
The story: Garrett Gilchrist announced he was holding a film festival in L.A. called Camp Fastforward, but that no one had shown up. Undaunted, Garrett continued to hold increasingly strange and desperate video updates from the site. He became convinced he was holding a "revolution." It became an elaborate, disturbing seven-day event. Halfway through, the Camp Rewind people (who had no sense of humor) actually tried to shut Garrett down!
Thanks to Jason Gutierrez, Jason Santo, Mike Stoklasa, Rich Evans and Warren Blyth for their help on the Day 7 video.
CAMP FASTFORWARD DAY 1
CAMP FASTFORWARD DAY 2
CAMP FASTFORWARD DAY 3
CAMP FASTFORWARD DAY 4
CAMP FASTFORWARD DAY 5
CAMP FASTFORWARD DAY 6
CAMP FASTFORWARD DAY 7
Infamous Scene: Day 7's final shot of Warren Blyth. Oh, and day 4's "teapot" video.
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