Since last week’s press conference, Ypsilanti has been in the grip of Totally Awesome Fest fever. You can’t leave your home, it seems, without getting tangled up in drunken beard, wet lips smacking against your ear, speculating as to what Patrick Elkins may have up his sleeve this year. Well, earlier this morning, a bit […]
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The complete Totally Awesome Fest 10 line-up beginning with Sunday’s city-wide Easter egg hunt!
Posted in Art and Culture, Special Projects, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti Also tagged Amanda Krugliak, Andara, Animal Magic, Annie Palmer, B.S.R.B., Ben Miller's take-home fashion show, Brian R. Tucker, Buffalo Coven Party, Chemical Valley, Chit Chat, chocolate tampons, Community Rebirth, Creode, Croidoid, croquet, Curtains, Dan Florida, Deadbeat Beat, Dear Darkness, Disinformants, DJ Buffalo Coven Party, DJ Homonormal Park, Dreamland Theater, Easter, Easter eggs, Emily Jane Powers, Girth, Growth Spert, Happy Campers, Hollis Coats, House of Mole, Izzy Johnson, JAV, Jessie Bott, Jo Pie Whyld, Joey Molinaro, Jovantoes, Juniper Baby, Little Weasel House, Lord of the Yum-Yum, Magic Markers, magical events, Man vs. Indian Man, Manhole, May Pie, MC Trashpedal, Ministry of Boredom, Minus 9, Nausea Valley, Nick Painter, noise music, Oak Openings, Ooze Dude, Pajama Party, pancake parade, pancakes, Patrick Elkins, Pie Reading, pizza, Poetry Eating, Princess Xanthipe, Public Urination, Rebel Kind, Richard Album, Riverside Park, Salt City, Sam Finch, secret brunch, Sex Police, Shells, Snesi, Stef Chura, Surprise in the Woods, tampons, Telepathic Telephone, The Jols, The Lovelies, The PreMadonnas, The Real Spicollis, The True Love Story of the Wizard & the Swamp Witch, The Understorey, Thom Elliott, Totally Awesome Fest, Truman, Ugly Mug, Unicorn, Van Houten, VG Kids, Video Games, Vomit Express, Voss Acres, Voss's Zas, Water Street Commons, weed, White Dwarf, Woodruff's, Ypsilanti Downtown Library 8 Comments
Emilia Javanica on the Red Blob Massacre, and what it’s like to shoot one’s first independent film
A few months ago, I announced here on the site that an aspiring filmmaker in Ann Arbor, by the name of Emilia Javanica, was looking for actors to cast in a comedic horror film that she was making called the Red Blob Massacre. Well, the film has just completed production, and I took the opportunity […]
Posted in Ann Arbor, Art and Culture, Uncategorized Also tagged animation, art films, art school, art students, Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, b-movies, Basket Case, books on filmmaking, Brad Smith, Bride of the Monster, Carrie, Cat People, Cavern Club, Chuck Sipperley, Dale Newton, David Lynch, DIY, Emilia Javanica, Eraserhead, fear of death, film ideas, George Kuchard, grants, Harry Shannon, horror movies, independent film, John Gaspard, John Waters, Little Otik, Michael McCarty, Nosferatu, performance art, puppet Mark, Red Blob Massacre, Robert Rodriquez, School of Art & Design, silent film, Simon Alexander-Adams, Sins of the Fleshapoids, Smuckers-Wagstaff Grant, Stand By Me, Steve Wild, Swamp Women, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, University of Michigan, Why We Write Horror 9 Comments