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First IMDb Credit In The Bag

Posted on October 14, 2010 by in Uncategorized

Yehy, got my first IMDb credits for the animation work I did on Will Rot‘s Halloween short, Trick. More to come soon hopefully. It also came at about the same time that Dice contributor, Chris Stokes discovered he had one too. Sheesh, come on where’s yours?

I also got a nice little name drop in an interview with Will Rot, check it out……………. HERE!

Thanks Pencil, Thpencil

Posted on November 10, 2009 by in Uncategorized

Now’s as good as any time to make a little dedication to my favourite pencil. His name is ‘Old Blue’. We met about 2 years ago in a cold student flat in the middle Edinburgh, he was hanging out with some other mechanical pencil buddies his previous owner had obsessively collected inside a meticulous stationary draw. We got along great, but after a while his nobbliness really starting to bite into me. After a while things started to get pretty bad, so I jammed a couple of pen grips over him. We had our rows, but after going through some highs and lows, we’ve been trough some pretty amazing stuff, and I’ll never regret a moment. Thanks Pencil. Thpencil.
Ian’s also got a clever little extendable pen we call ‘Classy Clive’. It’s non-gender specific, well more vague really. Tom generally just writes with his own blood, he’s passionate like that, so… ‘Tom’ would be the accurate thing to put on his census form I suppose.

P.S. If you’re reading Steve Wright, can I have ‘Can’t Live if Living is Without You‘ by Harry Nilsson. Anything else that makes me want to bleed with clichéd insincerity is fine too. Does he still do that Sunday show? I don’t know.

Stool Peril

Posted on October 11, 2009 by in Uncategorized

Ian broke out a pen and showed the white board who’s boss the other day. Here’s a nice iconic fancy that I cleaned up… I call him Hamish Giffins. What do you christen him?

Coming soon!… Double Stool Peril!

Max Fitness in Atom Upload Showdown!

Posted on September 5, 2009 by in Uncategorized



Max Fitness has made it into the Atom Upload Showdown! If we win we’ll earn some mulla and get shown on Comedy Central! So get over there, brave the 30 second advert, and VOTE FOR US!

Chat Up Lines – Behind the Scenes

Posted on August 17, 2009 by in Uncategorized

Here’s some behind the scenes shots, while I edit our latest live sketch. Yep, that’s me with a whole lorra wax. It took about 5 washes with Fairy Liquid to get rid that muck, as proven by me sporting the ‘Dandy Geldof‘ after wash 3.

Bit of trivia: Tom and I share the same sweaty shirt throughout.

Five Tip Top Hints to Wordualise a Literary Hit

Posted on August 14, 2009 by in Uncategorized

Here’s a fantastic article that Ian found written by Bournville College. I’m putting this up here mainly because I know I’ll loose the link and regret never being able to find it again.

The article explores George Orwell’s 5 rules to good writing, including an inspiring smackdown quote from Ernest Hemingway. Here are the rules. Slosh about in the original article HERE.

  1. Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figures of speech which you are used to seeing in print.
  2. Never use a long word where a short one will do.
  3. If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.
  4. Never use the passive where you can use the active.
  5. Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.
  6. Break any of these rules sooner than saying anything outright barbarous.
Here’s Ernst to lead us out with a buzz phrase to look down thread super bitched up on the street:
Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.

Off to Edinburgh!

Posted on August 5, 2009 by in Uncategorized

Ehy! Message in a Bottle will be making an appearance at the Edinburgh Fringe as part of Popcorn Comedy’s Best Of Show. The shows will be on 6th and 26th August and only cost £5 which is an amazing price 6 top quality stand ups and bunch of videotic gems.

Go HERE to see more details. Don’t ask why! Just do it!! It’s really good… Oh well read on.
We won’t be able to catch the shows, but we’ll be catching the aftermath of it on the last weekend of the festival (28th-30th). The last time we were up I was a student there and the smug occupier of a beautiful flat… It’s going to be a bit more guerilla style this time round. We’ll keep a log and possibly even a fun bit of video to document our travels.
This is bringing back all sorts of memories. If you ever happen to be in the National Gallery of Scotland keep a look out for this painting of ‘Jesus’. However, if you look closer it’s not Jesus… it’s Tom. That also appears to be Andy Murray flogging him. That guy on the left looked familiar too but we just couldn’t work it out. After carefully ripping it off the wall and gently ramming it down Tom’s trousers we took it away to have a closer look……
….. Turns out it was Dave Benson Phillips.

Featured on AWNtv

Posted on July 30, 2009 by in Uncategorized

Thanks to AWNtv for featuring Bored Stiff. It always means a lot to get on there.

Words in the 5th Dimension – Hello Officer

Posted on July 28, 2009 by in Uncategorized

Closed in. Grey. Kitchen table. Door handle. Rain. Colours? Textures? Rhubarb? Ouch! Sharp in oh so many ways. Oh the pain! Stop mocking me! Bush russle. Faster. Hup. What a day to climb a fence in mother’s underwear. I hope I don’t – I’m snagged! How do you explain something like this? Maybe the police station will have a leaflet?

Hello officer. No, this isn’t my house, no. Oh.

Screened at FilmRats

Posted on July 25, 2009 by in Uncategorized

On Wednesday, was FilmRats, based in the Bristol Pear in Selly Oak. We’ve had our stuff screened there for the last couple of months but weren’t able to make it, so it was a nice surprise to see the evening’s films finished off with Bored Stiff and Message in A Bottle.
Organisers Andrew and Tom Hewson seem to have got the event down to a T, warming up the night with some music/live performance, then some films, then polishing of with a final musical act. An audio visual sandwich if you will. I think the guys have got a great feeling for keeping the mood up in the room too. It’s easy for these sort of screenings to end up as a endless depressing sludge of grainy experimental films – which is great in moderation – but here the films were mixed up so that there was a nice change of pace and our in-your-face-dirty-little-treats were used as little pick-me-ups at the end. Most importantly though Andrew compared. The most important thing for events like this is to TELL people to clap and get some repore going. For some reason people just don’t do it otherwise. I still don’t understand why.
The venue’s the perfect setting, it’s relaxed, nice size and layout, built in projector and a decent sound system. It’s a shame no where in the city centre really matches up. Highlights were personal favourites KateGoes plus FaceOmeter, as well as meeting Black Country Cinema collective, Birmingham Salute.