seventeen gems
One day, Dennis Ryan and I made this stupid little 40-second video called Coffee Cats, and enjoyed the fact that we'd put something together in one night without putting a whole lot of pressure on ourselves about it as we usually do with our artistic endeavors. We decided it would be fun to keep making short videos like that, and keep doing it until we had an hour's worth of skits (after tossing the crappy ones). Then we added the rule that we would not show them to anyone unless they were somehow involved in the production, until we had reached the 1 hour goal. This lead to collaborating with more people because our friends wanted to see the stuff and it was the only way we would show them. Soon enough the videos became more and more elaborate, some of them taking several months to execute, many involving dramatic fights about what my wife at the time would call insignificant details, and I guess we were back to our usual habits of perfectionism, but we think it paid off. Anyway almost 4 years later we reached our goal, with 17 skits totaling an hour and 4 minutes, plus an intermission, a comical take on ending credits, and a blooper real. The videos span the categories of sketch comedy, thriller, sci-fi, stoner, horror, potty humor, black comedy, experimental, war drama, melodrama, noir, and other stuff I'm not sure how to describe. They are presented in chronological order to give a taste for how the complexity of the pieces developed (or some shit like that). Tastefully designed DVDs, which contained some easter eggs, were created and sold at a few screenings for 5 bucks each. The 5 bucks was just to make sure people wanted it and that that we weren't giving it away for free to assholes trying to be polite.
People who helped with this project: Keith Abrams, Marcel Alexander, Christian Banfield, Kat Byrne, Ian McNaughton, Victoria Manning, Molly Miller, James Petz, Ann Quinn, Bill Quinn, Greg Quinn, and Matt Tonon.
trailer
Coffee cats
the lock
Alloveryou
two feet off
mr silo's the resemblance
mr bitey
tide
i'ma be me
face off
look at me
the meany family
poop butt
Everything but love
that man
buddy junction
kevin's song
the unbearable cuteness
credits
bloopers
