One of the first festivals for cellphone cartoons.

I recently received an email from a group that are forming a new film festival in Portland Oregon called the Platform international Film Festival. The event which is being sponsored by Cartoon Network is being held in the spring. I was asked to submit a number of flashlite cellphone cartoons because they recognize the significance of newer media types, particularly mobile content.There aren't many of us doing this type of animtion, so it will be interesting to see what happens. I will be sending in a few cartoons, possibly including a series I am currently making for another company. Their hope is to have the films actually play on real phones. The details have yet to be worked out.
If you want to send in regular films, they are accepting most formats. Due date is March 1st.

Platform Film Festival web site

Idiotarod 2007

FAFers Naynay & I participated in the Idiotarod 2007 as part of the Trans Fats / CricHos team. It was a blast. Naynays got mad pics here and here.
You can download the transFats theme song I madehere.

First California chapter of mower racing a sucess!

The first ever meeting of the California Mower racing league was a qualified success. All told, roughly 8 people showed and one guy even had a mower that was race-ready. We all had hamburgers, lots of beer, and got to drive around a dirt track on the lawn mower ( which has a top speed of 50MPH) and all various forms of Go-carts, scooters, etc etc. We are now all involved in our own builds, installing brakes, steering, engine mods, and frame reinforcements. When complete, the mowers should look like something below.

We now have an event lined up this summer at one of the local fair. Stay tuned...

My first COMICK

So... the latest FAF escapades have began. I like Diangelo's idea about "pig man". After having a number of Polish beers from Bevmo, I got enough courage to draw this diddy in MS paint- a glorious program. I drew it left-handed as well, which is quite a challenge. Here's the fruits of my labor.

One more rant: The site.

So I took a peek at ye ole' fafcom web site. According to the movie section, it is locked until the end of the fafshow 2004... 3 years ago.
This site is a dinosaur. It doesn't represent what we do anymore. More of a melancholic memory. So... I guess I'd like to know what are we going to eventually do with it. A: Let it it there and rot as-is, a lock on the movies and all... B: Remove the lock and let people watch old-school faf cartoons again C: update the old design, or D: make it into something else, like a sort of loose portal where we can put things up that we do, regardless of what it is. Cartoons... comics... Nintendo... Lawn mowers... etc.
By the straightforward reality that we're so busy that even basic communication between us is becoming a rarity, I doubt we could actually create another site. Besides, if we did, it'd probably sit there for 5 years with nothing being done to it just the last 4 versions.
My only reason for wanting to do something would be for everyone to be able to show the fruits of their labors. We're all doing very different things these days, following different career paths and starting to make major plans for the future. It would be nice to see what everyone is up to. I guess this blog was supposed to be that. Perhaps a site would be more compelling.
Just seems like a shame to let the site just sit.

Hey guys...

It seems a little silly to me that we're sending all these emails back and forth, trying to organize another classic faf project when we have this blog right here we could be posting on, keeping all that info in one place. Seems weird that we have a site and blog... yet nobody uses them. Oh well. If other fafers don't start using this blog soon, I will comandeer it as a blog for pet rabbits or something. and yes- that is a threat!

Mower racing.

So I've decided to get into a sport that makes sense for me... Lawn Mower racing. All you do is get old riding mowers, take the original wide pulley on the transmission, the small one from the engine and swap them out. The result is more speed. Some of these riding mowers will go 65MPH+. Mine might go 30-35, which is fast enough. The sport started in the UK and naturally popped up in the US in da' South. I'm part of a group of guys that is starting a chapter in California. So... stay tuned! here's my build so far.