Film Friday: Bloodshots 2008

I had never heard of Bloodshots until my pal Wes Salter sent me a link to his entry.

Now, I am a true horror fan (yup, love the blood!) so was disappointed that I didn't hear about this earlier.

For those of you not familiar (like me) it's a Film Festival that was created to quench the thirst of all the wacky horror film fans out in the world. Each of the 25 participating teams are given a horror package, Wes' included:

a) Weapon - Poison
b) A Horror Sub-Genre - An Old Dark House
c) Prop - A 45 RPM LP
d) A Line of Dialogue - "That picture looks strangely familiar!".

The teams have 48 hours to shoot, edit, score and submit a short film between 2-7 minutes in length.

Although the festival itself is really a word-of-mouth festival with a growing cult culture, it remains that the entrants really have to use all their resources to get their word out.

But, with online tools today like facebook, myspace youtube and ol' skool email - it is a lot easier to get things moving.

Do a quick search on 'bloodshots canada' and you will see the power of social networking and SEO.

Happy Halloween!!!!!

1984

It has been a super duper busy last few weeks. Between work, work and more work, I have been finding it hard to blog, read my RSS feeds (which is now was over 1000), listen to my favourite podcast and well...socialize (aka Facebook).

However, after a quick note to my bro on Facebook, I noticed his oh so funny profile picture which he generated from yearbookyourself.com.

So I couldn't help it. I had to create one on my own. This is me in 1984 (although I would have been still a week thing then). Try it. It will generate a few giggles I am sure.

The site was created by a company called Taubman, a retail property firm focused on high-end malls. So what's the connect? Look at the name of the pictures and the name of their malls. What else? Where else did you like to hang when you were a teen?

Ah, now if only my hair could actually do that...

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