PDX POP NOW!

So this post doesn't have much to do with Quarter Orange, but we also want this blog to showcase our personalities, and other hobbies, so from time to time we may post stuff that is not related to our projects, or even to our field of work. Enjoy.



If you live anywhere near Portland, you should know about PDX POP NOW! and if you don't, you soon will. PDX POP NOW! is a three day festival showcasing local bands to the community for free. This year, like last, the shows will be occurring at Rotture, a venue located at 315 SE 3rd Ave Portland, OR 97214. The festival is this weekend with shows from 6pm-1am Friday the 24th, and 12pm-1am Saturday and Sunday the 25th/26th.

I wanted to take a moment and share with you all my picks for the weekend. All the bands are great, my ranking is based on the lengths I would go to, to see them. I split them into three categories: Cowabunga, Tubular and Bossanova.

COWABUNGA:
The Mint Chicks
Animal Farm
Teeath
Magic Johnson
Fist Fite
Benoit Pioulard
Breakfast Mountain
Nucular Animals
Church
Laura Gibson
Nice Nice
Ah Holly Fam'ly
Guidance Counselor
Purple Rhinestone Eagle
Sallie Ford & The Sound Outside
The Old Believers
Nurses
The Shaky Hands
Au
Menomena

TUBULAR:
Dirty Mittens
Don Hellions
Peter Broderick
Explode Into Colors
The Minus 5
White Hinterlands
Lucky-One
Inside Voices
Tara Jane O'Neil
Deelay Ceelay
Strength
The Quick and Easy Boys
MY-G
Cull
Grouper

BOSSANOVA:
The Estranged
Chamber of Commerce
Morning Teleportation
Rob Walmart
Red Fang
Pierced Arrows
The Andrew Oliver Sextet

Couldn't Find Much Info On:
Fear No Music (Performance Art?)
Daniel Menche

Hope to see ya'll out there dancing the heat away!

Yeyo Tequila Spot 1, "The Look," online!

The first tequila spot, "The Look," directed by Eli, is now up on line in two locations. The first is the Yeyo Tequila website, the second is on Yeyo Tequila's youtube.
Give it a look, leave us some comments, let us know what you think, we're dying to hear.

Keep your eyes on the web for updates on the next two spots.

Festival News!

Eli's short "Dos Hermanos Tacos," got into the Tulsa United Film Festival occurring at the end of this month. If any of our readership resides in Tulsa you should go check it out. It's playing sunday night August 2nd, at 8:00 pm with another short and a feature. For more details check out: http://tulsaunitedfest.bside.com/2009/schedule/week
Eli will be attending the festivities, so come on out and say hey.

All right, so we weren't as back as we thought, but now we're really back

Our last post was in april. That was awhile ago, sorry. Things have been busy over at QOHQ.

Since our last post we successfully completed principal photography on Co's film "Forge." The production went as smoothly as could be hoped for, no days over 8 hours, spent a few nights at a cabin on Mt. Hood, all in all a good time, with a good crew.

We have also finished the principal photography for Selena's film, "Toymaker." We shot for three days in the goldsmith building, using pieces of the set from forge that were recommissioned from a lab to a grungy apartment. Selena and Eli are now mired in putting together hard drives to send down to our friend Loren Judah in LA, who is going to help with some of the composting and effects work.

Our friend over at Vonburgo Corp, Jed Burger, also shot his senior film which a good number of the crew worked on. It was a good weekend of grindhouse movie-making, spending another three days up at the cabin. You should check out his website, which includes a trailer here: http://www.tofmovie.com, it's gonna be good.

On the home front, like we stated before, we landed a three web spot gig for a local tequila company, Yeyo tequila. During the month of June we were able to shoot, edit and deliver our three spots. Jon is very happy with the results and is planning on releasing them one at a time at the end of July. Yeyo Tequila will become available the 23rd of July, as will our first spot, we'll let you know more details as the date draws near.

Jason is still working on his animation, and it's looking better then ever, I can't wait to see the finished product.

We are in pre-production on a stop-motion animation with Gelsey Kurrasch which we will be shooting at the end of this month. Keep your eye on the blog for updates and photos from the process. We will be shot listing this weekend, with storyboards soon to follow.

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Until next time:
KG

P.S: If you get a chance check out "The Brothers Bloom," a con man film from the director of "Brick." It's a good time, great writing and had me guessing until the end.