"Hair and Whiskey" or "What really happened to the Vikings?"

FACT: This summer is going to be awesome. Busy and awesome. We're about to run headlong into May, and our calendar's booking up fast

If Quarter Orange's schedule were to manifest itself physically, it would be one of those bound, 4x7" personal agendas, but bursting at the seams with sticky notes, folded scraps of paper covered in dates and reminders, various business cards, and held together only by a fat rubber band.

In spite of this, I'll keep the personal update brief. Here's what we've got going on so far this summer:



Evidence of the Sasquatch! We're but two short weeks from principle photography on our first feature! We've had several great rehearsals, our schedule's lined up, and Sasquatch is getting hairier every day. More on that soon!



Yeyo Tequila! Yeyo's back! And this time he's aged and matured. That's right, following in the footsteps of Yeyo's extremely well-received Silver Tequila comes Anejo. As with the Silver, Anejo promises to be an absolutely fantastic tequila. Quarter Orange will produce three more films for the release of Anejo. Check out yeyotequila.com for the latest!



Stand For Children! QO will be producing a short documentary series for Stand For Children, a fantastic grassroots child advocacy organization. We'll keep you posted as we begin development.



Vikings! Thus far we've completed two Episodes in our "Fall of..." series: Fall of the Incan Empire and Fall of the Xin Dynasty. Coming soon: Fall of the Vikings. I don't want to give away too much, lets just say its not going to be pretty.



This picture isn't referring to anything we're working on, its just Nic Cage as Sergei Eisenstein. For a good time, check out the Nic Cage As Everyone blog.

-QO

Bye bye FireWire...

IEEE139whaaaa? Who cares...right? FireWire, we loved you while you lasted. Back when you were the only "high" speed, consistent flow cable. However, now it is time to say bye bye... for good. That 800 spec never caught on, and the competition is just too feirce. USB learned from your success and has now toppled over you. Not to mention the power of Ethernet. So I say now, " so long, farewell... And stop taking up port space on my devices!"


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Just a little QO love

April returns with a resurgence of winter here in Portland Oregon, and while it’s cold and rainy outside, things are warming up at QO! We pitched a series of commercials to a new client last week, and we are super excited about the possibilities. Everyday seems to bring new opportunities our way. We received the lion’s share of our funding and continue moving forward with the feature.

We had a rehearsal last week that went amazingly well. We’ve really started to nail down these characters, and we’ve got our first round of camera tests this weekend. We are all feeling really good about where ETS is at right now.

We finally got a chance to look at the footage for the music video, and it is looking awesome! I’m really glad we got to shoot on the Red One. For those of you not “in the know”, the Red is the biggest, baddest, camera out right now. The Red shoots at a super high resolution, in fact some of our shots have a resolution of 4.5k. That is more than 2x the size of your high def television. Obviously, we will have to crush these shots down to a more watchable format, but the fact is, we can do a lot of subtle changes to this (giant) picture.

Aside from our feature, and the client work coming up, we are working on our future personal projects. This includes two new “Fall of’s”, and we are building our new Robot so we can shoot some more robot shorts this summer.

And Yeyo is on TV! We cut a new 15 second spot from the first commercial spot. And it starts playing on a number of different channels this week. You guys can go check out the new spot here. We are also looking for office space to build our Robot and Sasquatch costumes. We will hopefully be moving into our space in the next couple weeks.

So things are looking pretty good right now for QO, we got a lot of balls up in the air. But as each lands we hope to get a bit bigger, a few more clients, a few more fans. So from Quarter Orange land thank you for your help, thanks for all your views, facebook comments, and everything you guys have done for us. You peeps are the reason we do what we do.

Local Superheroes "Triple Threat" Screen Grabs

Here are some quick grabs from the Triple Threat footage we shot a couple of weeks ago. The color correction is an approximation. Shot by Patrick LaValley, Directed by Eli Shell and Kyle Glenn