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.

Lastly if any of you are facebookers or tweeters look us up,
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twitter: @quarterorange

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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.

We're back!!

It was a long, rainy, cold winter, but finally, Spring has returned and QO is back in the game! Watch for our new website designed by Jason, you guys are going to love it! More movies, coooler buttons, new design!

Eli premiered his Senior Thesis film "Dos Hermanos Tacos" at the Art Institute's Senior Showcase at the Hollywood Theater on March 26. The crowd seemed to enjoy the film, laughing at all the right parts, and now it's time to take the movie to festivals! Also, Erin Marrs' film "Caged Animals" premiered. Well written and directed, produced by Walker, shot by Cameron Carey, man that movie is good! Friend of QO, Anthony Gainer's film "Jacked" was effing hilarious too! Pat's movie "Waiting For Rusty" co-produced by Eli, and directed by Nate Baston looks beautiful!

KG brought some money into the QO coffers by cutting a new reel together for a local musician doing scores for shorts and commercials. And Jason is working on a new animation, that is looking SICK!!

Oh yeah...We got paid work! Walker got us hooked up with a local company about to release a new tequila by the name of Yeyo...Yes. Yeyo....anyway, we met with the creator of the company, Jon, pitched him some ideas for the commercial, showed him our work, and what direction we wanted to go with, and we've got the green light. Cool.

We are also doing a feature. This isn't a QO production, but we are all involved. Jason is Directing, Walker does data managment, Eli is AD, and KG is grip/swing. Pat is shooting, Selena is doing Art...Jeez, this might as well be a QO production. But this is Co's baby. Go check out the website theforgeproject.com. This movie is going to be sweet!

As soon as we get out of production on The Forge, we start principal photography for Selena's Senior Film tentatively titled "Toy Maker's Reality". So, we've got a lot of things going on. It's good to come out of winter, with a whole set of opportunities. The birds are singing, the flowers are blooming, and all quarters of the orange are busy as hell.

Breaking, Entering, and Grocery Store Mayhem.

Greetings for your favorite Portland Oregon production company!

Well our new year is underway and we are right back into the thick of everything! First, we just want to congratulate Quarter Orange contributors Kayla Dettman and Patrick LaValley for being accepted to the Dam Film Fest in Las Vegas. Both will be attending in person, so good luck guys!

Eli’s film Dos Hermanos Tacos is coming along quite nicely, sound work begins soon, but so far….Hilarious! Speaking of Hilarious, Eli is also producing another movie, shooting in early March. This is Andy Best’s senior Thesis entitled “Loss Prevention” about the crazy crap that goes on in a grocery store. It’s going to be a lot of work but worth it! Another funny short, Eli is super excited about this.

We shot a little piece, tentatively entitled “Casual B & E” about well, breaking and entering. Jason directed this piece, while KG shot it. Jason and Walker conversated at they tied up friend of QO, Rachel (last name here) in Quarter Orange contributor Kale’s new house. This is definitely an in-house production! It looks great, so be watching for that to hit the interwebs soon!

The 1st annual QO summit is set for this weekend! The “Seeds” Jason, Walker, KG, and Eli, will attend the annual summit meeting for year planning and team building exercises. Changes to the website, new movies up, and future projects ideation and planning are the goals of this years summit.

We all hope that everyone’s year is going swimmingly. Till next week, Muhalo.

Happy New Year!

Well we made it to 2009, and it's shaping up to be a great year! We hope everyone had a great New Year's Eve! After all the snow and the holidays we're all just recuperating. We were able to get a quick project done during the holidays. Quarter Orange was contracted by Olga Churkina to make a demo reel for a job application in Ireland. The end product turned out nicely, and we want to wish Olga good luck, in all her endeavors.
Since we are on the subject, I also want to take a minute to talk about client services here at Quarter Orange. Q.O. is a creative content production company. We make our own content because that is what we love. But as a group, we have the skills and desire to do anything for the needs of a client, we just love making movies. If you want an entire "viral video" to put up on the internet, or just need a demo reel cut, we can help. Need an entertaining video made for employees, possible employers or to advertise a product? Just give us a call or email. We love working with new people and between us, we have thousands of man hours involved in all areas of production.
We are all super excited about this next year, 2009 holds alot of possibilities for Quarter Orange, check back with us for new content, and always be watching for new blogs!

Happy 2009!

The snowpacalypse continues

Well the screening was amazing, This Chemical Life turned out really well. Rave reviews for TCL and In the Midst of Recklessness. I personally spoke to the President of AI whose head was blown. I think all the actors who came were suitably pleased. I know Kale spoke to Robert Projanski from ITMOR and he was extremely happy with the result. I'll just go ahead and say it, maybe the best all around screening yet. No groaners this time, not a one. I think we were all really proud to attend the Art Institute, with such very talented graduates.

Congratulations to everyone who graduated on Friday. Jason and Kyle walked, along with Quarter Orange contributor Kale Heily. Also, Matthew Bickerstaff, Karen Jackson-Shorb, and of course, the multi-talented cohort Alex Menduluk.

In other news, the snowpacalypse continues, rainy Portland looks like a freaking Norman Rockwell painting of christmas. We're still planning a Q.O. summit for the beginning of 2009. We've got alot of good ideas floating around for the next year. As a group Quarter Orange LLC is going to make a business plan, at their yearly Q.O. retreat. Oh hell yeah. going pro.

We did just want to wish everyone a Merry Christmas, Hannukah, Solstice, whatever,

and if you're in town....

GO PLAY IN THE SNOW!!!