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Contacting Kevin
Posted in Beans & Bueller, D.I.Y on 03 30, 2009 by rabidweasels
There’s been a serious lack of updating going on here, but with good reason. We’ve been busy producing a short film since February which we just wrapped up last week. The film called Contacting Kevin was a project we’d been thinking about for a long time and we’re super happy with how everything went.
The synopsis is simple enough: A girl (Stacey) becomes obsessed with her dead fiance (Kevin) and begins delving into occult practices in an attempt to be reunited with him. We’ve got all of your favorite spirit communication methods repped here. EVPs, spells, a shrine, a seance some witchcraft and our own Beans and Bueller brand of Ouija board called the “Spectre Phone”.
We converted our loft into a film set for 3 months while we prepared all of the props and refined the final look of our spooky stage. We bulit our shrine to Kevin (the dead fiance) using hundreds of candles worth of melted wax…it still smells like a birthday party.
We couldn’t resist adding a gnarly prosthetic as part of our story either…the finger of dead Kevin.
The shoot took 4 days of filming and now we have the wonderful task of editing. Our actress Alexis Somerset and actor Chauncey Johnson both did an amazing job, especially Alexis who had to sit in a chair for most of the shoot.
We finally got to use the Pepper’s Ghost technique which we’ve been dying to try since we saw it in action at Disney World’s Haunted Mansion ride last year. It’s a cool, old school in-camera effect for creating the look of a transparent ghost by filming the reflection of your actor through a sheet of glass. The effect is super… uhm, effective and looks just like a ghost!
Overall the shoot went well, no disasters no injuries or major fires caused by many burning candles…well one mini fire but it was manageable. We had a lot of great help and our amazing friends who came through, we couldn’t have done it without them! :) It’s incredible, the amount of work that goes into a few minutes of footage….it hurts my brain.
“Can You Open a Beer With That?”
Posted in Beans & Bueller, D.I.Y with tags Beans and Bueller, D.I.Y Wheelchair, nerds gone mental, wheelchairs of the future on 02 5, 2009 by rabidweasels→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→
Ryan made this wheelchair to accompany an old man character we designed for a buddy.
It’s part of our ongoing “Nerds Gone Mental” series. We use mostly recycled materials to build our dudes and doodads and this chair is made with stuff we had lying around the studio. The frame comes from an old dish rack that we originally found in the trash (no shame in garbage picking) and used as an operating table for a music video. This time around it served as a great base for our chair. Training wheels were also garbage that we knew would come in handy some day. It’s nice to get rid of old junk that stays in our studio for way too long.
The switchboard is made of old armature pieces…ball joints and threaded rod. Also the lever was an old prop from a music video as well. The leather “upholstery” is made from our good friend’s old cowboy chaps from one of her Halloween costumes.
Bully
Posted in Beans & Bueller, D.I.Y, WildLife with tags Beans & Bueller puppets, English Bulldog, pet portrait on 01 26, 2009 by rabidweaselsA commissioned sculpture I’m working on for a friend. He loves bulldogs with “extreme underbites” so we decided to make this guy for him.
He’s not entirely done…i still need to add all of the details. A few more folds of skin and wrinkles here and there, along with some orange spots, whiskers and freckles maybe?
Anyway, it’s always interesting to see our sculptures as blank canvases before we really get in there and add all of the refinements. So here is a “before” shot of Bully….we’ll post the “after”, after.
PENELOPE
Posted in Beans & Bueller, D.I.Y, Puppets with tags Beans and Bueller puppets, Canada, MontREAL on 01 14, 2009 by rabidweaselsWe borrowed our friends camera (thanks matt :) and took some new photos of some old puppets.
“Penelope” is from our Notman House Installation.
<——HiGh MainTenanCe——=
Posted in Beans & Bueller, D.I.Y with tags The Meat Suit on 11 22, 2008 by rabidweasels<—————-MoRe PrOceSs ShOTs—————-=
sorry buddy…you died for nothing. Your bones are too weak and you’re not nine inches tall like they said.
Fauve is our studio robot.
—————-it takes many clay snakes to form muscles—————
==lucky for us, Fauve is a clay rolling machine==
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Holy Smokes
Posted in Beans & Bueller, D.I.Y with tags How do you make a Skeleton walk? on 11 13, 2008 by rabidweasels
Not posting much right now….Deadline is coming…..keep us in your prayers or whatever.
Sugar Jone-ser
Posted in D.I.Y with tags birthday cake, D.I.Y, intervention, Wasted Talent on 10 16, 2008 by rabidweasels
Thank You Nicole for enabling me to eat all of this sugary butter. I had lots of support.
I love sugar and candy, and Candy Finnigan.
But Nicole is the sweetest.
Best Birthday cake ever!
Shanks man, Shanks alot.
Posted in Beans & Bueller, D.I.Y, Puppets with tags D.i.Y puppets on 09 9, 2008 by rabidweasels
Poo Poo
Posted in Beans & Bueller, D.I.Y, Puppets, WildLife with tags maltipoo, pet portrait on 08 31, 2008 by rabidweaselsThe Malti Poos are done….!!!!
Monkey
Butters….
The two are fully outfitted with latex paws, eyelids and mouth, personalized collar, toys and pose-able jaws, ears and tail. Even their teeth were hand carved by Ryan out of wooden chopsticks!
Sculptures are the new pet portrait :)…………………..want one?!
- The real Butters & Monkey
