... a funny from bazoo42's cool friend GothBear (who has a few things in common with FlamingoKing ( Read more... )

Tempest Productions proudly presents Invasion: ANIME, a new documentary feature exploring the origins and impact of the anime phenomenon.


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Busy, busy, busy, busy... I'm alive but, well, you know the drill. Started the new job Monday and I'm observing a training class I'll eventually be teaching. It's all week, 8am-5pm. Wheee!

Learning a lot and hoping I made the right choice. I will like it well enough for a job that's not Tempest only, but I'm gonna be on the road 30% of the ( Read more... )

"Invasion: ANIME" is screening Sunday, November 17th at 10:00 p.m. in the HiPointe Theater.

(Here's the schedule for the entire run of the festival.)

Click here for ticket information.

Had an OK weekend, overall. Spent midday with the mocha-rrific DanceWench, then headed to Mousie's for notes on our shooting strategy for the weekend. I'm not as nervous as I would have thought, but perhaps that's because I can focus on this as a production when I start to freak. What's approrpriate for meeting one's birth mother for the first ( Read more... )

Greatness, Greatness, GREATNESS!

TEMPEST PRODUCTIONS IS PROUD TO ANNOUNCE THE WORLD PREMIERE OF OUR FIRST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

INVASION: ANIME
ST LOUIS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVALSUNDAY, NOVEMBER 17,2002 ( Read more... )

It's almost done! ( Here's the bittersweet farewell to the Big Apple )

We last left our intrepid trio in a haze of Long Island Teas and Carnegie Deli cheesecake, minus one wallet.

( Now here's the rest of the story (or at least through Day Four... )

New! Updated through Day Three! (New stuff in italics!)

Considering the number of things that went wrong, it was a remarkably good trip. True to form, what we planned didn't go nearly as well as what we stumbled into.

Of course, the highlight for me was seeing cluegirl and kingoberon on Saturday night and catching up on tales, cocktails and snugs galore. All ( Read more... )

Y'all ready for this?

::cues music::

It is TRULY all about the GREATNESS!!!

After three agonizing weeks and several bouts of almost giving up, Tempest Productions got the green light to Big Apple AnimeFest in New York City over Labor Day! We got every interview we asked for ( Read more... )