Shipwrecked Comedy is proud to announce: American Whoopee!
We’re so excited to announce that we’re headed back to Buffer Festival in Toronto! We’ll be premiering “American Whoopee,” a trailer for a 1920s silent film that never was, and probably shouldn’t have been.
This is a much smaller project than we’ve undertaken the last few years, but we miss being on set and making stuff while we try to find funding for our some of our bigger ideas. However, we still need to pay for it, so we’re undertaking a mini-crowdfunding campaign right here using PayPal donations and a very abbreviated perks list:
Reward Tiers
$5: Your name in the credits, a link to the video before we release it to the public
$25: Your name in the credits, a link to the video before we release it to the public, a Shipwrecked temporary tattoo, a handwritten thank you note
$50: Your name in the credits, a link to the video before we release it to the public, a Shipwrecked temporary tattoo, a handwritten thank you note, an American Whoopee sticker, a disposable camera print from set
$100: Your name in the credits, a link to the video before we release it to the public, a Shipwrecked temporary tattoo, a handwritten thank you note, an American Whoopee sticker, a disposable camera print from set, an American Whoopee poster signed by the cast.
Don’t forget to include your mailing address in a note along with your pledge so we’ll know where to send your perks!
Feel free to donate any amount – every bit helps. And – BIG NEWS – if we make enough money, we’ll be able to shoot on FILM. Actual real live film, a super exciting endeavor for us film nerds that will add a whole lot of authenticity to our short. How much exactly is “enough”? It’s a bit of a moving target at the moment, but as we call in favors and finalize the small budget that we have, we’ll develop a much better idea of what that goal would be. And we will definitely keep you in the loop. But hurry, we’ll only be taking donations until 6 pm PDT on August 26th.
We can’t wait to bring you “American Whoopee,” full of familiar Shipwrecked faces (as well as some new ones), beautiful costumes, and another killer Dylan Glatthorn score. We’re so appreciative of all the help you’ve given us and we’re excited to have you along for the ride. So help us out, and don’t forget to follow us on Twitter and Instagram for updates along the way!
I got to spend a couple of hours around sunset out at an abandoned farm which I found and lost in 2012, then found again last fall. A remarkable place and a beautiful big old barn owl who enjoys watching my drone fly around–rather than attacking it. What more could you want in December?
Cool! Except that’s a Great Horned Owl (who is, admittedly, in a barn). 😜
Toutouwai North Island robins look plain from a distance, but I love the detail in their soft grey plumage.⠀
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Te Hauturu-o-Toi, March 2018⠀
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#birdventurenz #nzbirds #birdventure #birdphotography #birdstagram #aotearoa #littlebarrierisland #hauturu #forestbirds #birds_of_ig
#birds_brilliance #feathered_perfection #feathered_finds #your_best_birds #nikon #nikond500 #nikonnz #nikon_photography #nikonnature #dphotonz #portrait_perfection (at Little Barrier Island)
One benefit of fleeing the smoke to come back from our Mammoth trip early was that I had the chance this morning to chase the Black Tern that Nick reported yesterday at Ocean Beach Park west of Lompoc. Success!
Mirrors! I’m either a very vain dragon, a very fabulous dragon, or both.
A pile of coppers and small change. I’m a dragon who likes to show off their wealth in the most elaborate and redundant way possible. Or it’s a fashion choice and matches my scales. Or both.
knitting! I can haz jumpers?
We now have the four main villains of a really weird and slightly undramatic D&D campaign. I can just imagine the faces of the bored and annoyed adventurers walking away with their new hordes…
angle-poise lamps… it will be a very well lit cavern
From a giant hummingbird to a tiny one. This is for a series of species that will be featured in a Eco Hunt at a new playground at Kathleen’s Canyon Overlook at Black Lake Canyon Preserve. #blacklakecanyon #landconservancyslo @landconservancyslo #sciart #annashummingbird #calypteanna
I know I said we were staying until Tuesday, but the Ferguson Fire had other plans. Mammoth is in that bright red AQI 150-200 zone northeast of Fresno. Going home today to get out from under the pall.
“Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time. Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have. It seems to me that one ought to rejoice in the fact of death– ought to decide, indeed, to earn one’s death by confronting with passion the conundrum of life. One is responsible to life: It is the small beacon in that terrifying darkness from which we come and to which we shall return. One must negotiate this passage as nobly as possible, for the sake of those who are coming after us. But white Americans do not believe in death, and this is why the darkness of my skin so intimidates them.”
— James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time (via bonesache)
