Year of the YouTube

What an exciting year it has been for Thomas Productions. Though the tail end of it had a few downers that included a dead hard drive, there were still many great things, particularly an overwhelming quantity of YouTube uploads!

Currently, both The Dog of Pompeii and Scenes from Being John Malkovich have more than 1000 viewings, with The Last Kiss, Lipstick on a Pig? Actually..., Photagrizzly Man and My Teachers Are Aliens each surpassing 300.

Oh yeah, this site got a new look this year, too, this News Blog included. Can't forget that!

Blue Moon

In all the great YouTube viewage I get, it's only once in a blue moon that I truly see something more than that. The following short film, Lunghini's Le Foto Dello Scandalo, is one I found to be downright enthralling in its technique that expanded on those used in Russian Ark and Children of Men, where extended takes are used to possibly be the entire picture's length, here specifically by including various moments "still life" throughout a 3D space-time continuum that progresses as the digital camera moves throughout a noir environment.

Simply put: Brilliant!
(It's also yet another influence upon my ideas for Hitchcock Road...)

Milk It Out

Waitin' now for the Guilds to give a better set of nominations and awards, since the Golden Globes all but snubbed the film Milk, save for Sean Penn's acting. The same goes for Ledger and The Dark Knight. Quite surprised, however, for the quantity for Revolutionary Road, as well as for Eastwood's musical noms!

I mention all this here because it affects the status of my Oscar Noms Predictions. Throughout this site's reconstruction, that's one small part being reposted at a new link. It's indirectly found at jimthzz.bingodisk.com/public/z by clicking a link for "Oscar Predictions" at the bottom, or more directly at jimthzz.bingodisk.com/public/z/predix.

Redirected G

As this site gets rearranged a bit for the purposes of the new 2nd domain (jimthzz.bingodisk.com/public), now GPicturama gets redirected to its new first page from directorG.com/gpicturama to jimthzz.bingodisk.com/public/gpicturama2! The latter URL is a bit more to type, so they each will work, but a brief redirection will occur.

Speaking of things still under construction, there is a new page nearly finished for GPicturama! Remember that huge smoke cloud over California this past summer? Remember how a red sun resulted? Wanna see it again?

Reached 1000 Views!

It's an exciting time for Thomas Productions because this week on YouTube, The Dog of Pompeii surpassed the 1000 views mark! The next to possibly do that is Scenes from Being John Malkovich, but this was our first to do so. It may not seem huge, but considering how slowly some clips get shown, it is quite the milestone.

See more Jack Black videos at Funny or Die

Also, there's quite a bit of construction our site still needs, as URLs for files of our 2nd site are being changed from directorG2.com to the current cheaper jimthzz.bingodisk.com/public, which will have to do for now. However, as that gets done, you can view the most awesome short ever above: Prop 8: The Musical! It's debut was a few months late, but its all-star cast, topped with Jack Black as Jesus, is beyond hilarious.