RETRO WEDNESDAY!!!!

Rob Fresco takes the backseat this week as we highlight a "gem" from the late 90's courtesy of the other partners in Gloo.

Since I cut this trailer, I've got a few stories but I'll keep it simple.  Essentially, Mike and Paul made a 15 minute horror/thriller/comedy video about two friends being terrorized by a rubber chicken.  A couple years later (1999), they asked me to make a trailer for it just for fun.  Unfortunately, it's gone through several tape generations so the video quality is a little iffy, but the content still holds up.

Fans of History Television may find the narrator's voice familiar.  It's none other than BRUCE EDWARDS, the voice of the popular "Disasters of the Century" series.  So, bask in all his narrating glory as we present the trailer for "Night of the Restless Chicken"!

RETRO WEDNESDAY!!!!!!

If you ever wanted a device that shouted out to the world "HEY, SOMEONE'S STEALING MY BIKE!", look no further than the Cycle Centry alarm in this classic commercial shot by Gloo's one and only Rob Fresco (Actually, there is another Rob Fresco in the world who's a director of photography as well, but this one is all ours).

I think the best thing about this commercial (other than the thief's pants) is that I essentially used the same "Predator-Cam" shot in my classic student film "Les Souliers Sont Parties", except mine was mostly orange instead of purplish-blue.  Hopefully, I can show it to you someday.  One time when I was moving though, someone stole a box out of the back of my truck that had all my masters in it.  I don't think they got much benefit from that box, but still...sigh.

If only I had a Cycle Centry...

Don't let superstition stop you from watching this relaxing video that will help you get through the week.  Have a great one!

Love, your friends at Gloo.

BP has some serious PR work to do after their series of blunders and gaffes.  So why not do what Domino's Pizza did and rebrand their image?

For this video, we had to make a cheesy TV news type animation showing the oil spill and BP's attempts at fixing it.  It's cheesy, real cheesy.

For Turtle Race: Episode 2 (featuring Brian Baumgartner of "The Office"), we actually originally did 2 sets of graphics, but an editing decision sadly cut one of them out.  The one that stayed though is probably the best part of the video though.  Its at the very end.  We had to make a commercial for a fake energy drink called Psycho Turtle that parodies the Old Spice commercials from a while back.  Not the super popular new ones with the "Hello ladies" suave handsome guy, but the ones from April 2010 with Terry Crews screaming at the camera.  If our parody commercial gives you a seizure... sorry about that.