Fire-Wired Blog

We did it. For the first time, Tiny Explosions took our circus on the road and participated in the Kansas City 48 Hour Film Project . While we didn’t make our film in KC, a small crew of Exploders did attend the kickoff and screening. What did we create? “Jelly Jar Man.” Jelly Jar Man is a bit of an anomaly. First of, it was the only idea pitched . Brian brought it up in the car after kick-off –a bizarre childhood boogeyman/invisible friend named the Jelly Jar Man returns to get revenge on the kid he used to terrify– and I said “Absolutely. Say no more, we’re making that.” We drove to the KC Costco, bought a bunch of jelly, filmed one shot on a KC landmark that we didn’t end up including, and wrote the full film on the drive home. No writing party, no brainstorm, no whittling down of ideas. We simply took the first idea and did it. Beyond that everything else is the regular serving of absurdity. We pulled Revenge & Comedy as our genre options and decided to make both. Jelly Jar Man...

A couple weeks ago my wife Marieta and I traveled down to Kansas City for her 30th birthday. The best part about it was she knew we were going on a trip but didn't know where we were headed until the day of and even when she figured it out she didn't know any of our plans. The fun thing about going to Kansas City was neither of us much history with the city. My family went there a couple times when I was in grade school but I couldn't really remember any of the attractions, same thing for Marieta. So after booking our hotel room I burned up the keyboard searching for things to do . From my experience websites like Metromix and Citysearch are little help investigating our interests, and TripAdvisor is best used for hotels. For our purposes the KC Visitor Bureau, VisitKC.com , website was awesome. Everything's laid out for easy access, the site is really colorful and fun, you can find things based off your interests, there are little preview pictures and ma...