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Archived News
07.16.07
I'll be accompanying
the Turnbull
ACs tonight for one song at the Southgate
House. It's a benefit to raise money for AVOC.
05.16.07
All 18 episodes of
our 2007 Chicago Sketchfest series are now online...
Episode
#01 - Welcome to Chicago
Episode
#02 - Energy Guys
Episode
#03 - Keilly & Roeters (and Raimi)
Episode
#04 - Ms. Chickaburns
Episode
#05 - Emo Philips
Episode
#06 - OneTwoThree
Episode
#07 - Interview Style
Episode
#08 - Freedumb
Episode
#09 - Performance Anxiety
Episode
#10 - Party Central USA
Episode
#11 - Bathroom Break
Episode
#12 - Triplette
Episode
#13 - Guest Correspondent
Episode
#14 - Now Fear This
Episode
#15 - After Parties
Episode
#16 - Sketchcore
Episode
#17 - What do you love about the Chicago Sketchfest?
Episode
#18 - Sketchubator
We also have some upcoming screenings:
Saturday, May 19 - Underneath Cincinnati
Best of 2006
The Carnegie Visual +
Performing Arts Center
1028 Scott Blvd, Covington, KY
featuring screenings of Cheese Knives and Mustache of Lies
7pm, $10 advance / $12 day of show
Saturday,
June 2 - 2007
Cincinnati Fringe Festival
Know
Theatre of Cincinnati
1120 Jackson St, Cincinnati, OH
featuring a screening of The
Haircut
2pm,
free with Fringe button ($2)
Saturday,
June 9 -
2007
Cincinnati Fringe Festival
Know
Theatre of Cincinnati
1120 Jackson St, Cincinnati, OH
featuring a screening of The
Haircut
2pm,
free with Fringe button ($2)
04.19.07
This Saturday, April 21, I'll be your DJ after performances by MOTH,
The Melismatics and
Stereo Deluxe.
alchemize
3929 Spring Grove Ave (in Northside)
Cincinnati, Ohio
18+, 9pm, FREE
03.28.07
CityBeat's Best of Cincinnati 2007 issue came out today and they had this to
say about my project, The Haircut...
BEST HAIRCUT: Always adventurous
local artist
Kendall Bruns cleverly and humorously documented his
efforts to find a new hairdo in his film, The Haircut,
which played at July's Lite Brite festival. The full crowd
at Lite Brite was charmed by the reality-TV-spoofing
flick - which found Bruns soliciting ideas for the cut
and then whittling entries down to a final winner -
and audience members laughed throughout.
If you're interested in seeing the 40-minute film, you'll have your chance this Friday, March 30 at the TuTu Gallery located at 1349 Main Street in downtown Cincinnati. The film will be screening on a loop during the Final Friday opening from 7-10pm. Also, for the first time, all of the entries will be on view.
Then, next Thursday, April 5th, is badonkadonk at the Northside Tavern (voted "Best Bar" by the readers of CityBeat) - I'll be your DJ playing a mix of classic, indie, pop, rock.
Finally, on Saturday, April 7th (my birthday), Bright Lights is taking the night off at alchemize (voted "Best Dance Club" by the readers of CityBeat) to present a very special guest... Girl Talk.
03.27.07
You should be checking the Pizza Inifinity profile on YouTube to see episodes
of our behind the scenes look at the 2007 Chicago Sketchfest. In recent episodes
we've interviewed Ted Raimi and Emo Philips as well as many other talented,
less well-known folks.
Go to http://www.youtube.com/PizzaInfinity to see the latest.
02.28.07
Sorry for the lack of updates...
I'm busy! There's new stuff on the shows
page.
11.24.06
I'm heading out the door
on my way to Columbus for the Mid-Ohio
Con. I'll be working at the Devil's
Due booth Saturday and Sunday.
I'm sure we'll be selling copies of that new Family Guy Vol. 3: Books Dont Taste Very Good that I did some colors on - also now available in a trade paperback with the all three issues.
11.23.06
Last night was a lot of
fun - thank-you everyone for coming out!
This year for Thanksgiving I decided to make a sweet potato pie... and I made a little movie about it.
It took me a little over seven hours and it cost me just shy of $40 to make those pies.
11.21.06
Wednesday, November 22, is sometimes called "the biggest bar night of the
year" and to celebrate, we're Bright Lighting it... on a Wednesday.
To make your night even better, we're doing a buck off all well drinks. $1.50 PBR, $2 High Life, and now a buck off your liquor-- ALL NIGHT.
11.14.06
I've worked on two new short films in recent weeks, Bloody Mary and
Let's Spin the Night Together. Read all about them at www.pizzainfinity.com.
Check the shows page for some upcoming
events.
10.12.06
I've been keeping busy the
last few days doing some video with the Sundresses
at their Barkinghaus recording sessions.
I've got a few things coming up though...
Saturday, Oct 14 - Bright
Lights
Alchemize, 3929 Spring
Grove Avenue, Cincinnati, OH
the best new indie rock, dance and hip-hop with DJs Nick Spencer and Kendall
Bruns
no
cover, 8pm-3am, 18+
Sunday, Oct 15 - Underneath
Cincinnati
The
Historic Southgate House
24 East 3rd St., Newport, KY
featuring a screening of Mustache of Lies
$5, 8-10pm, 18+
Thursday, Oct 26 - Taft
Museum of Art College Night
Taft
Museum of Art, 316 Pike Street, Cincinnati, OH
Calling all college and university students, faculty, and staff. Show your college
ID and get free admission to the Taft Museum of Art for a special evening of
art making, refreshments, tours through the special exhibition and permanent
collection galleries, music from DJ Kendall Bruns and fun with your peers and
colleagues.
5–8pm,
FREE with college ID
09.22.06
Pizza Infinity has
finished a music video for legendary California band, White
Flag.
Who is White Flag? Over the years, several musicians have joined and left White Flag. Pat Fear and Doug Graves founded the band in 1982. The band's recordings or live performances have at one time featured both Ken Stringfellow (who appears under the name Kim Crimson) and Jon Auer of the Posies, Kim Shattuck and Ronnie Barnett of the Muffs, Jeff McDonald and Steve McDonald of Redd Kross, Greg Hetson from Bad Religion, Dale Crover from the Melvins, Eric Erlandson from Hole, Javier Escovedo of legendary Los Angeles punk band The Zeros, and Rancid's Tim Armstrong to name only a few.
So we had them film themselves performing the song in California and then send us the footage...
09.16.06
I'm going to be helping
Nick tonight with the music selections at Bright Lights.
Drink $1 PBR all night... enjoy free Guido's Pizza at last call... plus you
get Sara, Sonny and Jilly behind the bar...
Bright Lights @ alchemize
3929 Spring Grove Avenue in Northside
Open at 8pm, NO COVER
$1 PBR and free Guido's Pizza @ Last Call
...and if anyone could do that Audrey Hepburn dance that'd be great too.
09.07.06
On September 7th, 2004 I
was the guest on the Josh Flowers Show, a public access talk show hosted by...
Josh Flowers. This was the first time I met Josh and after our next meeting
(on the set of a local indie short film shoot) we started writing Love Me
Don't Sit on Me together. In the two years since then we've completed over
90-minutes worth of short films that have been screened locally and nationally,
winning some awards along the way. Many of the films can be seen on our website,
www.pizzainfinity.com.
Josh posted a more detailed blog about all of this on his MySpace page but here's video from my appearance on the show...
So to celebrate, I think everyone should buy a Pizza Infinity shirt...
Pizza Infinity T-Shirts!
Featuring the Pizza Infinity logo screenprinted on 100% combed cotton American
Apparel Standard American shirts. Available in two different colors - black
and army green.
order online at www.pizzainfinity.com
08.31.06
Once again, I will be (digitally)
DJing at alchemize on Thursday nights with Jag Deep - now in their new Northside
location at 3929 Spring Grove Ave (used to be Preacher's). The grand opening
of the new space is Wednesday, September 6th with Band of Horses! Dirtybirdz
starts September 7th and repeats every Thursday night thereafter - no cover.
One of the big changes is that the new venue is 18+ so bring your recently graduated
from high-school friends.
In Pizza Infinity news, our short film, Utter Chaos, is being released on DVD in October. Utter Chaos is an adaptation of a short story from the Students of the Unusual, a horror anthology comic book. We won the "Best Comic to Film Adaptation" award at their film showcase which took place at Heroes Con in Charlotte, NC in June. They're releasing a special issue that includes a bunch of short adaptations on DVD. They've created a trailer to promote the release.
Here's our behind the scenes look at Making Utter Chaos.
If you want a copy of of this DVD the best way is to contact your local comic book retailer NOW and request a copy of the Students of the Unusual: Extra Credit Special #1 published by 3 Boys Productions - solicited in Diamond Previews AUG06 3554. It's only $2.95 for a 48 page comic plus the DVD and this will be the first commercially released DVD that includes a Pizza Infinity film - jump on it! If you don't know where your closest comic book retailer is call 1-888-COMIC BOOK or visit www.comicshoplocator.com
OK, next... the new issue of Cincinnati CityBeat is their annual State of the Arts issue and I'm briefly mentioned. I was included in their 2003 issue as part of their Next Influentials Arts Rankings. In the current issue they revisit that list... Young Influentials Take Root in Cincinnati.
07.29.06
Thanks to everyone who came to see and/or was just there and had to put up with
the premiere of The Haircut last night - 400 people crowded into the
ballroom at the Southgate House! Two other Pizza
Infinity films are showing this weekend at Lite
Brite - Exploded and Love
Me, Don't Sit on Me.
07.27.06
It's been two years in the making but it's (finally) here - the world premiere
of my haircut documentary is Friday, July 28th at the Southgate House as part
of the Lite Brite Indie
Pop and Film Test. The short film will be presented on a 25 foot screen
in the ballroom between performances by Man
Man and Danielson.
"The lighthearted, surprisingly suspenseful, sometimes insightful 36-minute film comes off like a well-oiled episode of a reality television program." - Jason Gargano, Cincinnati CityBeat
Read the entire CityBeat article - Man of the People
After the film, Josh Flowers and I will be providing video during Danielson's performance. AND we'll have Pizza Infinity shirts for sale!
07.25.06
We're doing dirtybirdz
on Thrusday night at the Madison
Theater
after a performance by Voxtrot!
Check out this cool poster Julie
made... come dance with us!
07.18.06
I'm heading to California
tomorrow morning for the San
Diego International Comic-Con. I'll be with Devil's
Due Publishing at booth #1732. Devil's Due is one of the top ten comic book
companies, publishing titles that include G.I. Joe, Army of Darkness,
Family Guy and Hack/Slash (being made into a film by Rogue
Pictures).
Also present at the con will be Students of the Unusual (booth #5523), who will be promoting the Giant-sized Students of the Unusual Extra Credit Special #1 which includes a DVD featuring Pizza Infinity's short film, Utter Chaos, as well as some special features. I can't wait to meet these guys - it was a lot of fun making a film of one of their comics.
The Comic-Con is really a multimedia entertainment event and one of my favorite things about it is going to panels where filmmakers talk about their upcoming projects. I'm planning to see Robert Smigel (TV Funhouse, Triumph the Insult Dog), Samuel L. Jackson (Snakes on a Plane), Kevin Smith (Clerks II), Richard Kelly (Donnie Darko), Thomas Lennon and Ben Garant (Reno 911) to name a few.
If you're in San Diego for the con, come to the Devil's Due booth and say hello!
07.16.06
The Summer Underneath
Cincinnati film series is tonight at the Southgate House and they're
screening our short film, All Two of Us - PLUS they'll be showing our
trailer for The
Haircut - get a sneak
peak at what you'll be seeing July 28th!
All Two of Us recently won "Best Picture" at Chicago's 48 Hour Film Festival. This is what CityBeat has to say about it...
"If you're into watching crazy people abuse each other (and who isn't?), then the ménage a trois of dumb, dumber and dumbest that is the film All Two of Us (pictured) might be for you. Created by the local cinema team Pizza Infinity, the short flick is a weird trip into the lives of three best friends and their psychotic adventures."
Cincinnati CityBeat, To Do List: Eclectic Images
PS - Mustache of Lies won the "Producer's Choice" award at The Best of Cincinnati's 48 Hour Film Project on Friday.
07.11.06
I'm pleased to report that our film, All Two of Us, won "Best
Picture" at Chicago's 48
Hour Film Project. We also took home awards for "Audience Choice",
"Best Use of Character" and "Best Use of Prop".
All Two of Us was a Pizza Infinity/OneTwoThree production. The short film will go on to compete on the international level.
The Best of Cincinnati's 48 Hour Film Project is this Friday and our film, Mustache of Lies, will be screened and in competition at that event...
The Best of Cincinnati's
48 Hour Film Project
The
Carnegie Visual + Performing Arts Center
1028 Scott St, Covington, KY
$8, Friday, July 14 - 8pm
06.28.06
The 48 Hour Film Project
has taken up a lot of my time over the last couple weeks. We competed and created
films in two cities - Mustache of Lies in Cincinnati and All Two
of Us in Chicago. All Two of Us won the "Audience Choice
Award" in Chicago and will be screened at the Best of Chicago show on July
10th. There are pictures and fairly detailed accounts of what went down posted
at www.pizzainfinity.com.
06.09.06
The 48 Hour Film Project
begins at 7pm tonight. Josh and I have put together a strong team this year
- we have a crew! I'm going to try to have the webcam
going for a lot of the time when we're at my apartment planning, writing and
editing - we'll see how long that lasts.
There are many many variables that make the 48 Hour Film Project a lot of fun and completely unpredictable but one thing we know already is when you can see the results. The films will all be screened at The Carnegie Visual and Performing Arts Center next week. We're team Pizza Infinity in Group C.
Our group's films will be screened at 6:15pm on Wednesday, June 14th and again on Friday, June 16th at 9pm. Admission is $6. Please come and see our film and vote vote vote for us (they do an audience choice award). Josh and I will be at the screening on Wednesday but will miss the Friday one since we'll be in Chicago doing the 48 Hour Project all over again with OneTwoThree. Isn't that just the stupidest thing you've ever heard?
Cincinnati Enquirer
- A
movie in 2,880 minutes
06.06.06
Thanks to everyone who came to the screening last night! The film got a good
reaction and the Greenwich is a really cool looking place - giant fish tank!
Plus, they had free pizza which Josh and I have deluded ourselves into believing
was a nod to us. It's happening again tonight so make it if you can...
06.04.06
The 2006 Cincinnati Fringe Festival is happening right now and our short film,
Love
Me, Don't Sit on Me,
is going to be presented in the Celluloid Fringe screenings at the Greenwich
on Monday and Tuesday night.
Celluloid
Fringe, June 5th & 6th, 8 p.m.
The Greenwich, 2442 Gilbert Ave
$12 / $10 with Fringe Festival button
festival passes also available
(513) 221-1151
Cincinnati CityBeat - To Do List: Celluloid Fringe
05.30.06
There's been some recent Fringe
Festival press. Check out this article
from the Cincinnati Enquirer.
I'm not sure where the "three short films" bit came from. We're going to be showing Love Me, Don't Sit on Me - just as good as three short films.
05.25.06
Wanna see what it was like to film with cows and babies on set?
watch Making Utter Chaos - Quicktime(10.4 MB), Vimeo, YouTube
05.21.06
OK, so I reported that we were done editing Utter Chaos a few days
ago but we changed our minds at the last minute and reshot some footage last
week. Big improvements were made. NOW it's finished. Your first chance to see
it will be at Heroes
Convention Charlotte in North Carolina on June 30th. some pictures
from the second day of shooting have been posted at at
www.pizzainfinity.com.
A few more details about the 2006 Cincinnati Fringe Festival have been revealed. Love Me, Don't Sit on Me will be screened on June 5th and 6th at The Greenwich. More info has been posted on the shows page.
05.20.06
Many of you may know that my filmmaking collaborator, Josh Flowers, is in a
sketch comedy troupe called Damn Handsome Men. They were even on the cover(!)
of CiN Weekly a few weeks back. Also in the group are Richard Alcorn,
Aaron Maas, Erin Schaur and Scott Spaulding - names you should recognize from
their many contributions to our films. They have a show tonight at Union
Station (which used to be Crush which used to be Plush) in downtown Cincinnati.
Show starts at 7pm? 825 Main St.
05.15.06
1 - Some pictures from when I went to the DC Comedy Fest are posted
at www.onetwothreecomedy.com
2 - We're done editing Utter Chaos - there are some pics posted at
www.pizzainfinity.com
3 - Check out this Hey Clip
Fan Site if you were confused about our last Making
the Cut
05.11.06
We've been officially notified that Love
Me, Don't Sit on Me has been accepted to the 2006
Cincinnati Fringe Festival. The festival runs from May 31 through June 11.
This will be the third year for the fest which features experimental work in
a variety of media including theatre, dance, music, poetry, visual art, film
and everything between and beyond.
AND look for The Haircut to premiere on July 28th - details to come!
05.10.06
Things I learned recently... if you want to make a short film in a short period
of time, you can have cows in it or you can have a babies in it but you should
never try to have BOTH at the same time.
Tuesday, Josh and I filmed a short called Utter Chaos featuring Paul Kreft, Stirling Maas and Steve Groh. It's based on a short story by Terry Cronin, from his anthology comic book, Students of the Unusual.
pictures, etc, etc at www.pizzainfinity.com
05.08.06
From today's Press
Release...
In the recently opened Mission: Impossible III, Tom Cruise runs around with a bomb planted inside his head. Cincinnati filmmakers Kendall Bruns and Josh Flowers already explored this territory nearly a year ago in their award winning comedic short film, Exploded.
Exploded, created as part of last July's 48 Hour Film Project, begins with the main character waking to discover a bomb has been planted inside his head. The same plot point was hinted in some of the Mission: Impossible III trailers but it wasn't until Kendall Bruns watched the film that it really became apparent.
Bruns says, "I cant believe it. Especially considering how we came up with the idea." The 48 Hour Film Project is an international festival and competition where teams have only 48 hours to write, film and edit a 4-7 minute film. Teams randomly draw a genre at the start of the allotted time. "Our genre was Action/Adventure and we tried to think of the most ridiculous idea possible. The fact that what we came up with has now coincidentally been used as a major plot point in what is sure to be one of the years biggest movies is pretty ironic. We spoofed the movie before it even came out... by accident," explains Bruns.
Flowers is equally surprised saying, "I mean come on, a bomb in the head? You wouldn't even see that in a Bond movie. Instead of just shooting the guy you perform surgery and implant a bomb in his head? Their version isn't even a comedy!"
watch Exploded
online:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doNjFTooEjI
http://www.pizzainfinity.com/video/EXPLODED_web.mov
04.12.06
Be sure to come to the Southgate
House this Sunday
to see Love
Me, Don't Sit on Me presented as part of the Spring Underneath
Cincinnati. In the meantime, you can now watch Cheese
Knives online in Quicktime(10.4
MB) and on YouTube.
DC was a bunch of fun - thanks for asking.
04.05.06
W a-s-h i-n-g t-o-n, baby, DC!
I'm leaving tomorrow for Washington, DC and the DC Comedy Fest! I'll be traveling with Chicago sketch comedy group, OneTwoThree, who will be performing on Friday and Saturday night. I'll be the one with the video camera. Details below...
Friday, April 7th @ Flashpoint
Mead Theatre Lab, 916 G Street, NW, Washington, DC
9PM: OneTwoThree, Uphill Both Ways & Fearsome
Saturday, April 8th @ The Comedy
Spot, Mainstage
Ballston Mall, Third Floor, 4238 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, VA
7PM: OneTwoThree & Fearsome
If you live in the area come to the shows and say hello!
03.30.06
I've been voted "Best Local Artist" by the readers of CityBeat
in their annual Best of Cincinnati issue. Thanks! If you're wondering what I've
been up to you should come to the Southgate House on April 16 for Underneath
Cincinnati. They're going to be screening our short film, Love
Me, Don't Sit on Me. We'll also be premiering The
Haircut this Summer.
The Best of Cincinnati issue came out yesterday and you can find it out on the street and around town. They also mention the 48 Hour Film Project and the 80s Pop Rocks show.
Alchemize won two awards, "Best Bar/Nightclub" and "Best Dance Club". Sooo... come to alchemize tonight and celebrate with me at dirtybirdz - Jag Deep and I play music every Thursday for your dancing pleasure. Music starts at 10pm, there's no cover and they have PBR drafts for only $1 each from 10-11:30 and Sparks are $3.50.
alchemize
1122 Walnut Street
Cincinnati, OH
02.22.06
Underneath Cincinnati
Best of 2005 is this Friday, 7pm at The
Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, OH. They'll be screening our short
film, Exploded,
which won the "Audience Choice Award" at the Fall Underneath Cincinnati.
Details can be found on the shows page.
You can read an article from CityBeat about the show here.
You should really be checking www.pizzainfinity.com for updates about The Haircut. We have the first four episodes of Making The Cut posted so far...
02.10.06
You've probably been wondering what Josh and I have been keeping ourselves busy
with since we finished Love
Me, Don't Sit on Me. Well, I've mentioned on here that we're editing
The
Haircut and we've decided to give everyone a little bit of a peek at
what we're doing by posting some little web-isode making-of thingies. They're
all the rage. Check out the first installment at www.pizzainfinity.com.
02.09.06
Tonight and Thursdays hereafter, I will be joining Jag Deep in presenting,
for your dancing pleasure... music. How's my grammar?
Dirtybirdz
Every Thursday
Upstairs at Alchemize
No Cover
11-Close
Anything danceable goes.
A little bit of everything.
01.19.06
Cheese Knives won the "Audience Choice Award" at last week's
Underneath Cincinnati screening. Thanks for voting for us. This means we're
guaranteed inclusion in the Underneath Cincinnati Best of 2006 which will be...
in February 2007. But you don't have to wait until then to see one of our films
on a big screen because the Underneath Cincinnati Best of 2005 will be held
February 24, 2006 at the Contemporary
Arts Center and our film, Exploded, will be screened that evening.