Hired Gun Teases New Web Series

Posted on December 16, 2011 by Studio Post

father TimeIf you read our recent post about TV content moving to the Web you may have seen this coming.

Edmonton Writer/Director/Producer Ben Babchishin of Hired Gun Productions just launched the teaser for his forthcoming Web series “Father Time is a Bastard and Mother Nature is a Bit of a Bitch” and we were thrilled to edit and finish the production. Check out the video below and follow Ben’s links for updates.

“Father Time is a Bastard and Mother Nature is a Bit of a Bitch” is Hired Gun Productions first foray into content creation exclusively for the web. “Father Time is a Bastard and Mother Nature is a Bit of a Bitch”, is an 8 part web series based on our middle-aging demographic. “People who turn 50 aren’t dead, they are well seasoned and ready to embrace life” It is a comedic look at the Baby Boomer, we won’t grow older gracefully, we are fighting it tooth and nail. Through on the street interviews, expert opinion and some dramatic re-creations we unravel the mystery to age and explain why people 45+ are just saying NO to getting old. Okay, we don’t actually explain anything but we do discover what other people think about growing up.

“The greatest discovery of our era wasn’t the iPad, it wasn’t the medical leaps and bounds, it wasn’t someone’s incredible humanitarian efforts, it was a little blue pill that helps middle aged men maintain an (you know what) for over 4 hours, any longer then that call a doctor.”

Viagra, cougars, mid-life crisis, all part of the new vocabulary and all have become defining elements of our generation.

“Father Time is Bastard and Mother Nature is a Bit of a Bitch” will start its run on the GunTV YouTube channel at the end of January.

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Why Film in “Deadmonton”?

Posted on November 8, 2011 by Studio Post

The city of Edmonton has developed the unfortunate nickname “Deadmonton”. Sometimes it refers to the murder rate, other times the quality of night life. Well now the moniker is being re-appropriated to promote our film industry and its expertise in the horror genre.

Studio Post was pleased to team up with the Edmonton Film Commission to produce a promotional video showcasing Alberta’s capital as a prime location for filming Horror movies and television.

The video feature excerpts from shows including Santa’s Slay, Decoys 2: Alien Seduction, Ginger Snaps Back, Ginger Snaps: Unleashed Fear Itself, Prom Night II and Freezer Burn.

For more information visit filminedmonton.ca, but for now… Boo!

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Back up your Hard drive.

Posted on November 4, 2011 by Studio Post

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Having backup hard drives may be as important as backing up your files.

First it was flooding in Japan with the tsunami, now flooding in Thailand. Thailand is a disaster of huge proportions, and it hasn’t received nearly as much attention as it should. While humanitarian concerns are the biggest issue, the flooding will also have an impact on the PC market next year, very possibly leading to short supplies and higher prices on some items which we’ve already noticed!

Hard drive assembly lines are modern wonders, with automation, robotics and expensive machines working in controlled environments. In Thailand, some factories are wiped out while others have sustained severe water damage. Attempts to move equipment and assembly lines to higher ground has resulted in damages that may not be repairable. Key parts suppliers have been hit just as hard, like Nidec and TDK/Magnecomp who make things like spindle motors, suspensions, and sliders. The slider is the block on the tip of a read/write head on which the record and playback head (wafer) is mounted. It is believed that will be the component most critically short in 2012. There’s no firm timeline for recovery of these factories and the conditions are likely to continue into the second quarter of 2012.

According to the worlds largest supplier of hard drives, Western Digital, 40 percent of the world’s hard drives are produced in Thailand, including 60 percent of it’s own production. As a result of the flood, the company will be able to make less than half the number of hard drives it normally produces.

Other countries that supply hard drives are Malaysia, Singapore and China, but their production is also expected to be constrained by the availability of specific externally-sourced components. Seagate expects a 20% decrease in it’s hard drive output.

With the shortage of supply rapidly approaching, I’m already seeing the price of drives going up. Hopefully other factories around the world can ramp up production, otherwise there may be a huge increase in demand for expensive solid state drives to make up for the shortfall.

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