Fabulous Secret Powers featured on AOTS

Last week we saw a small resurgence of interweb mutterings about Fabulous Secret Powers. We don't know why this video is making the rounds again, other than the fact that people love to dance in 2010 as much as they did in 2005. We do know that we both raised our fists triumphantly like a couple of dorks when G4TV's Kevin Pereira exclaimed "THAT is how you do it, Internet!" Why, thank you, kind sir! We came in at #2 on this week's "Around The Net." (EDIT: video was taken down as of 6.11.10 -- frowny face)

SC Mentioned In Austin Chronicle

The Austin Chronicle's James Renovitch has an interesting blog post today about viral marketing for indie developers. We were excited to see the one and only Lonny Watershed as the photo for the post, as well as some nice things to say about the SC.

We agree with that "The Splode Beneath My Splosion" can hardly be considered viral with only 11,000 views (we think 1,184,692 views is more like it). And that's cool. Where we find real bliss is having pure freedom to write the silly song we wanted to write, make the video we wanted to make, and have that become an official part of the game marketing. That takes guts -- Twisted Pixel- brand indie guts, to be specific.

And who knows, with TSBMS coming to Rock Band Network soon Lonny Watershed may be invited to perform live at game conferences, after parties, bar mitzvahs, even subway stations. I hear he's available.

Brandishing Ye Olde X-acto Knife

Just finished up one of the coolest projects we've ever worked on. Really. Of course, the video will be used to pitch a top-secret game idea from a top-secret game developer, so we can't say one word about it yet.

What we can tell you is, the project gave us a wonderful opportunity to get our hands dirty -- literally -- and break in our new studio proper-like. It was refreshing to step away from the digital cleanliness of Photoshop, After Effects and Final Cut and pick up physical tools for a change. The project allowed us to invoke some of our nigh forgotten skills of yesteryear: carpentry, sewing, carving, model painting, and yes, even puppetry. It allowed us to once again brandish Ye Olde X-acto Knife, to wield hammers akimbo (yeah!!), to meld wood on wood with the Glue of Gorillas.

The process itself filled us with inspiration. When asked, "Will there be stop-motion in our future?" the Magic 8 Ball replied "As I see it, yes."

New Site / The Pains of Growing

We are in the process of moving our website to Squarespace (which we absolutely love so far). The new site structure is going to allow us MUCH more flexibility in adding new content and project updates. The downside is that our domain registrar is old and busted, causing our email and "real" slackcircus.com website to be down. We should be back to 100% very soon. Thanks for stopping by! 

We'll be ok.... as long as we've got each other...

Straight Out Of The Box

SLACKCiRCUS just got its new Canon 7D. We couldn't wait to start playing, so we shot a few things around the office and slapped them in a line.

I'd really like to have done a half decent edit; but for all it lacks in edit, it makes up for with some nice examples of what this camera is capable of. The lens is a Canon 17-55mm/2.8. Music is The Sea and Cake.