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Here’s a couple commercials we made for our now dead website we tried to make with a few other people (also all dead now). The site had something to do with art or something so we came up with the theme of “Art is Hard”. 

Unfortunately the group was split between those who interpreted it as a message about the difficulty of expressing yourself in the modern world and those who saw it as a rallying cry for sexually infused artistic violence (just me).

Time for a history lesson: The earliest motion pictures didn’t actually feature any moving images at all, merely sounds and dialogue played over a picture of an attractive blonde woman. It wasn’t until the introduction of film to film in the late 1920’s that the first sound with picture films, called “seeies”, were released. Many purists at the time bemoaned the death of an art form that had up to the time been wholly concerned with matching sounds with a single picture of an attractive blonde girl, and indeed many of these early seeies were clunky and awkward as the makers tried to adapt to this strange new technology.

Although we firmly believe that moving images have earned their right as an essential part of film, we thought it would be fun to do a throwback to a….simpler time.
Presenting the first in what will probably become an ongoing series (cause filming stuff is hard sometimes)….

TheUglyKids Evening Radio Theatre: Professor History

We now present perhaps the only video in the world that holds the distinguished honor of having never been seen by anyone who gets the primary reference running through most of it. This is the kind of cutting edge shit we wanted in the debut episode.

So here’s Episode 1 of Roomates (we know it’s misspelled, that’s on purpose, it’s supposed to be deeeeeeep) with all new scenes, remastered audio, and Steve’s disgusting body replaced by walkie talkies.

People who I think helped out:
Written and Directed by: Stephen Paulson
Edited by: Stephen Paulson (oh me again..)
Sound Recording: Bob Froese

Players: (in order of attractiveness)
Andrew Tape
Stephen Paulson
Scott Wong
Zach Leblanc
Sonny Bobardt
AJ Batalden

I forget the rest… if you think you did something on this and want credit let me know. I think someone was holding a boom at some point, good for you whoever you are.

OK, so these aren’t exactly “lost episodes” we didn’t find them in a fucking cave, however our fashion sense does suggest…a strange time.

Continuing the theme of “videos that are old and thus immune to all forms of criticism” are a pair of shorts we did for a show we wanted to start called “Roomates” (I know..amazing right) for this website we were doing but then everyone started hating each other and that all fell apart.

In addition to the two shorts shown here two “episodes” of Roomates were also made and officially released (on youtube…). Those will be posted here as remastered special edition directors cuts (I changed like two things) and then be followed by a hopefully far superior episode 3.

I was never sure that this wildly original and wacky idea for an internet show would work out but enough people have drunkenly come up to me asking when there’s gonna be more (2 or 3 people max) that I’ve decided the Roomates saga must go on..

Why not start this account off with some very old and horribly conceived videos, here’s one that critics have described as “Dexter meets Chinatown” and “the worst thing I’ve ever seen”

What I hope you learn from this is that getting drunk, having some vague idea about a plot involving murderous babies, and then shooting without any kind of plan or script is not always going to give you the best result.

In this case however it totally worked out, enjoy this masterpiece