God Guns & Glory

I recently got the privilege of being asked to do an interview with Toni Pennacchia, the host of Spoiler Alert Radio. Now if you don’t know about Spoiler Alert Radio, it’s a very cool podcast about all things film, locally and globally. She interviews filmmakers and such from around the world about their films, their processes, how they finance their projects, and more: basically, all the stuff you want to know!

Apparently, she had seen my short animation, How To Put a Square Peg Into a Round Hole, on B-Side and e-mailed me about a possible interview and sending my short animation to their film festival The MergingArts Short Short Story Film Festival, which tours the New England area in November 2008. I, of course, said yes to both! Then realized, “OH (Insert Your Own Expletive)! I’ve never done a radio interview before!!” Fortunately, though, I didn’t have too much time to think about it because a couple of days later I was on the phone with Toni doing the interview.

I would love to say I was as cool as a cucumber during the interview, but I was extremely nervous! But Toni does a good job of putting you at ease and I just tried to do my best to give more than the one-word answer … an interviewer’s worse nightmare, I’m sure. We basically talked about my first short animation, How To Put a Square Peg Into a Round Hole, my music videos for The Gaslights, Last Dollar & God, Guns & Glory, my day job career as a Designer/Video Editor/Animator and if I have any upcoming projects. I think I did okay … I definitely learned a lot from it! And if I’m ever privileged enough for another interview I think I’ll be more ready for it … although I’m sure my first thought will still be “OH (Insert Your Own Expletive)!!”

It aired live on Sunday, June 8th from 7-7:30PM EST on 88.1FM, WELH, Providence, RI, streaming at Brown University Student and Community Radio. And you can now listen to the podcast at Spoiler Alert Radio’s website by clicking here.

If you listen to it … well, first off, THANKS! and remember it’s my first interview … so be kind! ;b

Still Animated,
Mary

Hey Y’alll!

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-Mary Mary

A little blurb about God, Guns & Glory on Present Magazine.

http://www.presentmagazine.com/full_content.php?article_id=1178&full=yes&pbr=1

My new music video for the Gaslights song God, Guns & Glory is being featured on Yahoo! Video!

Go to http://video.yahoo.com/

and click on the music button

Yahoo!

-Mary

How To Put a Square Peg Into a Round Hole will be screening this Saturday April 12 at the San Francisco Women’s Film Festival. So if you or any of your friends and family will be in the area, check it out!

Also a new Gaslights music video and DVD with lots of extras is coming soon! Be on the lookout for it in the coming weeks. In the meantime visit www.maryctaylor.com/shop.html to get a t-shirt and/or poster of the artwork, or visit The Gaslights website to download some desktop wallpaper.

From the upcoming God, Guns and Glory animation, “You Have the Power Voice It & Vote” with the American Flag quilt T-Shirts are now available!

Voice It & Vote T-Shirt

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How To Put a Square Peg Into a Round Hole and Last Dollar are now available on DVD at www.maryctaylor.com/shop.html!

How To Put a Square Peg Into a Round Hole is a cute little children’s animation your little ones will love! And with Last Dollar you’ll get your Gaslights fix and remember how much fun they are to see live!

And from How To Put a Square Peg Into a Round Hole get your little one a Gordon T-Shirt or get your own Gordon or Square Peg T-Shirt for yourself! And from the upcoming God Guns and Glory animation, get your “You Have the Power Voice It and Vote” with the American Flag quilt T-Shirt!

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Hey All!

I’d thought I’d update ya a bit on the work I have in progress and I think Super Tuesday is a fine day to do it. Don’t forget to get out there and voice your opinion and vote!

A rough animation I’m working on for The Gaslights song God, Guns and Glory is done. I’ve completed the initial artwork and worked on the camera moves … but still have to clean up the artwork and do the animation. I hope to have it all done by some time in late February or March.

Wow! It’s been quite a while since I’ve blogged here so I thought I’d better do a little update on my goings on … I’ve been workin’ hard on my new animation to The Gaslights song God, Guns and Glory. It’ll be a little retrospective on the Bush Administration’s terms in office. Below is a sample of some of the initial artwork. Barring lots of freelance work, I’m still looking to get it done by some time in February … fingers crossed! Wish me luck!

2000 Debate - The Beginning Of It All

So them rich old white men can dream up wars for the young poor kids to die

Well it’s been a couple of weeks since The Gaslights video shoot and I’ve finally found the time to post ‘em up. Thanks to Cody Donelson for taking just about all of ‘em! They’re some fun pics and it was definitely a fun day!

The Gaslights were spot on good! We could tell they had really rehearsed to the song, which makes my job of synching up and editing the video much easier! Thanks Gaslights! You rock!

As far as the crew for the shoot … we had me, Miss Mary, taking on the role of producer/director, Chris Overholt as the videographer, Collin Martin as the grip, and Kyle Hamrick and Cody Donelson as production assistants. Everyone did such a great job, working hard all day on a Sunday to help out! Thanks guys!!!

I’m now working on editing the “Last Dollar” video which will be a nice mix of the footage we shot at Davey’s Uptown and home video footage the band took while on their tour last year through the midwest & northeastern U.S. and Belgium. Hopefully the video will be as fun to watch as it was to make and show off the fun personalities of the Gaslights along with their rockin’ stage presence.

While we were there we also got some reference footage for their “God, Guns & Glory” song for which Kyle, Cody, & I are creating an animation for.

I finally got around to creating a rough storyboard for the God Guns and Glory music video that my fellow motion graphics artist, Cody Donelson, and I hammered out rough ideas for a couple of fridays ago. That night was also his first time Cody saw

Now that we’ve done some research on style & imagery and done the rough storyboard … next up is finalizing a cohesive style and shooting the video of the band we need. Since I’m also cutting together another video for The Gaslights we’re just going to shoot two birds with one stone and get all done in one day. Wish us luck!

Inspiration struck this week and now I’ve got a couple of new projects I’ll be working on in my spare time.

One is an idea I had for an animation for a song called God Guns and Glory by a local Kansas City band, The Gaslights. For this animation, I recruited a couple of other local motion artists, Cody Donelson and Kyle Hamrick. Since this is just for fun and something to work on to further our skills and we each also have our own pet projects and day jobs too, it might take awhile but I’ll be sure to keep ya up to date on our progress. This weekend I will be doing some research on the kind of style we will be aiming for on this piece.

The other idea will be my second animation … the first being How To Put a Square Peg Into a Round Hole. I am tentatively calling it The Letter. It started out being about Missouri and the old Missouri saying “If you don’t like the weather, just wait … it’ll change.” But has since changed to become a cute little story that is more about global warming. I have a solid beginning and ending but still need to flesh out the middle. When I come up with the first initial storyboard I’ll be sure to post it.

So it looks like I will be a busy busy girl for a while! ;b