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Web Jam ‘08: Boston’s Coolidge Corner Theatre May 22-24

Dean Jansen — Sat, 10 May 2008 16:27:36 +0000

Orrin Zucker, ROFLCon guest and animator for Its Jerry Time!, asked us to give a shout for the upcoming Web Jam ‘08. Here’s the deets:

WEBJAM ‘08 is the first film festival dedicated to internet animation. You are invited to join Happy Tree Friends, JibJab, 30 Second Bunny Theater, Odd Todd, Joe Cartoon, Xeth, Low Morale, Its JerryTime! and many more of your favorite animated webtoons, all together on the big screen for the very first time. You can see LOLs, ROFLs, OMGs and even some WTFs. The first show is at the historic Coolidge Corner Theater in Brookline MA, Thursday May 22-24.
Join us at this world premiere, star-studded event and see some of the breakout work being created in new media on the big screen. Hosted by Jerry & Orrin Zucker, co-creators of Its Jerrytime!

Space is limited so get your tickets early.

Event Details:

When: 7pm May 22, and Midnight Shows on May 23 & 24th, 2008
Where: Coolidge Corner Theater, 290 Harvard St. Brookline, MA

Want a ROFLCon Shirt? A Lunchbox??

Dean Jansen — Wed, 07 May 2008 15:37:15 +0000

The ROFLCon store is now open. Featuring teh red ROFLCon lunchbox and rad conference shirt.

Systems Upgrade

Dean Jansen — Thu, 01 May 2008 01:23:10 +0000

I’m sorry, but I need to share this with someone, and you (ROFLBlog) happen to be the closest at hand: Jay frickin’ Maynard signed my Tron shoes!

He knew about the design, but when I asked him if he had ever signed a pair, he said no. At this point, I’m not really sure what to do with them. I could: Auction them for charity. Ensconce them in a time-release pod that opens in the year 2199. Wear them to death. So many possibilities here. Thanks Jay!

Sleeper Hits Session: the Playlist

Dean Jansen — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 03:26:49 +0000

As promised, here is the full compilation of videos Ji and I screened at the Sleeper Hits of the Internet session (in order of presentation). Note to folks who weren’t at the session: some of these videos are far more well known than others, but we estimate most are below 100k views (minus the first video, for sure):

Sleeper Hits of the Internet

Title (Video Creator)
Design Coding (Moserious)
Losing You – Jan Terri (unknown)
Birds – Vitalic (Pleix)
Hitchcock – The Phoenix Foundation (Reuben Sutherland)
America We Stand as One – Dennis Madalone (unknown)
The Mercury Craze – Subtle (SSSR)
Snoop Dogg as German Folk Singer Legend Roy Black (unknown)
Alfa Romeo Sloth (Lorenzo Fonda)
Super Cool Korean Ice Cream Commercial (unknown)
Zoo York Roaches (davidandgoliath)
Winner Takes Steve (The Wexley School for Girls)
Bronze Age Orientation Day (That Mitchell and Webb Look)
The Triple Tofu Tower (Goodie Bag)
Designing Women Intro (unknown)
Alternative Designing Women TV Intro (Fatal Farm)
Japanese Bow (The Rahmens)
Stompy Dump (Burning Village)
Kid Show (Tom DesLongchamp)
Please Say Something: Eps. 1 thru 3 (David Oreilly)
28 Years in the Implicate Order (Pascual Sisto)
The Ride to Survive (The Jesus Horse)
Portable Cellular Phone Booth (Nick Rodrigues)
Abstractor Video Billboard – Ji Lee (Dean Jansen)
Saving Our Children (Jonathan McIntosh)
Special Report (Bryan Boyce)
Sixes Last – Alias (1stAveMachine)

ROFLCon Premieres (these aren’t yet available online)

We showed these premieres first, but most of them aren’t yet available online.

Flag Speech (Its Jerry Time!)
Gunther Trailer (Respectably French)
Selection of Yet-to-be-Released Material (JibJab)
breadpig Live in SF (breadpig)

We’ve got Video Premieres @ the Sleeper Hits Session!

Dean Jansen — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 16:22:26 +0000

Join us in 34-101 for the “Sleeper Hits” video screening session, which will open with a bunch of WORLD PREMIERE videos from a bunch of cool people:

Its Jerry Time!: Brothers Orrin and Jerry Zucker co-produce really amazing animations. They sent in a sweet little animation to premiere at ROFLCon!

JibJab: Andy Ochiltree (a ROFLCon guest) let me know that he’ll be premiering some brand new JibJab material!

breadpig: Breadpig bassist Alexis Ohanian (a ROFLCon guest) will be debuting a brand new BP vid.

Gunther: Respectably French’s Gunther (who sang tra-la-la) was in town the other day, but wasn’t able to stay for ROFLCon. We do have a little tidbit from his visit.

Friday Night: Central Square Bar Invasion!

Dean Jansen — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 20:46:46 +0000

We will be invading the following bars tonight in Central Sq (which is a stop on the Red Line train):

Middlesex (loungy bar, apps, mid-size)
Miracle of Science (semi-swanky bar, food, smallish)
Asgard (irish bar, food, big space)
Middle East and Zuzu (same venue as concert)
Hi-Fi Pizza (ALL AGES! cheap food, cheap beer)
Enormous Room (loungy bar, not enormous)
The Field (irish bar, food, mid-size)
Tavern in the Square (swank sporty bar, mid-size)

We Just got Dug

Dean Jansen — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:49:16 +0000

While not the same as being dugg, this seems far cooler somehow. The entire issue is jam-packed with meme related articles:

A Grudge Match @ ROFLCon?

Dean Jansen — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:11:38 +0000

We’ve got confirmation that both the Mozilla Firefox and the TripAdvisor Owl will be attending ROFLCon in person. Interestingly, the Firefox just twittered what can only be interpreted as a direct challenge.

We’ll let you know as the details unfold.

Eric Schoenborn of the American Civil Liberties Union will be at ROFLCon

Dean Jansen — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 05:13:32 +0000

Eric Schoenborn is a classic case of old lawyers meet new media.

He’s the American Civil Liberties Union’s Director of Website Communications, and comes from a visual/digital media background (watch out, turn your audio down). Before working with ACLU, he had a history of consulting for cool non-profits, making their messages clearer and more accessible. In fact, he even helped MoveOn.org with their awesome Bush in 30 Seconds ad campaign/competition.

Right now, he’s pushing the ACLU in a more interactive and visually engaging direction (Eric says they’re working on a slick visual refresh for their blog), which is cool, considering their historical outreach consists largely of white-papers and press releases. Of course the ACLU isn’t a new meme, but we’re still very interested to learn how a traditional activism-oriented organization reacts in this fresh battleground. I’m personally interested in hearing about the speed at which an organization like ACLU can move in this age — how quickly decisions can be made and acted upon.

Eric will be a panelist on the PWNING FOR MANKIND panel.

Want to Premiere Your Video at ROFLCon?

Dean Jansen — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 09:51:43 +0000

This is slightly short notice, but if you have a video you’re getting ready to release, here is your chance to premiere it to a ROFLCon audience!

Ji Lee and I are curating a session of sleeper hits, and we had some interest from a few ROFLCon guests who wanted to showcase new video at ROFLCon. This sounded great to us, so we’re going to be opening our show with a few world premiere videos! We’ll also have the show playing during the huge reception event on Saturday evening, so this stuff will be reaching a lot of eyeballs.

We figured we’d open this opportunity up to the internet at large and see if there is anyone else with awesome unreleased video that they would want showcased for the first time at ROFLCon.

Sound good? Get in touch. We’ll need to preview the video before we can promise anything, so please send a link with a bio to dean at pculture.org

photocred: Smaku

Ji Lee, of The Bubble Project, is Coming to ROFLCon

Dean Jansen — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 04:58:08 +0000

30,000 blank speech bubble stickers were printed and stuck onto billboards, advertisements, and other signs all over New York City. After marinating, they were photographed with messages passersby had written into them.

The project has spread to many cities (you can find the instruction kit here) and has also been published as a book.

Ji Lee, the mastermind behind the project, recently confirmed his slot on the ROFLCon guest list!

ROFLCon Wallpaper INSANITY!

Dean Jansen — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 06:08:07 +0000

These amazing ROFLCon wallpapers are courtesy of Dino from Bert is Evil. He has agreed to let us share them as Creative Commons (CC-BY). Thanks, Dino!


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Don’t Make Anything We Wouldn’t Make!

Dean Jansen — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 00:11:04 +0000

We know what happens when Chevy farms out their work to the masses… so we figured we’d try the same and see what happens.

Meet the Rofflies

Here are SVG and Illustrator files

If you make anything that really really rocks (like let’s say we make a sticker or a t-shirt out of it), we’ll get you registered gratis and also introduce you around to as many of your favorite internet peeps as we can manage. So basically, if you’re looking for the perfect way to schmooze with Tron Guy, this might be your ticket!

Oh and don’t you DARE animate these svg’s!

ps. post your work in the comments!

pps. the Rofflies are licensed as Creative Commons BY-NC-SA and were created by Jennifer Feller.

Rocketboom will be ROFLling

Dean Jansen — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 05:10:50 +0000

Andrew Baron, the mastermind behind Rocketboom, pinged us after noticing his show on our list of People We’re After. After trading some electronic mail, we’ve got confirmation: Rocketboom is coming to ROFLCon!

The folks at Rocketboom have been creating news video every weekday since late 2004; I really look forward to getting their perspective on what it means to sustain grassroots internet fame.

This is SO much easier when people come to us! Thanks, Andrew