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The Burbank Arts Festival was held on San Fernando road between Magnolia and E. Angeleno Ave or also known as beautiful Downtown Burbank. We set up our table as a part of the CTN Roadtrip to let people know we have a project on YouTube called Watchcat and attempt to build more of any audience. The weather was fine over the weekend and even though it rained over night, everything dried out by mid-morning when the event resumed on Sunday. We came to sell Watchcat T-Shirts, Coloring books, Pins and gave away a lot of Watchcat Postcards directing people to our Watchcat Films YouTube channel. We also handed out flyers for our NOIR Indiegogo champaign.
Welcome to the modern way of Self Promotion. Having a website is fine, however any event where you can actually meet your future audience is a very special place to be.
Oh sure, most of your audience is passing by your booth, walking their dogs or pushing their kids in strollers and often at the same time. They're looking around for something new and there were a lot of artists to see this weekend.
We learned a lot about displaying artwork to the audience passing by the booth. We need to invest in a large banner which will hang behind our table of wonders. The passersby often are looking up to see what is at the tent they are approaching. Any signage taped to the front of a table is often missed or only seen by small children, who can't read yet.
Walking around to see the other booths was a real education, some people used the wires above their tent to display artwork. Others created simple displays to hold prints or books they created.
We learned a lot about exhibiting artwork this time around and have a whole year to see if we want to do this again or not. We had great weather, met a lot of people, handed out postcards and even sold some T-shirts, Coloring books and pins as well.
And so, until the next Burbank Arts Festival. If we met you this year or enjoyed this post, please let us know. You can also visit and subscribe to Watchcat Films or learn more about animation at Animateducated. Or at least, click on the ads to show your support.
The weekend of May 18th and 19th, Watchcat Films will be a part of the CTN Roadshow at this year's annual Burbank Arts Festival.
We had a table a few years ago and had a great time meeting everyone who walked up to ask, "What's Watchcat"? At the time we only had XL T-Shirts to sell and learn not everyone can wear an XL shirt. So this time around, we have a variety of official Watchcat shirt sizes in red and black. And we will also have Watchcat pins for sale.
We met a lot of young art collectors...
And famous characters like Captain Hook and...
The Hand known as "Thing" from the Addams Family liked our pin which belongs to Burbank Magician, Christopher Hart.
Stop by Booth #10 for official Watchcat T-Shirts, pins and we have a new Coloring Book for sale.
Or pay for an original drawing, drawn right before your eyes!
Everyone who stops by will get a free Collector's Watchcat postcard. So make your weekend plans today and share this with a Watchcat friend!
Can't make it? Then support our friends at NOIR the film.
It has been some time since our last Watchcat Wednesday, but we have a few events happening in May that you might be interested in attending. Beginning on May 5th, you can be apart of an Indiegogo campaign for NOIR, an independent feature film. Take a look at the preview below to learn more about this new film.
Coming up May 18/19: Burbank Arts Festival Watch for our Watchcat table full of official Watchcat merch!
Watchcat Films, our Youtube channel began the year with 121 subscribers and has gained 63 new subscribers, we begin 2019 with 184 subscribers.
Our Watchcat files blog views have also increased in size. We began with 20,250 views and grew to 46,891 views or 26,641 new views in 2018. I guess some people like what we are doing?
We started 2018 with this New Year's Greeting...
Posted several Watchcat Reviews of different films that we enjoyed this year.
Also started a new segment called "Jim Draws" where Jim drew stuff and talked about it.
Time was hard to come by to work on episodes this year, but we managed to turn out two. The Halloween episode was boarded like this, https://youtu.be/wGP6iDWodrQ, but it was a lot of work to produce and so, creative editing was used to tell a different shorter story.
My thanks to Joel Brinkerhoff for helping me animate Mikey. And we finished 2018, by finishing the Holiday episode this time, playing around with black and white.
What about 2019? Its time to concentrate on writing a complete Watchcat story which could be turned into a graphic novel or a series of shorts. Greg will be writing it this year, complete with a Backstory, Character flaws and development, a 3 act story structure to tell more of a complete story, if one exists as a graphic novel, screenplay or TV series? Planning to get a table at this year's Burbank Art Festival , May 18 & 19, to help promote Watchcat to the public and hopefully sell some merch. We were there in 2017 and had a great weekend. In 2018, we donated to $200 to Big Cat Rescue. With your ad clicks, we reached our first Google $100 goal and are continuing to do so. As always, please click on the ads to help us get to the next $100 goal. We are now only at $9.57 with $1.03 this month so far. I haven't been pushing the ad clicks, because I feel like a broken record or CD, but every click on the ads does add to the fund and shows your support!
Click now to wish us a Happy New Year! Love to hear from you in the comments section below... Here's hoping you have a great 2019 in the New Year and thank you for your continued support! Become a Follower to this blog or Subscribe to Watchcat Films. If you want to listen to a new podcast about animation, check out Animateducated.
Sometimes, it is better to give than to receive and Watchcat will be there to keep eye on the holidays this year. Please share this video with your friends, families and have a happy and safe holiday season...
Watchcat has even been there when Santa needed help...
And it was this first Holiday episode that started it all...
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As the Christmas holiday approaches, we here at Watchcat Films have been finishing up a Watchcat Holiday episode which we wanted to post last year at this time. But it does takes a long time to produce animation with only a crew of one and working on it only when free time is available. Hopefully we will have it posted next week, if the faiths allow, so until then enjoy this old footage from Warner Bros Studio back in the day and share it with your friends and family.
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Its the Halloween Episode and you can listen to the music version beginning Tuesday Oct 30th on Woodbury University WU Radio. The show will play for a week every day from 4pm -5pm pdt and 10pm to 11pm pdt.
Below are the interviews from the show, including Preston Meyers's Kilpetto's Evil Toy Shop, Mike Wellins with his Freakybuttrue Peculiarium and Museum in Portland, OR and an interview with the makers of "Noir".
For this Watchcat Wednesday, we have to travel back to France in 1940. Three teenagers were out looking for their lost dog and found him near the Lascaux cave. Inside, they discovered that the cave walls were filled with paintings and drawings of animals, human figures and abstract symbols. 6,000 images have been catalogued and were estimated to be made over 17,300 years ago.
Below is a replica of the cave, which was created so tourist would not destroy the original site.
7,300 years earlier, Saber-toothed cats roamed the land and back in 2012, one returned to his old stomping grounds near the LaBrea Tar Pits in Los Angeles.
Actually, this Saber-toothed cat puppet named "Nibbles" was created by Jim Henson's Creature Shop in 2010 and weighs about 75-pounds. The robotic head is controlled remotely by another puppeteer who can blink the eyes and change facial expressions.
Nibbles was seen hanging out over at the LA Natural History museum as a part of their Ice Age Encounter.
And on September 12th, 1962 : In response to the progress made by the Soviet
Union in the space race, President John F. Kennedy announced that America
will place a man on the moon and safely return him before the year 1970.
Can you imagine being in that crowd, listening to the President explain how the US will send a man to the moon?
So, if you are in Berkley, CA tomorrow, you can see some films about cats at the 1st Annual Cat Film Festival.
And Fenilely...
Funny cat puns from Illustrator Katie Ruby, check out more of her purrfect puns, follow this link to see more.
The Watchcat Files hopes that everyone in North and South Carolina prepares for the worst as Hurricane Florence heads their way. This Hurricane path is the first one ever and so please take this one seriously and hang on tight. Anyone who follows this blog in that area, please let us know how you are doing.
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We begin September with $2.57 in ad clicks and 42,340 all time views so far. Its been a slow week in Watchcatland with a lot of my time going to teaching 3 Harmony classes and learning more about the software. I actually woke up from a dream where I was using the software and trying to explaining it to someone. Not very restful.
Fall has always been a season of change and we are working on new changes as well. In order to tell the tale of Watchcat story properly, I feel I don't have the time or resources to create an animated series. Doing a graphic novel would be less of a challenge.
J.R.R.R.Jim Hardison has a new novel called "The Fish Wielder" which I just finished reading over the weekend. This is a major accomplishment for me, since I don't read a lot of books, only ones I want to read.
Hardison tells the tale of Thoral Mighty Fist who is in search of adventure with his best friend, an air breathing Koi fish named Brad. And what an adventure they get in "Fish Wielder". Here's a sample of the first chapter.
I'm working on an interview with J.R.R.R... and will post it here soon. Until then, here's the third and final interview with the makers of Noir, Lee Anthony Smith and Gregory J. Bradley.
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Watchcat's creator and head writer, Greg J. Bradley is currently working on finishing an independent feature called " Noir". Here's the second part to an interview from our last post."
Last month, my family and I fostered kittens to help out our local Animal Shelter. We kept a few kittens, fed them and got them use to living with us (people). A lot of the kittens are found on the streets and are given to other fosters who help raise them in their homes.
The hardest part of the program is taking your kittens to the Animal Shelter's kitten adoption fair and saying good bye. You meet a lot of people and families who want a kitten or to add a kitten as a friend to their other home pet. This is where the Foster parent must decide if the person, family or household would be a good fit. They usually find out what the other pet is which could be a younger cat, an older cat or a dog, who has lived with a cat before. I always want related kittens, to be adopted together. Its the best of both worlds, the kittens are siblings, they play together and are never alone. Adopting a single cat is possible, but it all depends on the cat itself or the person who adopts it.
We met a woman who wanted only one kitten and not the kitten's brother it was playing with in the cage. I did my best car (cat) salesman pitch, however she ended up taking only that one kitten.
As things turned out, she picked up the single kitten and took it to her house. All she had was a single scratching post and she called me the next day to ask why the kitten wasn't responding to her.
It was obvious to me, the kitten was now all alone in a new place and probably was depressed. The woman was disappointed and ended up returning the kitten to the shelter a few days later for a full refund. Luckily, this story has a happy ending since the kitten ended up in a better home.
Cats can be fickle felines, but sometimes people are too. Here's a link to an article about dealing and living with a cat. Do you have any cat tales to share? Let us know below.
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Watchcat Films celebrate the 45th Anniversary of Enter The Dragon. by Gregory J. Bradley
This
Sunday, August 19, was the 45th anniversary of the release of the best martial
arts film in history, “Enter The Dragon.” Debuted in August 19, 1973, the movie
introduced America and the World to the greatest martial artists of all time,
Bruce Lee. This movie was to finally showcase the amazing talent and charisma
of the first chinese lead in an American-made action movie.
It was a bona fide hit, making Bruce Lee an international
superstar!
Unfortunately, Bruce Lee died on July 20th, 1973, a little less
then a month before the movie’s premier. He never got a chance to see the
finished film.
Even more shocking, 20 years later in 1993, his only son,
Brandon Bruce Lee, was killed on the set of his breakout feature film “The
Crow.”
He too never got the chance to see his finished film. How sad it is for such a tragedy to hit a
talented family at such young ages.
There has been talk in Hollywood about remaking “Enter The
Dragon,” and I say to those who do, DON’T DO IT!!!
“Enter The Dragon” should be recognized as an American
classic just like “Citizen Kane,” “Casablanca,” and “The Godfather.” The film
was ahead of its time, and should stay there and it only works because of one
major ingredient, Bruce Lee.
I based a lot of Watchcat off of Bruce Lee.
Bruce’s amazing martial arts abilities and speed, mixed with
his incredible command of the screen, is on display in this movie. And since
you can’t bring Bruce back, there’s no reason to remake a classic. If you want
to see “Enter The Dragon,” just re-release it in theaters and call it a day!
Watchcat’s
very own creator, Gregory J. Bradley, was interviewed with his co-producing
partner, Lee Anthony Smith, by Vikki Thomas of The Mighty Dragon to discuss the
process of writing the action film, “War” (starring Jet Li and Jason Statham)
as well as their directorial debut feature film, “Noir.”
I had
the privilege of meeting Wesley Snipes last Saturday with a good friend of
mine, Duke. Wesley was a very nice guy, however, I think people forget what a
incredible actor he is. He was one of the two top African-American actors of
his time, him and Denzel Washington. He has done some great work in the 90s
such as “Mo Better Blues,” “New Jack City,” “Jungle Fever,” and two of my
personal favorites, “White Men Can’t Jump” and “Blade.”
Blade was so successful, it help put Marvel on the map, which
had previously been struggling. Blade proved that the comic book movie could be
taken seriously and was not just for kids.
It open the door for Marvel’s comic books film like “X-Men”
and “Spider-Man.” It was the gateway to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, from
“Iron Man” to “The Avengers.” And, contrary to popular belief, “Deadpool” and
“Logan” were not the first successful rated R superhero films, “Blade” was.
There would be no “Black Panther” without “Blade” setting the
path that a superhero movie could be just as successful with a black superhero.
We have Wesley Snipes to thank for that.
Thanks Wesley!
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