Robot Interview!

Here we are at the Mincing Mockingbird/Frantic Meerkat booth at Unique LA! Behind us is a wall of magnets we made.

In related news, Matou en Peluche interviewed Jessee and I about all things Robot House Party. I can't think of anything else for you to spend the next five minutes of your life on.

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Unless you're hungry or something...then you should probably go get something to eat. The interview will still be here when you get back.

Robot House Party Grows!

Robot House Party made magnets are now in Australia! The super cool shop Matou en Peluche (Plush Tomcat) is now listing some awesome designs! Check them out!

On top of that, numerous Robot House Party business cards were handed out yesterday at Unique LA. AND! Jessee bought an awesome t-shit (Smells like Spleen Spirit) from I Heart Guts. ALSO! The booth we were working at got a sweet (and inaccurate) mention in the LA Weekly blog. Good day it was!!!

Unique LA

Robot House Party will be helping the Frantic Meerkat at her and The Mincing Mockingbird's booth at Unique LA!

If you're in the area come buy some magnets from us!

Cool New Magnet!

For your dish washing needs. Available at robothouseparty.etsy.com

Busy Times Never Seem to End

Thought this was worth posting.

School is busy. I'm working on a fine cut of my short film "Mugged by Wuv." I'm still not sure on the title.

robothouseparty.etsy.com is actually hitting a busy point. Good times.

Last night I celebrated the election at a friends place in South Central LA. I saw a lot of celebrating in the streets but one particular event stuck with me.

As I was walking to my friends place I could hear a man weeping and yelling "Hallelujah."

Sustainable Communities

I'm looking into sustainable communities. If you know of any let me know. Wave of the future.

Also let me know if you know of any groups that are studying them or any grad programs emphasizing in them. I am very interested.

Long Time No Post

The reason is that the film I'm directing shoots on Sunday. Actors were locked yesterday!!! Woooooo!

I will update you on my life sometime after Sunday.

Good and Lazy

Jennifer Courtney said...

"I asked Ben to pick up the remote that was at my own feet the other day. I was too lazy to bend down. That poor child."

Hahaha

I Apologize About the Lack of Robot Posting

Our room is still a mess and the scanner is still hidden under a mass of cords.

I have been keeping myself quite busy this week working on a script. The first draft is finished but there are a lot of holes to be filled (and I have to figure out a way to fill the holes while cutting one of the four pages).

In related news, Woooo! Weekend! Today I was reminded by my mother that my birthday is a little more than a week away...I completely forgot about that whole thing...being older.

There is a cricket in my room

and it is driving me insane.

It's Literally a Sandwich Fair

Talking about making sandwiches reminded me of The Sandwich Fair. If you're from the town I grew up in, you know exactly what this is. If not, click on the link and you'll witness pretty much a spot on representation of what the Sandwich Fair is all about. The reason it is called the Sandwich Fair is because it takes place in a town called Sandwich, Illinois (And if you clicked on that link you now know that the Sandwich Fair is really the only thing worth mentioning about Sandwich, Illinois [at least according to wikipedia]).

The fair is kind of a big deal for everyone in that area. My friend from high school visited me recently and before he left, his parents said something about him missing the Sandwich fair (his Mom later sent him picture messages from the fair).

That got us talking and we realized how misleading the Sandwich Fair is if you don't know that there is a Sandwich, Illinois. The Sandwich Fair has no sandwiches of note. I really wish they played off their name more and had a sandwich tent or at least followed a sandwich theme. Is that patronizing? I just think my friend would have reconsidered his trip to California if he knew he was going to miss a fair with thousands of types of sandwiches. I, for one, would not have blamed him for rescheduling.

Again! No Robot! Tomorrow Tomorrow!

Tomorrow I will have access to a scanner. Then I'm going to BOMBARD you with robots.

To help ease the pain from lack of robots here is a picture of a breakfast I had the other day.

I hear stories about how lazy people are when it comes to cooking but I really am never shocked by any of them (I didn't make a sandwich the other day because I thought it involved too many steps).

Maybe it wasn't just the steps that scared me away...I think it also had to do something with looking for all the ingredients and then getting all of them out. Well actually that is a step. Anyway, I think I ended up eating bread and then cheese. Separately.

If you feel you have a lazy story of your own, send me a comment or email and I'll post the best and most hilarious ones.

The Robot House Party Revolution is Upon Us!

I'm sorry to disappoint. I do not have a robot to post. I need to scan them but the scanner is next to my girlfriends computer which is behind our couch. All because of the Robot House Party.

The Etsy store is now fully operational! Look at it here! Let me know if you see any spelling errors or things that just do not make sense on the site. I'm really excited about all of this! Get excited with me!

Robot House Party!

This is the reason I haven't posted a robot today or yesterday. What is it? It's the printing/cutting/pressing area for the new Etsy store Robot House Party! Robot House Party is going to specialize in making custom 2" by 3" magnets. What will happen is we will send a template to the customer, the customer will place whatever image or saying they want in the template (at 300 dpi), send it to us, and we will make magnets out of the image!

The machine is awsome. I wasn't really sure what to expect, but the magnets we've been making on this thing are the exact same as the kind you'd order from CafePress.

Jessee has been working on the banner and avatar pretty much all day while I have been trying to figure out things like store policies. Let me know what you think of both. I know that the policies department still needs some work but it's on it's way.

In related news: We produced 72 magnets for The Mincing Mockingbird and The Frantic Meerkat of Etsy today.

I believe that the name of this blog will soon change to Robot House Party. Don't be alarmed when it happens!

Robot wonders why the man won't give him a break

This robot is kind of me. I just want to recharge my batteries right now. I think part of it is that I've been fending off sickness all week. That and I've been trying to develop a script. It's not going so well because it's supposed to be a comedy and the combination of me being awkward as I explain it and it having dramatic elements makes it seem like a drama with a lackluster twist. I'm trying to go for a comedy with a fitting twist. Blaaaaaa. Email me if you would like to give it a read.

I have a pretty hilarious day dream yesterday. I was reading something about the Mona Lisa and I just envisioned this trailer to a movie that comes out in 2015 and it is the story of Mona Lisa. Not the painting, the person. I just pictured this terrible CG movie drama trailer where a CG Mona Lisa is being hit on and running from beggars and stuff. I just pictured Mona Lisa's "perfect face" showing CG emotions like being distraught and crying. I don't know if that makes sense. I picture the characters faces to look kind of like this. But the story would have less space travel and more of this sort of thing. Yes, basically I picture my Mona Lisa movie as being "Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within" meets "Girl with a Pearl Earring." Maybe this is the script I should be working on.

Robot assassin wonders why it was programed to feel remorse

Today has been a good day so far. I've been productive. I'm excited for the future. I'm also excited about this movie. I will see it in the future.

Lizard in the Kitchen!

Jessee and I found a tiny baby lizard in the kitchen. It was really weird.

In other news the secret project is coming along. I predict that it will become operational by next Monday. Be ready.

Robot lie detector of the future

Get it?! He's a robot not a real boy!! That's why his nose is growing! Like Pinocchio! Who also said he was a real boy! But he wasn't either! This robot is the Pinocchio of the future!

September 8th Robot: Robot skyscraper is bored all of the time

September 7th Robot: Robot from Montgomery

It's just like, It's just like a mini...mall!

Find the inspiration here!

Can you imagine sitting through this commercial for two minutes? I just did!

For some reason it reminded me of this Home Star Runner toon. I think it's a combination of Pom Pom looking like the Montgomery guy and Strong Bad sounding like him.

September 6th Robot: "Die, Die, Die...I can't..."

Find the inspiration for this robot here. I really enjoyed this movie. I've pretty much forced it on everyone who stays at my apartment overnight.

September 5th Robot: Robot came off the assembly line wrong

Look, he's all ugly and sad and stuff...

September 4th Robot: Robot! What happened to your eye?!

When the robot couldn't respond with a satisfactory answer quick enough it was reprogrammed.

Robot attempts to see the back of its throat

I'm feeling good about today. I think today's going to be a good day.

I've become mildly obsessed with this website since the beginning of the summer. Unfortunately the episode most recently updated could be the least entertaining I've seen but pretty much all of the others are solid gold.

I think that JakeandAmir.com filled the void left by ClarkAndMichael.com. Now I have to go watch clarkandmichael.

Robot got tired and took a nap yesterday so it still has a lot of work to do

I have a busy week ahead of me. Cam Gibson is visiting in two days and I want to complete a good amount work before he gets here. I have a pitch due Thursday and I still don't really know what I want my movie to be about.

It's hard for me to describe my feelings about HumanDescent

I was just found this website through The Mincing Mockingbird's blog. The pictures are amazing but at the same time I'm really afraid of them. I know that each second I stare at these pictures the chances of me having nightmares about them increases but I just keep staring. I mean look at that! It's a horse and a gorilla!

Robot realizes how much work it has to do

I am this robot.

The good news is that I'm no longer having dreams where I'm blind. The reason? I have found work.

I don't want to go into the details of what I'm going to be doing before I start doing it but the materials for my project are on their way. They are arriving sometime at the end of this week and until then I am preparing for the launch of Project Faraday (that's my code name for it). I'll announce the launch of the project within the next two weeks.

(note: This will not hinder my robot drawing. If anything, the project will enhance it.)

Aug. 31st Robot: Robot needs to recharge its batteries

Aug. 30th Robot: Robot obsessed with getting some

If only he knew what "some" was.

Robot with outdated GPS finds itself lost

I have completed my first week of classes.
I already have a good amount of work to do.
I have a week to think of an idea for a movie I'm going to be working on until the middle of December.
My neighbor is listening to the most insane pop punk music of the early/mid 2000s. Every song sounds the same through this wall.

Robot composers do not make mistakes

Today is the day I get a job.

UPS in Ontario, CA called me this morning. I had to turn them down because at least 1/4 of my paycheck would be going to gas for commuting. My paycheck wouldn't be that big before the 1/4 withdrawal so it's not really worth it. Also, I'm not too sure how long the death star (my car) could take a daily commute of 50 miles or so. I'm looking closer to home today.

This is the third time I've attempted to post today. I don't remember what interrupted me the first time but the second time my laptop turned it self off without warning. My battery no longer holds a charge. This wasn't a problem until a couple of weeks ago when I started unplugging my appliances when I'm not using them. I'll forget to plug my computer back in and it'll shut down after about 6 minutes of use.

I'm off to class. I've been walking to school (about a mile) and the only downside is that, when I get there, I am sweating an unholy amount. Yesterday I walked about 5.2 miles.

I have six hours of straight class today. I would be complaining about it but Jessee has 11 1/2 hours of straight class. Ha-ha.

Robots hate their jobs as garbage cans

If robots existed now I'm pretty sure there would be no chance whatsoever of me getting a job.

I think tomorrow is the day I get a job. Please.

Robot programed to combat growing zombie threat

I had a dream last night where I was in a hotel in Chicago with my Mom, my brother's and my girlfriend when zombie-like people began attacking the building. Just before I woke up I was yelling at my mom to jump out the window as zombies were breaking through the door. After she jumped I was half out the window when the zombies broke through. I started shooting at them with the nine in my left hand but it ran out of ammunition. I started firing at them with the revolver in my left hand as I struggled to get through the window. I was also semi-blind this entire time. They were about to grab me when I woke up. So that's how my day started.

I'm not sure what it means but I often have dreams where I become semi-blind. It's usually at this point when I realize that I'm dreaming but I'm still blind and it doesn't help that I know that I'm dreaming. This is just a guess but I think when I'm stressed in real life (trying to find a job) I get stressed in my dreams (trying to escape zombies) and become blind.

Now I'm going to try and find a job and then go to class. If all goes well I won't be blind tonight.

Robot teacher replaces human teacher

I'm pretty sure this is going to happen.

School starts today. Let me know if you want my schedule of classes and other events. I've started a Google Calendar.

Still looking for work.

Robot knows it's annoying and is quietly sorry

I imagine there will be a period in the future where advertisers make robots hardcore in your face.

In other news, I'm just looking for work today and preparing myself for school tomorrow. I've also had the song "Throw Some D's" by the artist Rich Boy stuck in my head for the past couple of days. At first I couldn't stand this song at all but its been stuck in my head for so long I actually enjoy hearing it. Here is the reason I've had it stuck in my head. I also think that the lyrics are hilarious. Even though I don't consider what he does rapping, I still think shooting or cutting one of these videos would be pretty awesome.

Fully functional Wall-e sanitation unit is used to advertise the 50th anniversary re release of Wall-e the movie

I'm now all caught up with my robot uploads. Classes start Monday. Oh my. Oh my. I have some pretty hilarious "Family" portraits to be posted once they are edited.

Aug. 22 Robot: Robot feels it's not being used to its full potential

Aug. 21 Robot: Robot hates his job at the 3008 Beijing Olympics

Aug. 20 Robot: LG's latest robots make this robot's life more easy and less fulfilling

Aug. 19 Robot: Week Birthday Robot

I lied

The posting of the new robots will maybe come tomorrow, maybe the day after. I don't know. They're being drawn, just not posted at the moment. If they aren't up tomorrow, they will definitely be up the day after.

Yesterday I was all about Girl Talk and today I'm all about DethKlok. And I just realized that they rhyme. Also, Brenden Small (creator of Metalocalypse and DethKlok) was born in Springfield, IL.

To tie to that, my girlfriend recently decided that my pointless super power is knowing everything about Illinois. This is not true. I do, however, know a lot more than many I encounter here in Southern California. For instance, I was working on a film set last year and got in an argument with a woman about whether or not Chicago was considered "East Coast." When I explained that the city of Chicago is in Illinois and therefore miles and miles away from the Atlantic Ocean (here's my google map) she replied, "Yeah, but, it's in the east." I think it is this widespread kind of thinking here that makes my knowlege of Illinois mythical.

Robot Invisible

Today's robot will appear tomorrow with tomorrow's robot. Perhaps I'll throw an additional robot into the mix.

Speaking of robots, I'm a big fan of mashups right now (Robots prefer them over all other types of music). I listened to a good amount of Girl Talk and The Beastles today while shredding things and stamping meerkats on envelopes.

I'm also a big fan of hyperlinks.

Robot emulates the process leading up to alcohol poisoning

Class starts in something like 171 hours. I'll be working in Frantic Meerkat's studio for the next couple of days so posting a new robot will depend on whether or not I can figure out their scanner. I am optimistic.

Robot wishes it has a gender

Most robots have these feelings.

Robot gets inspired by the summer blockbuster Iron Man and Tom Morello's portrayal of insurgent #5

I finally saw Iron Man yesterday. $1.50 at a nice dollar theater. I was kind of amazed and unsure if I had actually seen Tom Morello as an insurgent. Later that day I swear I saw him in something else but IMDb says I didn't so I'm not going to say anything until I confirm it.

Worried robot can't remember where he parked his master's car

I actually completely forgot about my Robot a Day project until I looked at my morning schedule.

Robot gets angry at his master's disobedient cat

Today's 3-D robot was going well until I got to his limbs. Then I made him angry.

No jury duty again today. I could of used that $12 for when my rent goes up this month...

A Robot A Day

I've been looking for a little project to do over the course of the next school year for some time now. At the beginning of the summer, I would draw each of my meals before I ate them. That didn't work out because A.) I can't draw well and B.) most of the meals I ate were noodles or rice and water (they didn't make for good pictures).

A couple of days ago I decided that I would take a napkin from each place I visited (if they had napkins). Later that day I decided that a napkin collection is pretty useless. Most napkins look the same.

I think I found the activity to fill the napkin taking/meal drawing void. I'm going to draw a robot a day and post them here. I've known since a young age that I am not good at drawing but have always enjoy it. The beautiful thing about my robots is that they are mostly composed of circles and squares.

Here is my first robot. I think he reflects my excited/hopeful mood for the future of this project.

I also had a thought today while I was attempting to plug in my cell phone charger. I have to deal with a ridiculous amount of cords. I'm going to count how many cords I'm using (and at one point had to wrangle into place) at this moment. My ear buds to my ipod. My mouse cord. The cord to charge my laptop. The cord to charge my hard drive. The cord to connect my hard drive to my laptop. My phone charger. My DS charger. The cord to my fan. The cord for the power strip. That's nine cords. That's not counting my desk lamp, the two cords for my printer and other various electronic charging cords. I don't think my parents had to deal with this many cords when they were my age and when I or people my age now have kids who are twenty I think wireless charging will be used much more widely. So that means (according to my guess that wireless charging will catch on and become more advanced) that right now is the only time people are going to be frustrated by tangles and tangles of cords.

How I Live

I realized yesterday that I really do live like a college student. The thought came to me at 11:30 last night when I was standing over the stove making Ramen noodles. I was using a fork to stir and I was planning on using the pan as a bowl. I realized that approximately twelve hours earlier I was doing the exact same routine and I knew that twelve hours into the future (about an hour ago) I would probably be doing it again. It would have been true but today I decided to eat a bowl of Easy Mac for lunch.

Citizen Duty

Every night this week I have to call a robot to see if I have to report for jury duty the next day. If I do get called in one of these days there's a good chance I'll spawn an exciting post from my experience. In the meantime enjoy JakeandAmir.com.

Pet Names

I've always had this fondness of naming pets the name of another type of animal. I don't own any pets so all I can do is try and convince my pet owner friends to do it ("Name your new dog Bear"). I think all pets should be named after another animal or animal noise ("Name your cat Moo"). Everyone should do this from now on.

My First California Earthquake

This morning was the first earthquake I've witnessed in California (I've felt a few rumblings in Illinois). I was a little surprised as to how fast I reacted and jumped into a doorway. I was also a little thankful that there was no one else at my house at the time because I would have defiantly pushed past anyone in my way to get to that doorway. Maybe not...Well probably...I guess we'll never know for sure...But really, in all likeliness I would have...

I'll walk you through what I was thinking during the earthquake. To set the scene: I was sitting on the couch in my room, DS in hand...

Event: The earthquake rolls in.
My Thought: "What the hell kind of construction is happening on the roof?"
The rest of the house joins the roof in shaking.
"Why work on the roof and the apartment underneath me at the same exact time?"
The shaking continues.
"..."
"...this is an earthquake."
"..."
"...what do I do in case of an earthquake?"
I bound for the doorway and hold onto it, DS still in hand. The house continues to shake.
"Okay this is kind of cool."
The house shakes a little harder.
"There is no way this doorway is going to do anything for me when this building collapses."
"..."
"...Crap I just wrote my check for next month..."
I look at the DS in my hand.
"Oh, I left my game going."
I pause my game.
"Nice. Good save, me."
House continues to shake.
"Why did I think about the video game? I feel like more important ideas should be coming to me at a time like this..."
"..."

"...I hope the stuff on my desk doesn't fall off."
The earth stops shaking. I stand up straight.
"That was it...?
"Huh."
I nod like I accomplished something. I suddenly stop and look outside.
"Oohhhh, I hope no gas lines broke. A) Because that would be dangerous and B) Because I really want to make Ramen noodles for lunch."
I sit down at my desk.

So that was my experience of the 5.4 earthquake. All of this happened probably within two minutes. The 3.8 aftershock experience was very similar except it lasted somewhere around twenty seconds and I was in the doorway within the first three seconds.

Embedded

I was made fun of for not embedding (or knowing how to embed) the "What hit them?" animation from youtube. I know how to do it now. Here it is...

New Blog Title

I've changed the name of my blog from "Jordan Bagwill Eusebio" to "Ewok Dance Party." The reason being is that I've always like the ring of this phrase and thought my name was kind of a boring title for a blog that isn't ridiculously entertaining. A new exciting title makes up for content I imagine is described as, "eh" or at best, "ah."

I'll explain the phrase "Ewok Dance Party" for those of you who haven't heard me describe it. When I was younger I used this phrase to describe the ending of the film Return of the Jedi. Now, I mostly use the phrase to describe movies that end so perfectly for the main characters that there very well could be a final dance party scene in the deleted scenes portion of the DVD. I can't think of an example at the moment, but I will post one when I think of it.

(George Lucas decided that his trilogy ended so well for Luke and the gang that he needed to digitally add the rest of the Star Wars Galaxy having their own dance parties)

Okay, So I Am Back

I haven't posted anything in a while but I promise that I will start uploading regularly from here on in. So keep checking back.

I recently did an animation (using Final Cut and Photoshop) for the artist 'The Frantic Meerkat' of Etsy.com (my mother for those who did not know this). I'm pretty happy with the way it turned out. The concept came easily to me because the story is already in the original art piece. Initially I made it as a sort of test animation to see if she liked the style but decided to complete it after the rough cut took me so long. Tell me what you think.

...AND! I'll be back to update soon!