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Hot Bikini Models

Adam — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 14:31:53 +0000

Dude TV knows exactly what you want to see. Can you handle the hotness that is the latest video I wrote for The Brig?

Written, edited and special effects by me
Directed by Shamikah Christina Martinez
Produced by Laura Turner Garrison
Starring Neil Casey, Sarah Viccellio, Lauren Humm Fakete and Claire Jane Wolterman

Hot Bikini Models

Marital Deathbed

Adam — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 16:14:17 +0000

A single life ends. Here’s the latest video I directed for The Brig.

Marital Deathbed
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Written, shot and edited by Nathan Russell
Directed and shot by me
Produced by Laura Turner Garrison
Starring Ben Rodgers, Rob Michael Hugel, Don Fanelli, Dan Black & Evan Watkins

Marital Deathbed

Black History Valentine’s Day

Adam — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 05:23:29 +0000

Finally, you can get the best of February all in one card. Here’s the latest video from my team The Brig.

Black History Valentine’s Day
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This was a fun one because we came up with the idea and brainstormed as a team (I’m quite happy my Vivien Thomas card got in).

Written by Jon Gutierrez
Directed by Shamikah Christina Martinez
Shot and animated by me
Edited by Nathan Russell
Produced by Laura Turner Garrison
Starring Molly Lloyd

Black History Valentine’s Day

Internet Crusoe

Adam — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 15:03:45 +0000

Cast away from technology, one man struggles to survive. Here’s the latest video from my team The Brig.

Internet Crusoe
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I wrote and shot this one. Matt Mayer directed and edited it. Mackenzie Condon produced it. It stars Ben Rodgers and features Josh Patten and Dru Johnston.

Internet Crusoe

Who’s on Base 7?

Adam — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 07:58:32 +0000

Some people found my list of 2010′s 10 best numbers in base 7 to be a bit confusing. That was not my intention, so I made a video that will hopefully explain it better.

Who’s on Base 7?

UN Home Security

Adam — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 17:45:24 +0000

I just wrote, directed and edited a video for UCBcomedy and Babelgum.

United Nations Home Security

This was by far the biggest production I’ve directed. And it had the fastest turn around. We wrapped filming on Wednesday December 8th, and I finished the video yesterday (with a few all-nighters in between).

Producers: Todd Bieber and Julie Gomez
Director of photography: Alexander Chinnici
Art director: Sarah Scheld
Special effects: Michael Costabile (the box crash), Ed Mundy (the call center computer screens), Dan Opsal (house force field), Kyle Brosius (lower thirds graphics), and me (everything else).
Narration: Ben Rameaka
Starring in order of appearance: Lauren Adams, Julia Wells, Josh Patten, Corinne Allarde, Lou Lasher, Sunita Deshpande, Dru Johnston, Todd Bieber, James Leggero, Keisha Zollar, Tabitha Lee and Sagar Bhatt

UN Home Security

Quatro Zany!

Adam — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 00:20:55 +0000

Four Loko may be going off the shelves soon, but don’t worry there’s a new alcoholic energy drink.

Quatro Zaaaaaaany!
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This is the latest from my UCB team The Brig. I wrote it, edited and did special effects. Nathan Russell directed it and did the narration. Laura Turner Garrison produced it, and Mitch Magee stars in it.

Quatro Zany!

Humane Executions

Adam — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 08:32:16 +0000

Earlier today Utah executed Ronnie Lee Gardner for killing a man while trying to escape from a courthouse in 1985. His execution caused a bit of controversy because he choose to die by firing squad and some people found it distasteful to use guns in an execution.

I could not agree more.

Guns are loud and scary, and bullet wounds are gross. Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for bloodlust and deadly retribution, but we shouldn’t debase ourselves with the same unsightly violence we seek to punish.

To put it another way, our executions need to be less icky.

This is why I’m also against the electric chair. I don’t even like seeing someone put a nine volt battery on their tongue, let alone get strapped to a chair and have a metal cap shoot 2000 volts of electricity through their body causing them to throw up, crap themselves, spasm violently enough to break bones and even catch fire before they die.

Most other methods aren’t any better. Hangings feel antiquated, guillotines leave you with an unsightly head, and even lethal injections are a problem because I don’t like needles.

The good news is, I’ve come up with a solution.

From now on, we should only execute prisoners by burying them alive. It’s perfect because if they’re in a coffin we can’t see them die, and if they’re underground we can’t hear them scream. Even better, we never have to deal with the body because it’s already buried! No muss, no fuss!

And best of all, it’s the most humane option, because keeps us from witnessing our inhumane behavior.

Humane Executions

Acronyms Can Really Obnoxiously Negate Your Motive

Adam — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 05:20:27 +0000

Chris French enters his apartment and is startled to find his friends Albert Dutch, Beth English and David Dijibouti waiting for him.

Albert: Chris, we need to talk.

Beth: This is an intervention.

David: It’s about your store’s name.

Chris: Chris French Cleaners? What’s wrong with that?

Albert: Don’t you see?

Chris
French
Cleaners

CFC!

Beth: That stands for chlorofluorocarbons.

David: Chloroflurocarbons created the hole in our ozone layer.

Albert: You’ve named your dry cleaning store after a dangerous pollutant!

Beth: It’s too ironic! It will ruin your business.

Chris: Relax, it’s been that way since 1959. I’ll be fine.

Albert: That’s what I thought about my failed condom business.

Albert’s
Infectious
Defense
System.

AIDS!

Beth: Yes, and my now-defunct infant furniture store.

Beth’s
Antique
Bassinets.
Yellowing
Merchandise
Unwaveringly
Reliable
Despite
Evident
Repairs.

BABY MURDER!

David: And my out-of-print peaceful New Age philosophy book!

David’s
Altruistic
Theology
Encompassing
Religion
And
Practical
Ethics.
Developed
Reverently
Unto
God’s
Service.

DATE RAPE DRUGS!

Chris: But you guys worked so hard creating ironic acronyms that you were clearly more interested in being clever than being successful.

Anthony: Oh, good point.

Beth: Yeah, I never even cared about babies.

David: Now I regret changing my name from Hank.

Acronyms Can Really Obnoxiously Negate Your Motive

Numbalex: Depressed Yet?

Adam — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 05:56:25 +0000

Here’s the latest from my UCB Comedy Beta team, The Brig.

Numbalex: Depressed Yet?
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I wrote it, Matt Mayer directed it and Nathan Russell shot and edited it.

This was an easy concept to pitch but a really difficult one to write (It’s hard to find facts you can state in a single sentence that are depressing, but in context make the commercial’s point of view funny and not just depressing). I did a first draft that was all over the place in terms of tone and approach, and the rest of the team really helped me refine and organize the idea. Also, my favorite line (about marriage) comes courtesy of Crystal Delahanty.

Numbalex: Depressed Yet?