Brad & Matt Blather On About Waldo: Part Deux!
August 5, 2008
Part 2 (of 3) of Brad and Matt’s epic Waldo Ultimatum interview is now up at the Can You Find Waldo on Wordpress Blog.
This instalment goes a little more into the background of The Waldo Ultimatum as well as some of the fallout from it. Interesting stuff all around.
“Attack of the Show” calls out “Basement Accident” on Lightsaber Physics? Fight! Fight! Fight!
July 29, 2008
Normally we have nothing but nice things to say for the folks at G4’s Attack of the Show. They feature our videos all the time on “Around the Net”, they once called us “almost” as cool as this (high praise indeed), and Olivia Munn Playing Mushmouth was quite possibly RocketAce’s finest (and sexiest) hour ever on US Television.
BUT
It has come to our attention that on the July 9th episode of AoTS, Kevin and Olivia gave us an “EPIC FAIL”, segment - complaining about the lightsaber physics used in The Basement Accident
Liam Dynes (a fan of The Imponderables from Thunder Bay, Ontario) wrote us to say:
Yous was the “Epic Fail” tonight, for the basement mishap, though purely for
geek science reasons. Lightsabers cauterize, there should be no blood
on the lens. Though both hosts Kevin and Olivia admitted that it was a
really hard video to fail, but being the nerd-central they are, they
had to abide nerd law. You goofed Star Wars science, they had to do it.
However, no sooner had the “verdict” come down, than THE INTERNET came charging to our defence! As “CaptainC83″ laid down the geek-gauntlet on the G4 Forums:
…BUT my geekness has been set off and I had to point out that when Obi-Wan chopped that guy’s arm from Mos Eisly, THERE WAS BLOOD!
FAIL THAT!!
While the resulting flame-war did an admirable job of protecting our geek-street-cred we decided to go straight to the source - the massive crack team of SFX artists who toiled for months on that particular segment (ie: we asked Brad what he thought):
I’m not sure where everyone’s getting blood from. The spatter on the camera is clearly ash as it’s a solid dissipation pattern, not a liquid one. While Matt has some red stuff on his face post-strike there was a lot of cooked meat flying around at the point of impact, and lightsabers clearly have a very limited range for the aforementioned “cauterizing effect” (when Han slices the Tauntaun open on Hoth he doesn’t cook all of the entrails throughout, just the area immediately surrounding his incision). It’s pretty clear to me the effect of the strike is completely within cannon of the original trilogy - the one exception is the shower of sparks from Eric’s groin which is due to the fact that he’s actually half-droid. I explained the backstory for this in my series of “Eric’s Mom/2-1B” stories available at your nearest slashfic repository.
In conclusion. You want to start a geek-off with us G4? Bring. It. On.
Canadian Comedy Award Voting FAQ
July 25, 2008
[Updated - Now with 2009 Voting Information!]
- Information on our 2008 awards nominations can be found on this post
- Information on our most recent nominations can be found on this post
Here’s a quick FAQ to clear up some of the most common questions we recieve about public voting for the Canadian Comedy Awards - we will update this page to keep it current throughout the voting period:
1. Who Can Vote?
The “Pretty Funny Web Video”, “Pretty Funny Radio Clip”, and “Canadian Comedy Personality of the Year” awards are open to public voting - that means anyone who is a Canadian citizen can vote.
Please note - if you are not a Canadian citizen please don’t vote. You’re just making more work for the CCA staff who examine and filter all the voting logs.
2. How do I register to vote?
Go to the CCAVoting.com registration page to sign up for a public account (any information you provide is only used to verify you are a Canadian voter). When you’re done click the “submit” button. If you voted for us in previous years you can use the same username and password to login - you don’t have to re-register!
3. How do I vote once I’ve registered?
You’ll be e-mailed a user name and password you can use to log in at CCAVoting.com.
When you log in with your user information click on “Vote” (near the top of the page) and then “Web Clip” from the list of categories to the left of the page.
You’ll then be given a list of all six nominees (and the chance to watch video clips of each) and then select which one you wish to vote for.
Finally click the “Vote” button at the bottom of the page.
4. How long do I have to vote?
You can make (or change) your vote up until midnight on July 31st, 2009. But why put it off until the last minute? Vote now!
5. Which RAMP clip should I vote for?
Because we’ve been nominated multiple times, we’d prefer votes for “The Violator”. We love them all equally - but it has had the largest audience both on-line and in our live shows.
6. When are the Awards Announced?
Some time during the “Canadian Comedy Festival” in St. Johns, NB from October 1-4, 2009. We’ll be sure to post shots of us sullenly power-drinking as soon as they’re announced.
7. Are you actually going to St. Johns for the awards?
We’d love to - but haven’t sorted out our schedules just yet.
8. You Didn’t Answer My Question
Ask Away!
We’re Canadian Comedy Awards Bound!
July 14, 2008
[EDIT - We've published a FAQ on Voting - Click here for more info!]
We’re thrilled to announce that RAMP has been nominated for two 2008 Canadian Comedy Awards for “Pretty Funny Web Video” for both Cerealized and The Waldo Ultimatum.
This is a real honour to be recognized not once, but twice in the inaugural year of the “web video” category of the CCA’s. Canada has an amazing depth of comedy talent, and it’s humbling to have a chance to follow past winners such as Cathy Jones, Rick Mercer, Rick Farrell, Mary Walsh, Mike Myers, Colin Mochrie, Eugine Levy… the list goes on and on - a veritable Who’s Who of Canadian funny-people.
Even better the “Web Video” field is one of three that will allow public voting for the first time in CCA history (Pretty Funny Web Video, Pretty Funny Radio Clip, and Canadian Comedy Person of the Year). So if you want to help us out you can head over to the Canadian Comedy Awards Voting Website and Register for a free account to vote!.
Details are just starting to trickle in, but I suspect a road-trip to picturesque Regina (which, by October could easily be under twenty feet of snow… making the trip extra awesome) may be in the cards for October 2-5th for the awards gala, and to see if RAMP can’t bring home some hardware!
[Edit - Wow you guys are fast. Yes, feel free to link to our nomination badges from your own sites or blogs if you wish, I've included sample code below]
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Also there’s been some question if we have a preference which RAMP show people vote for. In all honesty, I think we collectively feel that “Waldo” is a better fit for the spirit of the “Funny Web Video” category… which is supposedly one-off comedy videos. It’s very tough to define “Cerealized” by a single episode, even though “Loops” is a favourite of all of ours as well.]
A basement accident?
July 9, 2008
Just a quick post this week as RAMP is (hand to god) on vacation.
We maybe made a video about a horrific accident, and it’s maybe stirring up all kinds of hilarious on-line ridiculousness… so if you’d like to support peeving off the entire collective internet by Digging It … that’d be cool.
We’ll add it to the player on the site here as soon as I get back on the weekend!
Correction - “Cerealized” on G4TechTV this *Friday*
June 5, 2008
Apparently I was given some bad information as the episode of “Torrent” featuring “Cerealized” and (as far as we know) some other RAMP goodness is set to air this Friday (June 6th) at 8:30pm EST / 5:30pm PST. There is a replay at 11:30pm EST / 8:30 PST on G4TechTV in Canada.
We’ve got a couple folks taping it for us, so we’ll try to put an excerpt up on the site this weekend, for those of you in countries that don’t have this fine channel with it’s 20-hours of guaranteed Leo Laporte programming daily (kidding, kidding, that’s obviously impossible given the 6 hours of X-Play re-runs daily…)
RAMP on “Torrent” June 4th!
May 29, 2008
Next Wednesday, look for a “Cerealized” profile as part of G4TechTV’s fun television series Torrent, June 4th at 8pm EST.
What exactly Eliza and Eric are going to cover will be a BIG SURPRISE (even to us) - We had recorded a bunch of interview footage and behind-the-scenes bits for both “Cerealized” and “Dead End Days” for the show ages ago, but shortly thereafter “Torrent” went through a big format change, and started up with a whole new production team on the other side of the country! Fast forward a couple of years and Torrent got back in touch with us again - and received oodles more exclusive behind-the-scenes footage and interviews for their efforts. What will they use? What will they cut out? Will they keep the really smart-ass commercial-break throw Matt and Brad (and no one else) thinks is hillarious?
All these questions can only be answered by tuning in to G4TechTV next Wednesday at 8 Eastern. Check your local listings (always wanted to say that).
