IT"S BACK!

That's right, Miles and I have decided to tap into this newfangled social networking and revive the blog! I'm not going to review everything that's happened these past few day (ok, months since I last posted...) but the latest and greatest was the N.H.S. benefit concert. The band got really positive reviews and the Hobocation conglomerate (read: me) would like to thank everybody who came out and supported the children's hospital.

Some of you may have noticed that Greenwall Studios film dept. has all but slowed to a grinding halt (although Miles says they're "We're working on a long film, in the process of script writing" so you video lovers have not been completely abandoned). The short answer for this is that we have been redirecting all resources into our largest quarterly-earning project, the band! We are in the process of renaming , so for now we're the band. The absolute latest on the band is that we've been scheduled for the first Friday in March to play at the Raging Sage Coffee Co. and have been booked for another 4 performances at the upcoming Vancouver Farmers Market. Once late spring-summer rolls around the masses can expect at least two shows a month between the market and the coffee shop.

Hopefully somebody will put something up in the next week or two (* cough *) so check back often, same bat time, same bat channel!

More From Miles Part II

AH! It's been way too long since an update, which seems to be our anthem.

From the Greenwall Studios department: Sage and I wrote a sketch--actually wrote, every line and stage direction--called "Dating Show", which will be filmed soon. I won't be in it (I'll be directing) but Sage is gonna be a very sleazy game show host. Brady gets to play the straight man, which is nice for a change.

The Hobo Rock is up, the culmination of maybe a month of filming. It's one of the best-produced films we ever made: I went back to the master clips from Da' Hobo Rap to use for some of the scenes, which was nice and fun to remember filming.

It's going to be difficult in the next few weeks to film, despite the fact that we have four contributing writers right now: Brady, Sage, Stephen, and myself. (Reads off as an English Tea castline.) The fact that half of that group goes to different schools makes it hard to plan film dates. We'll see how things turn out.

We applied for a YouTube partnership! It's incredibly unlikely that we'll get in on the first try but it's good to go for it anyway; YouTube might pay more attention to us now.

From the Greenwall Records department: it shows how long it's been since the last post by the number of performances Fading Hail has had. We performed not once, but twice at the Vancouver Farmers Market: our total revenue is nearing $300. We're working on some more publicity and it's possible that we're going to play at the place formerly known as Moxie's. We auditioned a bass player and I thought he sounded great. We're going to have him back again to make sure but as far as I'm concerned he's in. Defintly still waiting for Sage's say in this, though, because I don't want to overrule him.

I've been on a songwriting binge recently. Our studio album, tentatively titled Stories, will be out about December or January. About 7 or 8 of the ten songs I'm writing are done. Provided Sage and/or Nathan write two between them, we'll have a full album ready. I'm psyched.

Torey's group, yet to be named, is swapping members around quickly. It looks like--he'll correct me if I'm wrong, I hope--he's got himself, two guitar players, and maybe a bass player. Or maybe just three guitar players. And one of those guitar players might be a drummer instead. We're hoping to see some very cool stuff out of the chaos, though. Torey put a new single up on Greenwall Records, "Lost" by Coldplay, which is a very cool song. I played the guitar solo but it was definetly a Torey production, and it was well played musically.

We're hoping to sign some more artists we can feature, especially if our partnership goes through. Sage's cousin, a stop-motion artist, is likely to join up with us, and I'm considering founding GreenwallPictures for visual art/stop motion needs. Sage would be the director of that. We'll see whether we need it or not.

Thanks everyone,
Miles

A Gig!

I've returned for another update, mostly because there is so much news I couldn't not post! The first and foremost of all this news is that our band has finally been booked for a gig! Two even (although one is tenative) We are set to play at the Farmers Market in Esther Short Park, this coming Sunday the 6th from approx. 10:30-12:00 (then maybe the 20th a little earlier). So between now and then, we're trying to get in as much practice time as possible. Hopefully we'll get about two in before then, but I think that we'll be okay, there's just a few things we need to touch up on.

In the next news two new shorts have been put up. These are Fairy Tales and When Life Gives You Lemons. Personally I liked Fairy Tales better, but Lemonade Stand was definatly ok. Unfourtanatly I wasn't able to work on either as I was busy on another project, whic leads us too...

The Rumour Mill! Well this sites rumour mill, not a short. But Miles and I have been writing and scripting and we've come up with a full script for our newest project, one with tons of potential. We'll be introducing three brand new actors along with myself and Brady as well as working with a complete actual script for the first time. I have a feeling this won't be filmed for at least a little while (what with band stuf and all that) but I really can't wait.

-Sage

Oh dear, it's really been a long time since I last posted! Well I'm back and with plenty of great excuses for my absence but that's not why I'm here to report! We've made a short and are moving along great with our band. Miles has e-mailed a possible venue for us to play at, but no response yet (as far as I'm aware of). We recorded another song, Violet Hill by Colplay.

In the video realm we have two new videos out, Duck Polisher and the HP Trailer. I think our overall quality of videos is greatly improving, as demonstrated by our newest releases. Personally I thought the HP Trailer was very well done, if a little random (but c'mon, if you're watching our videos, what do you expect??). I would have loved to see the video accompaniment!

And right as I type this, Miles is informing me that he's putting up a new vid RIGHT NOW!! So I'll watch it sometime, and post my thoughts!

I suppose I'll sign off now. Tune in next week, same bat time, same bat channel!

Sage

More From Miles

It's been far too long since anyone in the Greenwall world posted here, so here I go again. It's really been a recent period of artistic outpouring. Brady and I (as well as Torey, who has developed much as an actor recently) filmed the beginnings of two films: Jack Morgan, Man Code Enforcer, which you guys have likely heard about here. The other we're going to keep a secret, but know that it parodies a recent film. Both of which will have Sage in them, but he wasn't available on the day we filmed.

Also in recent news, I opened Greenwall Records (http://youtube.com/GreenwallRecords) for music publishing needs. My home studio (comprised of an eight track recording board) is ready to go, and the band is becoming more musically creative (with the new demo release of Wonderwall, seen here), so we needed a musical outlet. Greenwall Studios is being managed by my good friend and fellow musician Torey Jones, who is psyched to begin recording. So am I. I've written a new song that'll be probably the B-side of our first studio single. (Not the A-side because it's artistic and creative: feels like Violet Hill, for the Coldplay fans out there.)

Multiple artists have expressed interest in recording with Greenwall Records. Torey, my band, obviously, but Adam Jackson and Ben Chin will be playing string music for us. Heather Smith, a talented young singer, will probably have a song or two with us. It's all in preliminary stages.

Street League Baseball is likely to return as a full-on league: Torey and I will be running a dual-commissionership, with me calling the numbers and organizing but Torey doing scheduling and pretty much everything else. I hope to not have a lot to have to do, so I can focus on videos, band organizing, and writing more of Kipper. The number of teams is likely to be three, but maybe four: we'll see how things progress.

Brady has had some very interesting of ideas for film. I swear he's John Lennon reincarnate as far as film-making goes. Some very interesting, artistic, ideas. Meanwhile, we have a plethora of ideas to work with. I'm finding our lack of settings to work with the most difficult factor, but all goes well.

-Miles

Miles Puts Me to Shame

Hello all, this'll be my first post on the production blog. I hope most of you know me: I'm Miles Hewitt, and I'm the director of almost all of our films. Before I go into a long egotistical rant, I'll tell you a bit about what our videos dept. has been working on recently.

If you haven't noticed, this July has been one of the best months ever in our company's history; perhaps the very best. We started off the month with The NRA, a great sketch that Sage has already talked about. Next, we released Steam Locomotives, which has been a long time in the coming. Locomotives got off to a historic start: it broke 100 total views within six hours and had 200 views within two days. Building off of this amazing start, the next week we released Doctor Father Mix Master Space Time, another good Schmitt/Hewitt film. It, too, got off to a great start and nearly broke 100 views within the first day.

So how on earth are we going to follow all this up? The answer is, we won't. This weekend, we're releasing two films: a short PSA from Brady and I about breaking 10000 total views and a music demo from our band. We hope that you all enjoy the two of them, and keep in mind that when I get back from camp next week we'll have another great film for you: the long awaited Joy of ferns and other leafy objects. Torey Jones has his biggest role yet in one of our films (playing the Leaf God), and though the film makes little sense, that hasn't stopped us in the past. We look forward to a good August.

-Miles

Uh....wow. Well, I hope fo my sake that that post took a while to write. I take solace in the fact that Miles writes a lot. He did a good job of summing everything up though! We had an uber band practice and ran through our 7 or 8 song playlist 5 times or so. We hope to have a few more practices and then go out and play in public! And I'm still completely out of it as far as videos go but I promise to try and worm my way into acting! Miles also mentioned to me that he'd like our good friend Brady and I to film something while he's gone, but no ideas yet so we'll see what happens. Not much more for me to say but well done MIles!

-Sage

Post Number 5

It's been a long time since I last posted... but here I am! "Steam Locomotives" has just been released but to computer issues and YouTube, I have yet to see it. Also, Miles is refusing to tell me anything about it as to not spoil it, so I can't really comment on it, can I? I'll write something about it in due course, as soon as I actually see it. In other news, yesterday Miles, our friend Quetzel and I got together and played some music!!!! Miles was on keyboard, I was on Guitar and Quetzel (or Q-Ball as I like to think of him) was playing the set. It was super fun and we actually sounded really good!!! We played alot of Beetles, but we had a Coldplay song and some 12 bar blues, mostly relatively easy stuff as this was you first time playing together. Hopefully we'll have a video soon when we decide to record something but more realistically it'll be further off, as recording something and being happy with it takes a very long time and is tough logistically. Hsppy veiwing!

-Sage