We'll be shutting down our blog temporarily as we do some maintenance on our site. We're in the process of re-branding AB5TRAX for 2010 and beyond. We will be launching our site and blog with some new work in the next few months.

Before we leave, here's an update on our latest work.

ESPN 2010 ESPYS:
Ad Agency: Wong Doody
Production Company: Radical Media
Design: AB5TRAX



Also be sure to check out our new internet variety show on MSN:


MSN The Daily Bubble
Hosted by Will Greenberg
Media Publisher: Grind Networks
Production Company: AB5TRAX

MSN The Daily Bubble - With Host: WIll Greenberg

We'll be back. Be sure to check out our other projects:

ab5trax.com

vimeo.com/ab5trax

Many many thanks to our friend Ryan Ebelt for his contributions.

Best,

Seaton / Hunter / AB5 Team!!!

Love Me Tender...

Hey Ladies...it's time for the Friday Afternoon Ab5trax pin-up. This is the sexy face of digital TCB (which balances things out as an incredibly unsexy reference). Our fearless leader enjoys ice cream, 60 Minutes, and painting out pixels. Turn offs: Neo-modernist-postmodern-revisionism, and old couches.

Next week, we interview Producer Hunter Woo on his thoughts on life, relationships, beauty tips, and what Scotch goes best with strawberry Pop-Tarts.

"They Call Me, MISTER BUBBLE..."

Just in case you thought we might welsh on our promise to deliver the news, we're going to deliver the news AND some comedy...


We've partnered up with Grind Networks to deliver up, The Daily Bubble (Click it! The title, not me!), a web show on the best comedy that's shooting around the web. So load up some Will Greenberg, and just let the internet goodness wash over you. It's like a gentle sea wave...ahhhh....oh crap, here comes the kelp. Ah well, it was worth a shot. So give The Daily Bubble a spin, and hey, maybe someday this blog will be on there for great comedy writing...and we'll produce the episode on it...but we'll be in the episode...and it'll be the most meta thing we've ever personally encountered. (Unless we can't be on it like those old rules about you couldn't be within five generations of a broadcast network worker to win a game show or radio contest.)

Gee Whiz...It Figures...

I was supposed to have big news for you all today. I woke up, stretched, ate at pound of bacon, 6 eggs scrambled, and a cantaloupe all between two oversized blueberry pancakes, and I was chomping at the bit to dish. My fingers were hovering over the keyboard when I looked to Seaton to give me the cue.

Instead, he looked at me and shook his head like a little kid and said "nooooooooooo." I was almost impressed at his ability to perfectly mimic a tone usually reserved for bratty 2nd graders. So then I let my fingers drop, and sat around pouting for a while. That's when Hunter almost sent me into "time out" (he did take away my Johnny Socko toy), so I stopped.

Then I figured, that I'd tell you that I couldn't tell you.

But stay tuned, and I will as soon as I'm able!

Hug Me...

While you were pining away the hours wondering what we were doing, we were indeed doing what you were wondering about. (We just got the Yeti costume back from the cleaners, and its fur has never smelled fresher...Here's to you, Yuki from Halifax.)


We also managed to pull ourselves away from the office, the cocktail shaker, and a Taser-based game of spin-the-bottle (oh so sexy) to make yet another short. Director Seaton Lin again took the helm with his band of merry men of production (who threatened to lock me in the grip truck if I called them that again...but look at me now! Hah!), and as usual he tested the skills, the talents, the endurance, and the boundaries of good taste in capturing his newest vision.


Did I say newest? Do you have any idea how old that script is?!? Oops...ahem...this newest project, dubbed Little Candy Hearts, is a nasty fun little thriller that we hope will knock them dead on the festival circuit. It's all in the can now, and we're looking to our fearless leader to deliver a visual one-two punch to the gut with this one. So goodbye flying saucers and hello saucy fliers...whatever that means.


Thanks to everyone who made this little effort possible, especially José Martinez who didn't have a stunt double and took a "This director is crazy"-fueled beating from our debonair leading man. We'll keep you up to date on the latest for this project. We hope you'll stay curious.

The Two Longest Months of Silence in Your Life...

Whoa nelly, we sure hope you haven't all been contemplating drinking Mountain Dew until death because of our prolonged absence from the airwaves. I mean the Coral Plains, New Hampshire Hunger Strike for the Prompt Return of the Ab5 was a touching tribute, and we were sorry we couldn't make it as VIP's at the Annual Striped Weasel Stomp this year in Lichtenstein...but well...things changed on us.

(It's a dance, people...calm down...sheesh...what do you think we are?)

As we are an upwardly mobile mechanized unit of general mayhem in production (as advertised!), we expect to have to ride the whirlwind every now again. Having said that, we'd like to thank everyone from the former Ground Zero for all their help and support and the good times we shared with them. However, fret not, as we're still penpals with the various staff members from GZ who've already gone on to their own new ventures.

Now we're sharing some office space and the occasional falafel with ultra-director Bill Fishman and his company, Fallout Entertainment (I heartily recommend that you click...right about...no, no...right...HERE!...if you'd like to peruse their efforts). So far it's been an enjoyable time spent nestled in our little cubby hole down the hall where we're trying to squeeze as many employees and interns inside in some sort of clown car-styled experiment. We'd like to thank Bill for providing us with a new home and for not calling the proper authorities on us for that thing with the iron lung, the hula hoops, and the members of the Commodores who were not Lionel Richie. (We're not even sure who those authorities are or might be.)

And we might just have some more exciting news coming up soon! Don't cancel our tickets for Ruede Los Huesos, our favorite Argentine Rush Cover Band just yet!

Be Our Valentine...AND Our Sponsor....

We're off and running on getting our newest short project up off the ground, on into the air...and possibly into the Mile High Club...of....uh...production greatness. Little Candy Hearts is a short script that we've been kicking around the block, the local pool hall, and the pool at Caesar's palace for some time now. And now, it's finally time we turned it into cinematic gold. If you'd like to see Little Candy Hearts make it to big and small screens alike, we could use your help. Granted, we knew full well from the start that cinema is one of the most expensive art forms of all time, but our choice to get into it shows just how crazy we really are. Now's you're chance to join in the lunacy over on our new page at Kickstarter. If you can spare us a buck, we'll see that you're a part of motion picture infamy!