Month: September 2017

‘The Encouragement Clown’ is Live!

Summary

Barry, believing he’s proven the existence of God with a bold new math equation, is forced to turn to the aid of his personal encouragement clown, Professor Giggles, when his employees refuse to accept his findings.

Crew/ Cast bios

Robert James Haynes – Writer, Director, Editor

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Robert James Haynes is a writer, director, editor, producer, and podcaster. ‘The Encouragement Clown’ is his second narrative short film.
His first short film, ‘The Spell Book’ was an official selection of the 19th Annual Austin Film Festival (2012).  It was also featured on the SATURDAY SHORTS segment of the ‘Ain’t It Cool News’ website and screened at the ‘Short Indies’ short film showcase in Austin, Texas.
Robert is currently working on his next short film and a feature film script.

Christine Carstairs – Director of Photography, Visual Effects, Producer

Christine Carstairs, co-host of THE MILKSHAKE BOOM, during lighting tests.

Christine Carstairs is a writer, director, producer, visual effects artist, and podcaster.

In addition to the visual effects on ‘The Encouragement Clown’, Christine provided the visual effects for the short film ‘Roadside Assistance’ which was a top 20 selection of the Louisiana Film Prize and has screened at numerous festivals.

On the directing side, her first narrative short film ‘Drastic Measures’ was an official selection in the 2013 Horrible Imaginings Film Festival in San Diego. She also directed, shot and created the visual effects for ‘Savage: The Shard of Gosen’, an upcoming video game commercial.

Christine is currently writing a science fiction feature film script that she will also direct.

Daniel Repp – Actor, Producer

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Daniel Repp is known for his work on Through Hell (2011) and It’s History (2014). He is also the Senior Programmer and Event Director of the Other Worlds Austin Film Festival.

Adam Creighton – Actor – ‘Barry’

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Adam Creighton is an actor and producer, known for Injustice: Gods Among Us (2013), Epic Mickey (2010) and Disney Infinity (2013).

Jose Victor Rivera – Actor – ‘Dick’

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Jose Victor Rivera is an animator, illustrator, logo designer, and podcaster. “The Encouragement Clown” is his onscreen debut.

Robin Kauffman – Actor – Caitlyn

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Robin Kauffman is an artist, actress, comedian, and podcaster. She also designed the clown make-up for the “Professor Giggles” character.

Scott Osborn – Producer, Sound Mixer

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Scott Osborn served his 10 years in the video game business for giants such as Electronic Arts and Acclaim Entertainment before turning to writing, where he managed to generate several produced screenplays (FAITH AND BULLETS, SECRET ADMIRER, THE MAID, and SIXUFUS).
He also wrote, produced, and directed some of his own dramatic projects (LET ME IN, NO QUITS, DECENT PROPOSAL, MIND READER 8, I AM JESUS, THE PERFORMANCE, and the animated web series INVADED); one of which (I AM JESUS) was distributed by OUAT Media, and the feature-length script optioned.

Additional Crew

Dylan Santurri – Boom Operator
Lindsay Young – 2nd Assistant Director
The Brothers Burn – Music / Score

Episode 050 – Peggy Sue Got Married

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On a very special episode of THE MILKSHAKE BOOM…we time travel all the way back to 1986 to relive the events of ‘Peggy Sue Got Married’!
This fantasy/drama, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, stars Kathleen Turner, Nicolas Cage, Helen Hunt, and Jim Carrey!

This episode is packed with TMB goodness: We talk about the new Stephen King ‘IT’ movie, some of our other favorite time travel movies, and we get philosophical about whether we’d go back in time and change events in our own lifetime.

Also, Robin cries, Erin eats loudly, Christine is scared of clowns, and Robert inadvertently debuts a new persona dubbed by Jose as ‘Hipster Robert’.

Listen to the episode:

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This week’s episode features:

The Hosts :
Robert James Haynes (@robertjhaynes)
Christine Carstairs (@DSLR_Girl)  (escapingwestlawn.com)
Robin Kaufmann (@robinjkauffman)
Jose Rivera (thevictoriousbullet.com)
Erin Kaufmann


Episode 049 – The Nice Guys

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THE MILKSHAKE BOOM is back this week in our self-driving cars on our way to the seedy underbelly of late ’70 Los Angeles with ‘The Nice Guys’!
We trip through the convoluted plot of this 2016 neo-noir film, directed by Shane Black and starring Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling, which involves the most vile, exploitive and disgusting industry on the planet…that’s right this movie is a scathing indictment of those colluding fat cats in the Detroit automotive industry!  Oh, also the porn industry is mentioned a couple of times too!

Listen to the episode:

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download.

Or you can listen below! (NSFW)

Not familiar with the film? Here is the trailer:

The Hosts :
Robert James Haynes (@robertjhaynes)
Robin Kaufmann (@robinjkauffman)
Jose Rivera (thevictoriousbullet.com)
Erin Kaufmann
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