2 Broke Geeks: shark weekender

SHARK WEEK! SHARK WEEK! SHARK WEEK!

2 Broke Geeks: off-beat musical thespians

Here is our episode for off-beat musical thespians!

2 Broke Geeks: adult swimmer

Here is our episode for adults who watch cartoons.

2 Broke Geeks: geek vs geek star wars vs star trek pt 1

Here is part one of our star wars vs star trek geek debate.

2 Broke Geeks: geek vs geek star wars vs star trek pt 2

Here is part two of our Star Wars vs Star Trek geek debate.

2 Broke Geeks: westerns

Here is our episode about the best westerns (ha!) on Netflix instant watch.

2 Broke Geeks: Jurassic Party

Here is our second Maybe Wil Wheaton will show up party. This time it was Jurassic Park themed!

2 Broke Geeks: Dark Knight Rises special

Here is our video we did right before Dark Knight Rises came out.

2 Broke Geeks: Mia's pencil trick

Here's an episode of Mia Makes It Cute where she draws the scene from the Dark Knight in which the Joker makes a pencil disappear.

2 Broke Geeks: Pretentious Film Student

Here's our Hey That's On Netflix (Instant Watch) list for those pretentious film students out there. We're probably going to do another episode.

2 Broke Geeks: QA

Here is the first (and only, so far) episode of Quarter Academy- the 25 cent comic book club.

2 Broke Geeks: wtf is my Black Widow movie?

Here's a rant I did about the lack of Black Widow movie.

2 Broke Geeks: American Sitcom Lover

Here's a Hey That's On Netflix (Instant Watch) for those sitcom lovers. The ones from America. The American sitcom lovers.

2 Broke Geeks- Prometheus Party

Here's the first episode of our Maybe Wil Wheaton will show up parties. This time (the first time) we threw together an party inspired by the Alien/Prometheus franchises.

2 Broke Geeks: Kick-Ass Girls

Here's the episode of the top five kick-ass ladies on Netflix Instant Watch.

2 Broke Geeks: how to be a broke animator

Here's this week's Wednesday episode of 2 Broke Geeks about how to be a broke animator!

margarita salt: episode 1

This is the first episode of Margarita Salt that I wrote and got to act in like a year ago. It was a ton of fun to work on and was a complete labor of love. HUGE PROPS to Georgina who poured her heart and soul into this.

2 Broke Geeks: PBS

Ugh, what a busy week for YouTube things. Here's the new episode of 2 Broke Geeks about the top 5 PBS things on Netflix.

2 Broke Geeks: Marvel vs DC

Here are the two latest episodes from 2 Broke Geeks. This Wednesday we did Geek vs. Geek in which we argued about Marvel vs. DC and since we had A LOT to say, it became two episodes. Enjoy.

HTON: top 5 robot movies

Here's last week's episode of the top 5 movies to watch on Netflix Instant Watch that involve robots!

catching up: Purple

This was one of my favorite projects I got to direct for my directing workshop. The assignment was to make a 2 minute non-dialogue film based on the word Purple. So here it is.

catching up: Omar Will Watch Anything

Also, in addition to Hey That's On Netflix Instant Watch on Fridays, we decided to throw in some Wednesday videos. Each Wednesday is going to have something different (as chosen by the Wild Card Wednesdays cards) and the first episode was Omar Will Watch Anything where I watch the worst movies on Netflix and recap/rate them.

This video is about Troll 2.

catching up: Hey! That's on Netflix (Instant Watch)

Agh! I'm almost caught up on this blog!

Before moving out of our old apartment, Mia and I started a series called Hey That's On Netflix Instant Watch. Although we started calling it Top Five Fridays (taken from the earlier series posted on here) at first, we realized that HTON just made more sense. Here are all of the episodes in order.

catching up: mise-en-scene

This was my first assignment for my Directing Workshop I class at UCLA. Our assignment was to shoot a thirty second, static shot that told a story. The focus was on mise-en-scene. I did this. Huge thanks to Mia who helped on the "shoot".

catching up: Roommates vs The Apartment

Again, for my directing class, we were assigned to do a one minute non-dialogue mood piece. I decided to take something from the Scott Pilgrim soundtrack, put it to tedious chores and make something awesome.

Everyone in this did an insanely incredible job.

catching up: Out of Mind Out of Sight

This was shot as a one minute non-dialogue assignment for my directing workshop. My team (the Kubrickians) decided to split up the human senses between the five of us. Obviously, I got sight. Tomi Mendel does a great performance as someone scared to use an eye dropper.



Here are some alternative endings we shot.

catching up: Good News Bad News

This was an assignment to shoot a 2 minute voice over film. We had a different shoot planned but some unexpected issues came up and instead we did this on the fly. Huge props to Minna Kim and Tomi Mendel who were not going to even act in the video but volunteered on the spot.

catching up: Duck Variations

Here is another scene I shot for my directing workshop. Originally a Mamet play, translated through the eyes of college stoners.

catching up: God of Carnage

This was the final I shot for my directing class in the UCLA directing certificate program.



INCREDIBLE performances by Steve Suh, Emily Cipriani, Jesse Bainbridge and Georgina Tolentino.

catching up: Improvability dating video

For the anti-Valentine's Day show my Senior year, we shot a dating video.

Keep in mind, when we shot this, I had JUST come back from the local microbrewery.

catching up: apartment painting

When Mia and I moved into our new apartment (but not current apartment), we thought we'd document the wall painting with over 200 pictures.

So we did and here's the video.

catching up: This Week WTF

So for a while my friend Georgina and I had an ongoing YouTube series where we found the weirdest things in Web, Tech and Film of that week. It was really, really fun to work on but unfortunately we just got way too busy to keep producing the show on a weekly basis. But here are the episodes in order of upload.

By the way, our first video got flagged by Japanese television or something so we have nearly 1,000 hits on that one. And 13 dislikes, haha.

bonus: other Georgina videos

Here are two other videos I got to do with Georgina.

catching up: Machinima Masterpiece

This was made for Jackie Apodaca's Production for Television class at UCSB. Our assignment was to make a video presentation about machinima which is taking video game footage and turning it into narrative. So we decided to take narrative footage and turn it into a video game.



P.S. It was such a pleasure working with Brandon.

catching up: Goosebumps

Okay so I was a really big Goosebumps fan growing up (the book series as well as the show) but it wasn't until Sophomore year of college that I became a HUGE fan of Goosebumps since Cartoon Network ran marathons of the show. With the combination of my almost frightening love for Halloween combined with the nostalgia of childhood franchises and low budget (relatively) filmmaking, I started working on a project for the following year: shooting three Goosebumps episodes.

We held a contest on Myspace (haha, right?) where people pitched ideas/titles and the three winners got ten bucks each. I uh... kinda dropped the ball so if your title got picked, I still owe you ten bucks. We shot the episodes over the span of a week and edited them over two days before Halloween.

But Halloween night (which is enormous in Isla Vista), we threw a screening party which was absurdly successful. Here is the entire series in order. Keep in mind there are still minor edits that need to be made, but won't be. Cause... I dunno, I have stuff.











In retrospect, I have no idea how we pulled this off. I also have no idea how my roommates didn't kick me out of the apartment for shooting all that footage. Also, how has the theme music not been pulled from these videos? Also, the window in the garage really helped us out in this shoot.

OH! And I just remembered that when we were shooting Bloodshed II, Megan lifted a blanket and a gigantic rat fell out.

catching up: Top Five Friday

At the same time I was putting together This Sh*t Is Raw, I worked on Top Five Friday (which was completely on the other end of the tonal spectrum). This was mainly done to stay sane.







While this series was SUPER fun to do, I think this is about it for Top Five Friday. The name did transfer to 2 Broke Geeks for a while (until we thought of a better name) BUT the theme music behind this will be making its way into the Hey That's On Netflix (Instant Watch) episodes. So it all comes full circle. P.S. I need to buy more shirts.

catching up: SiR

Back when I was still bumming around Santa Barbara (after graduating, before growing up) I decided to just get some YouTube serieses started. And when Scott Pilgrim got a bad reception at the box office, I started This Sh*t Is Raw.









Now I stopped doing the series because a) I ran out of time and b) because I hated maintaining that much beard. BUT I might bring back SiR once I get the 2 Broke Geeks schedule in my pocket (I hate saying "under my belt" because I think it's an outdated phrase and it has some dangerous connotations in our contemporary context).

catching up: Annual Fund raps

So for work we shot a rap music video to get the word out about what we do.



And then we did it again.

catching up: orange marmalade

To kick off the video page, I thought I'd throw up a video from college that we did for Apple's 24 Hour Insomniac video contest. We got some prompts and shot/edited/uploaded this within 24 hours (actually it was like seven hours cause we didn't even start until 3pm). Fun story: we actually uploaded it two minutes late but my friend Henry and I had spent so much time working on it that we emailed the supervisors and asked them for some more time. And they said yes. So we got to upload it. We didn't win. Enjoy.

get these pictures moving

Hello, everyone.

I couldn't think of a better playful title for this post so "get these pictures moving" is what I'm going to stick with. This is where I will be posting any videos I've worked on in the past or am currently working on. If you want to see more from a series of videos, all you have to do is click the label at the bottom of the post. Or at least that's how I think blogspot works.

Enjoy!