http://blog.dotlot.com Where your digital media starts! Fri, 29 Jan 2010 19:44:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We're working on a super cool project in DotLot right now. It's for a major brand. It involves stop motion animation. Lots of it. And it's super cool. But I can't tell you about it until it launches in a couple of weeks. What I *can* tell you is that to date, we have used ... http://blog.dotlot.com/stuff-i-cant-tell-you-yet/ The Buddy Group held a pumpkin carving contest at lunch today. Five departments each worked together to make an entry for the competition. The winners will be announced at lunch tomorrow. DotLot's entry... Client Services carved an homage to our CEO, Pete Deutschman... Hello? Is it Dev you're looking for? (Lionel Richie courtesy ... http://blog.dotlot.com/pumpkin-carving-contest-at-tbg/ It finally aired, so now we can share it with you here! This is the PSA that Mike edited for the Death Valley Fund. If you want to see it on TV, it will air on KCET right before National Parks Episode 5 on Thursday night. If you're setting your ... http://blog.dotlot.com/death-valley-fund-psa/ We just found out that the PSA that DotLot Director Mike Kirsch edited for the Death Valley Conservancy will air on Tuesday, September 28th, right before the third episode of Ken Burns's new National Parks Series. The commercial will air at 7:58pm on KCET, right before "National Parks: The Empire of ... http://blog.dotlot.com/death-valley-psa-to-air-this-week/ DotLot Creative Director Mike Kirsch was tapped by the Death Valley Conservancy to edit a PSA promoting the Death Valley Fund. The 30-second spot will air on PBS (KCET-LA) September 27th during the premiere of the new Ken Burns documentary "National Parks". (Check your local PBS station's website for air ... http://blog.dotlot.com/dotlot-edits-psa-for-death-valley-conservancy/ This is a short BTS clip that I shot this morning as we were prepping for our Western Digital shoot. I'm on a quick break right now and then it's back to shooting! --Mike http://blog.dotlot.com/dotlot-on-set/ Hi Friends! Just a quick post here to test whether we set up our Facebook page to properly display posts from blog.dotlot.com. If you're reading this on our blog, be sure to check us out on Facebook and Twitter (@dotlot). http://blog.dotlot.com/dotlot-blog-facebook-test/ This month we celebrated July 1st as Happy DTS 7.1 Day! “Give me 7.1 surround sound or give me complete silence”. http://www.celebratesevenone.com/ Celebrate 7.1 on 7/1! from DTS Digital Entertainment on Vimeo. DotLot played the producer role and called on some of our finest crew to shoot this production. We had the chance ... http://blog.dotlot.com/celebrate-july-1st-with-dts/ We are a studio. We have gear. Gear breaks. I'm all for sending pro gear back to the manufacturer to be serviced, but in this economy, I also like to save where I can. When one of the four ballast boards on my Kino Ve 4Bank Ballast took a permanent nap, ... http://blog.dotlot.com/kino-surgery-replacing-a-ve-4bank-ballast/ A few months ago a friend came to DotLot asking for some help in producing a PSA for an organization he was involved with called Know Newspapers. His goal was to produce a short spot that he could put up on the website of his organization whose primary goal is ... http://blog.dotlot.com/studiomonthly-says-goodbye-to-real-world/