Our Very First Corporate Sponsor — Just In the Nick of Time!
August 27, 2009 at 11:00 pm | Posted in Keith Boynton | 1 CommentTags: corporate whores, hockey, Islanders, sellouts, SoNu water, sponsorship, water
A few days ago, thanks to the outstanding efforts of the invaluable Sumi Lee, we got an e-mail from someone called Toyan, of SoNu Water. Here is what he said:
Love what you guys are doing, would love to provide free water to your cast and staff when on location…please feel free to email or call me at anytime. Take a second , explore our site sonuwater.com
Regards,
Toyan
Now, Mike and I are serious artists. We have integrity. We have standards. We’re not the sort of people who will just whore themselves out to the first faceless corporation that comes calling. In fact, we are very choosy about what faceless corporations we whore ourselves out to. But here, I’ll let Mike tell you himself:
(Yes, that’s my voice interrupting Mike’s announcement. Yes, I am a jerk.)
In all seriousness, we did drink vast quantities SoNu water on the set of “The Jogger,” and it was refreshing (though very sweet), and we also used the bottlecaps to fix Tawse’s bed. No, I’m not joking. Would I lie to you?*
In addition to 12in12, SoNu is also the official flavored water of the New York Islanders, who are, according to Mike, a hockey team. Go team, go!
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*I would. But in this case I am not:
MIKE’S POST SCRIPT: A) Yes, I wrote that caption. B) Tawse’s bed slats kept falling off the inner edges of the bed, since Tawse has been doing something to deform them somehow. So the slats needed more pressure from within. I am a specialist when it comes to pressure from within, and that pressure combined with the mystical qualities of the SoNu I had consumed gave me the power to remedy this situation — by placing SoNu bottle caps between the slats. Maybe if you drank more SoNu your life wouldn’t be so fucked up.
Photos from Our Final ::sob:: Film! No, I’m okay, I’m okay …
August 27, 2009 at 12:15 pm | Posted in Keith Boynton | Leave a commentTags: behind the scenes, jogging, photography, photos, Tom Cruise, Volvo
Our final shoot of the summer went off relatively painlessly — good thing, too, because we didn’t have much time for things to go wrong. We had a script going in, but we more or less threw it out the window, giving actors Dylan Bandy and Mike Lavoie free rein to improvise about space aliens and Manchurian fishing villages and murdering Tom Cruise. (In fact, there was a lot about murdering Tom Cruise …)
Oh, that reminds me — Dylan (Sublet, Moving Pictures) and Mike (Captivated, The Proposal, etc.) are in this one! We haven’t gotten around to a formal cast announcement yet, mostly because we didn’t know what the heck we were doing until we were doing it, so without further ado, the formal cast announcement! (Um, see above.)
Also joining us: DP Giuseppe Pugliese, who thus ties Derek Van Gorder for the dubious honor of “most 12in12 films shot”; sound man Chad Sonenberg, helping us out for the seventh time (what’s wrong with that guy?); stalwart on-set go-getters Sumi Lee, Madelyne Camera, and Clint Byrne; and new initiates Gwyneth Connell and Nancy Hughes. A merry band, an enjoyable shoot, a fairly controllable location — it was a low-key way to wrap up what has been, at times, an overwhelming project. But this is no time for sentimentality! (Tomorrow is the time for sentimentality.) For now, I’ll just let the pictures speak for themselves.
“The Jogger” will be posted Friday, August 28th. Yes, that’s tomorrow. Shut up.

Cast and crew gather up after the shoot. Thanks for taking the photo (and not taking the camera), random passerby!
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