Exploding Toys

PODCAST #01

2012-01-31T18:53:00.000-08:00

Here's the link to our new podcast! subscribe, like, download and enjoy!

2011 Demo Reel

2012-01-12T17:43:00.000-08:00

STICKERS!!!!!

2011-12-17T14:47:00.000-08:00

Big ups to Stickergiant.com and Joe for the badass job printing these for us. We want to create a drinking game where if you see this out in public anywhere, you have to take a shot. Yes, we want to kill you. muhahaha... but seriously, if you know any of us, we'll be happy to give you a bunch. We wanna see these things everywhere :)

Matt's slates

2011-11-07T00:50:00.000-08:00

The Next Exorcism

2011-11-01T09:42:00.001-07:00

Blood Runners Review?!?!?!

2011-10-18T15:16:00.001-07:00

CLICK HERE

So I was just doing my rounds on the internet and stumbled upon this... crazy..

Running Numbers

2011-10-16T18:50:00.000-07:00

Happy Halloween folks.

Also check out Jaime's tumblr post where he wrote a little about this short.

http://screenplaythisdisaster.tumblr.com/post/11516671663/yeahhh-i-feel-like-i-should-explain

We're Not Friends Anymore - Succubus

2011-08-23T22:13:00.000-07:00

Here's the new video we shot earlier this month. Had a blast wrangling all the drunk extras haha. Enjoy!

black and white pics are so deep.

2011-08-21T11:17:00.000-07:00

Hahaha. fun times at the shoot. The video is about done. Here's a little secret for you if you follow us on our blogspot.... if you wanna watch the video... click here. lets call it a soft opening... your welcome.

We're Not Friends Anymore BTS footage

2011-08-11T20:29:00.000-07:00

So here is some behind the scenes footage of the video shoot that we did for these guys.

Onward Toward The Mountainside - Great Horned Owl

2011-07-21T22:56:00.000-07:00

Shot at Battle Ground Lake, WA.

Great Horned Owl - Two kids

2011-07-13T12:25:00.001-07:00

Great Horned Owl

2011-07-12T00:37:00.000-07:00

We went up to Vancouver, WA to hang out with Ed from Great Horned Owl. This is a little bit of what we did up there.

The Process trailer

2011-07-10T19:37:00.000-07:00

THE PROCESS - teaser trailer from Andre Welsh on Vimeo.

This is the short film that we are currently crewing on. should be finished by the end of this month.

Helicopter Blues - Adelie

2011-07-10T19:32:00.000-07:00

Playing some helicopter Blues jams after the very last Galaga: The Movie show. Shot at Munchies in Susuin, CA

Fireworks FAIL

2011-07-10T19:28:00.000-07:00

T.M. Manzo from Black Rose productions lighting some Blue Thunder.

Check out their website below

Black Rose Dot Tee Vee

Great Horned Owl

2011-07-03T10:24:00.000-07:00

Currently residing in Vancouver, WA filming shows and a music video for our friend Ed from Great Horned Owl. When we get back in a week we'll a a ton of videos for everyone.

So in the meantime go check out Great Horned Owl and you can download all the EP's for free. He's releasing an EP for every month of the year.

https://www.facebook.com/greathornedowlpdx

http://greathornedowl.bandcamp.com/

Galaga: The Movie (part 2)

2011-07-03T10:22:00.000-07:00

Galaga: The Movie

2011-06-25T17:22:00.000-07:00

Their final show. 6/24/11 @Munchies in Susuin, CA

Taller Than Trees - Mind's Made Up

2011-05-23T01:12:00.001-07:00

The Process

2011-05-14T00:34:00.000-07:00

We've been working on a short based all over the bay area. We got some BTS footage of the smashing of a windshield. We'll keep you updated on the short.

Baby Steps

2011-05-08T00:54:00.000-07:00

Our latest mini Doc.

Listen I'm all figured out (live)

2011-04-28T00:55:00.001-07:00

Your Addiction

2011-04-22T20:10:00.000-07:00

Taller Than Trees - Tongue Tied (live)

2011-04-11T01:02:00.000-07:00

Backseat Pilots - Angel

2011-04-06T22:42:00.001-07:00

Backseat Pilots performing live at the Flipside in Rancho Cucamonga 4/2/11

http://www.myspace.com/backseatpilots
https://www.facebook.com/backseatpilots
https://www.facebook.com/BackseatPilotsBand
http://www.reverbnation.com/backseatpilots

Taller Than Trees - Tongue Tied

2011-04-06T22:36:00.000-07:00

Luis Mendoza of Taller Than Trees performing the acoustic version of Tongue Tied.

www.youtube.com/tallerthantreesmusic

www.facebook.com/tallerthantrees

www.myspace.com/tallerthantrees

www.twitter.com/teamtrees

*NOTE: ℗ All songs and lyrics are copyrighted by Luis Mendoza of Taller Than Trees (ASCAP) 2009-present ©

Call Me

2011-03-28T18:55:00.001-07:00

This is a little thing we shot at 2am one time. All the sound is ADR

Drunk Vlog

2011-03-28T18:53:00.000-07:00

Shot during the second night of shooting the Drunkumetary.

Drunkumercial

2011-03-18T19:17:00.000-07:00

Drunkumentary Kickstarter! please help us out!

2011-03-03T19:46:00.000-08:00

By following the link you too can help us get this project in the works! awesome rewards are available for pledging! Thanks!

Drunkumentary update

2011-02-28T21:45:00.001-08:00

We've been rolling on this project and its safe to say that we have completed the script. It took two drunken nights to crank it out. Lots of 40 ounce beverages, and 10 dollar bottles of crap vodka.... ahh the life of the struggling artist.

Belgian Waffles

2011-02-21T18:26:00.000-08:00

Ok.. So this is a short by our friends up at Black Productions. Jaime helped out with some of the camera work for this one and we got an Association With credit.

chek them out at: Black Rose Productions

Shooting night 1.

2011-02-07T17:24:00.001-08:00

We filmed for a while trying to write the script completely drunk.. We spotted some really funny dialogue while capturing the footage:

Jaime: What does moderately attractive mean?

Matt: Shut up.

Adam: It means.. "Oh yeah, I'd do her"

Drunkumentary

2011-01-29T12:37:00.000-08:00

Drunkumentary follows a group of filmmakers trying to complete a short film, from script to screen, all under the influence of alcohol.

2010 reel

2011-01-17T15:34:00.001-08:00

This is a bunch of the DSLR stuff we shot late in the year. We shot a bunch of other stuff too but damn dslr quality blows that stuff away.

2010 reel from Exploding Toys on Vimeo.

Exploding Toys Podcast #1

2010-12-21T05:35:00.000-08:00

Soooo.. Here's the first of hopefully many. We've been thinking about doing podcasts for a while just cause we're so tired of doing vlogs. This podcast came about because the power went out on our set for our next short entitled Googley Eyes. No worries though, Googley Eyes will get shot eventually, but for now listen to this!

Theres also this link below Follow and subscribe!!!

http://feeds.feedburner.com/ExplodingToysPodcast

Eleonora - A Thousand Armies

2010-11-20T15:33:00.000-08:00

Just filmed a show tonight.

2010-11-20T02:10:00.001-08:00

Will post the videos asap. but first check out the bands:
myspace.com/eleonora
and myspace.com/aonmetal

Hey everyone! Please support our films!

2010-10-14T23:45:00.001-07:00

We at Exploding Toys love making films. We're a bunch of artists, none of us older that 27,. and we need help from everyone in the world to keep this thing going. We started a Paypal account and a donation button. Anything you can spare would help us so much! So click on the Donate button below. And thanks so much!
Visit our youtube account!
http://www.youtube.com/explodingtoys
Follow us on twitter!
http://www.twitter.com/explodingtoys

and please Donate!

New update vlog.

2010-10-14T12:35:00.000-07:00

Ok so here is a lottle vlog full of new info. Seth is writing feature that is in the works in about 8 months. Matt is in DRACULA as Renfield. Jaime likes pumpkin pie. Victoria started her own vlog. Adam likes puppies. Jamiel is still crying. Alonzo has a baby (congrats!).. idk. we've been busy.

Blood Runners

2010-09-14T18:21:00.000-07:00

Blood Runners Outake

2010-08-29T17:21:00.000-07:00

So Blood Runners is cut and I'm interested in seeing if it will get into any of the festivals we submitted it to. More to come!

Our Musical Side Projects!

2010-08-28T04:58:00.001-07:00

Many people don't know but besides films, we're also musicians. Heres a song we did that hopefully we'll do a video for! enjoy!

<a href="http://thekitchensink.bandcamp.com/track/camel-collision-ft-adam">Camel Collision ft. Adam by The Kitchen Sink</a>

Blood Runners outake

2010-08-11T19:31:00.000-07:00

After finishing filming our latest short film Blood Runners, we wanted to mess a little with all of Tristan's airsoft guns. We'll be hitting post production soon so check back with us!

Film Crew Vs. Bees

2010-08-08T12:53:00.000-07:00

While waiting for another actor to show up to the set, we decided to mess around a little and then we got attacked by bees. if you're laughing, then the pain was well worth it.

The Destroyer of MEN

2010-06-25T15:02:00.000-07:00

Yeah... no comment

The Destroyer Of Men from Exploding Toys on Vimeo.

The Truth About Thousand Island

2010-05-30T04:50:00.000-07:00

Wedding Gift

2010-05-20T02:45:00.000-07:00

Insomnia Bites BTS

2010-05-04T18:19:00.000-07:00

BTS of Closed Casket

2010-04-27T15:45:00.000-07:00

So we've been pretty busy... We've been tackling a few larger projects for some of the classes that we are in/ work for. This is the behind the scene clip of Closed Casket, a drama that Adam wrote for George Maguire's Acting for Camera class. One out of the four short films that Jaime has to help shoot and cut by May 17th.. We'll post them online asap.. Keep checking back!

Behind the scenes of Julius Ceasar

2010-04-05T15:09:00.001-07:00

Keep checking back, more posts will follow!

Running Numbers

2010-03-31T18:50:00.000-07:00

This is the product of Jaime and Seth and Victoria, they spent the night playing and recording music and and drinking an absurd amount of Rawandan Coffee.

Group Therapy

2010-03-28T02:49:00.001-07:00

This is a little thing we like to call Filmprov... This scene was scriptless and was shot in two complete takes and edited together. Starring Adam Serafino, Matt King, Diamond Pederson and Michael Bryan... All members of the Solano College Actors Training Program.

Doper than a Bobby Brown piss test

2010-03-28T02:48:00.000-07:00

more cereal

2010-03-23T19:44:00.001-07:00

Matt Vlogs also

2010-03-22T13:32:00.000-07:00

Victoria's got a VLOG

2010-03-21T14:22:00.002-07:00

Jaime's blog no.2

2010-03-21T14:22:00.001-07:00

my first vlog ever

2010-03-19T12:02:00.000-07:00

Number One

2010-02-28T01:58:00.001-08:00

Cubans & Russians

2010-02-20T15:00:00.001-08:00

Calling In Sick

2010-01-24T21:58:00.000-08:00

TallerThanTrees in the studio

2010-01-22T14:11:00.000-08:00

A buddy of mine asked me to acompany him to the studio.. Luis and Tasha are some of the most amazingest musicians I've ever met. I got the chance to be there during the making of their demo and i'm so amazed at how beautiful it sounds.... check them out, their link its at the bottom. - Jaime (Palimino)

Peanut Butter

2010-01-06T21:38:00.000-08:00

Happy New year.
this is definitley one of the weird ones... a lot of people were asking me (Jaime) how this short came about.... I basically had a dream where this happened and i wanted to make it into a short. The funniest thing about this project was that DJ had no idea what we were filming until like 20 minutes before he put on the peanut butter beard.

Acting With Map part 2

2010-01-02T17:57:00.001-08:00

Check out the first film in our archive!

Acting With Ninja Steve

2009-12-17T12:57:00.000-08:00

a whopper commercial

Her Lone Lothario

2009-12-10T18:28:00.000-08:00

Her Lone Lothario from Exploding Toys on Vimeo.

Shot within the last 2 weeks of November. On average, Seth only makes 1 film a year. its a quota thing. We wanted to make this as profesional as we could. this short was part of the final projects for George Maguire's Theater 50 Acting For Camera class at Solano Community College. Everyone in this film was a student... If we could grade them, they'd all get A's.

and her is the trailer for it:

Eleonora

2009-12-05T16:55:00.000-08:00

My good friends in Eleonora just released their EP. you can buy it online @ raincityrecords.net for only 6$!... check them out @myspace.com/eleonora

ELEONORA teaser from Exploding Toys on Vimeo.

Skin Deep

2009-11-21T01:55:00.000-08:00

This all started with us just messing around. during a break between takes of an action sequence we were filming, Seth got Jamiel and Alonzo to filmprov a dramatic scene. Jaime saw the footage and convinced them to eventually do a real scene.

Blind Date

2009-11-14T02:37:00.001-08:00

Just us messing around with our dolly

2009-10-31T02:07:00.000-07:00

Expect to see more of this dolly in our upcoming work.

Stimulating..... recut

2009-10-24T12:05:00.000-07:00

The recut edition... we trimmed off about 30 seconds and made things a little tighter, i think it flows better.

Pain at the pump (super old)

2009-10-22T20:35:00.000-07:00

This is one of the first things me and Jaime ever worked on, we were so bored. Look at my hair. Haha

Got that Swine Flu

2009-10-15T19:26:00.000-07:00

a last minute psa for an online film competition for the California Department of Public Health. Super last minute, the deadline is tomorrow. well, wish us luck!

The Grate Confrontation

2009-10-09T05:37:00.000-07:00

Don't Let the Cougar Cry

2009-10-01T13:08:00.001-07:00

This short came out of nowhere. We gathered up our props, looked at them, and came up with this story on the spot. no script at all. we don't really know what this is about so we just say that its an art piece. i guess its open for interpretation. it was suggested to us that this is about an imaginary cougar coping with the loss of his only real friend... thats sounds about right.. I think we'll go with that.

Problems Of Men

2009-09-29T16:54:00.000-07:00

So this little 46 second hit is actually one of those spur of the moment projects. Originally we had planned to short a short called "I aint gay" but we got kicked out of the location. We were shooting it on a soccer field and all of the sudden a bunch of little girls came and they kicked us out. So we spent about 20 minutes wandering the school in search of another spot to film. We decided that we should film at that same location still so we thought of something else to do. We asked the lady that runs the library if we could shoot there and she basically said that she didn't care.

BTS: T&B2

2009-09-27T22:27:00.000-07:00

Terry and Berry and The Lady of the Night

2009-09-24T17:48:00.000-07:00

Finally this one is done.... i'll post comments about it later.

We made this short in June of 09... it took us a while to get this up because we had been looking for a music composer to do the song for the end. Ultimately we just decided to do the song ourself. Which turned out great btw. This is one of our favorite shorts and the second time we worked with Brigitte Valdez. The three actors make such a great combo. Filming it was a blast. We shot this @ the Indian Ally in downtown Vallejo, and to our surprise we didnt have any problems shooting in public.

Terry and Berry

2009-09-20T11:32:00.000-07:00

So here is Terry and Berry... This was the first time we shot with Jimmy (on toilet). Adam was actually naked. And Jaime's parents were downstairs thinking that we were shooting a porno. We tore through an entire jar of pickles for this short. We shot T&B2 later on in the year but its still in post. look for it soon!

ELEONORA in the studio. Completed

2009-09-19T12:13:00.000-07:00

So here is every video that we did in oregon.... everything, done.... check them out @ myspace.com/eleonora ALSO check out the DAY 3 PART 4 video to see Jaime puking!

so much editing, so little time!

2009-09-16T02:13:00.000-07:00

wow, so many band videos, so much editing. I'll have to admit that this part can be really fun, but most of the time i hate it so much. My computer goes through hell every time we take a workload this huge. I think I'll be done with everything by the end of this week. Thanks go out to Seth, Victoria and Alonzo for making the shoot go so smoothly. Expect me to lose my mind yet again during this editing binge.... but thats a good thing, I need this drone work so I can keep my mind off my other problems..... - Jaime

LOOK ALIVE

2009-09-13T23:12:00.000-07:00

Mozart Season

2009-09-13T17:21:00.001-07:00

Man Up! Nancy

2009-09-13T13:38:00.000-07:00

The Subtle Way

2009-09-13T12:00:00.000-07:00

A LOT LIKE VEGAS

2009-09-12T18:54:00.000-07:00

MORE TO COME!!!!!

Teddy The Toast

2009-09-10T02:51:00.000-07:00

So this is Teddy. if you havent noticed, we have a thing for googly eyes. check out his myspace @ myspace.com/teddythetoast

Brig And Me

2009-09-10T02:46:00.001-07:00

Brig and Me from Exploding Toys on Vimeo.

thanks to Rachel and Canepa Deli for letting us shoot there! this is the first time we worked with Brigitte Valdez she is awesome. plus the Deli has great sandwiches. its located in downtown suisun. Check her out in Terry and Berry 2! (which is coming out soon!)

funny thing

2009-09-09T23:03:00.000-07:00

honestly, its getting around. slowly but surely. the funny part is that Jimmy told me that people keep asking about the name Exploding Toys. and the main question is: so what, do you guys really blow up toys? ....... wtf? in short the answer is: no. if you want the long answer the answer is: still no. so now I'm actually in the process of writing a short little psa stating that we here at ExplodingToys do not partake in, or advocate the explosion of child playthings... look for it soon.. Plus we're gearing up to have major content rolling in soon so keep checking back!

The Anniversary

2009-09-08T00:44:00.000-07:00

So heres The Anniversary. Shot locally in one of the Exploding Toys' office space. This was one of those shorts that we took are time with. Adam Serafino and Michael Doppe are two really good actors. This piece was short enough that we had this crazy idea of what if we did it twice with them switching characters?

behind the scenes with the rats in the alley

2009-09-04T11:34:00.000-07:00

The escape pod

2009-09-04T01:01:00.000-07:00

what the hell?

2009-09-03T17:28:00.001-07:00

Mo's Photoshoot

2009-09-03T17:26:00.000-07:00

@ the academy of art in sf. finishing off the last shot of The escape pod while we were there thus killing two birds with one stone

My best friend MAP

2009-09-03T17:21:00.000-07:00

This guy is a stud.. for real... famous one day i tell you. the voice in the background is

none other than the great George Maguire. Baby Snakes!

Laughter is the best medicine

2009-09-03T12:43:00.000-07:00

Laughter Is The Best Medicine from Exploding Toys on Vimeo.

jaime: thoughs about this short:

This is still one of my favorite ones. we shot this when during a week where my parents were out of town, we had plannede to do as much as we could in that span but i think only this and STIMULATING were the only ones that got made. this one was really fun cause it was raining that day so it just looked like crap outside, which was good cause it just fit the situation. we had a blast editing cause we needed to ADR and foley a lot of sounds (basically making sound effects). it stopped raining halfway through the shoot so we had to Foley the rain by sticking the mic back in the room and then spraying water on the roof with the hose... plus the skateboard dolly is the shit.

Suzee Dearest

2009-09-03T12:37:00.001-07:00

Suzee Dearest from Exploding Toys on Vimeo.

so yeah, this was made back in november of 2008. this is one of the first projects we all worked on together. its nostalgic now. the reason its getting posted is because so many people keep asking for a better quality version. so we slapped it onto vimeo.

this short pushed the creators and actors to their creative limits. no one survived. Seth and Jaime develped caffeine addictions. Jaime's insomnia resurfaced. Omar really got killed in that scene. Woodland made us all sick. We almost got arrested many times, just to get the shot.

there are so many stories about what happened during the making of this thing. that should deserve its own blog, but i'm not going to bore you.

Hugs Galore

2009-09-03T12:31:00.000-07:00

Hugs Galore from Exploding Toys on Vimeo.

filmmaker comments:

this was a really fun shoot. the first time we had production stills. Check our myspace for them. the biggest problem we had was light as you can tell the shadows were everywhere. Originally it was written that this scene would take place in a bathroom but we felt that it would be all too similar to the scene from Terry and Berry, so we changed it to the field which is Hanns park in Vallejo. Below is a little extra something from this shoot.

Love hurts leeroy from Exploding Toys on Vimeo.