All five episodes of the first season of Chance of Stormy Skies are now online! Check them out at the show page, here!
EPISODE 1
A lone pilot embarks on a dangerous, desperate mission to stop an unrelenting alien foe.
One more day until the premiere of CHANCE OF STORMY SKIES!
A genre bending anthology series of weird tiny films. Often darkly comedic, always high concept, occasionally genuinely upsetting. Sometimes, there are spaceships. Created by Ted Hogeman and Sudeshna Mukherjee.
The first episode, SPACE INVASION THE MOVIE FILM, is going online TOMORROW, January 10, 2024, at Noon!
Available on YouTube, Threads, and TikTok (on a related note, laughing with the storm has a TikTok now(?), apparently?)
Catch more episodes of Chance of Stormy Skies each Wednesday at noon over the next several weeks!
Looking back on a few projects this year, wanted to highlight some of the other filmmakers I’ve been lucky enough to work with outside of official Laughing with the Storm projects. Here’s a peek behind the scenes at the production of Operation: Wet Paint, directed by Thomas and Curtis Nishimoto, produced by Jack Strayton.
OPERATION: WET PAINT is a comedy short about a group of kids who decide to hatch a complex, heist-style plan to get revenge on the bullies that have been tormenting them.
Here’s a peek behind the scenes at the production of Operation: Wet Paint
The protagonists test a secret weapon for their plot in Operation: Wet Paint
Directors Thomas and Curtis Nishimoto stand at the monitor for a scene.
Director of Photography Daniela Mileykovsky stays out of the sun with an umbrella as she operates the camera.
The Sony FX9 that was the primary camera used to film Operation: Wet Paint
DP Daniela Mileykovsky and Production Sound Mixer Raven Jackson prepare for a key sequence with actors Sean DiGiorgio and Isaiah Owens.
Actors Isaiah Owens and Sean DiGiorgio prepare for a scene while the rest of the crew uses umbrellas to stay out of the summer sun.
Gaffer Berlin Waechter takes a behind the scenes still as Directors Thomas and Curtis Nishimoto demonstrate the blocking for actor Jaeden White.
Producer Jack Strayton stands at the monitor as Gaffer Berlin Waechter brings additional supplies to set.
The short story Shrimp People is now online as the latest episode of Manawaker Studio’s Flash Fiction Podcast!
The Flash Fiction Podcast has been one of my favorite quick hits of science fiction short story goodness over the past year, so it was quite an awesome experience to hear narrator CB Droege’s dulcet tones reading words I’d written.
The Flash Fiction Podcast logo, by Manawaker Studio
In the short story, a woman deals with unexpected cross-cultural issues when she takes her two alien crew-mates out for lunch to her favorite lunar restaurant.
And, as a bonus, here’s one of my concept sketches that I made while first writing the short story, of a Yutu Spacer (aka Shrimp Person):
