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Pass it Along

Enjoying the Captain Blasto series? Then help us pass the word along BEFORE the series reaches it's end! Here's two easy ways.

Embed an Episode
Visit http://www.youtube.com/blastoseries to grab your favorite episode and share it on Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, or your own blog.

Pass a Link
Simply share http://www.captainblasto.com in your Facebook or Twitter status.

Many thanks, and as always, thanks for watching!

Episode Ten - The Brave and the Bold

Where is Episode 10?

We've been flooded with emails and comments asking where Captain Blasto Episode 10 is. I'm here to tell you it is on it's way. The production team has been on location shooting an entirely new series which has made it difficult to maintain the Blasto schedule. But rest assured it will be here within the next few days. Thanks for your patience!

Episode Nine - Secret Identities

Captain Blasto on The Clip Show

The Clip Show, a fantastic web show that showcases popular online video clips and series, gave a GREAT review of Captain Blasto on their latest episode. They ranked the series a 12 out of 13 on their classic rating system. Thanks Jim and the Clip Show crew for spreading the word!

You can see the episode HERE. (The Blasto review is roughly halfway through.) I suggest checking out this show regardless.

SHOW NOTE: Now that power has been restored, Episode 9 is on its way! Thanks for your patience.

Episode Nine Delay

Episode 9 will be pushed back to Tuesday due to power outages.

Do you have an old television?

Spent the weekend at various flea markets, thrift stores, and garage sales. I'm looking for an old television (the channel dials/rabbit ears variety). Unfortunately the flea markets were made up of VHS tapes, baby formula, nunchucks, and snow tiger throw blankets.

If you have an old television that you would allow us to have/borrow for our upcoming series, we would be INCREDIBLY thankful. Your donation will earn you a credit in the film along with knowing that YOUR television is in a VERY important scene.

Comment here or email me at chris - at - mercurymenpictures.com.

Captain Blasto Case Study

Daisy Whitney of TVWeek.com did a great case study on Captain Blasto over at WebVideoReport.com. The article is a discussion on the transformation of Blasto from an independent feature film to a web series. It also has a FANTASTIC title, "Captain Blasto Obliteratres Film-Web Video Barrier." Captain Blasto obliterating ANYTHING is good in my book.

You can read the article HERE.
And check out Daisy's own series, New Media Minute.

Episode Eight - Crooked Crooks

After a short Labor Day delay, Captain Blasto episode 8 has arrived, in which much thickening of plot occurs.

Episode Eight Delay

Our apologies on the delay of Episode 8! With Labor Day weekend and the onslaught of pre-production responsibilities on The Mercury Men, we got a bit behind. Hope to get the episode up tomorrow!

Happy Anniversary

Three years ago today I married Ashley Urbaniak, producer of Captain Blasto. Happy Anniversary!

Best Scripted Web Series

TVWeek.com is planning a story on the best scripted web series and wants to hear from you. If you think that Captain Blasto is a contender for the title please go HERE and let them know.

Write a Review on iTunes

Now's your chance to be a regular Roger Ebert! Help the Apple iTunes team take notice of Captain Blasto by writing a review. The more reviews, the better chance it has of being seen, and right now we only have THREE. Three stinking reviews? Well that just aint right.

Simply click the link below and submit YOUR review!

Click here to go to the Captain Blasto iTunes page.

Do you work in an office...with cubicles?

The production team here at Mercury Men Pictures is gearing up for a new feature project we'll be shooting in October. One of the locations needed is an OFFICE WITH CUBICLES. Oddly enough, it's been a difficult location to get secured, even through the Pittsburgh film office.

If you know of or work in a Pittsburgh area office which you think may work, please comment on this post or email me at chris @ mercurymenpictures.com.

If we get to use the location we'll give you a CREDIT in the film, tickets to the premiere, and a copy of the finished film on DVD to thank you for your contribution.

Blasto on iGoogle

Captain Blasto is currently featured on the front page of iGoogle. If you're not a regular iGoogle user, just go to Google.com and click on iGoogle on the top right corner.

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Episode Seven - The Movie Heist

GenCon Indy 2008

GenCon Indianapolis proved to be a fantastic trip. We had two great screenings of both Captain Blasto and Mercury Men, each followed with a half hour Q&A session where we passed out mini-posters. To all who attended, thanks for checking out the films!

Also screening this year was A Great Disturbance, a Star Wars mockumentary I was part of. Once again, two great screenings and Q&A sessions. What's great about the GenCon crowd is that they get jokes that many other audiences don't. It was really nice to hear the "Green Lantern" joke from Blasto Episode 5 get laugh.

Beyond the films, we got to see/play some great games. Kleiber picked up Last Night on Earth a zombie survival game. Geis went with Settlers of Catan, which is the world's most famous "underground" board game, and despite the horrible box art, is actually quite fun. I came home with the Savage Worlds core role playing guide. The hot game of the weekend was Monsterpocalypse, miniatures game of giant creaters, robots, and UFO's fighting amongst buildings ala Godzilla. Yes it's true, we don't just play dorks, we actually are.

Okay, back to getting Episode 7 uploaded.

Big Dude Review of Episode Two

That's a great post title. Anyways, here's another great review.