DVD's are coming!

One of the most frequent questions I get is, "Can I buy this series on DVD?" We can finally answer YES!

We've got a VERY small supply of DVD's of the ORIGINAL CUT of the series, including over ONE HOUR of extended and deleted scenes. We'll be posting them for sale soon, so don't be a stranger round these parts.

Get The Captain Blasto Poster!

We're finally proud to release the Captain Blasto poster for sale! It's an 11 x 17" print of the high flying hero hurtling through space in dynamic color. And it's only $8.99.

ORDER HERE

UPDATE: We've added t-shirts, including a replica of Colin's Blasto costume (without cape unfortunately). See the shirts HERE.

Captain Blasto Production Design

Blasto's recent Streamy Award nomination for Art Direction and Cinematography has inspired me to give a little behind-the-scenes look into the Captain Blasto production design, a subject that is always highly discussed at screening Q&A's.

Captain Blasto is the story of Colin Carter, a teenage boy so enamored with the adventures contained within the pages of super-hero comic book, he begins imitating the traits and story of its titular fictional character. Since Captain Blasto was created specifically for our film, his character design, along with several issues of his comic book series would need to be custom illustrated. This wasn't too much of a stretch since I had plenty of practice drawing Superman multiple times a day back in high school.

Captain Blasto rough sketch, done in the style of Joe Shuster's early Superman designs.

Captain Blasto w/ vintage coloring.

Custom made comic book prop (cover).

Custom made comic book prop (inside page).

To visually display Colin's love of the character, we canvased his bedroom with custom made memorabilia spanning decades, including posters, famous magazine covers, statues, and a 1950's Blasto actor autograph.

Notice the above LIFE magazine cover (first photo of set) is inspired by this classic photo of Kirk Alyn, the very first actor to play Superman in the old movie serials.

A few minutes of a fake cartoon were even produced in a 1970's animation style, inspired by the Super Friends.


Captain Blasto and the style of his comic book inform and influence nearly every aspect of the film's design, from Colin's costume to the comic book panel editing of various scenes throughout the film.

The comic book panels even include the classic advertisements!

Nominate Captain Blasto

You can nominate Captain Blasto for a Streamy Award, given to the best of web series entertainment by the International Academy of Web Television!

Simply GO HERE and add your nomination to Best Comedy Series, Best Directing Comedy Series, Best Editing, Best Art Direction, Best Original Music, and Best Artistic Concept in a Web Series.

Second GEN Interview

Did a followup interview with Stephanie Carmichael for the Girls Entertainment Network. You can check it out by clicking HERE.

Stephanie and the girls of GEN have been great supporters of the series from the very beginning so make sure to drop by and comment.

Blasto Review on Tubefilter

Brady Brim-DeForest posted a great article about Captain Blasto over at Tubefilter, a site which covers web television and new media. You can read it HERE.

Blasto Poster Contest

We're running a special contest in cooperation with the fine folks at Extra Life and you can win yourself a signed Captain Blasto poster!

PRIZES: TWO(2) winners will receive a 23×35 CAPTAIN BLASTO POSTER, signed by Christopher Preksta and Aaron Kleiber (Colin & Daryl).

HOW TO WIN: Watch the series, answer the following THREE (3) questions correctly, and email your answers to CHRIS@CAPTAINBLASTO.COM with the subject line “BLASTO CONTEST.” TWO (2) winners will be selected at random from correct entries. You are only permitted ONE (1) entry. Multiple entries will be ignored. Entries will be closed at 11:59 PM on Thursday, November 20th. Winners will be chosen on Friday, November 21st.

QUESTIONS:
1) During their first burglary, WHAT COLOR WALKIE TALKIES do Colin and Daryl use?
2) WHAT BOWLING SCORE does Daryl boast?
3) HOW MANY foam bricks does the crew throw at Captain Blasto?

Episode Eleven - Blasto No More

Episode Ten - The Brave and the Bold

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.

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.

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.

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.

Digg Captain Blasto

If you've got a second, and you probably do since you're here reading this blog, click below to digg Captain Blasto. It's a quick and easy way to help spread the word.

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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.

Blasto Review on Tilzy.TV

Captain Blasto received a great write up over at Tilzy.TV, an internet video guide. You can read the review HERE. Tilzy is a great site that directs people to interesting videos and web series scattered across the internet. Sort of the TV Guide of the internet.