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Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Music Video Shoot, Tues 01/21/14


Was part of a friend's music video shoot yesterday morning over in Echo Park for 7 AM. Small affair with friends both old & new, and extra nice as pretty much everybody there was already a fan of the band's music. Good times & lots of fun. We were done by 10 AM. More news later on RollingStone.com.com.com. Happy New Year. ;W

Friday, May 31, 2013

News: Joining the cast of Hollywood Fringe Show - 6 Performances, June 8 - June 29, 2013

I've been cast as Terence in Lost Moon Radio's "ROGER WODEHOUSE'S ANDROGYMNASIUM" for its six-performance run at the Hollywood Fringe Festival next month. Here's a description from the festival's website:
When BBC executives asked glam rock icon Roger Wodehouse to do a children’s television show in 1975, he had two questions. One: Would he be allowed to talk openly about his fluid sexuality? Two: Would there be animal guests? They said yes to both and he agreed to do the show, giving birth to the ultimate glam rock children’s television odyssey: “Roger Wodehouse’s Androgymnasium.” Along with his hard-rocking band and a slew of hapless guests, Roger educates, entertains, and expands the minds of his audiences, adults and children alike. Burn your cardigans, folks. This ain’t Mr. Rogers.
Lost Moon Radio was named “Top of the Fringe” and “Best of Comedy” at the Hollywood Fringe Festival 2012 and “Best of Comedy” at the Hollywood Fringe Festival 2011.

To purchase tickets, visit the Hollywood Fringe 2013 Website.

For More Info, visit the Shows Page.

 ~W

Wednesday, July 4, 2012

'Me & Nicole Kidman' An HBO Film...



A day of work last year while living in the Bay Area has resulted in me popping up in a scene of the film "Hemingway and Gelhorn", starring Nicole Kidman and Clive Owen, airing on HBO since this Memorial Day. In the scene, I assist Ms. Kidman in sending a very old-fashioned form of SMS text message popular in the 1930s called a 'Morse Code Message': 

Please enjoy the back of my head
Please enjoy the back of my head.

. . . I wrote a bit about the day's filming last year here. The scene appears near the end around the 2 hour and 15 minute mark -- or so my parent's tell me. I haven't yet seen the film. Photo courtesy of my parents' TV set. 

~W.


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Further Reading:

Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Music Video: Sue Scrofa's "I'm Goin' Around" - Under The Radar Magazine

The music video by The Dickheads (Website, Facebook) for "I'm Goin Around" by Sue Scrofa (Website, Facebook) is online. Read the nice write-up by Under The Radar magazine here; video below...






My Dog and I are in this music video: 
First frame is us behind the spinning pinwheel, I'm dragging her around...
Then she's got a closeup at 1:04 just after / just at the end of the 1st chorus... Then, she spins in a circle. :)

Just try and get this song's refrain out-of-your-head...Great work, fun day.    ~W.


Link on Youtube: http://youtu.be/46ikaGKzB7I





Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Monday, March 26, 2012

WERNER HERZOG vs. DAVID LYNCH

EXTREME DUPLEX MAKEOVER with WERNER HERZOG AND DAVID LYNCH is now online in two versions!



...A 5-minute version on FunnyOrDie: www.funnyordie.com/videos/548a7ed25c/extreme-duplex-makeo...

...And for the "truly-insane", a 9 minute-plus version on Youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nh5Zjm4kMus

Danke und Tschüß!

-Will
http://WernerHerzogEatsTheWorld.com

Sunday, March 18, 2012

ESPN Fantasy Baseball Promo: "Clowns"

The ESPN promo commercial I filmed last month is now online & running on ESPN / ABC nationwide. Here's the 'surreal' 30-second version:




-Will;

Friday, March 16, 2012

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

18 October 2011 Tuesday HONK Report

Honk* Report :

- Met with guest star for the upcoming Herzog (Ep #4)
- Sent a selection from latest promotional headshot shoot to the printer and picked up to deliver to agents for selection
-Recorded 2 pieces of ADR "falling screams & collapsing / hitting the ground noises" for video sketch that Titled Sketch Project filmed until late last Sunday night on LA's Westside
-Rec'd new notes from member of the Herzog writing team
-Lots of driving and cars honking


Upcoming: attending a Union members' meeting
-filming the fourth installment of our ongoing Bizarro HERZOG chronicles on 10.20.11 (The day after tomorrow).


:)

*For the proper contextual definition of a HONK please see this essay [broken link] by CarlKingCreative (now CarlKingdom) . com .

Tuesday, June 28, 2011

My Sketch Comedy Directoral Debut has been Re-Scored!

Our fan favorite "Dirty" is now online with an all-new original score by the lovely and talented Vlad Berkhemer!


Vlad's the guy who's done music for many of our Titled Sketch Project videos. His work on our " Battlestar Ga-FRAK-tica " sketch caught the attention & praise of the actual Battlestar Galactica series music composer, Bear McCreary (* See his mention of it here, on Twitter).

More of that stuff, So say we all!


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Thursday, May 12, 2011

Exclusive: How Pakistani Citizens Helped Capture Osama Bin Laden

It's important to stay on good terms with your neighbors.




(On Youtube)
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Tuesday, May 3, 2011

'What If Ellen DeGeneres Hosted A Television Talk-show?'

New from my group Titled Sketch Project:

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKr3t7zT1nQ

Also featuring Philip Seymour Hoffman & John C. Reilly.

enjoy :)

~W

Thursday, April 21, 2011

Werner Herzog’s plans to recreate the Chauvet Caves in France…outside of the caves.

I can't even make this stuff up anymore:

(click here to see the video series in which I play Herzog)


There is a plan to re-create the cave outside in some sort of what I called the Disneyland version. Since nobody’s going to be allowed in the cave, they will replicate the entire cave. They’ll replicate the paintings on the walls. And there was even a plan to re-create, in our imagination, the scent inside of the cave. Which means maybe some carrion of rotting cave bears, some fire, some … resins. I’ve found a master perfumer who fantasize[s] wildly about how the odor may have been 32,000 years ago. However, when you are entering there, it is slightly humid. There’s no significant traces of any smell of anything significant in there.

— Werner Herzog’s plans to recreate the Chauvet Caves in France…outside of the caves.

(via nprfreshair)

For more, see the 'Interview Highlights section here: http://www.npr.org/2011/04/20/135516812/herzog-enters-the-cave-of-forgotten-dreams

-WM

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Liberty Call.



Spent several hours aboard this ship yesterday morning for work. She's 1 of the 2 remaining Liberty ships that are seaworthy, out of a fleet of 2700 made. They were designed & built--all of them-- within 12-18 months. All for the American War effort in WW 2. Can you imagine that undertaking today? This one was made in 52 days, I think, & made 11 trips between Britain & Normandy on-and-following D-Day. Each ship was designed to last 5 years. This one returned to Normandy for the 50th anniversary of D-Day, the only ship present for the original event that returned. As a former World War II junkie (in 8th grade), I enjoyed every minute of it, even when just standing around, with the ship rocking back and forth.

I played a Morse Code operator, was instructed by one of the ship's current custodian, and helped a certain tall, blonde Australian actress send a message in one scene. It was fun.

Look for Hemingway & Gelhorn on HBO sometime next year.

Monday, March 7, 2011

How To Summon MOTHRA !

Performed by Will and Ian of the now-defunct band CALL TO RIOT at the Sapphire Supper Club in Orlando, Florida in 2001.

Text below courtesy of everything2.com :

Summoning Mothra, 2001 from Will Maierica on Vimeo.



(also available here on Youtube).

In the Japanese monster movie classic Mothra, the title character (a giant moth) is summoned to battle by the haunting song of the Alilenas, the Barbie doll-sized priestesses of the titanic creature.

Now you can use the lyrics provided below (in Malaysian, Japanese, and English) to summon Mothra to your side! Mothra comes in very handy during tense departmental meetings, performance reviews, and final exams.

Malaysian:

Mosura ya, Mosura
Dongan kasakuyan
Indoo muu
Rosuto uiraadoa,
Hanba hanbamuyan
Randa banunradan
Tounjukanraa
Kasaku yaanmu

Japanese:

Mosura ya Mosura
Tasukete yo te yobeba
Toki o koete
Umi o koete
Nami no yo ni yatte kuru
Mamorigami
Mosura ya Mosura
Yasashisasae wasure
Arehateta
Hito no kokoro
Inorinagara utau
Ai no uta

English:

Mothra O Mothra
If we were to call for help
Over time
Over sea
Like a wave you'd come
Our guardian angel
Mothra O Mothra
Of forgotten kindness
And ruined spirits
We pray for the people's
Spirit as we sing
This song of love.

Friday, February 18, 2011

On the Front Page of FunnyOrDie right now in video "Friday Feeling".

On the F.O.D. front page as of today, shot a few weeks ago in L.A. Here's a direct link as well.

Lots of fun doing this "LAW & Order-meets-NIGHT GALLERY" video for FunnyOrDie & T.G.I. Fridays. Great chance to work with Scott Rodgers again from my old I.O. West group ROBERTO ALOMAR plus all the new faces. Thanks again to Ryan Perez at FOD for having me aboard.



By the way, that cake I ate at the end was delicious!




-Will.

Monday, January 31, 2011

America's Most Unstable Conductor -- TSPcomedy.com

The new & improved version by Titled Sketch Project http://TitledSketchProject.com :