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.

On Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/44269968

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

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

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;

'WIPE THE SCENE, I'LL KILL YOU' Show Promo v2

Promo for tonight's 'Wipe The Scene, I'll Kill You'#improv show in LA:http://youtu.be/RJbCYLDdl0M via @youtube w/@gianmolina @mikepostalakis - via Twitter



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Twilight of the Vampires! (Behind the Scenes)

Behind the scenes on our Halloween video - via Titled Sketch Project:

New Halloween Video: "Twilight of the Vampires!"

Everything you didn't need to know about vampires . . .

New from Titled Sketch Project.

Subscribe to TSP on Youtube: http://tinyurl.com/3fczxk6

on Twitter: http://twitter.com/TSPcomedy

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/titledsketchproject

Happy Halloween!

http://www.TitledSketchProject.com

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!

Dirty (Remix) on Youtube: - click here to subscribe to TitledSketchProject's channel

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WEB: http://www.TitledSketchProject.com
FACEBOOK: http://www.facebook.com/TitledSketchProject
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'What If Ellen DeGeneres Hosted A Television Talk-show?'

New from my group Titled Sketch Project:

[subscribe to TSP on Youtube: http://tinyurl.com/3fczxk6]

"What if Ellen Degeneres had a Talk Show?"

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

Also featuring Philip Seymour Hoffman & John C. Reilly.

enjoy :)

~W

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.

Friday Feeling - watch more funny videos

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

-Will.

Happy Thanksgiving From the World's Most Unstable Conductor.

Bring your laptop or iPad to the dinner table & make the family laugh today -- just plain freak them out -- with this new version of a Fan Favorite from all of us at Titled Sketch Project:




http://titledsketchproject.com/post/1673010064/americas-most-unstable-conductor-starring-will




See all the TSP videos at http://TitledSketchProject.com, and have a Happy Thanksgiving!!

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See Will join the TSP crew LIVE, On Stage, at "Jerk Circus" in Los Angeles this Wednesday, December 2nd: Details at http://www.TitledSketchProject.com/jerkcircus

Promo I Did For The San Francisco Irish Film Festival

Let's put it this way . . . I did not play the dog.

http://sfirishfilm.com/sf-irish-film-festival-promo

Produced & Directed by Niall McKay / MediaFactory TV

"Media Factory is an Emmy-winning production company. Its customers include PBS, RTE (Ireland) and Canal Cl@se (latin america). The company has produced programming..." http://mediafactory.tv/

San Francisco Irish Film Festival from Media Factory on Vimeo.

Interview with Niall McKay about San Francisco Irish Film Fest

*Very Professional* Online Guitar Instructional Video

I taped this last fall in L.A. for fun: Musician friends might especially appreciate it:

[Photo links to Youtube:]



Description from the blog of CarlKingCreative, who produced the video & debuted it online yesterday:

You know those scenes in movies where they cut to the actor’s hands and he can suddenly shred? More often than not, those are this guy’s hands — and now you can learn directly from the man behind the magic.

Will Maier from The Whatevs is the special guest host / instructor today on this free video excerpt from ShredTips.edu — the world’s first online guitar instructional website for Hand Actors. He appears in his first ever wide-shot and demonstrates a few “conceptual” licks that are unlike anything C.C. DeVille could play (watch out for that killer vibrato intonation) — showing the student how to find his own voice on the guitar and make it his own. You’d think it can’t get any better than that “exotic” scale… but from there, Will launches straight into teaching you How To Play A Song For 30 Seconds.

It was announced last week that Michael Bay flew Will in as a consultant for his upcoming remake of Crossroads, in which Megan Fox teams up with herself to play a pair of renegade, lesbian, train-robbing demolition experts… and in this video, you’ll see why.

Play along, if you can!

Will also played the role of Zac Efron’s hands in the upcoming feature called The Sailor’s Predicament, written and directed by Dan Oster. This talented young artist can be contacted through William Morris.
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New Film In The Werner Herzog Series Currently On Front Page Of FunnyOrDie.com

The 3rd installment of our "Werner Herzog Eats-The-World" short film series, in which I portray the slightly eccentric and perhaps utterly bizarre German film director Werner Herzog (GRIZZLY MAN, ENCOUNTERS AT THE END OF THE WORLD), has premiered on the front page of FunnyOrDie.COM.

"Speed Dating With Werner Herzog (And Special Guest, Björk)" was filmed last November in Los Angeles on a small budget, and like its two predecessors concerns the adventures of a fictionalized younger incarnation of the award winning filmmaker, based on events and quotations taken from his real life. We follow Werner once again on a search for epic discovery, this time toinvestigate the current manifestation of man's quest for love". Fitting that the short had it's FOD featured debut on Valentine's Day.

Also available on YOUTUBE as of yesterday.

Thanks go to Josh Simpson and the FunnyOrDie staff, director/co-writer John Webb, producer Garth Mueller, and the entire cast & crew, without whom this film would not have been possible.

Please click on / vote "Funny" if you liked it.

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/b40462761f/speed-dating-with-werner


http://wernerherzogeatstheworld.com

http://www.sandwichfilms.net

-W.


Additional Note:
An extended cut of the episode is now up at director John Webb's Youtube account. It's about three minutes longer than the version that debuted on FunnyOrDie & shows off more of the excellent improvisational talents of the actors who portrayed Werner's ill-matched speed dating companions, as well as Heather Anne Campbell's inspired take as Bjork--a vivid portrayal that she recreates here, having originally brought it to life quite memorably as a member of the Groundlings Sunday Company. To all the actors who made room in their schedules in order to lend their talents to the film (and on short notice), I owe a considerable amount of gratitude. Their names and those of the whole cast & crew can be found just below the video player on this FunnyOrDie page.

Werner Herzog's New Cooking Show [video]

You all may know Werner Herzog for his groundbreaking maverick films and documentaries on bears, madmen, and Antarctica . . . but did you know that he once hosted a cooking show?

"Cooking With Werner"--with Special Guest Jim Jarmusch.

Stars William Maier, Scott Rodgers, and Gian Molina.
Directed by John Webb. Shot by Paul Mayne.

Cooking With Werner Part 1: http://funnyordie.com/videos/c383c32fff/
Cooking With Werner Part 2: http://funnyordie.com/videos/c413df14ac/

Digg this video: http://digg.com/d3zWj0 or http://digg.com/comedy/Werner_Herzog_Cooking_Show_Part_1_of_2

Please tell all of your freunden. Danke schon.

W.

New Video: I Am [Not] A Talking Dog . . .

This video was written by Heather Campbell for the iO West Xecution semi-final challenge of making a Sitcom Pilot Presentation: it was screened in competition on 1/26, again at iO during the KWH Sketch Show on 1/30, & at the UCB LA's February edition of The Midnight Show. The video was directed by Michael Busch.

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/d1a4e471cc/



Congratulations again to Heather for the win!

http://iowest.com
http://losangeles.ucbtheatre.com

Credits: Written by Heather Campbell & Kayla Morrisey; Shot by Justin Martinez; Edited by James Pumphrey; Starring Heather Campbell, Kayla Morrisey, Will Maier; Featuring James Adomian, James Ross & Michael Busch; Produced by Michael Busch.

Ken Block [Sister Hazel singer] Music Video Now Online

UPDATE: Now up on Youtube!: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlhGKGd_1o4

The music video for Sister Hazel singer Ken Block's debut single "I Don't Mind", off his just-released first-ever solo CD "Drift", is now online as of today. You can watch the video exclusively on http://www.windowsmedia.com/mediaguide/RockGrabBag . The video will certainly pop up elsewhere on the web and TV in the next week.






[Note: if you have trouble viewing the video on a Mac, I suggest the FlipMac plug-in for Quicktime available here, which will enable your computer to play the video in Quicktime format.]

Director Tracie Laymon shot the video a few months ago in Los Angeles and I was lucky enough to appear in the video and meet Ken. Could not have been a nicer guy. Was so nice to meet a rock and roll success story (from my home state of Florida, that obscure no-man's land of huh? no less), that could have happened to a nicer human being. Check out Ken's solo site at http://www.blockville.com to see some of the stuff this guy has done with his opportunities: all the charity work and gratitude to he and his bands' fans. Sister Hazel had a bit of a monster hit in the '90s with the song "All For You", which I myself have (probably) butchered i karaoke a few dozen times. It was great to meet him and to be a part of of such a sweet song's video.

Special note: The painting visible below the window through which Ken pops through n the video is by my friend and fellow Florida Artist Jared Whitham, who himself resided & worked in Gainesville for the last few years before relocating to New York. It was nice to be able to facilitate that "collaboration": more paintings of Jared's are visible at http://jaredwhitham.com .



And be sure to check out the director's site at http://www.tracielaymon.com.

That's it! Now enjoy the music.

Video from 'America's Most Unstable Conductor'.

I made it to the next round. Thank so much for your support.

Warmly,
Marcus Shostanovich.

(direct link to video to play full-size)

See more funny videos at Funny or Die

Digg this : http://digg.com/comedy/America_s_Most_Unstable_Conductor

Refridgerator: directed by Peter Nydrle, for Best Buy.

A short film by Czech director Peter Nydrle, made for a new indie start-up called Best Buy. Please enjoy my legs from far away.





Actors: Will Maier, Deepa Seneviratne, Scott G. Anderson.

More at Nydrle.com.

Director John Webb on IFC News discussing our award-winning Film at AFI Fest

John Webb discussed our the short 'TMI, Inc' that won the IFC / Absolut Vodka Filmmaking Challenge on an IFC News segment. This clip is now running on the Independent Film Channel; keep an eye out for it . . .(includes clips from the party the party they threw us at AFI Fest last week in Hollywood):



(Watch the clip full size here)

Congrats to John & all our crew.

You can see the film we won for here.

-W.

Metallica Inside You [live perfomance]

Metallica Inside You, by William Maier & Stirling Krusing (For Serious Reals)

Stirling was in town from New York with the band Flaming Fire, so I stole him for a night and we performed a few songs that we'd written back in January of '07 during my brief time spent in Gainesville. This was the last song of the 5 song set:

See more funny videos at Funny or Die

MP3 of this song & others at the For Serious Reals myspace.