Old News
3/18/09
WHATCHADOIN'FO! WestHavenBrook is busy. Conference calls, preproduction, editing, costume making, story boarding! It's a busy time with great things to come!
The new website designing is still underway, hopefully live in the near future.
The Vacuum Consortium is well into season 3.
THER IS ALSO NOW A CAFE PRESS STORE
TO PURCHASE VACUUM MERCH!
CLICK HERE TO CHECK IT OUR!
A friend and fan from Canada made a super awesome 30 sec promo of WestHavenBrook. We are all quite impressed! Check it out:
You going to Comic Con? WE ARE!
LATER!
1/16/09
HELLO! WestHavenBrook is back. It was a wonderful Christmas and a good time off! Well, for some of us. Ben got hella sick. A few new projects are well underway in development, both here in town and overseas!!! Doesn’t that just knock your socks off!
Some interesting news, Justin and John are moving in together with Cody. We’ve got tones of stuff written that we’ll be filming and getting online ASAP. It’s looking like good times.
Justin is well underway working with his band “Before-20” on their first CD.
We are designing a new website. So at some point everything on here will change, but for the better. It will be easier to use, have more merch that’s easier to order, and lots of new entertaining thingy’s to melt you eyeballs on.
There is a new The Vacuum Consortium episode online. Episode one of Season 3. GO VIEW IT HUMANS!
And with that… things here on our site will be a bit quiet for the next few months (like it isn’t quiet all the time :) with the move, new site design, music being made, and shorts being filmed.
Talk with ya’ soon!
9/23/08
Come see us, admission is free.
Modesto Junior College
435 College Ave
Modesto Ca. 95350
9/22/08
We've also done a Ton of Vacuum stuff lately, including our Season 2 finale.
Click Here For The Vacuum Consortium
That's all for now all you wonderful people!
Cheers,
-Justin
9/15/08
Here is a production update as of September 6th!
7/29/08
Watch the movie, download it, and tell the world to watch it too! Available at www.sockbaby.com
SPREAD THE INDOCTRINATION!
We love you all, and look in the near future for some Vacuum Merch, and more shorts!
burp!
-Justin
7/22/08
Westhavenbrook began production
on a new short action film on July 19th. This is the only glimpse
available of the operation:
http://myspacetv.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=38879658
On Sunday, July 27th, John Soares and Justin Spurlock of Westhavenbrook
will appear at a panel discussion with Douglas TenNapel (www.tenNapel.com),
Dan Heder, John Heder, Rob Schrab and Isaac Singleton preceding the
first ever screening of Sockbaby 4 (www.sockbaby.com).
The Panel will take place at 2:45pm in Hall 6-A at San Diego Comic Con
2008.
7/1/08
Justin Spurlock and I are on the
guest list for a special screening of "Hellboy
2: The Golden Army" tonight that will also be attended by my
favorite Director in history, Guillermo Del Toro as well as Selma Blair
and our pal, Doug Jones. Don't wait up.
http://www.youtube.com/v/itD7cybysqg&hl=en
John
6/23/08
Also check out The Vacuum Consortium under our Series section. There is a brilliant new episode featuring a guest appearance of epic visual value! IT'S WONDERFUL!
We've been working at finishing up The Tyrants of Nazca! Ben's taking it in a whole brilliant new direction, which we all LOVE!!! John has been busy traversing California (Networking and Celebing it up) and I've been editing my eyeballs out on Sockbaby 4.
SPLEE!
-Justin
6/17/08
4/11/08
Justin and I are
leaving for LA within the hour. We are going to spend the weekend
filming a portion of Sockbaby part 4. Yes yes, I know. . .you have all
been waiting an age out of an age for this. More precisely you have
waited 5 years.
We have some big surprises for you this time around, so keep an eye on
us!
John
10/08/07
SPLEE!
HELLO ALL YAWL! WE are back from some really really kewl things. The weekend of the Sept. 29th and 30th John, me (Justin), and Uriel, went to Santa Cruz and met up with Ben, Niles, and Nate to film more Tyrants of Nazca greatness. Check out the Series section and see the last bit of Chapter 3, which concludes the first act of the feature.
Check out The Vacuum Consortium tomorrow for a new episode.
Also, this past week was not only the Northern California Film Festival, but also Shockerfest. We showed both the first act of Tyrants and Guantlet of Sorrow, which won the following awards:
-Tyrants of Nazca won a Northern California Film
Festival "Digital Hotcakes Effects Award"
-Gauntlet of Sorrow won a Shockerfest Gorilla award
-John Soares won best actor in a Sci-Fi/ Fantasy film at Shockerfest
We also met some cool peeps there too. Check out Cosmic Control Productions
talk to yawl soon,
-Justin
09/04/07
HOWDY FOLKS!!!
Well we got interviewed by IndyMogul.com and it was awesome. Check out the interview.
There is also some new Vacuum stuff up on that page as well.
Thank you, that is all
-Justin
08/09/07
Welcome to WestHavenBrook Productions website. If you are just joining us from seeing us at Comic Con we are happy you have volunteered your willing observance to our New World Order of Digital Cinema! Please feel free to navigate our many areas of corruption.
Thank you, that is all
-Justin
07/24/07
HEY YO IT'S JUSTIN OVAH HERE!
So we are gearing up for Comic-Con! We'll be showing Tyrants, selling DVD's and stuff, and just generally walking around enjoying the wonder of Comic-Con. Sockbaby DVD's will be available at Doug TenNapels booth as well as the Bad Karma Productions booth. Watch the update below for more info.
Cheers,
-Justin
07/09/07
HUGE WEBSITE UPDATE!!!
I've made a bunch of additions to the Series and
Media sections. Look around and find the following:
-A new Battle Jitni section in Series
-Our latest show
The Vacuum Consortium
-The Hairbrain Scheme's rock video for "My Flabby
Valentine"
-Behind the scenes of that rock video
-5 new short films in our Media/Films section: undercommune,
Crumbersome Munch,
The Legend of Hughsonvillage, wraith, and Future
Christmas
-A new Techno WestHavenBrook promo video
-That vid of Kyle fighting a monster at Comic-Con 2006
-And another MJC commercial I did.
WHEW!!! Man what a day! there is tons more to come too. Be sure to check out that Vacuum Consortium show, it's good.
-Justin
07/05/07
Ladies and Gentlemen, this is Justin Spurlock!!!
So John is on a very fruitful trip, going to San Francisco for some business, then Santa Cruz to see the Beames, then Arizona for more Davey Proton goodness.
I'm editing many things for the website to come. Also we're gearing up for Comic Con. We'll be showing "Tyrants of Nazca". WOOT!
The website will be getting a big overhaul soon, so be patient with us. Talk at you soon.
Justin
06/01/07
"Battle Jitni and the Gauntlet of Sorrow" makes it's public premiere on June 13th at St. Stan's Brewery/Heroes Sports Bar in Modesto at 9pm! Be there!
Chapter 2 of the Ben Beames series, "The Tyrants of Nazca" is now online. It's beautiful. Check it out. Special thanks to Saint Anthony's Parish in Hughson for allowing us to film inside the church.
About two years ago or something, WestHavenBrook teamed up with BadKarma Productions on a strange project called "Crumbersome Munch". Justin decided to edit it...you must watch it!
John
05/23/07
Don't forget that Gauntlet of Sorrow is done and you can watch it HERE!
I came home about an hour ago from shooting a scene of "Tyrants of Nazca". Its 2:30 in the morning and we started at about 8pm and I still wish I could do this for a living. It was one of the most complicated shoots I have been a part of and if you have ever seen some of the stuff we have made, I have been on one or two pretty complicated shoots. It's a dramatic dialogue sequence (which is something a little new for me but I'm having fun stepping into some new shoes.) Ben's compositions and lighting always play a huge part and take as long or longer to set up than the actual acting part of things (though we rehearsed the whole thing a week ago without cameras and that was a huge help.)
A little known fact about WestHavenBrook is that we shoot a lot of stuff. A LOT. Our friend Doug TenNapel once said "they have rolled more tape than a lot of professionals that are actually in the business". But I think even he might be shocked by the truth. And that truth is that we actually have a vault's worth of raw footage for short films we have shot since 2001. It's true, we have shot so many shorts, improvised and otherwise, that we actually have them backed up and waiting to be edited. Justin has taken it upon himself to sift through the madness of our raw footage archive and start finishing these films. He has started with a film that I wrote and we filmed six years ago along with another film we produced with BadKarma about 2 years ago. All I can say is, I have see what is finished of them and they are hilarious. One of them made me sob with laughter. SOB!
Flying to Phoenix in a few hours.
Feel free to send envelopes of cash to my house.
John
05/01/07
"Battle Jitni and the Gauntlet of Sorrow" is finally finished!
The big new action comedy from WestHavenBrook is now unleashed upon the unsuspecting Earth Orb!
Watch it now my clicking HERE!!!
04/12/07
New video update! Click here to check it out.
04/05/07
Hello, this is John. I am currently in Phoenix shooting Davey Proton 2
(and 3 and 4) Things are going great here. I am having a blast. Phoenix
is a cool town even though I haven't seen much of it on this trip. I
think I must associate the freedom from too much responsibility and the
good company of artists with the quality of living in this city.
Uriel Padilla, an old friend of mine from Hughson who now lives in
Phoenix, started in this movie stuff as a martial art stunt guy in my
crazy action movies and he is now the cinematographer on Dave Proton 2
for Eric. Its pretty killer because I think it suits his skills as a
photographer.
In my off time here, which today is all day, I have been working on the
Screenplay for Westhavenbrook's first feature film. Why can't I live
like this every week?
I finally got to read Ethan (Eef) Nicolle's book, "The Weevil" and it
is awesome. I want to direct the movie. You really need to pick up a
copy.
When I get back to Hughson, (or at least the day after I get back) I am
going to make a few more alterations to Gauntlet of Sorrow before its
release. Valerie Hochberg did a funny bit of animation for me and I
will be slipping that in there as well as a few other minor adjustments
per some carefully weighed advise from Douglas TenNapel and Justin
Spurlock. It should only be a matter of days from that point until its
online for all of you to see. I have a date in mind, but I am not going
to say what it is just yet in case I miss it by a day or two.
That's all for now. Enjoy your stay.
john