This is reposted from the John Howard’s Knees Fundbreak page… Big thanks to those who’ve chucked in for “John Howard’s Knees”, and just as much thanks go to those who’ve re-tweeted, reposted and just generally whored this page around! Personally, I reckon spreading the word is at least as helpful to the film as putting…
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John Howard’s Knees: seeking preorders!
So I hooked up with the folks at Fundbreak to set up a bit of a crowdfunding experiment. John Howard’s Knees – the case for. from David Blumenstein on Vimeo. I thought it might be interesting to see if we can raise a bit of money for the production of the film by doing what’s…
Run, Johnny, run
A drawing I’m doing for my John Howard’s Knees film. I don’t think it’s done yet (the drawing, not the film). Suggestions welcome. See the multitude of people and animals bent on breaking John Howard’s knees! Even cats want in on this action. In other news, I replaced my website with a single PNG image….
“John Howard’s Knees” requires a singer
David Blumenstein, director of such acclaimed (?) short films as “Herman, The Legal Labrador”, “Kickin’ It With Mr Flig” and “Fart That Out Your Ear” (upcoming), is making a new short animated musical called “John Howard’s Knees”, and requires a singer. The three minute cartoon will tell the story, in song, of how John Howard’s…
Changing channels
Theoretically, this is the “Precinct” production blog, but clearly, over four years, it’s become “David’s blog”. Since there’s not too much Precinct news at the moment, I will probably talk a bit in coming months about the little short I’m now making, called John Howard’s Knees. I’m VERY VERY excited about it for reasons I’ll…
John Howard’s Knees
About five years ago I wrote a script for a short film called “The Ballad of the History of Trying to Break John Howard’s Knees”, a lovely singalong tale of how our then-Prime Minister, John Winston Howard, has always had to escape brutal knee-beatings. Those knees secrete some kind of powerful magic, tempting violence from…