Our friends at Phurnace Software asked us to help them create a show that highlights their ability to automate java application deployments. Phurnace builds software to help companies automate the deployment of J2EE applications and configuration of WebSphere, WebLogic, JBoss or WebSphere Portal.

Shot on a Canon HV30 and performed by Larry Warnock and Jessica Gass of Phurnace this episode demonstrates that you don’t have to burn down your entire IT infrastructure in order to update your web servers.

Our friends at Phurnace Software, who make Java application deployment software, are gearing up to announce a new “rollback” feature in their Portal Deliver product at the next Websphere Portal Excellence Conference.

They asked us to put together a quick promo piece to invite people to their booth.

We are gearing up for a great show next week at the IBM Portal Excellence Conference in San Diego. If you are headed to the show, please stop by our session on Monday from 4:30 – 5:30PM PT in the Marina 5 Ballroom and/or visit us at Booth 13.

After loading up the video, we hit the number 3 spot in Google – right below IBM’s conference pages.

We put together a book trailer for the book “Smoke Screen” by Sandra Brown.

Ms. Brown isn’t a customer of ours, but we felt like playing around a little with graphic animation, and intrigue. You can find out more about the book and the author over at Barnes and Noble.

The Pink Slip Festival in Austin, Texas provided free live music, family fun, cheap beer and hotdogs for Austin’s unemployed families. Dan Dillard of Amplify Financial created the Pink Slip Festival as an Austin styled response at to the down economy. The Pink Slip Festival was held at the Spider House coffee shop and featured Big Don, an accomplished children’s hip hop star.

Find out more about upcoming events and how you can help.
http://www.amplifyfinancial.com/
http://www.pinkslipfestival.com
htttp://www.bigdonproductions.com

It’s no big secret that @bigmanweston and I like to eat.

My wife is a killer cook and Weston’s culinary paramour, @girlblake, can make a mean Sunny Side Up-Cake.

So when she decided to take her cupcakes on the road to the Cupcake Smackdown 1.0, we thought we’d tag along with a camera.

There were many entries. Each one told a different story of trial, error, excitement and a little trepidation.

Who would win Austin’s coveted cupcake crown?

Unfortunately, we were only equipped to document one baker’s bitchin’ bio – Blake’s–a classic parable of the girl from the streets who pitted her cupcake creations against Austin’s finest… and won!

To everyone who promoted, attended and competed in the Cupcake Smackdown, congratulations and thanks for an awesome day.

My stomach loves you.

Go @girlblake!

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This is a promo piece that we shot for our friends at Amplify Federal Credit Union.

The 30 second commercial aired in Austin captures Rob Harbison’s testimonial about Amplify’s new “Free All ATMs” campaign. That’s right. All your ATM transactions are free with Amplify.

Go Amplify!

Dan Dillard, over at Amplify Financial, a division of www.goamplify.com asked us to come out and shoot their Amplify Career Fair.

Amplify is reaching out and helping people get back to work in small businesses all over the city of Austin. To go along with the vendors, Dan set up seminars for people who were out looking for a new gig.

A couple of people that we talked to even picked up interviews right there.

Great job, Dan! Go Amplify!

We met a bunch of great people at door64’s first Tech Fair. Here’s a recap of some of the folks we met talking about the fair. Big thanks to Matt Genovese for throwing a great event and making us a part of it.

We were asked to do a promo piece for Mark Thomas Studio in Austin.  With only one day to shoot and edit, it’s definitely more of a run-and-gun style than we’re used to. But given the timeframe, we’re pretty happy with how it turned out.