Busted Pixel

Probably. We know some people are either on the precipice of finishing the school year and we know some already begun their summers. So in an attempt to properly usher in the new quarter, we will be uploading a new video/segment from our "Brony Con" documentary every week for 6 WHOLE WEEKS! That's easily the most commitment we've ever put into providing weekly content, so enjoy it!

We're super excited for Sakura-Con next weekend. We might be next to the Funimation booth but who knows what will happen. We'll be shopping around our new Volume 2 DVDs and our new shirts! Or atleast new shirt colors! Come over to our booth to find out what glorious colors we went with March 29-31!  Oh yeah and we made a new sketch based off of some dumb internet blah blah blah. -Dan

We had a fun time filming this video with our video game journalist friend, Alex Rubens. And maybe it has something to do with the fact that he's written for magazine like Electronic Gaming Monthly and Nintendo Power, because it's been getting posted around! http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/03/a-message-to-yoshi-stop-running-away/ http://www.destructoid.com/yoshi-is-a-terrible-friend-247485.phtml We'll be coming to Sakura-Con this year (March 29-31th) and we'll be debuting some exclusive merch, so come by if ya wanna hang out. We'll be putting up a video a week for the next few weeks so there's that too! -Dan

In this year's Christmas special, we address the age old question: Why has it taken over 12 years for Nintendo to put a DVD player in one of their consoles. It's just kinda weird. We just bought a bunch of cool film equipment with our winnings from Viral Video Showdown so stuff's gonna start looking all profesh. This was a great for us. We got to collaborate with Max Gilardi (Hotdiggedydemon), we were on tv, and most importantly we got to film some really fun videos. It doesn't get better than that. Actually, I'm sure next year will be even better. -Dan 

The show aired in Canada two weeks ago and according to one of my friends, in New Mexico as well. The show was a great experience. Personally speaking, I checked two important items on my bucket list during the production of that episode. -I made Kevin Pereira laugh. -I got to meet Adam Sessler, and more importantly I was critiqued by one of the greatest critics of all time. The folks behind the show unfortunately had to edit down what was actually intended to be an hour long program down to thirty minutes. Which sucks because the judges had so many great points to make about making videos for the internet that ended up getting shortened down. Brittani Louise Taylor was super sweet and said she wishes that there was a show that chronicled our real lives. Maybe it was the slip and slide that got her. Sandeep Parikh even met me and Peter back in the green room after shooting was all done and we had some good conversations. He even said if we're ever down in LA again, he'd be down to make a short with us! Tempting. Very tempting.  -Dan

The video game sketch comedy group I started in high school is going to be on television this Tuesday. I'm kinda freaking out a little bit, but in a good way. Watch us compete on Viral Video Showdown (Syfy Channel) this Tuesday 11/20 @10:30pm / 9:30 c to find out! 

Yeah so it looks like our episode on Viral Video Showdown is going to be next Tuesday on the 20th. I promise it'll be a goody. Enjoy the BTS for this week. -Dan 

For those of you who may have wondered where Julien has been for the past couple of months, to answer in short: both ends of the Bible belt. He stopped by Washington last Halloween weekend and we were able to get him in a sketch that I had originally had written a character for myself, Tom Nook, who is a raccoon in the game Animal Crossing. He was arguably the most entertaining character in the sketch and when I heard Julien was eager to do a sketch before he left the next day, instead of hogging all the raccoon glory for myself, I decided to instead give it to Julien since I knew he could make it a million times funnier. It wasn’t until Julien had arrived to shoot that I realized how some might be offended by us putting a black guy in a raccoon costume and view it at us trying to make some off-color racist joke. We weren’t and didn’t. In all of the fucked up things that occur in this sketch, making a cheap joke about Julien’s race is beneath us and I hope that people seeing the sketch don’t try to misconstrue it as otherwise. This was one of the funniest sketch to film in a long time, though of course every day filming typically is. I have so much footage left over for the Behind the Scenes, I’m so excited for yall to see it next week. -Dan 

In this newest video, we tried to keep it relevant to current gaming news, while at the same time embracing our newest approach to making online videos through the greatest form of modern art known to man: the sitcom.  Viral Video Showdown is airing next week and we're all super excited. Not because we're on the pilot, because we're not actually. I think Final Cut King is taking someone on, but seriously guys I wish you could see the what Peter and I got to see during production. This is going to be a great show. We don't know when our episode is going to air, but the "powers that be" say that they'll let us know when they know the episode order. In the mean time, stay tuned for updates! -Dan 

I'd embed the promo but the best I can do is post the link to the video. Enjoy! http://www.syfy.com/videos/Viral%20Video%20Showdown/Promos%20&%20Trailers/vid:2604662  And here's a previous promo that ALSO has featured for two split seconds!  

We're still not sure exactly how much about our involvement in this show we can say, but yeah we're really excited for you guys to see us on the show. We don't know which episode we're going to be on SO I GUESS YOU'LL JUST HAVE TO WATCH THEM ALL! -Dan 

Normally I'd have something more to talk about, but something SUPER BIG in the world of Busted Pixel is about to happen and I'm too excited to think about anything else. We STILL can't talk about it at the moment but sooooooon. -Dan

This week's sketch comes from an idea that Chris had a few months back. While it's usually pretty touch and go when we put up a NON-videogame related sketch, we all still enjoy it when we get to work on videos like this. We actually shot this over a month ago. Chris knew what the joke was but we still had to workshop some ideas on how to end the video. After that, I contacted our semi-webmaster/graphic designer, R.K. Smith, to design us a label, which also proved to be a little bit difficult to do without spoiling the video (and how to convey AIDS on a lemonade label for that matter). We also got our buddy, Jake, to help out with this one and hopefully get us more ladies. When we finally got all out props together, we were blessed with an entirely empty baseball field(s) with very little wind. This is actually a video that we ended up shooting a lot of extra montage footage for, but we had to cut most of it because of the jingle's short length. But that's where the delay occurred. It's kind of hard to edit a musical video when you don't have the music and getting it was slightly difficult. We initially contacted one of our music buddies to help us make the jingle, but he was super busy being an actual composer and making money for real commissions. Fortunately, my brother, Robbie Christmas, stepped in at the last minute (as in last weekend) and farted out a little jig that I fell in love with. So there you go, hopefully next week you guys will enjoy all the extra footage we shot on the next Behind The Scenes video. -Dan