The Overlord Pictures Blog

It’s what’s for dinner. Well, soon that is. We have a mental mindfuck up our sleeve, one that is currently being written by me. It is a re-make (a re-imagining more literally) of a film Mary made a while back. I’m very excited about this project and hope you are, too.

In other news, The Voice of Insanity Episode 1: Commercial Time is also on it’s way. We have some great skits coming your way that will make you laugh, cry, and maybe even touch yourself. It’s a themed episode, if you couldn’t tell from the title, consisting of nothing but commercials. We think they’re hilarious and hope you will as well.

That’s all for now. I thought I’d update you on the current matters (since I’m oh-so-good at it :P), and since I feel I’ve done just that I shall take my leave. Adieu.

-Overlord T.J.

Hey there everyone! Just wanted to drop by and let everyone know that we are still active, HUGELY so as a matter of fact. We’ve been hard at work writing, filming, perfecting, critiquing, juggling, blowing (figuratively that is :P) our web show The Voice of Insanity. Yes, we did just do Pie, but that was an unexpected afterthought that was rushed (beautifully) from a Voice sketch. What I’m trying to say is that even though it may seem like we haven’t been putting out much recently (which is killing me by the way), it’s because we’ve been putting all of our time and efforts into the opus called The Voice of Insanity. And after all this time and waiting I’m pleased to announce that the first episode, the “pilot” if you will, is currently being finished and should be out soon. That being said, we have a pile of other scripts waiting to be filmed, but we’re waiting to jump on them until we see the response from the pilot. We hope to have it out to you soon and hope even more that you find it remotely humorous and enjoy it as much as we did making it. So I ask of you, please be patient. The Revolution of OP is nigh…

-Overlord T.J.

We won Second Place in the Helena Film Festival with Pie: Not Even Once, Jared’s directorial debut! We are so super jazzed and excited. I hope all three of you who actually enjoy our shenanigans watch and fall in love. It’s amazing!

Oh, and by the way, we bought Frosties with the $25 prize. Thank you Myrna Loy, and thank YOU everyone who reads this and watches our shit.

- Overlord T.J.

Anonymous asked: Dear TJ:

I have had this rash on the inside of my anus for about three weeks now. Do you think that this could be a direct result of the syphilis? Or is it caused by something else? PLEASE HELP ME!

I’m not what you’d call a “doctor”, but I DID go to night school so I think I can help. Gargle bleach while jerking yourself off, fixes almost everything!

-Dr. T.J.

What we have in store for you soon is something that should have happened a while ago. Jared’s directorial debut. Yes, he’s been credited before, but now he’s done it solo, and I must say, I’m proud of him. I can say that whole-heartedly and am completely confident you all will agree when you see it. Speaking of which, I’ll put it up on the site soon, but not until after it’s been screened at the annual Helena Film Festival. Hopefully we win something this year, though win or no, I’ll still let everyone view the masterpiece. It deserves to be seen and it’ll have you laughing your ass off. I guarantee it.

Here’s hoping we AT LEAST place this year!

- Overlord T.J.

As you’d know, if you’ve been to the site recently, we have a new video player (again!) And it’s in pure HTML5! No plug-ins, no slow Flash loading, no Flash in general. This is exciting news, not only because you can view our website on the iPad, but because it works natively with your browser, meaning it loads faster and runs smoother. There is one drawback, however, but it’s only pertaining to Firefox users: OGG. Let me just say that this is quite possibly the worst codec I’ve had the displeasure of using. It’s barely supported and hard to find encoders/decoders for. And, much to my luck, is the only codec Firefox can use for HTML5 videos. Safari and Chrome can use the (dare I say it) better h.264 codec, which makes it super easy for me on my Mac. Some people will argue that Mozilla’s choice was for the best because it’s an open-source codec and has no license or royalty fees, and for that they are correct, but what the choice has left us with is a far inferior and little-known codec. What is the point I’m trying to make with this? Simple. Most of our videos converted to OGG Theora just fine. All but one: Speedy. I’m not sure of the reason behind this, but I’ve taken most of the day to try and figure it out to no avail, so I’ve given up. This is no reason to fret, however, for all of our videos are up and running in amazing quality on YouTube. That and Mozilla is working a new codec into Firefox: WebM. Most of you probably haven’t heard of it, but that’s okay, you will in due time. For now, though, until the horrible OGG situation is fixed, we’ll have to wait. Hopefully that time is soon. Until then, here’s looking at you, kid…



-Overlord T.J.

A MAJOR update has taken place on the OP site, even though nothing seems changed. It has, believe me. I have made two significant changes that should be addressed. Firstly: our video player has changed. This was done in an act to try and speed up our content delivery, for as all two of you know, our videos sometimes loaded incredibly slow. Well, that has changed for the better. We are now using the Bittorrent DNA-enabled player. This means that the player harnesses the speed and power of peer-to-peer technology and standard web streaming to bring you our videos significantly faster. However, this added speed (ironically enough) will only be available to Windows users, which most of the people, besides me, who visit the site use. The only thing you have to do to benefit from this wondrous advancement is install a small plug-in to your browser once. You can, of course, opt to not, but as I’ve illustrated you WILL NOT see an improvement in speed if you don’t.

Anyways, enough of that chatter. The second, more minor update that I did to the site was replace the film “Esc”. I went back to the drawing board and completely re-edited the whole thing. I did this because, no matter how much I loved the original edit, I felt it needed some more polish. So I did this and, unlike previously where I would have multiple versions of the same film up, I decided to just outright replace the old with the new. I feel it is now the film it was meant to be and I want you all to see it!

Well, figuring all this out has sure got me tired, so I’m gonna go and pass out in my nice warm bed. Yours truly signing out.


Overlord T.J.