The Free Fringe Festival Programme Came Out

So we're now online, our show is official. If you are a person with access to the internet, you can find our show, provided of course, you know exactly where to look, as well as the name of our show.

If you head to the laughing horse free fringe website, you can search for the show and find a brief description of it as well as the time and place. This may seem like a small milestone to pass, and in all honesty, it certainly is, but it's a milestone none the less. Everything is a step towards the reality of us having a show up there. At the moment we're trying to get our little section to look a little bit more flashy, with a picture and a more evocative description of what the show looks like at the moment. Learning what we have recently about promotion, we're making all the more effort to make ourselves look a little bit more slick. Plus, it seems like we've doubled our problems for ourselves by calling our show 'how to be awesome at everything' because for the idea to work the first step is that you have to be at least fairly awesome at marketing and presenting yourself.

Our current marketing looks like this

So if you want to find the current description of our show online, you can find our current listing here, but hopefully that will pale in comparison in some of the other ways that we hope to invade the web with our idea. Which leads me on to some other interesting news, or at least development in the collective comedy project. I, after years of longing to do so, have taken up animating, or at the very least am doggedly trying to do so. Animation is obviously a brilliant medium for comedy, and depending on how successful I am with it, or how much I enjoy it, there could be a lot of animated tie ins to the HTBAAE project. I think that small clips, or animated versions of some of our exploits could make for an interesting experience, whilst also giving me more opportunities to practice my new found hobby. So here is one of my very first animated things... hell, we all start somewhere:

There we go, a simple bird flapping it's crappily drawn and lazily animated wings. And from this seed, will hopefully spring a whole forest of fun animations and little bits and pieces I'll be able to put together. At the moment I'm trying to learn flash for some cartoony bits, but there's also after effects for some more real time video making stuff which is certainly on the cards. Honestly, that bird took a lot longer than you would think, but messing around with this stuff it's remarkable how quickly you can catch on. I've now got a lot ahead of me in terms of learning more about the program and the art of the movement itself, but it seems to be pretty good fun. Watch this space for some how to be awesome animations in the near, or reasonably near future.