C-U Blogfidential

From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: Yes, friends, we realize worthy local Web series do *not* have to feature ninjas. How does a pack of grape-drenched zombies sound to you, then? Is good? Good. Otherwise, we’d be UP THE CREEK right about now.

From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: We skip the heebies and the jeebies tonight to bring you a touch of bittersweet romantic bliss courtesy of a Timothy Ro-directed music video for the song “Midnight Love” by Mokhov.

On this slo-mo Saturday afternoon we shake it up by delivering a trailer, poster, and the cold hard facts about the Springfield-made THE CINEMA SNOB MOVIE, released to DVD for your high falutin’ consumption on September 25, 2012!

From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: Your body will move. Your body will groove. In fact, it might just “Jump Back” if The Duke of Uke and His Novelty Orchestra have anything to sing about it.

From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: The music keeps on playing as area filmmaker Bob Zimmerman readies what may be the first-ever full-length documentary on Champaign-Urbana rock musicians, OUT OF NOWHERE!

From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: If we must dance with the Devil, then it might as well be to some mighty rock ‘n’ roll courtesy of The Dirty Feathers and our perpetual man in motion, A-rock!

From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: If NINJA THE MISSION FORCE is only known for one thing, it will be the gleeful “kitchen sink” approach taken by Dark Maze Studios to stitch together each episode. Jeff Nitzberg’s neat-o poster follows suit!

From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: After seeing the Martin Scorsese film HUGO and its loving depiction of the first visionary filmmaker, Georges Melies, your humble editor recalls a quiet moment spent with Papa George on January 13, 1992.

From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: Ed Glaser and Dark Maze Studios are at it again! Today we find them throwing public domain movie stars into the mix of their Hong Kong inspired Web series NINJA THE MISSION FORCE and seeing where they stick!

So, the News-Gazette beat us to the punch and featured local filmmakers Anne and Chris Lukeman on the cover of their Central Illinois Business magazine. We’ll let it slide. This time. Bwa to the ha ha!

From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: Putting the “do” in “do it yourself” with interesting results, Chris Eitel of the C-U band Elsinore depicts domestic strife using stop motion in his music video for the group’s song, “Life Inside an Elephant.”

From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: A slight detour is taken as we present rare video of a stage production written and directed by Champaign filmmaker Mike Trippiedi for the Celebration Company at the Station Theatre in Urbana in 1996, “Caged Vixens.”

From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: Stop, drop, and watch the new music video for “Lovesick” by Morgan Orion, produced by Sam Ambler and Matt HarsH, the latter whom we discuss further because he concocts cool musician/projection hybrids in clubs. Of course, we have a clip!

From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: Jason Lindsey Photography branches out with a hybrid media venture, Neighborhood Sandbox, and releases its first entertainment production, the music video “Drive” featuring The Trishas of Austin, Texas.

From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: Santa Claus-derived madness erupts from MFHQ, stemming from the discovery of an American one-sheet for the Mexican fantasy SANTA CLAUS in a Champaign, Illinois used book store that no longer exists.