Random Thoughts from Orlando

Date July 20, 2008

So if you've read my book, you know I'm a bit of a Disney buff.  If I ever find myself with some extra time in LA, I try to swing down to Anaheim and at least wander through the giant "World of Disney" store at Downtown Disney.  Finding myself in Orlando for a week, of […]

Here it is!

Date July 14, 2008

Okay everybody… here it is.  We've just posted the "official" JellyTelly demo video for all the world to see at www.jellytelly.tv.  It's a 28 minute video where I explain the concept behind our new mini TV network and then show some sample programming.  Today the first press release hits the wire, which will also send […]

Back from vacation… and off to the races!

Date July 11, 2008

Okay, vacation is over for the Vischer family, and now it's time to get busy.  Really busy.
I spent the last two days in Orlando at the International Christian Visual Media conference, where I spoke a few times and gave a bunch of Christian filmmakers a sneak peek at JellyTelly.  Now we're hunkered down preparing for […]

Latest news…

Date June 27, 2008

Well, the new JellyTelly creative community site is turning into a whole lotta fun… sign up and check it out if you want to, even if it's just to watch the videos people are creating and posting.
Things are really starting to come together for JellyTelly - we just finished putting together the "official" JellyTelly demo […]

More about Big Idea and a new Jelly site!

Date June 18, 2008

First, about the rumored Big Idea sale… no official confirmation that Big Idea is for sale, but the story is now appearing all over the place and in such reputable places as Variety.  So there is something there.  It could be that someone in London is just dangling a carrot, to see what sort of […]

Big Idea for sale?

Date June 16, 2008

Well… this is interesting!  A story ran in the London Sunday Times yesterday claiming Entertainment Rights was considering selling off Big Idea.  The story says new CEO Nick Phillips wants to reduce debt by "selling some of the less profitable areas of the group," implying, of course, that Big Idea is one of those "less […]

A few more animations…

Date June 11, 2008

… for your dining pleasure.  (And no, none of them involve Lego bricks or Duplo blocks or any other confusingly trademarked plaything.)
Some folks have produced their own audio tracks to go along with their animations.  If they work (and if they didn't use any music or sound effects that belong to someone else), we'll try […]

JellyTelly Animated IDs

Date June 6, 2008

So we're off and running with the "make your own JellyTelly IDs" effort, and the results are promising.  We're going to put a site together for posting and voting on this sort of thing (it's fun, so we think we'll make a habit of it).  In the meantime, I wanted to show a few so […]

Ha! This is fun!

Date May 29, 2008

I'm watching some of the JellyTelly logo animations that are coming in and I'm having a blast.  Some of these are really awesome.  (Especially you guys that built the logo out of Legos… and you know who you are…)  Not all of these will make the "network" of course, but some definitely will.  We're going […]

The site is back up…

Date May 22, 2008

Sorry about that!  We were down for a day or two.  Not sure what happened there… maybe cosmic rays… or gas prices… or all those emails from Christian marketers telling us to go see Prince Caspian.
But to quote the old nearly-dead guy in Monty Python's The Holy Grail - "I'm feeling much better!"  So we're […]