The stuff on this page predates the Living Worlds Productions name.

Friends of Nancy: A campaign website I built as a volunteer for Nancy Ruth White's campaign for the Redlands City Council. Done in basic HTML with a small amount of JavaScript. Although the campaign was grassroots-based, with an all-volunteer staff and no large donors, we came within 150 votes of winning.

I founded at this moviemaking club at Pomona College, recruiting members from all five of the Claremont Colleges and soliciting their input on what projects we should make and how we should do them. Embarrassingly, we ended up making four of my movie ideas and only one that was invented by another member.

Car Wars (Spring 2006): A half-hour film two years in the making, Car Wars is a cross between a Star Wars spoof and a political satire, about a near-future American police state and a gang of Rebels who strike back by using forks to pop police-car tires. Princess Fea steals the blueprints to the Death Car, a three-story-tall military vehicle used to demolish enemy-held buildings, which the police are bringing in to make an example out of the Rebels. She is arrested but manages to e-mail the plans to Hobo Kobi, who lives in the closet of Duke Jaywalker's apartment. Kobi enlists Duke and crazy communist cabdriver Gan Loco to help get the blueprints to the Rebel hideout and launch a counterattack.

The World of the Ninja (subtitled) (spring 2004): A mock National Geographic Special conceived, written, and directed by Diego Bustamante. Dr. Mortimer J. Reynolds introduces us to a ninja named Pooky who lives in the Claremont Ninja Preserve, which was founded by Theodore Roosevelt in 1905. It remains the only preserve in the world where visitors are allowed to feed and even pet the ninjas, with amusingly violent results.

Borg (subtitled) (also fall 2003): A nonconformist driving down an interstellar highway sees a misleading billboard advertising "the Borg." Fed up with the effort of being different, he calls the number in hopes of being assimilated into the hive mind. But instead, it turns out to be the number for Pomona College's Oldenborg Center for International Relations, where cultural diversity is the chief value and "it's easy to be unique." (See also this poster I made about "the Borg", as the labyrinthine dorm/dining hall is actually called for short.

Hens in Black trailer (subtitled) (fall 2003): The Covert Operations Division of the Pomona College Psychology Department, a.k.a. the Hens in Black, are defenders of the college bubble, keeping students ignorant of current events so they can concentrate on their studies.

Mario Movie (Spring 2003): A lighter take on the idea of the movie eXistenZ, in which reality is a series of nested video games. It tied for second place at the Oskars student film festival.

These are homemade projects written and directed by me and my sister Abigail, featuring the "acting" talents of ourselves and our friends.

The Spamazing Adventures (Summer 2003): As a sort of revenge against society for her jailtime, Martha Stewart and her nefarious band of supervillains plot to replace all meat products sold by McDonald's with Spam. Mysterious Leader and her pal, Invisible Man, hire a team of superheroes to foil Martha's plans. This would be a lot less complicated if IRS Agent Simms and Martha's old pal Sam Waskal weren't also on her case.

The Dex Files (Winter 2000-2001 and Summer 2002): A two-episode TV-series parody based loosely on our local phone book. In the first episode, Agents Dox Sculder and Faina Mully of the Federal Paranoia Institute team up with the mysterious Pat Terrywinkle against mobster Barbie San Antonio, the mastermind behind a series of faked alien abductions. In the second episode, Sculder and Mully, along with their boss Todd Spinner, new recruit Dog Gonnit, and Sculder's mom, battle a gang of goons who have unleashed a horde of killer insects.