Papu Smash, The Blog

Mishmash Media PRESS RELEASE

2008-09-06T10:58:00.000-07:00

-- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE--

Mishmash Media, Inc. Has Moved!

Sept. 1, 2008

Mishmash Media, Inc., the semi-legendary New York City-based micro-boutique animation studio almost famous for nearly ten years of ground-breaking animation under the direction of noted Flash Pioneer Xeth Feinberg, has moved.

"Our new state of the art facility, sprawling over 2.5 acres, will enable us to meet the varied opportunities of 21st Century cartooning head on," states Mishmash Media Director of Development Xeth Feinberg. "We continue to have computer equipment, high speed internet, international phone and fax service, climate control, electricity, running water, and now, several bird feeders."

From its old offices in Manhattan's increasingly trendified Lower East Side, Mishmash Media produced Paramount's award-winning feature length "QUEER DUCK: THE MOVIE," Fox's "DAY ZERO" animated "24" webseries, shorts for Vanity Fair, the Huffington Post, Classic Media and Icebox.com, as well as an original series for Aniboom.com and a wide array of other projects at http://www.mishmashmedia.com

"Simply by moving our mailing address from a crumbling, over-priced hell hole in New York City to a pristine post office box in the beautiful hamlet of Callicoon, NY, we will immediately realize a rental cost savings of over 1000 percent a year, some of which we can theoretically pass on to our clients, who don't give a rat's ass where we actually are anyway," notes Mishmash Media Chief Financial Officer Xeth Feinberg.

Mishmash Media's web sites and email addresses will remain completely unchanged, thanks to sophisticated proprietary technology, according to Head Technology Coordinator Xeth Feinberg. "Tragically, we were forced to give up our 212 phone number, but email is usually the best way to reach us anyway. Telephones are so 20th Century," he sneered.

Callicoon, conveniently located on the Upper Delaware River approximately 100 miles north-west of The Big Apple, features a pizzeria, a number of charming stores selling unnecessary items, a 1940's-era theater and an old hotel with a history of tragic shootings. Wild life is abundant. "It actually provides a very comparable range of experiences to Manhattan, when you think about it," babbles Mishmash Media Human Resource Director Xeth Feinberg. "The truth is, hardly any of our clients ever needed to visit our office. It's all done via the interweb nowadays."

For the record, Senior Liaison With Civilization Xeth Feinberg will be commuting frequently to The City and readily available for meetings and events on short notice. Especially ones involving free food and drink.

MISHMASH MEDIA, INC.
PO BOX 151
CALLICOON, NY 12723
xeth@mishmashmedia.com

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2008-06-22T19:01:00.000-07:00

JUNE blog fun

2008-06-22T18:57:00.000-07:00

I admit it. I get bored with keeping up with things. I let the papu smash blog waste away. But luckily, it seems that almost nobody bothered reading it. So all's well that ends wellish.

Now it's late June.

I'm hard at work on some new web series I'm writing, directing, animating and, well, everythinging for an interesting company called Aniboom.com.

The idea is to generate some original content and then they try to market and promote it. The old Icebox.com idea from the original dot-com days. Maybe these guys will have better luck pulling it off.

More info and links to follow, when they follow.

March Madness

2008-03-08T05:02:00.000-08:00

There's been some downtime while other projects go forward... a complete redesign of the websites: Xeth.com is now the home of new original animations, Mishmashmedia.com is the place for commissioned work, Bulbo.com has a new design to make it easier to find stuff, and PapuSmash is now All Papu, All the Time.

"Everything's Great in 2008" (tm, copyright, pat. pending)

2008-01-08T11:27:00.000-08:00

We start the year going full-speed backwards into another episode of YESTERDAY'S FUTURE TODAY... this time the subject is "The House of The Future." Specifically, why we aren't living in it yet. Chet Chumley and his Chimp explain it all, in under a minute.
YFT: House of the Future

In other news, results of the First Ever Papu "Contest Contest" are in and the deluge of clever submissions has given our panel of expert judges quite a lot to think about. Assuming, that is, how gullible one is regarding the concepts of "deluge," "clever," "panel of expert judges" and "think about."

Readers of this Blog may remember that about a month ago the call went out seeking ideas for an exciting new CONTEST to help promote All Things Papu and generate attention for his worthy deeds. In other words, a contest to pick a contest. What could go wrong? Well, wait til next week when we will breathlessly and officially announce the "winner," whom shall receive a GENUINE PAPU BUMPERSTICKER as a reward (bumper not included.) Meanwhile, anyone who still has an idea they've been too lazy to email in, should get right on it and send us their brainstorm care of PAPU@mishmashmedia.com.

Papu's Smashing Holiday

2007-12-20T18:55:00.001-08:00

Like a colorful rash, xmas comes but once a year... and so does Papu's Smashing Holiday Smashtacular Cartoon in this newly revised "Director's Cut" (30 seconds deleted and some other improvements from the 2006 version that almost nobody saw!) Papu and his crew travel to Santa's workshop and really "hit" it off.

Start your new yearly holiday cartoon viewing tradition NOW! DO IT! NOW! NOW! DO IT!
Papu's Smashing Holiday

(Btw, the nifty title font was created by the great and powerful Dave Lovelace, who fully deserves our sympathy and support!)

YESTERDAY'S FUTURE TODAY: Air Travel

2007-12-17T18:44:00.001-08:00

The Management interrupts Big Blue Morons Smashing People With Hammers to bring you a totally different kind of cartoon. YFT is a take on the Retrofuture... the old-fashioned, wonderful future we all got cheated out of. This first episode deals with the glories of air travel. Chet Chumley... over and done with.
YFT: Air Travel

America's Next Top PAPU Idol

2007-12-10T19:47:00.000-08:00

This episode is all about fame, celebrity, reality television, society... uh, will anybody care if I stop writing this blog entry right now?

PAPU in Paradise

2007-12-03T19:49:00.000-08:00

Ah, how can I ever forget the time we all went to heaven? Such a wonderful and rare chance to see the more spiritual side of that Big Blue Goon. Don't be alarmed, kiddies, it's only a cartoon...

PAPU and the Undersea Space Zombies

2007-11-27T07:39:00.000-08:00

The latest PAPU adventure has been posted and it's a "real doozy," as the kids say. "Papu and the Undersea Space Zombies" will chill and thrill you to your bones, and occupy a large percentage of your attention for at least a minute and a half!

And don't forget to remember to leave a comment or email to register your deepest personal thoughts, dreams, concerns and petty annoyances.

PAPU Family Values

2007-11-22T08:35:00.000-08:00

It's official, folks and yolks! "Papu Family Values," the first rip-roaring episode in our long-awaited media campaign to restore PAPU to his rightful place as a cherished household name, has met with overwhelming universal acclaim. Give or take the meaning of most of the words in the preceding sentence.

Many thanks for your comments... if nothing else they prove the ineffectiveness of spam blockers.

DEAR PAPU

2007-11-18T16:05:00.000-08:00

Please feel free to write a comment or question to Papu. Every comment will be systematically forwarded to The Great Blue One, who will drop whatever he is doing to personally respond.

A First Post About Papu

2007-11-18T15:53:00.000-08:00

A wise man once said, "All the world needs a BLOG." Truth be told, in my humble opinion that man was a Grade-A moron. I'm not even sure 'he' ever existed. Nonetheless, here before you is a-birthed yet another so-called blog into the cold, cruel world. But, you may well ask, "Why?"

For many years, Dear Reader, it has been my sincere honor to serve as the Dr. Watson, as it were, of the great, mysterious adventurer and bon vivant known the world over as PAPU. From this point on, I, Captain Silas J. Lacky (and, when his busy schedule permits, Papu himself) shall be using this virtual space to keep fellow citizens abreast of such developments as may transpire involving our Hammering Hero, as well as other news involving whatever happens to dribble from assorted feverish brains, etc.

That said, this first historic post is as good a place as any to announce the existence of the brand new All-PAPU website, poetically and fittingly named PAPUSMASH.COM. Visitors are sure to find themselves astounded by its marvelous moving images and other wonderous animatronic geegaws. Make haste to "surf" your way there, if you have not already done so!

Hark? Do I hear the patter of huge blue feet pounding down the hall towards my study door, hammers swinging? Thundering thumbnails, I surely require a drink.

Gotta run.