November 21, 2008 at 11:42 am · Filed under Uncategorized
Hello all!
Thanks for all the WONDERFUL support you’ve shown for this contest of ours. I’m not sure if many of you tuned in on Wednesday to check out our 3 lucky winners, but if you didn’t - here are their winning entries for I ♥ Flight of the Conchords(SM) Trailer Contest!
From Taiwan, Stanley’s video:
From Singapore, Rajoo’s video:
From Philippines, Alberto’s video:
and for the last Most Creative Award that wasn’t announced on-air (meaning you’re hearing it here first!), from Singapore, Tanya’s video:
Congratulations to one and all! It was an extremely tough choice indeed, we rewatched all 36 videos over and over again, and even enlisted a panel of judges to help us narrow down our selections. But here they are, our lucky winners!
November 4, 2008 at 6:39 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
Hey all!
I’m here to remind you guys that tomorrow, 5 November, is the last day you can submit your Flight of the Conchords videos. All interested parties - you only have another 24 hours to go :)
Voting will last for another week till 12 November so if you already have a video in the running, hurry and ask your friends to vote NOW!!
And of course, the suspense builds a week from 12 Nov, until our three winners are revealed on air on 19 November. Keep a look out for our string of winners before the final episode of Flight of the Conchords, which airs (as you all know so well now!) Wednesday, 19 November, 10.30pm on HBO!
September 29, 2008 at 5:24 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
Hey all!
A million and one apologies. I am still alive and here, just been caught up with other stuff that I’ve neglected the Conchords! sorry Bret, sorry Jemaine :( :(
Anyways, have you heard about our fab contest?? Show your ♥ for Flight of the Conchords by taking part in the “I ♥ Flight of the Conchords Trailer Contest”! We’ve got 3 entries so far and they’ve been great…but of course I am bound by my job to NOT indicate which is my fave haha. I am impartial here you guys!
Take a look at the 3 entries and pick the one you like most! Better yet, if you think you can outdo them - make your own!! Look at it this way, we’ve got THREE Mac Book Airs to giveaway…the way it stands now, the three participants each have one locked in. I’m sure we need more competition around don’t we! ;)
So come up with any wild, wacky ideas involving the Conchords; anything goes here as long as you fulfill these 2 criteria:
a) the video must be 30 seconds max
b) it must contain the tune-in ‘Wednesdays, 10.30pm on HBO’ in any form!
Not difficult rightttt. What more are you waiting for?! :)
So I have to recap the wonderful happenings that took place in the HBO office last Thursday. Over the course of the 5 posts here, I’ve made some amazing new friends and I finally got to meet them in person at our Flight of the Conchords blogger event - which went AMAZING :) But paiseh for the late post; I am not as consummate a blogger as you guys!
First I have to give a big fat thank-you to the folks who turned up, and their +1s. Jerrick, Claudia, Nadia, Krisandro, Gilbert, Yu Hui, Marina, Sheylara, Wilfrid, Nicholas and Hillary - I hope you guys had a great time!! Ack that was a mouthful.
The night started off in a panic for me as I was readying the trailer contest page for presentation all the way til 6+pm, and our first guest turned up way ahead of time to add to the pressure..gah! But that was good too, as most of the folks arrived on time at 7pm and we managed to kick off our office tour more or less on schedule. Everyone was split into 2 groups led by 2 of our senior Tech & Ops staff - Smanda, our Senior Director (big-shot!) and Vincent, our Senior VP (even bigger shot!). I was with Smanda’s group and we went on the 4 stops in this order: studio, audio room, edit suite and master control room a.k.a. the Fishtank. Our very game colleagues Boris and Nick even set up equipment for people to try so kudos to the willing sacrifices Jerrick, Hillary and Krisandro! I’ll find out if your test reads/audio samples were saved into our library ;)
While we were roaming around the office, our hidden gem of a caterer was busy setting up the food for everyone in Deadwood, our recre room of sorts. Seriously, this isn’t product endorsement but Absolutely New Zealand, our source of authentic NZ fare, was absolutely wonderful that night. The items came non-stop and everything was yum! Well, the little bits I got to eat, that is. I hope all of you guys had your fill of the yummy food cos I didn’t; thought I’d come in to the office and eat more on Friday but it was ALL GONE. *horrors* Some pics for me to reminisce and mourn its loss :(
apple crumble, NZ seafood pie, chicken/celery wrap and quiches
roast beef with aioli, 2 kinds of bruschetta and a tossed salad
YUMMY RIGHT. Anyway after the food, came the main highlight of the night: two whole episodes of FOTC! I know I’ve stated it countless times here but despite my job, I honestly love the show and I still laughed as loud as the audience that day, on my (I think) 4th time rewatching! Heh but really, seeing the warm response made the whole event all worthwhile. The audience got the jokes, didn’t laugh at the wrong bits and best of all, everyone got the hotdog reference!! It’s like raising a little kid to see it start walking…or something :)
the rapt audience. awwww!
Heh all in all I really enjoyed myself, and it’s the true cliche about how I finally got to meet in real life the folks whose blogs/Plurk pages I’ve been secretly stalking - like Krisandro, Nadnut, Marina, etc. Yep yep I am guilty as charged. And the “hotdogs” that I said we prepared in the last post…
…were these! Pssst I took a hotdog for myself too! haha :)
We capped off the night with my grand announcement of our I ♥ Flight of the Conchords Trailer Contest, which I have to plug here once again hehe. Detailed information can be found here, but do take a quick glance at our very arty EDM for basic facts!
Can win MacBook Air ok!!
All the honorable guests of last Thursday will be receiving a copy of it so please do forward it to any video-crazy friend of yours! And lastly, I hope my post does justice to what everyone experienced last week - which from the following entries sounds like a ton of fun. Thanks once again you guys!! (If I missed anyone out, feel free to send over an annoyed comment haha)
First, my apologies for having disappeared from here. Work has been swampy and it takes too many brain cells to come up with a good post for you guys! Anyway, I just had to log on at the last minute today to share some exciting info about Bret and Jemaine…exciting, but geeky. haha.
Did you know both Bret and Jemaine are bona-fide movie actors?? Ok they are nowhere near the Brad Pitts and Matt Damons but they have been in Hollywood pictures. Just check this out:
Bret. Is. An. Elf!
Haha kudos to Mintea for alerting me to Bret’s blink-and-you’ll-miss-it appearance in LOTR! I’m not an LOTR fan (okay don’t boo me!) so I never knew about his guest turn, nor the term Figwit which was created to refer to his un-named elf and stands for ‘Frodo is great…who is THAT?’ haha. It just tickles me to know that LOTR was really a “grassroots” project for NZ - almost anyone can get a part in it!
Ok ok these are even better. Jemaine - I know I’m biased! - has actually been in a couple of movies prior to acting in Flight of the Conchords and unfortunately for him, his cheesy past is easily available on YouTube! Look at the hip-swivelling going on here:
cheesy or what! :)
There’s more. Jemaine is involved in this upcoming movie called Gentlemen Broncos with Sam Rockwell (“Confessions of a Dangerous Mind”) that’s written by Jared Hess (“Napoleon Dynamite”). Pardon the name-dropping..I’m quite a film geek too :D Anyway he plays this character called Ronald Chevalier and there’s this viral clip of Chevalier floating around cyberspace. I almost couldn’t recognize him but had a great big laugh when it dawned on me!
Isn’t it amazing how actors morph themselves into various roles? I find it damn cool, and it’s added points to both Conchords ‘cos they write songs too! Nothing more attractive than that! I hope this useless info has been of great amusement to you guys because I had great fun digging out the videos hehe.
Now I need to head off to dinner but first - to the Singaporean bloggers, I’ll be seeing you guys tomorrow!! You know who you are; the ones tagged in FOTC 201 and our newly added RSVPs Sheylara, Wilfrid, Willy and Nicholas. I’m very excited to meet everyone tomorrow and I hope this post makes its way to you in time :) We’ve got yummy NZ food and *ahem* hotdogs lined up for you guys. Btw, do come looking glam and armed with cameras; our “slaves” have been toiling to present a fun and uniquely HBO (haha) experience for everyone. Whee!
Hello hello! Wooo I’m reaaally on a roll here. 3 consecutive days of posting!!
So anyway, we’re a week away from our super Top Secret Mission and I figured it’s time for a warm-up after the 101 yesterday. I give to you: FOTC 201 :) Heh sophomore level already! Nothing difficult about it, just imagine yourself in the shoes of the Conchords - what would you do?
Ep 1: Jemaine attends Dave’s party and scores a date with a hot chick, only to realise she’s Bret’s ex. Would you go out with your best friend’s ex?
AH. This is hard to answer! Haha ok as much as I usually stick to the rule of friends over boys…erm yah I would date my BFF’s ex if we happened to hit it off - BUT only if the breakup was clean and amicable! There’s pretty much zero possibility of me dating any friend’s ex whom we all cursed and swore at, even if he looks like Christian Bale.
Ep 2: Faced with the prospect of a dwindling cashflow, Bret is forced to hold signs (“Hot Dogs”) at a busy NYC street corner. What was your worst temp job experience?
I think Bret’s temp job is kind of enjoyable what! Albeit unbelievably boring :) Heh anyway I’ve enjoyed all my past temp jobs actually…but if I had to pick, I’d say this particular survey one I did with a consulting firm. Great temp job - got to meet big bosses everywhere - but horrible supervisor. Everyday we’d bring our survey sheets back and he’d flip thru the stack derisively, then comment something like ‘Wah, why so few only ha?’ What a dodo.
Ep 3: Bret loses Jemaine’s trust after Bret abandons him when they get mugged. Would you leave your best friend in the lurch when confronted by parang-wielding Ah Bengs?
Shoot. I am quite a big chicken!! Erm I think if the scene played out exactly like in the show [which you need to watch to find out what happened lor..haha ;)] I would run away but call the cops immediately so my friend isn’t harmed! Does that make me less of a bad person?
Ok. I’m curious to find out what you guys think man. These following people..I tag you!
Y’know, as much as we have provided show and cast info on our microsite, I figure most people are probably not going to read through all those words - right?? Gotcha there heh.
SO. I am very kindly going to provide this short and informative clip we have that will serve as a crash course of sorts to the *real* Bret and Jemaine! :) It’s a behind-the-scenes look but the lines between the off-screen and on-screen FOTC are blurred really, as the humour exhibited in the show is naturally present in the actors’ interviews too. I love how deadpan they are even when they’re supposed to be promoting their show.
Enjoy :)
And so after sitting through that, you may now head over… here!
Seeing as I’m a relative noob to this blogging thing, I took some time out last Saturday morning to attend my first Social Media Breakfast. As far as I knew, it’s a periodic get-together organized by some active folks in the local blogosphere, so I thought it’d be cool for me to meet the in-crowd and try to learn some things. It was pretty nervewracking at the start, cos it was obvious that most people there knew each other and we were breaking into their little bubble! But as the day went on, having my 2 friends around made things easier and soon we were mingling like pros. Big thanks to ssumin who told me about the event!
some of us at SMB3; photo credited to Claudia
It is here that I have to say hi to Yuhui, Nicole, Mintea, Jerrick, Claudia and Daryl - the bloggers I met last Saturday! Very cool :) [Claudia captioned the above photo as "Beautiful people", haha. Yay.] Some of these folks, I will be meeting again next week to tell them more about FOTC so I’m looking forward to that! Got a super effusive response from Mintea when talking about the Conchords - very encouraging can! :D
I was so worried that everyone would go ‘huh??’..cos the Conchords are more of a cult fave in the US rather than a huge, mass hit like Sex and The City. I really wanted to talk further - especially to those who just heard about the show from us - but was a bit afraid everyone would think I was bringing up work so I didn’t dare to say more. Nevermind I can give a shout-out to them here: must do homework before we meet next week ya! :) Some music vids available here.
Oh oh by the way! I just have to share this…right after I posted the last time about us girls in the office being Jemainiacs, this piece of (sad) news came in yesterday: Jemaine Clement is MARRIED :( One down, one more to go. Sigh!
P.S. We want more friends on our blogroll! Drop us a comment if you wanna be linked :)
If it isn’t painfully obvious, this is the first time that I - and HBO Asia - are doing this and we’re very excited to be tapping into social media to promote our shows!! :)
Let me introduce myself before I go on. My name is Yin Qi and I work in the Communications department here in HBO Asia. As the name suggests, we communicate all sorts of information, using all forms of media, to all kinds of people. So this time, we’re telling everyone (including you, yes you..), using a blog, about our upcoming HBO Original Series Flight of the Conchords!
If you are reading this, you’ve probably also seen our very pretty microsite with show and cast info, and also music videos of the Conchords’ silly tunes. BTW we’re also on Facebook! You can graffiti your love for the guys all over our wall over there too. In a nutshell, all these online ventures form up the role I play in this FOTC campaign :)
So what is FOTC all about? The official answer’s here, but I personally think FOTC can’t be summed up that easily. Sure it’s about Bret and Jemaine and their lives in NYC, but FOTC is so great simply cos they don’t appear to be trying at all! They sing about the most ridiculous things (”love is like a roll of tape, it’s real good for making two things one“) but somehow it just works. At first watch, us girls in the office were all ‘oh Bret is so cute!!’. But as the season progressed, Jemaine’s ogre-librarian look started to rub off and now we are all certified ‘Jemainiacs’! (”Yis.”)
Haha ok um, I could go on to include all the wink wink, nudge nudge inside jokes but what fun is that when most people won’t get it? That’s why we’re going to all this extent to promote this show; the day we hear some guy tell his girlfriend on the streets “you’re so beautiful, you could be a waitress“, we’ll know that all this effort was worth it ;)
