Autumn's Revenge CD Release Party

All the members of MU recently came out to support singer/songwriter Peter Chavez at his long awaited CD release party for the album, Autumn's Revenge. It was a great time for all and a great show by Peter. Though his album is a fully electric mix of moody rock songs, he aptly chose to go acoustic for the cozy but wall-to-wall packed venue at Paul's Kitchen in Monterey Park. Peter did a full set with passion and variety, including many songs that you won't find on his album and some cool covers. You can hear most of the show in Ryan's most recent podcast, a special extra long show exclusively dedicated to Peter's unveiling of Autumn's Revenge. We will be sure to keep you posted on the album's availability as well. Congratulations Peter Chavez! We hope to hear a lot more where this came from in the future!

And, we're back...

It's been a while, I know. We got rid of our News section on the home page because, well, it was just ugly... This is much nicer, and easy to use, so hopefully you'll be hearing from us (and John) a bit more frequently.

Elan Vital is going well, you can read about it here.

And you may have noticed that we've added quite a few new features to our website. First, we've partnered with Amazon.com... we promote them, and they give us a small commission from any sales made through our site. This allows people to support us and independent film without actually (gasp!) donating anything! You just shop as unual, but by doing it through our store or any of the links on our site, bammo! you've done us a great service and we'll love you forever! Second of course is our new home page - where you can actually find our podcast, blog, and everything else on our site without reading cryptic runes... It's also, I think, much more attractive. On that note, if you do notice anything unattractive about it, we probably didn't intend it to look that way and we'd love to hear about it - because building a website is a lot of trial and error, and the web varies so much there's a lot of room for error.

We've also officially launched a campaign to produce music videos for career-minded bands (where else can we put all of our creative ideas into effect and help some people out in the meantime?). I happen to love music videos... they allow for such imagination, and being the people person I am, I can't think of anything cooler than throwing ideas around with bands and then making our ideas happen. We've started advertising, and telling people we know about it, so if you know of a band that needs a music video, send them our way! info@mutinyuniverse.com Attn: Katy.

If you'd like to be included in our monthly(ish) newsletter, please send an email to katy@mutinyuniverse.com and I'd be happy to add you to the list.

Cheers!

More New Pics!

We have a new photo album in our Elan Vital collection with 130 pics taken straight from the source. If you missed the wrap party - or are not part of the cast or crew, these pics were part of the official wrap party slide show. Just click HERE and enjoy!

Wrap Party

Happy 6th of July!!!!!! We have yet another fantastic podcast and to commemorate days of independence, Ryan has gathered song of yore from days of olde. It's a fun show!

In other news, Elan Vital is beginning to take shape wonderfully in post production. We look forward to seeing everyone who worked so hard on the film on the 21st for the wrap party!

Extra special thanks to Al Medina for his role in making that happen!

Katrina Lenk

It's a night past the first day of summer and what better time to update the news than on the shortest night of the year? We have a fresh new podcast from Radio@MutinyUniverse.com with late night record man Ryan DeRamos - someone needs to get that man a drink!

We have a ton of random new stuff on our blog including the hysterical Don Hertzfeldt animated film, Rejected and a fascinating Creep collection.

Also, don't miss the one and only - and quite lovely - Katrina Lenk at The Cavern Club Celebrity Theater at Casita Del Campo Restaurant in Silverlake this Sunday for a musical revue full of singing, dancing, and all around good cheer! Go here for more information: Musical Theatre of Los Angeles Otherwise, drop us a line if you want with our handy contact button at the top of the page or request a song or a rant topic for Ryan on the radio show by emailing radio@mutinyuniverse.com.

Cheers to a magnificent summer from Mutiny Universe to you!

Podcast

Do not miss Ryan DeRamos as he rocks Radio@MutinyUniverse with episode 3 - Now with MORE RYAN RANT + 7000 vitamins and minerals! Check the links below to either download the show through itunes or stream it through our blog. Got a comment or request? Hit us up at radio@mutinyuniverse.com Peace!

Podcast

It's been a great week for Mutiny Universe. Ryan finished the first installment of the new Radio Mutiny program, which you can download in iTunes or hear directly on our Mutiny Blog. His velvety voice plays deejay to the selection of independent musical acts pulsing vibrant, sultry sounds through the air during the half-hour show. His ecclectic range of performers feature the seductive vocals of Moxy Phinx, whose dangerously rich voice pierces the eardrums with tempestuous urgency. Also on the playlist is Starlight Cinema, an up-and-coming Sacramento band with the talent and ferocity to really make some noise in the music industry. Standout singer/musician Chelsea Williams also delights listeners with her catchy performance of "Run," a song with universal appeal.

You can catch the rest of Ryan's show here, and hear alternative bands Negatrude, Lythium, and Oliver Charles.

Elan Vital

Elan Vital - our first major short film production is now well into pre-production! Written and directed by Jason Loya, Produced by Katy Savage, the psychological thriller will star Matt Ritchey, Mike Onofri, and Beki Lane. Lisa Rudin has been fantastic as Elan's casting director, sorting through hundreds of submissions, helping Jason to find "just the right person for the job," while Ryan DeRamos is hard at work creating original music ideas for the movie, where he and long time collaborator, Jason are able to work closely on a story that they both developed. John Tan has been incredibly busy as line producer and will act as A.D. when we get into production. We are all very excited to move forward with what we feel is "just the right film." Elan Vital goes into production in early March and there is A LOT of work to do before then - but this is the kind of work that makes work look bad. Stay tuned for more from Mutiny Universe and Elan Vital!

"I Know You Live" Music Video

Short films, music videos, and everything in between have been keeping us too busy to even update our own news...

These past few weeks have been dedicated to shooting a video for I Know You Live off Peter Chavez' new album Autumn's Revenge. Production has gone very smoothly mostly because of the band's highly professional dedication and working with the beautiful and talented actress Roshelle Pattison as the lead. She was a joy to work with and added a lighthearted spirit to the set.

Just two more half-days of shooting and the video will be sent off for post-production - where Ryan will turn it into a lightbox extravaganza of complex design and asymmetry.

And on the Short End of things... Outcasts has been officially locked down for picture! This is huge since Katy and Jason have worked around the clock to get every frame color corrected and timed just right. Now we've turned it over to our composers to write a beautiful score for us to record.

Noise

First of all, Happy Birthday to Ryan! The man can now rent cars and lottery tickets... wait, rental lottery tickets? uh, whatever, you know what i mean... anyway, he's another year older and we're so glad he made it.

And now for the news:

For one, we're editing Outcasts. The footage came out great and our ideas for post-production are only making it better.

We're also meeting with local musician Peter Chavez to schedule production on his first music video. It's for a song off his new album Autumn's Revenge which is set to be released within the next few months.

And finally we're storyboarding for Noise. This is hands down our most time consuming endeavor right now, and at the top of our priority list. I know it sounds so simple, but let it be known that storyboarding is freaking hard!

I mean, crap! We have to draw out hundreds of little frames to represent each shot in the entire 90-minute film... it's like animating the whole movie (just for ourselves mind you), and then shooting it.

I don't know, even our cinematographer is wondering if we can't just wing it on set :-)