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Casey Pugh
Professional computer user. Serendipitous filmmaker.
Co-founder of VHX, a video sharing community. Creator of Star Wars Uncut, a crowdsourced remake of a classic film. Vimeo and Boxee alum.
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We’re very proud to announce that VHX is powering the worldwide release of Indie Game: The Movie on June 12.
Indie Game has come a long way since their ambitious Kickstarter project. Two years later, they are armed with an amazing film, a handful of accolades and an eagerness to redefine what indie distribution truly means. We could not dream up a better fit for VHX for Artists.
You can pre-order it now and you’ll get high quality streaming and/or download, DRM-free. If you want to find out more, you should watch the trailer!
“For substantially all ideas are second-hand, consciously and unconsciously drawn from a million outside sources” -Mark Twain
Unconsciously, I’ve had these feelings since high school. My passion has always been fueled by the idea that, “Someone else will do this if I don’t.” Through age and experience, it’s astonishing when you realize that everything is a remix.“Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something.” -Steve JobsThe fact that genius designers, artists, engineers all understood this makes me feel incredibly anxious that the human mind is unable to produce something truly genuine. At the same time it’s comforting - we all have the ability to connect the dots. We are just a collective consciousness. For me, it’s the same feeling we get when thinking about the vastness of space.“Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.” -Salvador Dalí
This infographic sums it up, too.(thx keith & brainpickings)The Portal 2 Perpetual Testing Initiative went live today. This is my first trial. Share some with me, please!
Attention New Yorkers: The Film Society of Lincoln Center has introduced the addition of a Summer Midnight Movies series to their weekly programming. We’re proud to announce that Star Wars Uncut will be kicking off the beginning of this series at midnight of June 1st. We could not be more excited!
It’s hard to believe Star Wars Uncut will be lined up next to the great classics: David Lynch’s LOST HIGHWAY, Tobe Hooper’s THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE, Sam Raimi’s THE EVIL DEAD and EVIL DEAD II, Ralph Bakshi’s FRITZ THE CAT and many more.
Huge thanks to Ted Hope and Gavin Smith for making this event possible. Thanks to Malcolm Sutherland for illustrating the official movie poster. Thanks to Aaron Valdez for remastering Star Wars Uncut for the big screen (it’s now widescreen!). And of course, thanks to the Uncut team, Star Wars fans and all the passionate and talented Uncut contributors.
Put on your favorite Star Wars costume (trashcan R2-D2 anyone?) and grab some popcorn - it’s gonna be a blast!
We believe artists should make more money from their work. Our upcoming platform lets you sell videos directly to your fans, restriction-free. Learn more
VHX is proud to announce the world premiere of Aziz Ansari’s new comedy special Dangerously Delicious, available exclusively at azizansari.com. Pay Aziz $5 and you can instantly stream the 60-minute special or download a DRM-free video file for offline enjoyment. No ads, no bleeps. Watch a free preview if you’d like.
We believe artists should be keeping more money from their work, and we’re excited to help push this new approach to film distribution forward — cut out the middlemen, focus on your fans, tap the real potential of the Internet — as pioneered by folks like Louis CK and Kickstarter.
VHX’s Emmy Award-winning expertise in video technology and online communities made it easy to say yes when Aziz approached us about building the site. We worked closely with him and his team to design something memorable but effective, and created a billing and video streaming platform from scratch that works hand-in-hand with our embeddable video player.
We’re excited to share more information about a new endeavor — VHX For Artists — which makes it easy for anyone to sell videos directly to their fans. Get in touch.
Our latest endeavor!
I really enjoy creating alternate versions of the VHX.tv logo as identity exercises. I realized that this version I created with a single line translated perfectly into neon. I’ve also discovered that neon signs are relatively cheap to get produced! Desktop background sized version here. More versions coming!
Yes! Instead of putting silly, promotional, startup stickers in bars, I will be installing neon signs.
I participated in Art Hack Day over the weekend and decided to make a ton of Star Wars Uncut GIFs. Juxtaposing the new scenes vs the old really highlights the creativity that went into each scene.
This sort of work isn’t stealing anything from creators. It’s enhancing its value by showing just how much it means to people. I really don’t see how it’s possible to watch this viral video crazy-quilt and write it off as a merely derivative or exploitative work. If anything, it shows how art made from other art can become an independent creation with its own personality and worth. Star Wars Uncut is a collectively made work of postmodern folk art, as arresting and significant as Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s soup can silkscreen or a Robert Rauschenberg collage painting built around photos filched from newspapers. The true subject of Star Wars Uncut is how pop culture touchstones live on inside people’s heads, becoming a shared language and an inspiration for personal creativity. Lucas’s work was a call; this is a response.
This article in NYmag about Star Wars Uncut is a great read. Also, the comparison between Casey and Warhol’s work is uncanny because Casey just got a new haircut (shown here).
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- SummaryTechnologist. Founder of VHX.tv. Creator of Emmy-Winning StarWarsUncut.com. A Vimeo.com and Boxee.tv alumSpecialties: Web Development/Design, PHP+MVC, MySQL, SQL, Javascript (Mootools, Prototype, JQuery), AJAX, XHTML+CSS, XML, Flash, ActionScript 2 & 3, AIR, Objective-C, Processing, VB.NET, ASP, C/C++, Java, JSP, Lingo, Perl, ForthExperience
- Oct 2010 - PresentFounder / VHXAn easy and fun way to discover and share videos with your friends.
- Jul 2009 - PresentCreator / Star Wars UncutI took Star Wars: A New Hope and split the entire film into 15-second clips. People claim a scene and film it however they like. I put the scenes back together for everyone to witness the biggest fan recreation. Emmy Winning, Star Wars Uncut has been featured on NYTimes, LATimes, NPR, CNN International, Wired, IFC, Current.com, NewTeeVee, .NET Magazine and many more.
- Nov 2009 - Jul 2010Head of Web Development / boxee
- Jan 2007 - Nov 2009Lead Flash and Senior App Developer / VimeoOne of my greatest experiences helping raise Vimeo from its beginnings. Worked on everything from backend to frontend. I also developed the Vimeo video player.
- Aug 2009 - Sept 2009Freelance Flash Developer / Flavors.meWorked with Jonathan and Jack on creating a custom Flash font displayer called Texty.
- Jul 2006 - Oct 2006Flash / Web Developer / Fearless ConceptsFlash and PHP developer working on high profile client websites such as JanetJackson.com.
- Feb 2005 - Aug 2005Web Developer - Intern / Allen Systems GroupDeveloped and modified Microsoft VB.NET and classic ASP web applications related to CRM and employee management. (http://www.asg.com/)
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2002 - 2006Wake Forest UniversityBS in Computer Science
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- My name has been called. Going to the Hunger Games. (@ UA Court Street Stadium 12 w/ 16 others) http://t.co/WYQS1fZf
- The Revolution Will Be Self-Distributed By @VHXTV http://t.co/5cmnWCKpMar 21, 12 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- I just downloaded @azizansari's new standup special for $5. You can too at http://t.co/LOsCHiBX. He has a dope beard.
- Team VHX helped @azizansari with his new special, Dangerously Delicious! Buy it now for just $5 at http://t.co/LOsCHiBX (powered by @vhxtv)
- My @arthackday project: http://t.co/cLzYVWzW
- I got a 8.4/10 in Color, a color matching game by @methodofaction http://t.co/V84wHjRA
- Just a normal commute to work. http://t.co/uTEwsgAM
- Two weekend facts: SWU has 1M views in 72hrs. I finished watching Downton Abbey.
- Just an average anti-SOPA protest http://t.co/bmp7I6OD
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