Eleven Bulls is now 11bulls.com

After the warm reception for Shit People from Des Moines Say, I've been asked to produce more videos, including this recent promo for the 80/35 music festival.

As a result, I'm sort of relaunching my nascent production company, Eleven Bulls.  We now have a proper website, featuring logo designs (including the animated logo) by the very talented David Rogers of WR Design Lab.  A website and a logo?  Can't get more legit than that.  My talented team of collaborators and I are looking forward to more projects in the future.

I wrote more about why I initially formed the company and WHAT IT ALL MEANS in this earlier post.

8035 Lineup Clues Video

I was asked by the organizers of 80/35 to produce a video promo around the lineup announcements for this year's festival, and the first went up last night.  The video features clues to some of the bands who will be announced as part of the lineup on April 3.  Also: comedy!

After being up for just a few hours, the video's getting some great traffic and generating lots of speculation as to the lineup, especially on the 80/35 Facebook page.

Thanks to the talented actors and crew who rocked it.  We are currently planning a followup video leading up to the second lineup announcement.

Eleven Bulls, LLC

As we began to manage money for Welcome to Daytrotter, it became clear I needed a production company to filter the money through, as well as provide a legal buffer for my gross negligence and defamation of character.

And so it was that on the Nineteenth Day of July, Two Thousand and Ten, Eleven Bulls, LLC was created.  It's been a bit exciting to setup a business, especially if you're into such things as filling out forms and paying fees.  But now, here we are.

As for the name, it is an allusion to this series of lithographs by Picasso, which I've always found to be a potent metaphor for abstraction, art as a process, etc.  Or, if that's too highfalutin, I chose it because Bulls kick ass, and we turn it up to eleven!

If you or anyone you know are a logo designer who enjoy working for extremely low pay, please contact me.