photo by Jeff Bradley, CC
Jeri Ellsworth, my favorite real life pinball girl, will be featured in PBDG.
You can see more photos of Jeri in the Pinball Donut Girl gallery on indiegogo.com. Consider supporting PBDG while you’re there. Skip your latte, and become a filmmaker instead!
photo by Jeff Bradley, CC
All the photos were taken at Pacific Pinball Expo 2011. The game, of course, is Wade Krause and Dirty Donny’s custom pin Hellcopters.
The PBDG Fundraising Campaign is off to a great start. Big thanks to our newest sponsors and donors:
I hope to see you on this list too! CLICK HERE TO DONATE TODAY and bring Pinball Donut Girl to life.
photo by Jeff Bradley, CC
Everyone at Pacific Pinball Expo 2011 enjoyed Wade Krause’s Hellacopters game, especially this young man.
photo by Jeff Bradley, CC
photo by Jeff Bradley, CC
photo by Jeff Bradley, CC
photo by Jeff Bradley, CC
part of the roto pool backglass, incredible condition! photo by Jeff Bradley
Lily, Matt and I had a great time yesterday at the Pacific Pinball Expo. I’ll be back again today for more fun. Tons of great games and wonderful people to meet and talk to.
hundreds of awesome games, photo by Jeff Bradley
Matt Christiano and Wade Krause with the Visible Pinball games, photo by Jeff Bradley
Anna, Matt, Gary Stern and Michael Schiess, photo by Jeff Bradley
The photoshoot of Jeri and Hellacopters was terrific — big thanks to Jeri, Wade and Tanio. And of course our photographer Jeff Bradley.
I’ll be posting the photos later this week.
Jeri tempting Matt with a delicious prop
I’m excited to share that Jane Wiedlin will have a starring role in Pinball Donut Girl.
Jane is just back from an amazing tour with The Go-Go’s. This summer was the 30 year anniversary of “Beauty and the Beat,” and she crisscrossed the country, performing live.
When released, “Beauty and the Beat” was the first number one album on the Billboard 200 by an all girl group that wrote and performed their own material. The album stayed at number one for 6 weeks and ultimately went multi-platinum, opening the door for many other new bands. No wonder Jane and the girls were honored with their own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame this summer.
I was lucky enough to catch Jane at The Go-Go’s sold out show at the historic Fillmore in San Francisco. I had a great time!
Working with Jane again will be an intergalactic treat for me. I first met her on the set of Billy Clift’s I Want To Get Married (premiering this week in Palm Springs). The beautiful Ms. Jane is a great actor and a blast to work with.
On the set of I Want To Get Married, photo by raymond doan
I’m getting all the details finalized so you can join the Pinball Donut Girl team. Our fundraising campaign on indiegogo launches Friday at Pacific Pinball Expo.
It’s going to be fun!
Working on some new graphics for PBDG today….
pencil drawing
Would this make a good graphic on a tee? Maybe with a metallic chrome donut/ball?
The crazy talented Brian J. Patterson, who stars as Matt in Pinball Donut Girl, is on stage now in the world premiere of Heart of a Soldier.
Brian J. Patterson on stage in Heart of a Soldier
The opera is based on the story of Rick Rescorla, hero of September 11.
Rescorla in Vietnam, 1965
The story of Rescorla’s heroism during the World Trade Center attacks is the stuff of opera, a hypertheatrical medium that holds a magnifying mirror up to nature. So it’s not entirely surprising that Rescorla’s story will materialize on the stage of the San Francisco Opera in the form of “Heart of a Soldier” beginning on Saturday, the eve of the 10th anniversary of the attacks. Read more from the NY Times article…
Yesterday (and today) I worked out of the LA campus of the studio, and I started thinking why isn’t there a pinball machine?
The campus down here is even larger than the San Francisco area campus where I work, and there are ping pong tables, and arcade games, and video games, and even this amazing secret bar with (literally) a hidden doorway behind a bookcase. We have it all. But no pinball.
Does Pixar have pinball, I wonder?
I’ll have to talk to Matt Walsh when I get back. Maybe we can take the lead on correcting this oversight.
