Open Source Pinball in the Windy City – Expo 2012

Posted on October 19, 2012 by pinballdonutgirl

The 28th annual Pinball Expo is off and running in Chicago.

photo by Mark Czarnowski

PBDG cast member Mark Czarnowski is hard at work behind the scenes and it looks like things are really coming together.

photo by Mark Czarnowski

Mark got to play Cactus Canyon Continued — a CC game running with P-ROC, a cool board that lets you mod pinball games via a pc over usb. Mark reports:

“In our repair room, we have a Cactus Canyon, running custom software on a P-ROC controller and a PC. The new custom version, dubbed Cactus Canyon Continued, is programmed and overlaid on top of the original. The pic shows the CCC software creator on the left, and the P-ROC hardware guys, center and right.”

Photo by Mark Czarnowski

“The P-ROC version has many new features, including a mode called Drunk Multiball, best played by crossing your arms, since the flipper buttons are reversed.”

photo by Mark Czarnowski

Don’t forget that Pinball Donut Girl will be screening at the LTG show Friday evening at 10:00 with Mark hosting!

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Lloyd the Great (LTG) Screens Pinball Donut Girl this Friday in Chicago

Posted on October 17, 2012 by pinballdonutgirl

Lloyd Olson, AKA “LTG” will be including a screening of the ten minute festival cut of Pinball Donut Girl at his LTG show at Pinball Expo of Chicago this Friday, Oct. 19 at 10:00 PM in the Lake Michigan Ballroom.

I won’t be able to attend , but cast member Mark Czarnowski will be standing in for me, and I hear there is a good chance some PBDG posters will be part of Lloyd’s prizes.

photo courtesy Lloyd Olson

In addition to putting on the greatest seminar at the Expo, Lloyd also runs SS Billiards, in Hopkins, Minnesota, where he has been keeping pinball fresh since 1972 with tournaments, family fun, and well maintained games.

So come out to the Expo, have a great time, and please join Mark at the LTG show to see Pinball Donut Girl! I wish I could be there with you.

Poster Detail (Download Me as Wallpaper!)

Best 5 Days of September

Posted on October 1, 2012 by pinballdonutgirl

A few photos from the Pacific Pinball Expo, definitely my favorite five days of September!

Charlie Kuttner and I filmed the whole load in, an amazing 2 day transformation of an empty room to a pinball wonderland, and then of course I got to meet and talk to a lot of you, play pinball, see cast and crew members, eat donuts, and screen my films. It doesn’t get any better than that.

Thank you to everyone who came out to the show and to the amazing volunteers of the Pacific Pinball Museum who make the magic happen!

child plays pinball at pacific pinball expo 2012

photo by Charlie Kuttner

pbdg preview screening at pacific pinball expo 2012

photo courtesy Matt Walsh

photo by Charlie Kuttner

And congratulations to Jeri Ellsworth on her 2012 Maker Hero award!

Wade Krause film opens Pacific Pinball Expo

Posted on September 18, 2012 by pinballdonutgirl

Hope you’re coming on Friday to the Pacific Pinball Expo; the first festival event in the Sausalito room will be Wade Krause: Pinball Artist. Wade himself will be there to talk about his work and help me answer questions about the film.

image from Wade Krause: Pinball Artist, photography courtesy Joe Bansuelo

Get behind the backglass with Wade! You’ll learn about his restoration work and his collaborations with artists like Dirty Donny on the Metallica game, Beatniks, Hellacopters and other cool games.

Date: Sept. 21, 2012
Time: 11:00 AM
Where: Sausalito Room, Pacific Pinball Expo, San Rafael, CA
Directions: http://www.marincounty.org/Depts/CU/Directions

Hope to see you there.

PS: Stay for the whole weekend so you don’t miss seeing Pinball Donut Girl on Saturday.

Droid Does Pinball!

Posted on September 10, 2012 by pinballdonutgirl

It’s director Don Starnes’ birthday today, but here at team Pinball Donut Girl, we have a gift for you: a new image by upcoming artist Joy McKemy from the Pinball Donut Girl poster that you can put on your phone or desktop.

Right click and Save Image As to download me!

I hope you are all making plans to come to the Pacific Pinball Expo to see the preview of Pinball Donut Girl on Sept 22. I’ll have copies of the full poster available there, and they will be in the perk package of many of you kind enough to donate to the project.

Wanted: New Home for the Pacific Pinball Museum

Posted on September 4, 2012 by pinballdonutgirl

The Pacific Pinball Museum is looking for a new home, a setting where they can show more than the current fraction of the fantastic collection of games, teach kids about science, and spread pinball joy and luv. Can you help out, even a little?

2007 Pacific Pinball Expo – photo courtesy of PPM

Here is their Create the Smithsonian of Pinball campaign on Indiegogo — check it out!

You can also support the PPM by coming out to the 2012 Pacific Pinball Expo, play some games, attend some talks, and see THREE of my films:

advance screening of Pinball Donut Girl featurette
preview of Wade Krause: Pinball Artist
The Visible Pinball Project

See you at the PPE, September 21-23!

Frank Lloyd Wright meets Pinball Donut Girl

Posted on August 27, 2012 by pinballdonutgirl

On Sept. 22, Pinball Donut Girl will have an advance screening of the full featurette at the 2012 Pacific Pinball Expo, held at the Marin County Civic Center Exhibition Hall in San Rafael, California.

Frank Lloyd Wright, who designed the Marin Center would surely be pleased. I mean, look at the detail on one of the buildings in the complex and tell me Lloyd Wright didn’t love pinball!

Marin Civic Center building

Missed the PBDG Trailer at CAX? Catch it in Australia Instead!

Posted on August 6, 2012 by pinballdonutgirl

Newcastle Pinball Association is having their first annual Pinfest September 8-9, and you can bring out your whole family for free game play at one low admission. Jady, one of the organizers, tells me they will have tons of cool games, from the new AC/DC pin to vintage pinball machines.

Oh, yes, you can also see hi-res versions of the Pinball Donut Girl trailer and the teaser for Wade Krause, Pinball Artist.

This is the inaugural year for this annual pinball show, so please come out and support it, get it off to a great start. I’m sure it will be a lot of fun. It’s at Caves Beachside Hotel in Newcastle,