IT'S A CELEBRATION! | V1.5

Yeah that's right, I've been doing this blog for 2 years now! Insane ain't it!? Here's some fun facts:

1. The Fatkat Blog features over 430 individual posts.
2. There are over 15 gigabytes of pictures and movies featured in the archives.
3. Most of the archives are filled with photos of us celebrating for one reason or another.
4. Celebrating usually involves us Fatkats and some beverages of ingredients I won't name here.
   
5. Those 15 gigabytes of archived party pictures can now be found on a seperate blog.
6. You should be 18 years of age or older to surf that blog.
7. You are? Well great!
   
8. That blog would be located here.

That's right folks, I think with this new year of blogging we're going to keep this blog a little cleaner then before. Sure we'll post pictures of what we're up to, events and the like, but we'll nix any content that's too bling bling for blogger.

This company and what we do should be openly enjoyed by people of all ages, even those little ones that watch our cartoons and make us filty rich...

...speaking of rich, it's time for my champagne bubble bath, "Henry bring around the rolls please, I'm feeling peckish for a swordfish dinner."

Happy Birthday,

Gene

FATKATS GO OUT FOR POND HOCKEY!

This year's Miramichi's Pond Hockey Tournament was the best yet, with over 93 teams from every country you could imagine. You could also imagine that we Fatkats were there in fine style, we were certainly bringing sexy back with out amazing fatkat jerseys!
Look at the crowds! What a success!

Brian Donovan was on one of our teams, what a trooper. If you look closley you'll see that Brian got a nasty cut on his cheek from diving across the goal crease to stop a goal. Too bad he was bleeding all over the jersey he borrowed from our very own Dave Michaud.

Here's the portait of a man's hockey player, 24o lbs of screaming acadien!

Unfortunatley no amount of killer skills from our two teams could halt the onslaught of goals we had against. Better luck next year I guess!

Go Fatkats!

gene.

FATKAT HITS FAMILY GUY!

We teamed up with the dreamy fellahs at Flinch Studio and Zeek Interactive, just a few weeks ago some of Fatkat's best hammered out on 8 or so minutes of Family Guy.

Wow man, we should definitley do more of these, Family guy looks good in flash, what do you think?

WATCH IT HERE!

Lovies,

Gene

PS: Thanks to Cold Hard Flash for the props!

BUDDY BOLTON | WHAT IS LOVE?!

You won't believe this.

Buddy this is golden!

gene

PS: Thanks to Kevin Buggie for bringing this to my attention and for having a crazy last name.

THE END OF ALL THE ROMANCE

A few years ago, back when Fatkat was less then a year old, an old buddy of mine Sean Scott hooked us up on a gig to hammer out a video for a Montreal indie band called The dears. Cindy Blakney, Matt Rogers, Dave Rigley and Geremy Walker I believe all threw down on it. Hell even I got in there a bit and did some design. Crazy! It's nice to see it on the web!

Ever since we did the video, I've become a huge Dears fan. Check out their newest album here and also pay a visit to my buddy Sean over at Tarofish Animation.

Bacon and Eggs,

gene.

JON VAUGH GOES TO THE BRONX

My MSN conversation with Jon Von from Humminah Humminah studios: Jon is an old college buddy of mine, we graduated together from NBCC Miramichi.

Jon is insane, this is proof. Hell, I wish I could of had this thing on video.

Gene

HUMINAH HUMINAH - JON VAUGHN says (3:34 PM):

I almost got killed the last night in NYC

lol

GENE- FATKAT says (4:13 PM):

hahah

nice

HUMINAH HUMINAH - JON VAUGHN says (4:14 PM):

We went to a High class Model party..don't ask how we got to that LONG story...Met a couple homeboys...well to do homeboys...wen't to go party with them...BAD mistake...I figured high class party, 100 grand SUV what could go wrong

ended up in the bronx....they drove no way out ...

GENE- FATKAT says (4:15 PM):

ouch

HUMINAH HUMINAH - JON VAUGHN says (4:15 PM):

seedy little apartment surrounded by them and 3 hookers trying to feed me coke all night...at 6:30 I said I had to go...he said ok you've been with us for 4 hours that's 1200 an hour the corporate rate and pulled out a Credit card machine

GENE- FATKAT says (4:15 PM):

hahahaha

HUMINAH HUMINAH - JON VAUGHN says (4:15 PM):

LOL I was f**ked

GENE- FATKAT says (4:15 PM):

whoa!

GENE- FATKAT says (4:16 PM):

what happened?

HUMINAH HUMINAH - JON VAUGHN says (4:16 PM):

They put me in the back of a vehicle drove me back into the city and would leave my side..

kept telling me I owed him 4000 bucks

GENE- FATKAT says (4:16 PM):

holy shit

HUMINAH HUMINAH - JON VAUGHN says (4:16 PM):

I got him to go to the sheraton just because it was time square and crowded

went into the hotel pretended to ask for someone at the desk wasting time trying to figure things out

HUMINAH HUMINAH - JON VAUGHN says (4:17 PM):

then he really wanted money

GENE- FATKAT says (4:17 PM):

and then.....

HUMINAH HUMINAH - JON VAUGHN says (4:17 PM):

so I have him the 200 in my pocket

GENE- FATKAT says (4:17 PM):

he wouldn't leave your side?

HUMINAH HUMINAH - JON VAUGHN says (4:17 PM):

went back to the reception...said call the police...she told me go to the back of the line

4 guys and 3 girls

GENE- FATKAT says (4:17 PM):

AHAHAHH!!!

HUMINAH HUMINAH - JON VAUGHN says (4:17 PM):

following me everywhere

GENE- FATKAT says (4:17 PM):

DAMN!

Only in NYC

HUMINAH HUMINAH - JON VAUGHN says (4:17 PM):

went to the security guard at the front he said the same thing

GENE- FATKAT says (4:18 PM):

get out.

HUMINAH HUMINAH - JON VAUGHN says (4:18 PM):

then the buddy say's "let's go get some breakfast on me and figure out how your going to pay me back"

GENE- FATKAT says (4:18 PM):

what the hell!?!?

HUMINAH HUMINAH - JON VAUGHN says (4:18 PM):

HAHAHAH AS IF

GENE- FATKAT says (4:18 PM):

GET OUT!

HUMINAH HUMINAH - JON VAUGHN says (4:18 PM):

wen't around the side where the SUV was parked..they all got in and he told me to get in...I saw a traffic cop coming so i stalled then walked towards him

HUMINAH HUMINAH - JON VAUGHN says (4:19 PM):

stood between the cop and them and they took off in the vehicle

and the traffic cop kept saying call 911

at this point it was 9 am

GENE- FATKAT says (4:19 PM):

WHEW!!!!

DAMN!!

HUMINAH HUMINAH - JON VAUGHN says (4:19 PM):

then I ran back into the hotel got a cab back to ours woke Adam up and said we gotta get the fuck out of NY

LOL only me

have never been that scared in my whole life

hahahah makes for an interesting story

HUMINAH HUMINAH - JON VAUGHN says (4:20 PM):

only tourist stuff for now on

Thought you might get a kick out of that

GENE- FATKAT says (4:21 PM):

that's hilarious dude.

what an adventure

HUMINAH HUMINAH - JON VAUGHN says (4:21 PM):

one I don't need to have again

GENE- FATKAT says (4:21 PM):

I gotta post this to the blog. mother may I?

HUMINAH HUMINAH - JON VAUGHN says (4:22 PM):

hahah of course

im actually writting one up for my own tonight

I can send you the full story for you to play with

GENE- FATKAT says (4:22 PM):

craziness dude,

Be careful while in NYC!

Gene

FATKAT @ KIDSCREEN 2007 | MEGA POST

This year's Kidscreen as I think about it was our absolute best. We had mad coverage thanks to Andrew's idea of bringing down more folks then usual. Our Comedy night was a hoot and our meetings went as well as we could have hoped for, especially with the ones we were hoping to go well! YAY!

This year Fatkat had a record number of folks at the conference, from left to right; Carol MacKinley, Bryan Shannon, Andy Coyle, Liz Hogan and Tracy Fernandez. Not pictured is my beautiful wife Tara and of course myself! - Also representing Fatkat was the delicious Buddy Bolton also not pictured.

Getting off the plane in NYC, we had this lovley lady arrange us a limo to get us to the hotel. She was such a sweetie, she indulged my request of a picture with my Elvis glasses.

The first couple of days of the conference I was acutually visiting some pals in Conneticut, getting ready for another big season of Sprays of her Life! It's going to be a great year!

When I got back, this is the scene I saw in our hotel room! - Drunken debauchery!

Except for Tara and Carol who were containing themselves like good girls!

However I know of at least one fellah who wasn't about to let me down.

Good times with Coyle and Bryan.

I tried to take the remote but Andy wouldn't have it.

Bryan was a workhorse during the conference, he was having alot of fun impersonating Borat the whole time he was there.

Man, at 3am there's nothing that hits the spot better then Ray's Pizza.

LAter on that morning, Coyle and I stumbled out of bed and headed out into the chilly NYC streets to find our way to a couple of more meetings with big NYC studios.

Nisa a producer at World Leaders, of whom we're working on SuperNormal with. Man I love this woman! She's so sweet and easy to work with!

Raychel Simon, another amazing producer at World Leaders, both of these fine ladies saw it fit to steal my Elvis glasses for a photo op'. I couldn't say no!

Afer a great follow up with World Leaders, we headed out into the street again. The sun was bright and it was warming up a little, but man, it was Canada cold down there.

We headed down to see our pals at Animation Collective, these guys got it going on. They came up and saw us about a month or so ago and we showed them a good time. This time around it was there turn. Great stuff brewing with Michael and the fine folks at AC!

Like last year we once again hosted the Annual Fatkat Komedy Night at the Kidscreen Summit. We rented our sweet keisters comfy rides with 2 stretched white hummer limosines all decked out with fatkat logo work.

William Stevenson was our MC. Man this guy knows how to work a room, he's hilarious!

As alwasy Kurt Metzger brings down the house.

Elon Gold, man this dude is a riot.

One of our writers, Tim Krompier. This guy gets funnier every time I meet him. What a set Tim had. We were rolling!


New to the Fatkat Komedy Night was Dustin Chafin. This dude got wicked nasty in his set. The more the crowd would gasp and groan the cruder he got. It was an awesome sight.

Matt Ellis was having a good time. Glad you showed up buddy!

Very Nice, How much?!
Of course, the hilarious head liner - Sherrod Small

The Limo ride home was amusing thanks to Bryan's shinanigans. I hope Oliver Power (pictured here) had a good time!

We all knew Tracy did!

Back at the hotel, Bryan tried some of his best sales techniques, but got shut down. Juan Cruz Baldassarre from Copernicus Studios and I had a good chuckle.

All the boys from Copernicus and I went ouf for some late night French food. While the grub was horrible talking shop we these old Fatkats was great a great time.

The next and Final day of the conference was a blast. Many great meetings and in between them, many great experiments with Mentos and bottles of coke.

Until next year!

Much love!

gene

FATKAT HAMMERS ON FALL OUT BOY VIDEO!

check it out yo!

http://happytreefriends.atomfilms.com/index.html
man, I love working with Mondo! David Ichioka makes it so easy!

Much love,

Gene

FATKAT VS. WHITEHILL TECHNOLOGIES

Last weekend around this time, I was suiting up for an exhibition game with Trevor MacAusland's Whitehill Technologies gang down in Moncton.

Trevor must have some connections boy, man, playing at the Moncton Coliseum is not a small gesture. Big NHL superstars have graced this ice surface.

But tonight, it's just us!

Shane and Edgar were very impressed.

Edgar wore is lucky socks, it's a good thing too. Last time we played whitehill we got slaughtered.

Bryan Shannon and some pals started to show up.

Bryan, Peter and the gang were still in the van drinkin beers.

With our bright hunter safety orange hockey jersey's on, we suited up for war!

The face off!
The Breakaway! - (scored on me too, buggah!)

But that's ok, we scored a flurry of goals in the second period.

Look at these guys, troopers!

All in all it was a great event. Big thanks to Trevor MacAusland for putting on the gig and shelling out the $200.00 for the ice time! Next time the ice is on us, round 2 in Miramichi!

The rematch!

much love,

gene.