C.O.G. vs. Tomb of Nick Cage... completed just in time for the big event. Took less than two weeks to do the song and less than a week to do the video. Enjoy!

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Greetings humans,

I am PINKERTRON. I was created by Drumbot to fill in for Dr. Pinkerton, after he was accidentally killed four months ago. I can perform all of his important functions at 117% efficiency, so you should expect even greater achievements from the Consortium of Genius from now on.

The first such achievement is our new single, 'Learn ( Read more... )

Might as well record this here... we're on the Search for the Next Drumbot, and it's all going to culminate in a big show this coming Friday, May 4th...

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Here's the new video for the latest COG single!

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Big thanks go out to Corky Brillowsky for her brilliant 'Dr. -Pinkerton' sculpt (done by hand, NOT by machine, BTW) and to Sid Noel for his phoned-in cameo reprising the great Dr. Morgus for this video. Computers seen in this video are courtesy of Lewis D'Aubin's collection of antique ( Read more... )

Once again, NOLA Time Fest is almost here! The last few days have been a dizzying flurry of activity, with lots of equipment to pack, programming to finalize, etc. For this, our fifth year, we're back in our first year location (the Jefferson Orleans North in Metairie.) As I write this, I'm up super early to go perform with Steamcog Orchestra on ( Read more... )

A couple years ago, there was a spate of videos of robot 'bands' like Compressorhead and the like, mostly playing hard rock covers with corporate sponsorships by the likes of 'Zima'. Ugh.


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Wow, can't believe it's been over 20 years and exactly 199 shows... we're coming up on the 200th show of the legendary Consortium of Genius, to be held in Houston this coming weekend at the Houston Arcade Expo, a wonderful arcade-centric convention that I've attended many times in the past - always a great time. Houston's got a vibrant scene when ( Read more... )

After taking entirely too long, we finally finished and released the music video for 'Vote For Me', the theme song to COG's current cam-pain storyline. Guest video clips were shot both at Contraflow sci-fi con and a recent COG gig, as well as submitted by fans all over the country (even one from Germany!)

You can watch this video on www.livejournal.com

C.O.G. - 'Vote For Me' (COG Cam-Pain ( Read more... )

Finally, after many weeks, a new cam-pain video from the COG camp:

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This one was of course a chore to edit (but quite worth it!) I knew I was making more work for myself by putting lots of Drumbot in there... also, people were really available at separate times to record their parts, so all of that had to be pieced together as well. Finally, last ( Read more... )

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Behind the scenes info:
Martin Childs' Cyberman costume got a real workout on this shoot! This is also the first outside shoot done with my new Canon D7000 camera... good results too, I think. I also had fun dressing the Tomb Of Nick Cage tourvan with old 80's computer equipment and oscilloscopes... and now they want to make more 'scooby doo' ( Read more... )