Josh Barbour

What a joke. You get to the end of film school and still can’t trust your light meter readings, you’ve got two years into a lame script with a copyright, and (lets face it) a degree with Arnold Swarzenegger’s signature at the bottom of it; the whole thing does make you laugh.
But lets get down to brass tacks here…
Josh Josh Josh, what a mess. Somewhere between drinking too much and working too much you managed to go off the deep end and turn 25 without having accomplished much of anything to be proud of. We’ll have to double our efforts to make up the time you’ve lost, Stanley Kubrick was 23 when he made Day of the Fight, Orson Welles was 26 when he finished Citizen Kane.
Meanwhile; you don’t know if it’s because you’re older, lazier, or maybe the subject is just too depressing, but you don’t even enjoy arguing politics anymore, despite the fact the world seems to be falling apart. You’ve got wealthy idiots running the world, and wealthy idiots running the industry. It’s hard to get excited about polishing brass on sinking ship, but what the hell else are you going to do? Get a 9 to 5, move to the suburbs, make a baby, and wait for your midlife crisis? Obviously not.
In any case, clear the air, this is how it boils down Josh: You have to stop wanting everybody to like you, what the hell has it gotten you so far? Have people love you or hate you, no more gray area. No more lies about how you’re going to change the world, the world will lose its own mind; but what do you want to be when it does? A bartender? The director of the next Hollywood movie about the handsome man who meets the pretty woman, and just when it looks like it won’t work out, it does? How about the cameraman shooting the next slutty fashion ad, or the guy who gets excited when he gets the producer’s coffee “just right”? No, I think not. All the things that excited you in past are getting boring and you’re still not doing anything about it.
So Josh; lets burn up, lets lose that mind of yours, blast it out on 70 millimeter celluloid and scare ourselves. What are you afraid of? You’ve got what it takes, its not as hard as you think. When its all over if just one person with a bit of taste refers to you as “ahead of his time.”, then you’ll know you pulled it off.
Don’t let me down slapshot.

Dave Bergland

Born in Walnut Creek in 1981, Dave Bergland excelled at nothing until chance dropped him into Journalism class at Las Lomas Highschool. He wanted comics in the newspaper but could not find anyone to draw them. There was nothing to do but draw comics himself, something he had no experience in.

Startlingly, he found it was a lot easier to learn how to do something than to find someone else to do it for him. For better or for worse, this concept shaped his approach to writing, art, animation, film and life.

Even before graduating from SFSU, Dave rejected the idea of moving to LA (which he sometimes refers to as Gomorrah). He has many projects to finish, but life, as he puts it, "is long and beautiful."

Dave's friends and family are there for him whenever his ambitions outstrip his abilities and energy. For this and other things, he is eternally grateful.

J Diggle

I like Candy!

Gopal Hassin

What people say about Gopal:

“Gopal is one of the fabolous live artist in Nepalese
music”

“Gopal is the author of twenty one issued US patents
and numerous publications. He received his doctorate
degree in computer science from Cornell University and
a bachelor's degree in engineering from the Indian
Institute of Technology, Bombay.”


“Gopal is a Workers’ Party veteran.”


“A Gopal is a devout hermit who observes cleanliness —
who keeps his house and everything about him clean and
tidy.”

“Gopal is also an evangelist.”


“The Gopal is responsive and fast, so route planning
is painless, especially since full postcode address
searches are supported.”

“Gopal is one of the best vegetarian eateries in
Puerto Rico.”

“People always remember ‘Gopal.”

“Gopal is doing twice the amount of job that a
stretched human can do.”

Hey, Do you like Toast?

Do you know what?

I can make toast.

Randall Miyashiro

Randall Miyashiro was born in Mountain View, CA. An avid reader, scholar and collector, Randall brings a measured, patient point of view to New California Productions as well as high technical standards.

The Red

"...those who chose to be knights began right away on a training that lasted until they were men.  First they were pages, who waited on their master at table and at the hunt, and on their mistress in her bower; they were taught the fear of God by the chaplain, the arts of love by the ladies of the court, the arts of hunting by the master's huntsmen and of fighting by his knights.  At sixteen they became squires, and learned  to ride in armour and handle a lance and sword, and then to attend a knight in whatever battles were going.  Finally in their early twenties they were admitted to the pride and dignity of knighthood."

- David Howarth, 1066: The Year of the Conquest