Latest Shoot: NE Oklahoma

We're back from our latest shoot for "Oklahoma Rocks!"  This time we hit the Tulsa/Northeast Oklahoma area.  Our first stop was going to be the "Big Blue Whale" along Route 66 in Catoosa.  

Long story short:  even though it is a giant blue whale on the side of the road we couldn't find it.  So instead of wasting all day looking for it we headed to our next stop: the Picher Mining Museum in Picher, OK.  

Long story short:  we couldn't find it....or could we?  We actually found it twice...or at least it felt like we did.  The first place we stopped seemed to be closed.  We sat and pondered about whether the owner was actually still alive and the importance of pre-production.  But we didn't want to waste any more time so drove around getting chat pile footage.

After a short while and several tasteless "chat" puns later, we stumbled across the real Picher Mining Museum.  

Long story short:  it was also closed.   A disappointed Devin is pictured below.

So then we finally went to a place that:

A.  we could find 
and
B.  was open

The Joplin Museum Complex has some great mineral specimens, historic mining memorabilia and antique mining equipment.  They also had a museum mascot: "Percy the Cat."  So we tried to get him to do something interesting on camera.

Long story short:  he didn't.

Anyhoo, the next day we hit the Grand Lake 'O' the Cherokees, Sequoyah State Park, the Illinois River and other various photogenic places in the area.

But much like Captain Ahab our whale obsession overtook us and we had to head back to Route 66.

Long story short: we found it.  Yea!

More pics from our shoot can be seen on the "Oklahoma Rocks!" website: http://www.okgeology.com

More about our super cool award

Here's a link to a .pdf file of the latest American Federation of Mineralogical Societies' newsletter that covers the awards they give out:

http://www.amfed.org/news/n2006_10.pdf

We are mentioned on page 6.

We're winners!

Well, we just won an award so we've officially gone from being losers to being winners...and don't that just feel so right.

"RockHounds: The Movie" has won the "Excellence in Education Award" from the American Federation of Mineralogical Societies. 

The film will now be available (as soon as I send the copies out) in all of the AFMS Regional Libraries.  News like that has just gotta make you take a celebratory visit to the "RockHounds: The Movie" website.  (Man, that was a subtle pug.)

And now I'll leave you with this bit of geologic comedy:

Cockroach Hall of Fame (yeah, that's right)

Many of our hardcore fans (i.e. our mothers) may remember that before Devin Dennie was a movie star, he was a TV star as host of "North Texas Explorer."  

I just remembered that one of our beloved segments about the Cockroach Hall of Fame & Museum in Plano, TX was selected to be screened online at iflim.com awhile back.  So it is available to be seen online (in good quality) by anyone interested. 

So here is a blast from our past:

 

Also, since we are now obsessed with YouTube, we'll probably be putting more of our old stuff online.  Maybe some other old NTE segments or some of our old "Streaming Geology" stuff...who knows?  So if you have any requests, let us know.

"Oklahoma Rocks!" Video Journal 2

Here's the long awaited "Oklahoma Rocks!" Video Journal #2.  Devin vs. the Ammonites...let us know what you think...

 

deadCENTER Film Festival pics

Here are some pictures from the screening of "Road Does Not End" at the deadCENTER Film Festival. 

Clockwise from upper left: an advertisement for RDNE on the big screen, director Todd Kent takes questions from the audience (sorry if that one is a little dark), the outside of the Oklahoma City Museum of Art (where the screening took place) and Todd & Devin outside the venue.

"Oklahoma Rocks!" Video Journal 1

Here is the first Video Journal about the making of "Oklahoma Rocks!" I hope we don't come off too whiney.