Knowledge is Power... For Real!

A few years ago a rejected pilot for FOX was being circulated around the internet. It was called Heat Vision and Jack, it starred a then unknown to most funny man named Jack Black as well as the voice talents of Owen Wilson. The pilot was about a NASA astronaut who flew too close to the sun, and his best friend who happened to be a talking motorcycle. The sun partially cooked his brain, and as a result whenever the sun was out, he was the smartest person on Earth, but when the sun went down, he was dumb. He would even go through an Incredible Hulk style transformation. "I KNOW EVERYTHING!" he would yell. Jack's arch-nemesis was Ron Silver. The actor, he played himself.

We found out that that pilot was written and created by a fellow named Rob Schrab. Previously Rob Schrab had written one of our favorite comic books Scud the Disposable Assasin. A comic book about a robot assassin you buy out of a vending machine, who would self-desctruct after he completed his mission... only... the robot figured that out, so instead of killing his target, he maimed it and kept it alive in an expensive hospital.

Rob Schrab is also one of the founding members of Channel 101, a sort of internet film festival where regular people like you and me film pilots for fake television shows, and then people on the internet vote on the ones they like, if the pilot gets "picked up" by gaining enough votes, a second episode is produced, and a third, and so on as long as they keep getting votes.

Don't even get me started on his independent film Robot Bastard, or his comedy puppet show Ringwald and Molly. I could talk about how great those are for weeks.

Rob Schrab's latest is an animated music video for one of our favorite, and apparently now everybody's favorite bands, Deathcab for Cutie. It's a mix of puppetry, animation and digital effects, it's for the song Crooked Teeth, and the word is, it's not for linking just yet... I hope you caught it when it was.