04/02/2013 - 4:42pm

How Crowdsourcing Changed Independent Horror Movies

by Darren Callahan


Back in the days of independent cinema – you know, before 1980 – there were dozens of film production houses that worked region-by-region all across America.  Small shops, small pictures, small money – mini-studios that might give you some financing if you had a track...




02/06/2013 - 2:44pm

Action Fiction! featured in Fourteen Hills


Megan Rutigliano at the third Action Fiction!, photo by gunnar helliesen

Omnibucket co-founder Scott Lambridis was interviewed about our series of staged readings, Action Fiction!, for Fourteen Hills, the literary magazine of San Francisco State University.  

Take a look!

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01/21/2013 - 12:37pm

Dave Senecal launches exhibit on abstract art


Quetzalcoatl (by Dave Senecal)

Abstract Art tends to get bad press, routinely calling it “inaccessible” when it can be beautiful. 

Omnibucket co-founder Dave Senecal has taken a step to correct the record, opening an exhibit at the City Art Center in Delaware, Ohio, that serves as a 101 class...




11/19/2012 - 11:37pm

Micro-Meetings with Remarkable Men (apologies to Gurdjieff…)

by Eric Myers


Empty Spaces 02 (by Save Senecal)

Last week I met the President, and discovered I’m not cynical after all.  I’m as surprised as you are.

I'm not usually one to be starstruck. But I can't deny that my meeting with our once and future president three days before his reelection left me in something...




11/14/2012 - 7:56pm

Elder's Game: Modernity, Mormonism, and Aesthetic Intuitions about Religious Legitimacy

by Ariel Cruz


Portrait of Salt Lake City, and 16 important Mormon leaders

 

The cliché “with eyes wide open” presents an interesting irony when instantiated physically and in a conversation about whether or not the Indians ever hung out with Jesus.  I’ll explain.

Once, there was Alex, the dishwasher.  Alex was a lanky, blandly...




11/06/2012 - 11:58pm

Let’s Scare The Children...To Death!

by Darren Callahan


Are you a horror fanatic with kids?  You ever want to turn your kids onto the genre without giving them night terrors?  Here’s a list of scary movies that are (sorta) appropriate for the whole family! 

Like it or not, horror movie fans are breeders.  More of ‘em...




11/01/2012 - 1:27am

Preview of art for Life of the Gallows!


Jester Stage (by Tyler Landry)

If you haven't seen Omnibucket's first iPad book "The Ravens & the Rhyme," take a look in our store and download the free App.  It's amazing.

Our next iPad book will be a very different story - but...




10/29/2012 - 4:00pm

Stories from October's Action Fiction! are now online!


The fourth Action Fiction! performance, held October 18, drew a crowd of over 50 to San Francisco's Chez Poulet to see some amazing interpretations of some amazing stories.

We're working to get the video up...




10/25/2012 - 12:21am

Nailbiter - Monsters and Tornadoes from Director Patrick Rea

by Darren Callahan


In 1974, an F5 tornado hit the downtown of Xenia, Ohio, killing thirty-four people and injuring 1,150.  Tossed railcars obliterated the entire downtown and a school bus landed on the stage of the high school play.  The damage from this tornado, surveyed by Richard M....




10/17/2012 - 9:34pm

Welcome to the new Omnibucket!


Omnibucket was founded six years ago because publishing needed to be reinvented –beginning with the product. Today we’re reinventing ourselves.

The new Omnibucket is much like the old – only more so. We’re stepping up our productions schedule – not just because we...