Jon Schnepp - ProfilesArchive

About Me

I'm a Filmmaker working in the industry, and I've read over 10,000 comic books.I've directed "Upright Citizens Brigade" and "Metalocalypse", and worked on hundreds of shows inbetween.......From editing "Space Ghost Coast to Coast" to designing the pilot for "Aqua Teen Hunger Force" to to art directing and acting in MTV's Club Dead, I've been in the scene... With my company, King Robot Films, I've produced, written, and directed many short films, among them "The Removers", "Nerd Hunter 3004", "Mr.Sunshine", "Brainwarp", "Visitor", "Sunday Detective Film Theater", "SourBoy&PepGirl", and "Flak Crisp: Total Action!".I directed and co-produced the first season of "Metalocalypse", an Adult Swim cartoon about Dethklok, the world's most popular death metal band. I designed and created the look of of the band Dethklok, and have had the best time working on the show with co-creators/co-writers Brendon Small and Tommy Blacha, and the whole crew at Titmouse. I worked on the DVD for the first season of "Metalocalypse" which come out Oct.2nd, adding lots of extras and special features that fans will appreciate.I'm currently directing and coproducing season two of "Metalocalypse", and also directing music videos for the band "Exodus" and many more... make
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My Interests

Reality, Non Reality, and the things that crawl in between.

I'd like to meet:

People in the entertainment community with skills. No Flappees, Floaters, or Fishers.

Music:

Queens of the Stone Age, The Pixies, The Billy Nayer Show, Arch Enemy, Devo, Masters of Reality, The Police, Sex Pistols, Dimmu Borgir, Tenacious D, Led Zeppelin, The Cars, Run DMC, DETHKLOK, Beastie Boys, Exodus, Faith No More, Alice In Chains, Flaming Lips, Portishead, Cannibal Corpse, Black Dahlia Murders, Fugazi, Metallica, Kyuss, Fu Manchu, Adam & The Ants, Tom Waits, Mike Doughty, WickerMan, Helmet, Bauhaus, Beck, Judas Priest, Oingo Boingo, XTC, Mastadon, Nirvana, Polar Bear, Soundgarden, Black Sabbath, Public Enemy, Kaiser Chiefs, Ween, Amon Tobin

Movies:

Kung Fu Hustle, Sin City, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, GRINDHOUSE, The American Astronaut, Brazil, Schizopolis, Citizen Kane, TapeHeads, Evil Dead2, Army of Darkness, The Black Hole, Flash Gordon, Ghost World, OuterWorld, Behind The Mask, Blue Velvet, Young Frankenstein, Videodrome, Blade Runner, Dark City, This Is Spinal Tap, Forbidden Planet, Tron, The Day The Earth Stood Still, Dawn of the Dead, Shaun of the Dead, Once Upon A Time In The West, pre SW scifi like Logans Run, Andromeda Strain, THX-1138, Solaris, Zardoz, Film Noirs: Kiss Me Deadly, Out of the Past, Kansas City Confidential, Pickup on South Street, Touch of Evil. too many to type.

Television:

SPACED, The League of Gentlemen, Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, Freak & Geeks, Twin Peaks, Mr.Show, Dr.Who, The Office, Kids in the Hall, Little Britain, the X-Files, 60's Star Trek, Chiller Theater, Kolchak, The Colbert Report, Firefly, Buffy/Angel, The Newsroom, The Wire, BULLSHIT!, The Prisoner, and the ultimate double feature - Dennis Potter's "Karaoke" & "Cold Lazarus".

Books:

Authors: Raymond Chandler, Phillip K. Dick, Alan Moore, Douglas Adams, Frank Miller, Ray Bradbury, Warren Ellis, Grant Morrison, Jack "King" Kirby.

Heroes:

Jack Kirby, David Lynch, Jimmy Carter, Dennis Potter, Alan Moore, Ray Harryhausen, Luis Buneul, Andrei Tarkovsky, John Totleben, and Orson Welles

My Blog

New Zealand is a 3D False World.

After viewing "Black Sheep", I now know for a fact that New Zealand is a fabricated complex 3D meta universe totally designed and completely created by the imagineers at WETA. Peter Jackson will not b...
Posted by Jon Schnepp on Wed, 10 Oct 2007 11:45:00 PST

Macy’s Power Animal Card

Friends,Bear witness to the total and complete unstoppable power of the Macy's Card.I am shocked and amazed at the popularity of the totally free $500 dollars that everyone is getting from this "Macy'...
Posted by Jon Schnepp on Mon, 08 Oct 2007 03:11:00 PST

My "Aqua Teen Hunger Force" 3D Origin finally arrives...

Two years ago, I made an origin animation done completely in ancient 3D for Dave Willis and Matt Maiellaro, based on their end credit sequence from the ATHF show on Adult Swim. It was originally made...
Posted by Jon Schnepp on Wed, 11 Jul 2007 11:30:00 PST

..We made it on the Sopranos...

..with one episode left of the entire series! I'm very happy to have them showcase a scene from "Metalocalypse", from the very first episode I directed. If you missed it, it is in the luxury loony bin...
Posted by Jon Schnepp on Mon, 04 Jun 2007 12:57:00 PST

Blogling 3: Bolexia

I will always remember my first Bolex camera. I bought it when I was 19 years old, a junior in college at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Someone had posted a bulletin up at the media cent...
Posted by Jon Schnepp on Sun, 28 May 2006 02:27:00 PST

Blogling 2: Moving Pictures

Swirling cow-crowds u-turn in mass to see the latest popcorn/hotdog/nachos&cheese 93 minutes plus added commercials event, while giant posters the size of two floor houses attack from every corner tu...
Posted by Jon Schnepp on Wed, 12 Oct 2005 11:47:00 PST

Blogling.1: Snow Cup

okay....my first blog, my first post to the vapor of the web, my first official "I'm talking to myself in my own head while typing these very same thoughts( albeit rescanned, censored, edited, and re-...
Posted by Jon Schnepp on Sun, 09 Oct 2005 01:24:00 PST