Andrew Di Pardos Filmmaking History

Sunday, December 2, 2012

STORIES & TIPS FROM TONY "the big man" RISI

Tony Risi & Aramis Pacitto from the feature film: "THE MAN WITH NO BRAIN"

"THE GREAT TORONTO TENNIS MATCH!"

by Tony Rockin Risi on Monday, April 16, 2012 at 6:26pm ·

I was walking downtown,when I noticed a Tennis match was going on. Thank God!!!!!!!!!!! I brought my Racquet! For reasons I will not disclose.

SO PICTURE THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The guy was just about to serve until I stepped on the court and said: "My name is Tony Risi. And i'm here to win!"

So it was me verses the lot of'em!
i lost.

But I left with my head held high, with a black eye and an extra racket.

If your interested in a racquet let me know.

"Its Just Big Man Talk"

by Tony Rockin Risi on Saturday, April 14, 2012 at 11:52pm ·

I went to the supper market today and saw my friend joe. Then we went to a homeless shelter and had free food.

IT WAS HORRIBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

They gave you such small plates! It was ridiculous.

"10 Life Lessons from the Big Man:"
1) Working hard is over-rated.
2) Bald is the new Cool.
3) If you think you can, you probably can't.
4) Crazy people are normal too.
5) Scales aren't indestructible.
6) Candy should be the 7th food group.
7) If you're dancing, its because you've have too much to drink, why stop now?
8) I'm big, bald, got glasses and have no job or prospects, but still as cool as the underside of a pillow.
9) A meal isn't complete without breakfast.
10) It takes too long to write 10 rules.

" TROUBLE AT THE BANK!"
So I was walking down the street and I hear alarm bells, I rush to the scene. I see a crook running for it with bags of cash, stumbling down the street he could hardly run!
I took to my heels, I caught the guy....

And asked him to help carry the cash!

I ran the opposite way, I got all the cash in the world!

New socks here I come!!! HE HE!

"Burning in Hell" by Andrew Di Pardo

"Life Is Hell" By Andrew Di Pardo

"This ain't a Logo" by Andrew Di Pardo

Monday, November 12, 2012

THE CREATION OF THE LOGOS

"The Classic" by Andrew Di Pardo

In 2009, while working on the early drafts of the Pilot, I decided that we should make a logo. I had this vision of our opening title sequence where fire would go across the screen like Ghost Rider on a bike and then light up like a match that says "LIFE IS HELL." So with that vision I told Aramis about the idea and he decided that he could make the logo on a business card program. So with his prototype that looked like a business rather than a show, I added fire all around the wording, at the top, the bottom, the sides, anywhere you could think of. It came out exactly the way I wanted it to. Aramis agreed at the time, but as of late hes had a change of heart.

"Hell in Heaven" by Andrew Di Pardo & Aramis Pacitto

So in September 2012, with that change of heart, we decided to do many different variations of the logo. The first new logo was done by me, instead of Fire around the wording I had overcast clouds. But we decided after some input from my father that we should not have the creators names in the logo. So we re-did the overcast clouding and we still weren't satisfied. So we kept the cloud concept and added fire at the beginning and end of the logo. It became a fan favourite on Facebook. But Aramis wanted to do more. So we did, we did some with fire all around the wording and we did some with just the writing. The one with just the writing was made by Aramis its his personal favourite.As for the Life Will be Hell logos, those were all created by Aramis Pacitto. So I think I'll leave it to Aramis to talk about them.

- Andrew Di Pardo