Come check it out! Art, shopping, and live music at this FREE event. May 3rd 5-8:30pm

We are so happy to have new friends & followers and love our old friends for showing their support!

Inserting all eligible usernames into Random.org’s List Randomizer the winners are:

#3. Rachel Reynolds Luster  - you win a vintage 45 record bowl!

#2. Tony Taylor – you win a vintage 45 record bowl!

GRAND PRIZE: signed first printing of 45RPM’s movie poster!

#1. Duane Jackson

CONGRATULATIONS!

We will contact the winners shortly for their mailing addresses.

Thanks for supporting indie film in Arkansas!

You can check out last year’s Facebook Giveaway here. This year is going to be bigger and better.

We are giving away (2) vintage 45 record bowls like this:

and one GRAND PRIZE!

So that’s 3 prizes to win and you can enter to win up to 3 times per person!

• Friend us on Facebook (if you are already our friend, share this link: http://tinyurl.com/45RPMgiveaway and tag us with @45RPM in your post)
• Follow us on Twitter (if you are already a follower, retweet this link: http://tinyurl.com/45RPMgiveaway and mention us @45RPM )
• Post a comment on this blog post telling us why you are excited to see 45RPM

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Giveaway ends on May 1st 2012 at 12 noon CST & winners will be selected using random.org.

We love having your support!

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COMING FALL 2012

Starring Liza Burns & Jason Thompson

Written & Directed by Juli Jackson
Cinematography by Bryan Stafford
Edited by Les Galusha & Brent Bailey

*Song Credit: 1960s Arkansas band Barefacts – “Tell Me”
Available on the Lost Souls Volume 1 Compilation

There will be a short Q&A with writer/director Juli Jackson.

Artwork created for the film by artist Mandy Maxwell will be on display, with an opening reception March 9th.

Come see what we have been up to!

Please make your way out to Batesville, Arkansas for the best small town film festival you’ll ever attend: March 28th – April 1st 2012.

Designed by Mandy Maxwell

Having known and worked with Winn since college I knew he was the perfect guy to get 45RPM’s animation production started off on the right foot.

We planned sequences, troubleshooted problems, and jumped in to creating several scenes using pixelation, stop motion, paint on glass, rotoscoping, and digital effects.

It was Winn’s first trip to Arkansas and he seemed embrace the culture of fish frys, camo, and heavy accents. He also tried his first hushpuppy!

Thanks for all your help Winn & best of luck for your upcoming move to Canada.

-Juli Jackson

Mike Poe shows 45 RPM cast and crew shooting a scene in Little Rock on Production Day 19 at Been Around Records and later that day – a green screen shoot of bus interiors at Arrow Bus Lines.

Check out the previously posted on-set shenanigans from this day here

Lucky 13! This day found the 45 RPM crew in Stanford, Arkansas. The whole community got together, bringing out tables, and 1000s of personal items to help create our very own Swap Meet set for the movie. Thank you so much to everyone that participated!
Stills by photographer Kandi Cook

Harold Ott, Arkansas’s own homegrown authority on garage rock, has released another fantastic compilation

Lost Souls Volume 3

I have been listening to this collection since late summer. I definitely  have my favorites, like ”I Can See Your Ways”  by  Richard Vanover & Bob Ralph and “Hush Puppy” by The Spyders. The version of ” Little Latin Lupe Lu”  by Don Norviel & the Visions I dig way more than the Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels cover.  And you have to love “Fouke Monster”  by Billy Cole & the Fouke Monster created to promote the cult classic film Legend Of Boggy Creek.

The entire collection is worth owning the hard copy: 29 tracks, a fat insert with super detailed liner notes and pictures – This is what all albums should be!  Many of the songs compiled in these collections have been gathered from original acetates, 45s, and reel to reel tapes not found anywhere else. Not only is it an exciting and obscure part of Arkansas’s music history, but many of the songs are infectious and will make their way into your playlists.

Lost Souls Volume 3 is availble to preview & purchase at CDBaby and Amazon

ALSO: check out the complete Lost Souls documentary to see the story of the garage rock band out of Jacksonville who are the namesake of these labor-of-love compilations.

Thanks Harold for all the hard work!

-Juli Jackson

Big thanks to Joey Massey and Harvey Songer for taking an interest in our production!

Music by Youell Swinney
From the upcoming album, Poor Man’s Lament
Listen to it here!

Behind the scenes footage captured by Lee Lyons and Juli Jackson