Conor Lastowka: Difference between revisions

One of the [[New generation movie riffers]].  A bit of Google searching reveals the interesting doings and coincidences that led to him being at Legend.  In 2002 he was co-creator of National High Five Day.  In 2006, a Legend Films producer, [http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=jp-rbi041506|searching for terms like] "4/20 national high" shortly prior to their release of colorized [[Reefer Madness]] including [[Michael J. Nelson]] commentary, ran across the site and sent him an email.  He replied and asked if Legend had any openings.  The answer was no, but he sent his resume anyway, along with [http://www.sandiegoserenade.com/2006/04/1986_world_series_game_6_reena.html|a video he'd created a few days before], combining real commentary from a famous inning of baseball with an NES RBI Baseball recreation of the action.  [http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB114591515205534499-_LY6O4wCKxN2DLMUHLmM3ixtZsg_20070428.html?mod=blogs|This impressed the folks at Legend] enough to in fact make him a job offer that day, as "a production assistant in charge of guerrilla marketing at Legend".  A couple more days later, and he's [http://www.sandiegoserenade.com/2006/04/420_songs_and_dvd_contest_1.html promotion a Reefer Madness giveaway contest] back at his blog.  As time went on his job evolved, and eventually he became one of the primary RiffTrax writers alongside [[Michael J. Nelson|Mike]], [[Kevin Murphy|Kevin]], and [[Bill Corbett|Bill]].