DACAPO HOLIDAY TRADING CARDS
(Okay, now say the following in your best K-tel commercial voice....)
DACAPO Productions proudly presents the 2009 DACAPO Holiday Trading Cards!
For just 1 easy payment of 25 cents, you'll receive a set of 7 cards and a stick of gum! Yes, you heard right, a set of 7 cards AND a stick of gum!
You can keep them or trade them with your co-workers, family or friends! Collect all 25 cards! You'll be the coolest kid on the block!
Pick up yours today for just 25 cents :)
(Okay, now say this part really really reaaalllly fast!)
DACAPO Holiday Trading Cards are sold at the following locations:
DACAPO Productions
516 Hargrave St.
Winnipeg, MB R3A 0X8
DACAPO Productions will not held accountable for any accidents in your pants due to uncontrollable LOL's, ROTFL's, and LMFAO's.
LIMITED TIME OFFER!
WHILE QUANTITIES LAST.
Offer does not apply to aliens from Mars.
To check out which DACAPO trading cards you are missing, click on the link below!
http://www.dacapo.ca/new/CardPages/DC_Series1.html
Happy Holidays Everyone! =D
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
daCapo Infants
Within the past 2 years, we have welcomed 3 babies into the daCapo clan. Below are pictures of the daCapo wee ones ranging from the first born to our newest addition.
Caspian Skibitzky, 22 months
Sophia Bernjak, 14 months
Otto Schellenberg Goertzen, 2 months
Otto Schellenberg Goertzen, 2 months
Oh Hallo...
Monday, November 23, 2009
A spOoOoktacular daCapo Halloween
This year, the daCapo staff decided that we would stir things up a bit by decorating the studio with Halloween decorations and declaring a mandatory Halloween costume day. Here's a sneak peak of what went down here in the studio.
Our "creepy" spider.
Giselle with the Skeleton light.
Sister Nolan
We have Dr. Olaf Pyttlik standing beside Paul (Shaun of the Dead) in the back row.
In the front row, we have the very famous Whoopi Goldberg (Giselle), a Ferengi (Clint) from Star Trek, a Ninja (Kim) and Octomom (Catherine).
A few from the front office of our Halloween decorations.
And just for giggles....
Hope Everyone had a great Halloween!
Saturday, December 13, 2008
The Geek and the Nerd in the Studio
For the past number of months, Annalee has been handing out 'geek points' to staff when their actions and conversations warranted it, and musing on how well certain individuals would have done should they ever have found their way onto that 'Beauty and the Geek' show.
In an effort to lay this discussion to rest, we went and found a geek test on the net (http://www.innergeek.us/geek.html) and are having staff complete it. Here are the results for some staff. THE REST OF YOU HAD BETTER SUBMIT YOUR RESULTS!
Jayson also recommended a Nerd Test to us (who knew there was a difference between a geek and a nerd?). These were also interesting results.... (http://www.nerdtests.com/ft_nt2.php if you want to try it out and send me your results...)
Clinton Skibitzky (me!) ... what the heck is with the History/Lit Geek thing. I can't deny it however... I have maps of Constantine's Empire and the routes taken on each of the crusades on my study wall at home, as well as a timechart history of the world I found at the British Museum (it is COOL... oh heck, that is embarrassing...)
Ruth Vanstone Ruth just dreams about being as big of a History/Literature as I am... Someday Ruth, someday, perhaps!
Paul Bell you SUCK as a nerd, Paul (odd... he had the highest geek score, but a really low nerd one). Someone take his pocket protector away...
Nolan Balzer OOOH, a close race between science fiction (SCI-FI Nolan not SCIENCE!) and literature for Nolan!
Jesse Bell OK, Jesse isn't even TRYING!
Jayson Kowal No question where Jayson's tendencies lie...
Olaf Pyttlik ... Olaf has not bothered to take this test yet, but I feel qualified to do it for him. When you actually do it I will replace your results with these... super-hero-nerd-buddy!
In an effort to lay this discussion to rest, we went and found a geek test on the net (http://www.innergeek.us/geek.html) and are having staff complete it. Here are the results for some staff. THE REST OF YOU HAD BETTER SUBMIT YOUR RESULTS!
| Staff member | Geek Number | Geek level |
| Melissa Tapawan | 0.99 | Poser |
| Giselle Nazareno | 2.6 | Poser |
| Annalee Schellenberg | 3.74 | Poser |
| Kevin Aichele | 5.72 | Poser |
| Ruth Vanstone | 6.31 | Poser |
| Nolan Balzer | 11.3 | Geekish Tendencies |
| Jesse Bell | 11.83 | Geekish Tendencies |
| Clint Skibitzky | 14.99 | Geekish Tendencies |
| Olaf Pyttlik | 16.93 | Geek |
| Olaf Pyttlik (when I filled it out for him... he lies | 19.72 | Geek |
| Jayson Kowal | 22.0 | Geek |
| Paul Bell | 24.66 | Geek |
Jayson also recommended a Nerd Test to us (who knew there was a difference between a geek and a nerd?). These were also interesting results.... (http://www.nerdtests.com/ft_nt2.php if you want to try it out and send me your results...)
Clinton Skibitzky (me!) ... what the heck is with the History/Lit Geek thing. I can't deny it however... I have maps of Constantine's Empire and the routes taken on each of the crusades on my study wall at home, as well as a timechart history of the world I found at the British Museum (it is COOL... oh heck, that is embarrassing...)
Ruth Vanstone Ruth just dreams about being as big of a History/Literature as I am... Someday Ruth, someday, perhaps!
Paul Bell you SUCK as a nerd, Paul (odd... he had the highest geek score, but a really low nerd one). Someone take his pocket protector away...
Nolan Balzer OOOH, a close race between science fiction (SCI-FI Nolan not SCIENCE!) and literature for Nolan!
Jesse Bell OK, Jesse isn't even TRYING!
Jayson Kowal No question where Jayson's tendencies lie...
Olaf Pyttlik ... Olaf has not bothered to take this test yet, but I feel qualified to do it for him. When you actually do it I will replace your results with these... super-hero-nerd-buddy!
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
DACAPO Stampede Day
This past summer we celebrated our new building and the OUTDOOR COURTYARD between both facilities with a Rootin' Tootin' Stampede Day!
Howdy Pardner'! Nolan welcomes the cowpokes...
...and tends to the grill.
Ruth and Kim hang out...
Giselle and Kim do the same (LOVE the cowboy hat Giselle! Wherever DID you find it?).
Olaf does what Olaf does...
Paul looks dapper in his brand new blue Stetson..
Annalee looks over the beverage table...
..while Jayson takes care of important business (Kevin looks on and is unamused).
AAAH, yes. And who could forget the evil cowboy in black... Jesse - quick draw - Bell!
Howdy Pardner'! Nolan welcomes the cowpokes...
...and tends to the grill.
Ruth and Kim hang out...
Giselle and Kim do the same (LOVE the cowboy hat Giselle! Wherever DID you find it?).
Olaf does what Olaf does...
Paul looks dapper in his brand new blue Stetson..
Annalee looks over the beverage table...
..while Jayson takes care of important business (Kevin looks on and is unamused).
AAAH, yes. And who could forget the evil cowboy in black... Jesse - quick draw - Bell!
Monday, September 01, 2008
The Skeleton in Our Closet
Hi. I'm the new guy at DACAPO. Well, not completely new - I've been here for 4 months, but I'm still the last guy in the door. I've always found that it takes some time to adjust to a new workplace and as much as you adjust to the new workplace the company adjusts to you.
This place is different.
Now, there are people who cover their office or cubicle walls with posters with sayings like: Hang in there! (accompanied by a large photo of a kitten hanging from a branch with both arms.) These people should be taken out into the street and beat about the head and neck with heavy bats. But that is a rant for another time. The reason I mention these defective rejects is that having been at DACAPO for some time I am reminded of one of these insipid posters: You don't have to be crazy to work here - but it helps!
I've learned that at DACAPO you can apply that phrase, but with some modifications. Firstly, the trailing phrase, "but it helps" is unecessary. Then we simply have to edit the first part to read: "You have to be crazy..."
Case in point...
After purchasing and moving into our new building we got straight to work on renovations. Most of this consisted of paint and some new lighting fixtures. The big project was a new "mixing studio".
To make the exisiting room more acoustically friendly, we wanted to slope the walls away from where the workstation would eventualy be. This meant installing a false wall and a false ceiling.
Contractors being who they are, the wood frame for the false wall and false ceiling were installed in quick order, but sat there uncompleted and uncovered for several weeks.
Clint and I were standing around in the room looking at the size of the new window sill, when he remarked how it would make a nice sunny resting spot for a "mixing cat". My eyes wandered to the right and noticed how much room was left in the corner by the new false wall. Room enough for a...
That's when the joking started. I joked to Clint that we should have a corpse in the wall. "Why don't we get a stuffed animal and hang it from a noose." Paul, our commercial audio engineer, added, "...with a suicide note pinned to it." Nolan, our voice director, chipped in, "When they put up the drywall, we should put scratch marks on the inside." We all had a good chuckle.
An hour later, when I returned to my office, Clint had a mid-sized stuffed dog waiting on my desk. He found it in the basement of the old building - so we had our vicitm.
A day or two later, I started prepping the dog for it's entombment. I painted "X"s over it's eyes, hogtied it's arms and legs, and put a gag in it's mouth. Then it hit me... the stuffed dog victim was cute, but one of those paper skeletons with the dangling arms that you put on your door at haloween would be even funnier.
So I headed off to Toad Hall Toys to try and find one. I found a 12" tall plastic skeleton or a box of three or four 3" tall ones. I thought the 'mass grave' of the small ones would be kind of funny, but asked if they had any of the Halloween skeletons in storage in the stockroom. One staff member asked if I was talking about the "paper skeleton in the book". So I took a stroll back to the Anatomy Aisle and found the perfect victim.
It took a weeks worth of evenings to put together - approx. 24 hours of cutting, trimming, scoring, folding, and gluing. Plus a whole s*#!load of podcasts on my iPod.
After a few disasters (one clumsy contractor broke the skeleton in four places and I had to perform some serious reconstructive surgery) "Louie" was officialy interred in the mixing room at 520 Hargrave.
With an appropriate message...
After a few weeks the drywaller came in and sealed up Louie for good.
Now, while I was putting Louie together, I took over the boardroom table in the new building at about 5:00 every evening. Several staff members came in and out of the building while I was putting the skeleton together, so lots of staff members were in on the joke.
Several times, Clint would pass by my workspace and chuckle. Making comments from time to time, most dealing with my sanity. Now remember what I said about "being crazy to work here"? Well, at any other job very quickly there would have been laughs at my effort then several rounds of "Jayson... now I think it's funny and I do have a sense of humour, but..." or "Ummm, Jayson, about this little project of yours..."
My final comment when Clint was mocking my state of mental health: "OK, I am 100% mentally disturbed to build a skeleton and bury it in a wall, but at no point over the weeks did you ever stop me, so that makes you 75% as distrubed as I am."
You do have to be crazy to work here...
This place is different.
Now, there are people who cover their office or cubicle walls with posters with sayings like: Hang in there! (accompanied by a large photo of a kitten hanging from a branch with both arms.) These people should be taken out into the street and beat about the head and neck with heavy bats. But that is a rant for another time. The reason I mention these defective rejects is that having been at DACAPO for some time I am reminded of one of these insipid posters: You don't have to be crazy to work here - but it helps!
I've learned that at DACAPO you can apply that phrase, but with some modifications. Firstly, the trailing phrase, "but it helps" is unecessary. Then we simply have to edit the first part to read: "You have to be crazy..."
Case in point...
After purchasing and moving into our new building we got straight to work on renovations. Most of this consisted of paint and some new lighting fixtures. The big project was a new "mixing studio".
To make the exisiting room more acoustically friendly, we wanted to slope the walls away from where the workstation would eventualy be. This meant installing a false wall and a false ceiling.
Contractors being who they are, the wood frame for the false wall and false ceiling were installed in quick order, but sat there uncompleted and uncovered for several weeks.
Clint and I were standing around in the room looking at the size of the new window sill, when he remarked how it would make a nice sunny resting spot for a "mixing cat". My eyes wandered to the right and noticed how much room was left in the corner by the new false wall. Room enough for a...
That's when the joking started. I joked to Clint that we should have a corpse in the wall. "Why don't we get a stuffed animal and hang it from a noose." Paul, our commercial audio engineer, added, "...with a suicide note pinned to it." Nolan, our voice director, chipped in, "When they put up the drywall, we should put scratch marks on the inside." We all had a good chuckle.
An hour later, when I returned to my office, Clint had a mid-sized stuffed dog waiting on my desk. He found it in the basement of the old building - so we had our vicitm.
A day or two later, I started prepping the dog for it's entombment. I painted "X"s over it's eyes, hogtied it's arms and legs, and put a gag in it's mouth. Then it hit me... the stuffed dog victim was cute, but one of those paper skeletons with the dangling arms that you put on your door at haloween would be even funnier.
So I headed off to Toad Hall Toys to try and find one. I found a 12" tall plastic skeleton or a box of three or four 3" tall ones. I thought the 'mass grave' of the small ones would be kind of funny, but asked if they had any of the Halloween skeletons in storage in the stockroom. One staff member asked if I was talking about the "paper skeleton in the book". So I took a stroll back to the Anatomy Aisle and found the perfect victim.
It took a weeks worth of evenings to put together - approx. 24 hours of cutting, trimming, scoring, folding, and gluing. Plus a whole s*#!load of podcasts on my iPod.
After a few disasters (one clumsy contractor broke the skeleton in four places and I had to perform some serious reconstructive surgery) "Louie" was officialy interred in the mixing room at 520 Hargrave.
With an appropriate message...
After a few weeks the drywaller came in and sealed up Louie for good.
Now, while I was putting Louie together, I took over the boardroom table in the new building at about 5:00 every evening. Several staff members came in and out of the building while I was putting the skeleton together, so lots of staff members were in on the joke.
Several times, Clint would pass by my workspace and chuckle. Making comments from time to time, most dealing with my sanity. Now remember what I said about "being crazy to work here"? Well, at any other job very quickly there would have been laughs at my effort then several rounds of "Jayson... now I think it's funny and I do have a sense of humour, but..." or "Ummm, Jayson, about this little project of yours..."
My final comment when Clint was mocking my state of mental health: "OK, I am 100% mentally disturbed to build a skeleton and bury it in a wall, but at no point over the weeks did you ever stop me, so that makes you 75% as distrubed as I am."
You do have to be crazy to work here...
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Outtakes from our Holiday Photos
We had a blast doing our 'Holiday (pc) Cards' last year. Unfortunately, we only got to use ONE PHOTO on our card, and there were SO MANY GOOD ones. Here they are for you to laugh at...
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