Another project for Improvised Star Trek, we recently produced a music video of a Klingon translation of Sixpence None the Richer’s 90s Pop hit: Kiss me. Inspired by an episode of Improvised Star Trek, translated by the Klingon Christmas Carol, and performed with perfection by Jen Usellis, the video became a minor viral hit, garnering over 100,00 views in the first two weeks an getting featured on a wide range of sites including, but not limited to, Buzzfeed, MTV Geek, Conan O’Brien, and Gizmodo(France).
Every year Chicago’s Commedia Beauregard presents a Christmas classic reimagine for the 24th Century, the Klingon Christmas Carol. This year Improvised Star Trek wrote a short video to be part of Klingon the preshow, and Very Clever produced it. Enjoy, and check out Klingon Xmas through Dec. 30th.
Offbeat Bride, an “ongoing celebration of couples who dare to walk off the beaten aisle” has featured the Steampunk Save the Date we produced for Sean Kelley & Chelsea Ives on their blog.
You can check out the other unique videos couples used to announce their nuptials here.
A few old college pals contacted us a while back with an idea to shoot a Titular Head* style short film to take back to the Grinnell Reunion Weekend. We jumped at the chance.
Nick traveled to Grinnell with the film’s creators – the Janson siblings: Tor, Per, and Lara – to direct, shoot, and play the villian. Jeremy edited and did the sound design (leaning on the classic work of Ennio Morricone).
The film premiers tonight in Grinnell, but you can watch it below. Fair warning: if you didn’t attend Grinnell, you might not get many of the references.
Watch for the stellar guest appearance of Grinnell Professor (and Nihilist?) Erik Simpson.
* Titular Head is a Grinnell College tradition with a long, storied history, evolving sometime in the nineties to a student film festival celebrating, primarily, Grinnell in-jokes.
This September friends of Very Clever Sean Kelley and Chelsea Ives are having a Steampunk-themed wedding in Martha’s Vineyard. Obviously, a Save the Date video with Tesla Coils and Zeppelins was in order.
that would actually be pretty dangerous. Regardless, Very Clever has been hard at work producing podcast episodes for Improvised Star Trek, a Chicago improv troupe taking their space-based comedy to the final frontier of of the internet. And yes, you might notice a certain amount of overlap between Very Clever and the IST cast.
You can subscribe to the podcast, to get another new episode ever week by clicking here.
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May 16, 2013 10:40 am | 
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