<![CDATA[io9: mockumentary]]> http://tags.lifehacker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/io9.com.png <![CDATA[io9: mockumentary]]> http://io9.com/tag/mockumentary http://io9.com/tag/mockumentary <![CDATA[Learn How To Harvest Creative Juices By Squishing Yuppie Brains]]> Take a video tour of the premiere brain-harvesting farm Creative Juices, in this adorable mockumentary. Creative Juices takes some of the most brilliant minds and squeezes out all of their best ideas for profit. This scrappy start-up company has all types of creative minds growing on its farm, including television writers, online marketing whizzes and even some fascinating hybrids that can yield great ideas, but also drive you "as mad as a badger." Check out the full tour below.

Harvesting creative juices is delicate work, they say: "Being creative people, it's important that they get a lot of praise and massage their egos — especially before the harvest."

Creative Juices has been used on many prominent companies. Check out their website for more information and details on how to get a home presser so you can grow and slaughter your own brains.

[via Core 77]

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<![CDATA[The Zombeatles Prepare the Undead British Invasion]]> Do you remember when Jaw Lennon, Pall IcKartney, Gorge Harryson, and Dingo Scarr appeared on the Dead Sullivan Show and took the US by storm? Together this quartet forms the Zombeatles, four undead heartthrobs looking to share their music with the world. And, thanks to zombie comedian Angus MacAbre, they're getting their chance, in a mockumentary chronicling their rise to fame.

MacAbre, a.k.a. public radio producer Doug Gordon, got the idea to create All You Need Is Brains, which he describes as “Night of the Living Dead meets Spinal Tap,” from Madison-based band The Gomers.

Recalling The Zombeatles, the Halloween-time alter ego of The Gomers complete with songs like “I Want To Eat Your Hand” and “Hard Day’s Night Of The Living Dead,” he was inspired to bring them together. Gordon thought the respective acts [his and the Zombeatles’] could easily be combined thematically to create a short mockumentary set in a “zomniverse” where the walking dead have evolved, and apparently have staged their own British Invasion.

A report from the set gives us a taste of the film’s musical zombie humor:

At one point during the scene, [Jaw Lennon portrayer Steve] Burke strummed his axe with one dead hand before dropping it to the floor, at which point the zombie audience literally ate it up.

Gordon hopes to have a rough cut of the film done in time for the October 25 Madison Horror Film Festival, but you can get a peek at the Zombeatles’ shtick with their single, “A Hard Day’s Night of the Living Dead.”

The Zombeatles and undead fans infest Frequency to shoot mockumentary [The Daily Page]

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