Another fantastic year has passed, the 6th so far for Omega Squid Studios. Continuing to build on past success, I hope to create and share even more with the world as 2010 unfolds.

Notable events from 2009:

• Urban Nights is filmed, one of three segments is completed (~40 minute segment, Late Night Stranger)
• Game development is rebooted with the Glacial Grab alpha release
• Several new videos, including the Iced Avenger 2: Christmas in July, the Escape from Fulton digital trailer
• Massive expansion of network sites, notably SquidFlicks
• Redesign of OSS website
• Completion of several interview DVDs for the state of Kentucky’s historical archives
• A new computer system to increase video editing and rendering speed
• INK! Selling Solutions increases eBay consignment customer base

Those of just some of the literally hundreds of events that happened across the network this past year. What’s more exciting than the past, however, is the future events in the OSS network coming in 2010!

What to look forward to in 2010:

• New episodes of SquidFlicks Reel Talk
• Completion of Glacial Grab
• BlackBerry Application development
• Redesigned websites for INK! Selling Solutions and King Kraken
• Monthly video blog (at least once a month, variable)
• Increased Facebook presence
• New staff
• IndepenDEX launch

2010 will be a momentous year for OSS and myself, mainly because I will be graduating from high school and attending college in the fall. The amount of time and resources that I have been spending to develop content on network sites will most likely decrease during this summer and fall. I will continue to work in whatever spare time I get, and I will always keep the OSS news blog and my personal blogs updated.

I am going to halt some growth of new ventures, or ‘tentacles’ of OSS, and recommit myself to improving already existing sites and services. However, if something strikes me as timely or very worthy of committing to, there will be an announcement here. Progress on other projects will also be posted here.

Thank you for tour continued support of Omega Squid Studios. Word-of-mouth advertising still ranks as the #1 reason clients choose OSS for their web design, graphic, video, tech support, and eBay consignment needs.

Here’s to 2010!

Network Status

The Omega Squid Network is faring quite well. New websites have been developed or redesigned in the past few months, and others, SquidFlicks in particular, continue strong growth.

News

It is with great pleasure that I announce the immense success of OSS’s social networking campaign. Both the OSS and SquidFlicks Facebook pages have amassed enough fans to earn usernames, which makes giving out a URL for the pages much easier.

If you are not already a fan, please become one today! Becoming a fan of OSS on facebook ensures timely updates and exclusive events that often don’t last long enough to make it to a regular blog posting. It’s also very fun!

Facebook pages:

http://facebook.com/omegasquidstudios

http://facebook.com/squidflicks

Upcoming events

There are several video projects underway at SquidFlicks. One in particular is Halloween: Season of the Bitch. It is a short film that is currently in production and is set for a Halloween premiere.

That’s all for now! Remember: The Future is Squid!

There were some server problems with our hosting provider, but those issues have been worked out and I hope that everything will be 100% from now on. I apologize for any inconvenience you may have experienced during the outage.

After almost 4 years of no change, the Omega Squid Studios logo has received a much-needed refreshing. The design just came to me one night, and knowing that I could easily forget my inspiration, I opened up Adobe Illustrator and got to work.

Within 20 minutes I had a black and white rendering, and by the next day the coloring was complete! I can’t wait to make some OSS merch with this logo on it!

What do you think? This is the first in a wide refresh of logos across the Omega Squid Network. SquidFlicks will see a logo refresh, but it will be very similar to what it looks like currently.

Well, it’s that time of year again, and the Omega Squid Network has some great videos to share with you this holiday season! Be sure and check out SquidFlicks today and tomorrow for two AWESOME holiday specials!

Today’s video was the premiere episode of SquidFlicks Reel Talk, which featured the Independent film Yule Die and an interview with director Seth Middleton and actor Derek Bradley. See it here!

Tomorrow’s video is the premiere installment of SquidFlicks Creature Features/Digital Shorts. It is based on a killer snowman who wreaks havoc on the SquidFlicks HQ. An epic battle decides the fate of both myself and co-host Patrick Farmer! You’ll have to watch to find out what happens!
Check it out tomorrow!

You can catch it only on SquidFlicks (but it will also be duplicated on osquid.com!)

Oh, and Merry Christmas! Or Merry Squidmas as we here at OSS say!

After weeks of delay and problems, the very first episode of the SquidFlicks Movie Marathon series is complete and open for comments and viewing.

Press Release:

A new online video series that features popular movie series being reviewed in a group setting has debuted from SquidFlicks, a small movie review web site. The video series has long been in the works and has finally been published after weeks of promotion and work.

The first episode features the popular horror series A Nightmare on Elm Street, and features commentary from the group of five reviewers on all eight of the series’ titles.

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See the video:

OSS Official Movie Page: http://www.osquid.com/content/videos/completed-movies/squidflicks-movie-marathon-1-nightmare-on-elm-street-series/

SquidFlicks Official Post: http://www.squidflicks.com/productions/squidflicks-movie-marathon-1-nightmare-on-elm-street-series/

Viddler.com: http://www.viddler.com/explore/osquid/videos/2/

• Viewing of the film
• Rating of the film
• Comments of the film
• Contacting the cast
• Pictures of the cast and production
• Making of/Behind the scenes videos
• Extra features and downloads

This is the format that all major OSS/HHP productions will assume once they are completed.

See the Urban Nights page!

• Some mini-banner graphics added to the content page
• Video WIPs page added to the video page

It is worth mentioning that under the Video WIPs page you can find a new production that looks to be very fun to make and share with everyone. Once more information is compiled and the project’s page in completed I will post a overview here and on SquidFlicks.

Look forward to more content being added to the site soon!

Thanks!

omega squid, aka
Shelby Jones

After almost 5 months of being offline, the Official Omega Squid Studios blog, Squidword (get it?) is back online! This was one of the last pending addition to the OSS site during construction, so this means that the site is almost 100% complete!

Squidword is here to inform you of the latest news and updates related to Omega Squid Studios. From new games, videos, music, graphics, sites and more! Updates to the site will be posted as well as events, contests, and more!

Subscribe to Squidword and never be too far from something cool, fun, and exciting from OSS!

While you’re here, why don’t you tell us what you think about the new site design/layout? Vote on the poll, and if you would like to share more, please contact us!

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