Hi everyone! I'm Steve Sprinkles and over the next few months Stu and I will be checking in to write about our experiences as the winners in the Red Bull After Hours Web Series Contest. Say that three times fast. ;)

I guess the place to start is the day I got the phone call from IFC...

No... wait... I should start farther back... back when the earth's crust was starting to cool. No, that's too far.

A little over a year ago I had finished a film called "The Last Woman on Earth" and I had uploaded it to IFC's Media Lab. I was fortunate enough to get enough votes to have it play on IFC. It's amazing what threatening people to vote will get them to do. ;)

After the film had played on the channel, there were a few phone conversations that I had with IFC. They were thinking that they might want to use me for another project. Unfortunately, it was not to be and I went on my way, continuing to make films.

Fast forward to present day and Stu and I have made a film for IFC's new contest, the one you are, hopefully, watching now... you're not watching it? Go watch it and then come back. I'll wait.

So... right after we found out we were a finalist, I got hit with a little pit in my stomach fear that I had been in a place like this before. So I made peace with the fact that with four other films in competition we only have a 20% chance of winning and that if I didn't enjoy the process of making the film enough then I should probably be looking into some other line of work anyway.

Then the phone rang... (see, I worked that title in!)

I was at work and I looked down at my phone... it was a 212 number. Someone from New York was calling and since I know none of my family in New York would be calling me at that time I ran for a quiet place where I could take the call. The conversation went a little something like this:

"Hello?"

"Hi Steve, this is Craig Parks from IFC."

"Hi"

"We have some good news for you..."

At this point I braced my hand against the wall.

"Your team is the winner for the Red Bull After Hours Wed Series Contest."

This is where my knees about totally went out and I almost collapsed to the floor.

I know there was more to the conversation but all I really remember is saying thank you about a jillion times.

Honestly, I have to say that winning this was one of the best feelings I've ever had in my life. To realize that someone thought well enough about something I made to want to give me a chance to make more and present it to a worldwide audience is still a little daunting. Most days I still expect a call telling me that there was a horrible mistake and they are coming to take the camera away... but so far, so good.

Also it made me think that maybe there is a strange design to the way things happen. After all if I had done something with IFC in the past I'm pretty sure that I would not have gotten this chance to do a whole series. SpoOoOoOoky, right? I don't know, maybe I just want to see it that way...

I guess I'll finish this off by publicly thanking IFC and Redbull for this opportunity and I want to thank you all for watching and reading and I hope you enjoy the series and watching us make it. We will be here on the inter-web 24/7 so come on back any time, y'all!

Just give me from 4PM to 4:30PM alone... that's private time! ;)