Creativity 101, Videos : August 24, 2010 : 10:00 am
Where Do Ideas Come From? (Patrick McLean)
Patrick McLean, in his usual seemingly-effortless fashion, breaks down his theory of where ideas come from.
Creativity 101 : August 23, 2010 : 12:00 pm
Live Some Life
Mid-stride through a three-day writing blitz, it occurred to me (as I tucked away my keyboard for the evening):
Hey, I know stuff.
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Blog : : 11:32 am
Google / Verizon Agreement
Considering the recent development of the Google / Verizon deal that could possibly destroy net neutrality, it’s worth re-reading this post, and consider how Google’s persistent attempts to stake claims into the world’s knowledge and knowledge-accessing utilities might fall under their “Don’t Be Evil” policy.
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News : August 21, 2010 : 3:17 pm
Script-A-Thon Post-Mortem
Three days ago, Matt Wallace and I each set out to write a feature film screenplay in three days. Just to see if we could.
I agreed to do it because I felt like I hadn’t been generating enough material in the daily grind of L.A. survival.
Matt agreed because he had a chance to write a quickie screenplay for some cash, and pitch it to a low-budget production company in the area.
POST-MORTEM
Matt ended up with 53 pages of a screenplay he’s firmly convinced is too good to send to this production company, and will be finishing in the next week, giving him two very strong feature scripts he’s going to market with.
I ended up with 25 pages of a quirky mindtrip indie flick, and a 17-page treatment for a horror film, which I sent to a production company on Thursday. It’s looking like, if things go well, I could be writing and directing that treatment by the end of the year.
I’m calling Script-A-Thon a win.
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Notable Links : August 20, 2010 : 6:16 pm
Photos from the Past
From Boston.com:
Between 1909 and 1912…Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii…used a specialized camera to capture three black and white images in fairly quick succession, using red, green and blue filters, allowing them to later be recombined and projected with filtered lanterns to show near true color images.
Click the link to see a full collection of these images. This is Russia, over a hundred years ago. This is the distant past, as we have never seen it: in crisp, vibrant color.
It’s startling to look at the picture above and realize it’s over a hundred years old. There’s some kind of time travel involved: the man above is from his own time, but he’s posing in MY world. My trees and grass and rocks.
Absolutely breathtaking. See the full collection here.
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News : August 17, 2010 : 5:13 pm
Going Dark (See You Friday)
As part of the Script-A-Thon between Matt Wallace and myself, I am going dark in the next two hours.
Come Friday, I will have a new feature screenplay ready to read. We’re accepting a limited number of unbiased readers, email here if you want to be one of them.
Actually, I’m going dark right now because I still have a feature synopsis due to ANOTHER production company before I start on this one.
See you Friday.
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News : August 12, 2010 : 4:34 am
Taste and Voice: Not the Mouth Kind
Working on a post soon about creative taste and creative voice. Till then, enjoy a trailer I edited for an upcoming feature film.
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News, Videos : July 7, 2010 : 2:16 am
Updated Motion Graphics Reel
The problem with doing a lot of really great work is that it doesn’t leave much time to update your reel. Took care of that problem today.
Watch it fullsize here.
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News : May 24, 2010 : 2:35 pm
Updates coming
Just a quick update to let you know my recent silence has been work-related. The move to LA has precipitated a lot of work, and while that’s good, it’s forced me to go into the production submarine a bit more than I’d like to.
I have an interview yet to post, as well as several essays I’ve been fiddling with.
I’m also toying with the idea of posting finished screenplays here (released under a C.C. license) for others to examine, and possibly produce. Thoughts?
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Creativity 101, News : April 24, 2010 : 1:05 pm
Canon T2i: A Long-Thought-Out Impulse Buy
After news of these magical DSLRS with the powers of Movie inside them, I decided I had to find out what the fuss was about.
So yesterday, I bought this.
And yesterday, slightly later, I started shooting a short film, and it looks like this.
Will post the film when it’s done.
