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[23 Feb 2010 | No Comment | 85 views]
Savage County Update: It’s sounding awesome…

Craig Brewer posted this sneak peak into our score on his YouTube Channel:

Discoveries, Film, New Media »

[12 Feb 2010 | One Comment | 183 views]
Watch it before they take it down: Academy Award™ Nominated Short Logorama

15 minutes of cartoon mayhem, perpetrated by Kip’s Big Boy, Ronald McDonald, the Michelin Man and Ronald McDonald.

Art, Film »

[11 Feb 2010 | One Comment | 163 views]
Zombie Porn in (contemporary) Art

So, when I posted a link to an article on “Zombie Porn in Art History“, all of a sudden the #1 google search term for this website was “Zombie Porn” and the number one referring city was Berlin.

Perhaps I have Bruce LaBruce to thank. His new gay zombie porno arthouse/filmfest movie “L.A. Zombie” is now at a (gallery? artspace?) called Peres Projects in Berlin.

Film, New Media »

[5 Feb 2010 | No Comment | 203 views]
Spike Jonze’s “I’m Here” for Absolut Vodka

If you believe a Wired Magazine article about a crazy-expensive web series you never saw – the future of media is product placement (as laid out in the hilariously titled “Hollywood Has Finally Figured Out How to Make Web Video Pay”).

Here’s the Absolut/Spike Jonze take on the thing.

Film »

[3 Feb 2010 | No Comment | 164 views]
2010 New Year’s Resolution: An Indie Film a Month – Fish Tank

Okay, so I’m two days late on my indie-film-per-month-in-theater resolution, but last night I saw “Fish Tank” by Andrea Arnold. It’s brilliant. It’s naturalistic, but has a structured, novel-like complexity that doesn’t come easy to film. The main character, Mia, is a complete badass (less than 5 minutes in, she head-butts another teen in the head and breaks her nose) but contends with a family and an environment that’s so tragic and so bleak you want to rescue her from the movie.

Film, New Media, Writing »

[3 Feb 2010 | No Comment | 172 views]
66 Lessons of Savage County, part 4 – 7 through 12

These are actually things I learned on Savage County – not advice. What the hell do I know?

Film, Friends, Headline »

[30 Jan 2010 | No Comment | 1,536 views]
My Music Video for Snowglobe: Teenage Queen

I love Snowglobe. They make smart, sad, funny, catchy music and they’re great guys to boot. Making a music video for a band that I’m really into was one of the things that made making movies seem like a good idea when I first started trying to make movies.

Film, Friends, New Media »

[15 Jan 2010 | No Comment | 198 views]
$5 Cover Seattle Trailer

We’ve been working on the release of $5 Cover Seattle – it’s going to be great. It’s directed by Lynn Shelton, whose Humpdaywas the talk of Sundance 2009 (and is funny and subtle and a great film to watch in a crowd). The bands are awesome. A lot of talented filmmakers contributed. They’re doing a preview of selected scenes at Sundance 2010 and it has the same release date as Savage County, which is to say – I have no idea when it comes out.

Discoveries, Film »

[23 Dec 2009 | One Comment | 302 views]
I hate advice quotations.  Here is an advice quotation.

Quotes within quotes. It starts with this from Jarmusch and continues… “Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic.”

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[22 Dec 2009 | One Comment | 250 views]
2010 New Year’s Resolution: An Indie Film a Month – January

So, my 2010 resolution is to see one indie film in the theater per month and contribute to an artform I actually like a lot with more than places in my 500-movie-plus Netflix cue. This means: handing over cash and telling people about the movies I watch and like. First up: FISH TANK by Andrea Arnold.