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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.

Featured, Friends, New Media »

[11 Feb 2010 | No Comment | 137 views]
Follow Friday: Alan Spearman’s Tweets from Haiti

Some samples from Alan Spearman’s tweets from Haiti:

diplomats check out the crumbled national palace as naked women give themselves bucket baths and dogs eat trash across the street. queasy.
about 10 hours ago from OpenBeak

they have to improvise a lot here. three eagle scouts are on the team. crile is definitely corporal radar o’reilly. temp. just above hell.
about 15 hours ago from OpenBeak

way hot in O.R. team jokes they could maintain sterilization by operating in the nude. pulling on this man’s junk. ouch! joking 2 maintain.
about 15 hours ago from OpenBeak

p.s. thanks “sunny” for the cipro hookup. god knows what we inhaled today.
8:20 PM Feb 10th from OpenBeak

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, 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, New Media »

[15 Jan 2010 | No Comment | 199 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.

New Media »

[15 Dec 2009 | 4 Comments | 366 views]
A Brainstorm on Crowd-Sourcing Documentary Film Logging and Transcription…

We were just granted non-profit sponsorship for our doc… Which means that my partner and I are about to go beat the bushes for $5K in donations just to transcribe the film. Ouch!

Buy what if we weren’t asking for cash? What if we could ask – even our brokest friends – for a donation of time and boredom.

Discoveries, Film, Headline, New Media, Writing »

[15 Dec 2009 | 2 Comments | 510 views]
66 Lessons of Savage County, part 3 – .3 through 6

We crawl slowly and with a nonsensical numbering system closer and closer to 66.6 lessons learned making Savage County.

Featured, New Media, Writing »

[5 Nov 2009 | 5 Comments | 784 views]
In Honor of National Novel Writing Month: The Rough Draft of the 1st Chapter of my horror novel “Sick Jane”

Every job has its secret, and the secret to his job was this: there was no penalty for destroying what need not be destroyed. Things left undestroyed, however, were full of the potential to end careers – both his and the careers of those above him. It was rarely the obvious that slipped by. Egregious misdeeds were either exposed by whistleblowers or erased in the field. In the few rare instances that photographic evidence or transcriptions of obvious crimes or criminal errors crossed his desk, he destroyed them immediately. Pictures of blood, reports of bodies, catalogs of burnt vehicles, maps of ruined homes, descriptions of weapons of any sort, recordings of crying bystanders, video of wounded soldiers… these could not be removed quickly enough. But would he notice that one man talking to two others is wearing boots issued only to Iranians? Would half of a seemingly senseless phone call connect to a hand-written note in a manner that exposed a conspiracy? He could not be sure, and so he would destroy them both.

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[29 Oct 2009 | One Comment | 626 views]
66.6 Lessons of Savage County #2 – Lessons .2 through 3

More lessons from Savage County: .2 – Watch out for snakes, 1- The middle ground sounds boring but is actually strange (this is about money), 2 – The answer to the first asking of the question “Is this enough blood?” is always “No.”, 3 – This is fun