I am depressed. There are no two ways about it. I have sunk into a mild depression and it affects everything. As I wrote recently, I was uninspired to promote my screening and attendance was lower than anything I have ever done before. Granted, there were still more than I Read more…
Damn! Work is beating me upside the head. But that’s a good thing. Keeping busy and making money is not a bad thing, especially given how this economy has been hammering at video production. The downside is that I have failed to promote my upcoming screening as well as I Read more…
Here’s something new since the amount of work I’ve gotten has kicked my ass. In my attempt to watch more movies, a habit I have gotten away from and want to get back, I sometimes watch a nice double feature on DVD or Blu Ray. Last week I watched an Read more…
Framelines, our PBS show on filmmaking in Ohio is like a freight train that’s going down a hill. I’m faced with deadlines and a workload that dwarves the small trio that is working on something of this magnitude. The struggle is to maintain quality and not have the time to Read more…
So far this week I have improved on defeating my bad habits. One of the things about recognizing my obsessive-compulsive behavior results in trying to out maneuver them. Tricking one’s self can be tricky, but possible. Retraining your mind to erase decades of reinforcement is never easy. The worst thing for Read more…
FREE SCREENING of short films and clips from the upcoming PBS series FRAMELINES. We will be previewing several segments and whole short films from the filmmakers of Ohio from the first 6 episodes of FRAMELINES, coming soon to PBS (WOSU premiere in April). Admission is free, but we kindly ask Read more…
Sometimes a plan works. In my last blog I described a technique to force myself to get things done by setting a self imposed embargo on the fun narrative work until the various day job and TV work is completed. So far, so good. I’m now 75% done with another Read more…
Editing on my own personal projects resembles a treat or a dessert. Because I have obsessive-compulsive tendencies, I cannot allow myself to start work on editing one of my “art” projects until the day job work is done. That means I have to finish editing all the commercial work, then Read more…
About 7 months ago I started a project, a new web series of short short movies. We shot the majority of one of them, but always intended to shoot the last shot on the next one. Life intervenes and here we are more than half a year later and finally Read more…
Got a great message last night about the Sonnyboo.comsite of mine. I am always proud of what my little site has done in terms of helping filmmakers with paperwork, free music, and now video and sound effects for free. So here’s what I was sent: I was on a panel Read more…
Here is the complete, unedited interview I did for the OPENFILM.COM blog What was the inspiration for this film? Was it based on something, or did you write this yourself? The inspiration for Accidental Art comes from my seething hatred for the contradictions of suburbia. It’s not based on anything Read more…
How things change on a dime! We have our air date in Columbus for FRAMELINES. It will premiere here on April 24th at 2:30AM in full HD on Channel 34.1 with repeats to follow (on better time slots I assume) on 34.3 the “Create” extra digital channel. To help promote Read more…