It almost didn’t happen. I had an attack of gout, the national ad campaign was in full uploads with a tight deadline, I needed sleep, and yet – we came together and decided to just go ahead and shoot. After 6 years, we shot several new UNCLE PETE’S PLAYTIME clips. Read more…
FINALLY! We’re shooting Uncle Pete Phase Two today! We prelit the greenscreen and did some basic setup yesterday. George flew in from LA, I’ve dusted off the pinwheel hat, and it’s time to make with the funny. Here’s another in a long line of material I am stockpiling for 2014. Read more…
Every time I see a potential slowdown, more paid work flows in. I’m barely sleeping at night at it is. I have uploads to do, After Effects animation to produce, scripts to revise, shotlists to work on, and cats that get more than a little restless without attention. Sheesh! Who Read more…
Sleep does not come to me easily when so much is left undone. Getting out this most basic of Sonnyboo Podcast gave me so much relief. I put in a minimal amount of effort and even thought into it. The animations are rudimentary, and the statements so basic that it Read more…
I’m trying to work this out in my brain, as I’m not really the brightest bulb. The latest controversy in my local film community is me making fun of the love of controversy by making up entirely fictitious controversial taglines for this, the world’s most boring blog ever? Apparently, that Read more…
Carving out time for myself is so hard at the moment. I’ve got so much work to do, miraculously paid work at the moment, which does NOT suck. What does suck is not having time to do anything for me. I shot a new podcast on Friday with the express Read more…
Ideas creep up unexpectedly. In the car on the way to the Columbus Adobe User’s Group, a new Sonnyboo Podcast occurred to me and as soon as I got to the location, I wrote down the entire thing. These simple :90 second podcasts don’t take long to shoot and I Read more…
FINALLY! Something worked the way it was supposed to. Adobe Media Encoder has been sometimes buggy. You’re supposed to be able to load up an entire queue of a hundred videos to get encoded for the web, then go away and come back hours later and magically they are done. Read more…
About the only way I could be creative yesterday was printing already designed DVD inserts for FRAMELINES and also long delayed postcards. I did also order four 6 foot banners for only $10 each, two for FRAMELINES, one for Sonnyboo, and another one. They were on sale and for the Read more…
Last night, forgot my laptop at school. Instead, I had a pen and a notepad. Shockingly, I wrote down exponentially more ideas that way than I would have if I had typed them into Google Docs. From marketing ideas, shooting notes, potential locations, brand new ideas, scenarios for scenes, priorities Read more…
Just got a fabulous email from a film student in Australia saying that he just saw one of my videos from FRAMELINES in his class. Positively surreal to have my fat face showing up in classrooms in another hemisphere and continent! Submitted FRAMELINES to two more contests. I don’t even Read more…
Screened the Cell Phone Monologues last night. Had a blast with some old friends too. Packed house, lots of good movies, mostly from the younger set (entirely except for me). I just want to see my movies on the big screen. I detest the competitive side of things and couldn’t Read more…