12 May Walking The Trail – The Making of Sundown Trail
howdy friends,it's been a while since I've done a behind-the-scenes blog...
behind-the-scenes
06 Dec Hot Wheels City – Pics!
hello friends! as promised, here is the photo heavy update to the Behind the Wheels post. since this is a show about Hot Wheels cars, we needed cars. we got...
21 Nov Behind the Wheels
hello friends! hope you are having a great fall so far. the last month I’ve been pretty busy traveling around, Northern California, Washington, Burbank… okay the last one wasn’t so far, but still—being out of one’s home can interfere with your routine. what I’m getting at,...
01 Jun how a found camera becomes a book
hey friends, I've added a couple new "Making Of" blogs to Found in Kitsap's website. check out: Part 3: Early Mistakes & Lasting Lessons and Part 4: An Obsession With Collection -Luke...
04 Nov Adapting Certified
since the dawn of storytelling people have been adapting, transforming, borrowing, and repurposing tales into new forms. sometimes this adds life to a story, other times the new work is a poor reflection of what came before. so what makes a successful adaptation? there are...
22 Sep Behind the Tentacle!
howdy hi, things have been heating up with my short TIME TO EAT recently - quite a few new festival announcements have been coming in. look forward to sharing that news with y'all soon. in the meantime, I'm super stoked to be able to present "Behind The...
12 May lessons from a failed webseries
hello friends, today I’d like to chat with you about “The Pitch Room.” this is a web series that me and my good friend, Troy came up with just over a year ago. this blog is going to talk about the process of developing the idea,...
22 Jan Raptor Whistling: Part 2
hello friends! a quick refresher of last week’s blog. while working on LBTXIV, I had the wild idea to take a silly joke and make it into an animated short. I wrote a script, found artists, recorded the dialog and got project in motion. my storyboard...
14 Jan Raptor Whistling: Part 1
howdy hi, today is pretty exciting because it represents a filmmaking first for me. I’ve just released my first animated short! in the ol’ day job, I’ve worked quite a bit doing animation editing, but my new film HAWKWARD is my first foray in writing, directing,...
10 Dec One Does Not Simply Edit A Poetry Book
howdy hi, hope the holiday season is treating you all well so far. mine has been pretty full of parades, turkey, and football watching. looking forward to getting up to the mountains soon. there has not been nearly enough shredding in my life. anyhoo, enough with the...
20 Nov the need for planning
hey friends, I saw this video today and I think it really highlights how important planning is for successful filmmaking on ANY level...
10 Nov Time To Eat – Development
hey there, right before Halloween I released my last short film, TIME TO EAT. (you can watch it here.) today I'm going to give you a few insights into its creation. about a year and a half ago I decided it was time for me to...
02 Jul homeroom sci-fi, part 1
hello friends, a while back I posted an essay I'd written in my 10th grade english class. I was arguing that the class should teach creative writing instead of essay writing. while I got a good grade on the essay - I don't think it changed...
27 Jun it’s not all roses
hey friends, quick post today - I wanted to share my most recent "Found in Kitsap" essay with you all. "Early Mistakes & Lasting Lessons" is a recounting of the rough start I got off to with the project. often I feel like people, myself included, present...
09 Jan Top 10 of 2014
hello friends, HAPPY NEW YEAR! in keeping with tradition - here's my top 10 list for last year. it's a random group of some of the most important, fun, and exciting things that happened. 10.) The Super Bowl, The Stanley Cup, The Olympics, and The World Cup. this...
03 Dec Dancing in the Sky
greetings friends, happy late Thanksgiving! hopefully your's was as full of good company and great food as mine. I still have a little apple pie left… and I’m really looking forward to eating that for breakfast later. BUT, I didn’t come here to wax poetic about food,...
17 Sep Dinosaurs!
greetings friends! once again, I’m sorry that my blogs have been less frequent over the last couple months. it’s a curious thing having a “normal” job again. I’d really gotten used to the freelance lifestyle of editing, writing, and snowboarding… and not always in that order. so,...
15 Nov to laugh or to scare?
greetings friends! I'm extremely happy to let you all know that CERTIFIED was selected by the prodigious site www.ShortoftheWeek.com. they wrote a really great review of the film, so please head on over and give it a read here. they asked me some really great questions...
29 Mar some new CERTIFIED pics
hey friends, short post this week, just wanted to share a few behind-the-scenes pics from CERTIFIED. and don't forget, the film comes out on Monday! -Luke...
30 Jan Snow White Stripes!
hey friends, posting early this week cause I'm headed up to Mammoth for some much needed snow times. unlike Sheep Ranch I will still have the interwebz there, but it can be a little slow and finicky, so I wanted to get this out while...