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,...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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 about balancing...
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 I...
04 Oct Found in Kitsap – the process
greetings and salutations! hope this first week of October is treating you all well. I think the heat wave in Los Angeles has finally broke. it will be nice to not have any more 90º+ days. *knocks on wood*. about a month ago I first introduced y'all...
31 May Coming To – Part 2
howdy my fellow intertubonians! how fare thee today? things are alright here in sunny, sunny California. I've been busy these last couple weeks. first with a rewrite of my Supernatural-Action-Road movie - NIGHT HAUL, second with a new round of edits on THE PERFECTIONIST and finally...
17 May Coming To
hey friends, I'm happy to share with you some photos from my these film "Coming To." it was shot on 16mm waaaay back in the fall of 2000. next week I'll post the film, more photos, and talk about some of the many (many!) lessons I learned...
26 Apr writer/ski-bum
howdy, as many of you know - the last couple weeks I spent up in Mammoth Lakes, snowboarding, editing and writing. it was a really great and refreshing trip - not unlike my Sheep Ranch trip last year. the main difference here was instead...
30 Sep TRL: Pursuance of Justice: Just Desserts.
greetings fellow riders of the great intertubez! happy Friday! it's been a good week here in Los Angeles. Shriekfest has started! I'm excited to see some horror & sci-fi films and meet a bunch of other genre filmmakers. CERTIFIED screens Sunday at 2pm. details here. a year...
17 Mar Updating Paige & the Noisy Crickets!
hey friends, last night was the Premiere of the pilot episode of "Updating Paige." it was part of the "Web Series Unplugged" series that shows at El Cid. it's a pretty cool idea to have a venue for these sorts of projects. and to create a place...
14 Feb night shoots w/ the Green Hornet
hey friends, exciting news - "Updating Paige" is finished! and we have a premiere date scheduled. there will be a screening at "Web Series Unplugged" on Wednesday March 16th at El Cid in Los Angeles. details on the screening series can be found at facebook.com/webseriesunplugged expect to...
29 Dec Shot on Cellphone
Howdy friends! About a month ago a representative for Nokia contacted me and asked if I'd be interested in participating in a promotion in conjunction with their new phone and TRON. They would send me a phone, and I would use it to make a short film...
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