December 2010
39 posts
Bang Bang Bang - Mark Ronson & The Business...
“I was always starting to live, another beginning, a final beginning.”
– Anatole Broyard - I’m reading his memoir ‘Kafka was the Rage’ and stumbled upon these words highly appropriate for the eve of ‘beginnings’
Into Africa
My romanticizing of Africa can be traced to Isak Dinesen’s pen, Sydney Pollack’s cinema, and National Geographic’ photography with visuals so mysteriously beautiful, poetic and tragic. Yet, all the cultural influences didn’t prepare me for my recent, and unexpected trip to South Africa. Nothing did.
In early December, I traveled to Cape Town for a job so out of the...
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A Miracle on 22nd Street
A great Christmas story coming out of Chelsea this year. Two New York City men were surprised when hundreds of letters addressed to Santa mysteriously landed at their Chelsea apartment. They felt a huge responsibility to respond, and with some resilience found a way to do it. Watch this.
Merry Christmas Eve!
Into Africa
My romanticizing of Africa can be traced to Isak Dinesen’s pen, Sydney Pollack’s cinema, and National Geographic’ photography with visuals so mysteriously beautiful, poetic and tragic. Yet, all the cultural influences didn’t prepare me for my recent, and unexpected trip to South Africa. Nothing did. In early December, I traveled to Cape Town for a job so out of the...
All these wonderful things: Sundance doc... →
In an interview with All These Wonderful Things, Sundance Film Festival documentary programmers David Courier and Caroline Libresco highlighted HOT COFFEE among the list of stand-out documentaries at this year festival.
ATWT: Not to choose favorites, but are there any films in there that you think will be a surprise to people. Like GASLAND or CATFISH last year, films that people went to...
“She flirted because it was fun to flirt and she refused to be bored chiefly...”
– Zelda Fitzgerald, Eulogy on the Flapper (via simko)
Yesterday in Seattle: Good Times
WatchFact - Seattle radio still plays grunge like it’s the 90s. Maybe I’ve been away too long to realize that it has always been this way, but I was hit with a heavy dose of nostalgia on a recent drive up north - Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Blind Melon, Radiohead, Green Day, Foo Fighters, Soundgarden, Alice In Chains, the list goes on…
And now, apparently my hometown - Portland, OR - is...
Who the F*** doesn't want to be Batman?
“Only guy I ever heard of who got an amazing life literally handed to him was Hal Jordan. Don’t wait for a dying alien to give you a magic ring: just do it yourself, Slappy. We can’t all be Superman, but we sure as shit can train hard, and with loads of practice, we can elevate our simple, non-Kryptonian selves to be the Batman. And who the fuck doesn’t wanna be Batman? Batman has an...
WatchJust discovered Jake Lodwick’s latest awesome creation - Pummelvision, a site that automatically turns your photos on Flickr or Facebook into a video. I had about 2000 plus photos on Flickr, and overnight the resulting video was automatically uploaded to my Vimeo. So simple. I absolutely love this.
“Knowing how difficult it is to get a film made anywhere, and given that the...”
– Trevor Groth, Director of Programming for the Sundance Film Festival
Found this little nugget while going through Sundance coverage. Hot Coffee was one of 16 films out of 841 submissions that was selected for the U.S. Documentary Competition. Exciting!
“I don’t want to tell people what to do. But I do want to be surrounded by people...”
– matthew stone, via the moment. (via nadia-muses)
This kid is going to Sundance!
SUNDANCE! Ah, it feels so good to actually say it out loud! I’ve been keeping mum on some very exciting news until the official festival line-up was announced today, but now I can finally remove the imaginary padlock pinning my mouth shut! HOT COFFEE, the documentary film I worked on for the past year and half as an associate producer, was officially selected to premier and compete in the Sundance...
