July 17, 2007

Two Events in St Louis!


Sunday, July 22 at 2pm. Location: The Tivoli Theatre, 6350 Delmar Blvd.
ACTORS will screen as part of the 7th Annual St Louis Filmmakers' Showcase. Tickets are $10. The film will screen with other short films by expatriate St Louis filmmakers.

Thursday, July 28 at 6pm. Location: The Centene Arts Center, 3547 Olive St.
HOW I GOT LOST will have a reading with a St Louis cast in preparation for the Fall 2007 shoot.

July 16, 2007

Making video things for LUDO


For the next few weeks I'm in St. Louis cutting TLVT: The Ludo Video Thing. It involves watching a lot of Andrew Volpe, Tim Convy, Tim Ferrell, Marshall Fanciullo and Matt Palermo record an album. I feel like I am there. But I am not. I am watching them through a computer like the guy from "The Lives of Others." Laughing with them, crying with them. Go check it out! Subscribe! You will be entertained for many weeks to come, I promise. If you don't, I will laugh sadly and move on.

Ludo's website is cool.

April 24, 2007

blatantly subtle POST opens in Hollywood



Check us out at blatantlysubtlepost.com or www.subtlepost.com.



Things are just getting started but we've already cut three music videos, a short documentary and part of a feature film.

Our Mark Twain - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr RIP


"When I think about my own death, I don't console myself with the idea that my descendants and my books and all that will live on. Anybody with any sense knows that the whole solar system will go up like a celluloid collar by-and-by. I honestly believe, though, that we are wrong to think that moments go away, never to be seen again. This moment and every moment lasts forever."

-from WAMPETERS, FOMA & GRANFALLOONS, by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

March 21, 2007

February 21, 2007

Shooting the "Spirit of 76"

I met Jace McLean shooting my first student film at NYU, and we've been buddies pretty much ever since.

Jace moved to LA last summer but wouldn't tell anyone he was an actor. In the meantime he wrote a feature length screenplay, put the money together for it, and we shot it. Now he won't tell anyone he made it -- wrote, starred, co-directed and co-produced it. Either he's crazy or I am, and I don't really care which.

It was an 18-day shoot and I won't tell ya how much we did it for because I want you to think it was made for a million dollars. Never mind, I'll tell you. We shot it for a million dollars. How do you make a million dollar movie? Jace started with three distinct characters and stories and wrote them to be shot in our neighborhood. You cast actors who will kill for a part and then you make them commit homicide and come along with you on a pirate ship of a movie. You do the same for your AD, your DP, and yourself. Then you try to get some sleep. That amounts to one or two hours per day, so then you invest heavily in Rolling Rock and Costa Rican coffee beans. Pray that your girlfriend understands. If possible, cast her.

In all seriousness there was no preparing for this shoot (even though I worked on it for a month before it started) and no recovering from the heartbreak of it being over. There is no replacing the friends that are made and unmade making a movie. As a learning experience I would give it up for nothing.

Making movies is an excellent way to go for broke and end up with a hangover you feel good about.

February 01, 2007

ACTORS on Youtube

ACTORS, 22 minutes, has been uploaded to Youtube.