Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Monday, November 17, 2008
FORGOT I HAD A REAL BLOG
This thing, yes i updates it. I'm so toasted today, I'm not getting anything done. It's 8:50, I woke up at 2:15 or maybe it was 1:15 I still haven't set my clocks back. I've been working nights on UM11, but honestly I don't know how much I really get done. It's slow going, but the project is almost done.
Tonight open bar at sway from 10-11:30, it's 8:50 now. I face the eternal dilemma, do I go to Sway now or get a bit of work done. I do neither, I type on my blog which I haven't updated in 2 months. Wow.
Now pictures.
Sife's Flyer for November 22, 2008. What I see when I look at this is a balloon monster who is depending on my mood either vacuuming up the world or shooting it out like paint.
3 of xxx
The plasma slugs flickr war is real.
Tonight open bar at sway from 10-11:30, it's 8:50 now. I face the eternal dilemma, do I go to Sway now or get a bit of work done. I do neither, I type on my blog which I haven't updated in 2 months. Wow.
Now pictures.
Sife's Flyer for November 22, 2008. What I see when I look at this is a balloon monster who is depending on my mood either vacuuming up the world or shooting it out like paint.
3 of xxx
The plasma slugs flickr war is real.
Friday, August 1, 2008
Sunday, July 27, 2008
Thursday, July 24, 2008
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Monday, July 14, 2008
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Monday, June 23, 2008
Friday, June 20, 2008
Thursday, June 19, 2008
DIAL A SHOT
the dial a shot from knox on Vimeo.
One of the best things about traveling across the country is meeting new people. We took a long trip across the US. Easily the best night on the road was in Cincinnati, Fat Cats/Top Cats was a special kind of bar. This night gave us both the Front Butt, and the Dial a Shot, special, just special.
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Saturday, June 14, 2008
Will Google Colonize the Moon
A friend of mine is in the business of being a futurist. He's big on space being the next international battlefield between China and the US.
This is a very pressing issue, but I'm into movie logic. Will there be explosions, will people be shot out of space, why would we want to do that?
In the days of MOL space missions, the goal was three inch resolution. Now we can achieve that with Google maps. They have trumped all governments with their Google Earth project, and make arguably some of the most money in the whole world.
As Brin prepares to voyage into space, he pulls into the lead for civilian contractors with the most experience in space. When they build the first office tower on the moon, it is a given, and by given I mean if they are still around, that google will have a majority share in the construction project, no government can do it alone, nor should they be allowed to.
So this leaves me with a burning question, who will build these moon settlements. Most will likely be prefabbed on earth, but one has to imagine that in the future, the first commercial flights to the moon will need to land somewhere, and airports don't come prefabbed. So, I salute these yet unknown workers of the moon. Will they have to pay taxes on their moon earnings? Ahh, so many questions for the future.
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
The Never Ending Edit
The Lyfe Movie seems to go on forever, I've been editing on and off for about eight months now. Editing can leave you so disheartened some days. Tonight for example, I only managed to squeeze three hours of editing in. Not that I was busy all day, it's just some days I can't force myself to trudge forward anymore. The sad part is the work has to get done one way or another, and by not working tonight, I'm only tacking on an additional day to the end of the process.
This project has been costly to me, like every project I've done, it's hurt and left it's scars. This one cost a few so called friends. The tough part about this one was we set out to make a movie that was all illegal, and some of my friends are more or less retired from this work. Yet they still want to be up in this new flick, so they put me in the situation of having to say no. This particular friend, I made an exception for and I planned to film them. I even invited this friend to my sold out sneak preview to show him what kind of film I was making. But things hadn't moved fast enough for this "friend." And they decided they were too important to wait anymore.
Guess what asshole, you didn't even deserve to be in the lyfe.
Recruited to hell.
Receding hairlines have become reality.
When I hit the road in June of 07, I didn't know the difference between a hopper and an autorack.
This project has been costly to me, like every project I've done, it's hurt and left it's scars. This one cost a few so called friends. The tough part about this one was we set out to make a movie that was all illegal, and some of my friends are more or less retired from this work. Yet they still want to be up in this new flick, so they put me in the situation of having to say no. This particular friend, I made an exception for and I planned to film them. I even invited this friend to my sold out sneak preview to show him what kind of film I was making. But things hadn't moved fast enough for this "friend." And they decided they were too important to wait anymore.
Guess what asshole, you didn't even deserve to be in the lyfe.
Recruited to hell.
Receding hairlines have become reality.
When I hit the road in June of 07, I didn't know the difference between a hopper and an autorack.
Friday, June 6, 2008
Friday, May 30, 2008
Weekend
Lily has been accepted to the Fright Night Film Festival in Kentucky. August 15-17.
http://www.frightnightfilmfest.com/
I think we are up for best short at this festival.
Back to my musings of Lily. In June I moved out to LA and immediately saw there were no plans in place to start shooting. In fact, there was still a bit of casting to handle. Then there was the shooting schedule to make. And all the props to buy.
A note on shooting schedules, do not use pen.
But first I needed a bedroom. We stuffed a couch in the kitchen, and bada beep bada boop, bedroom. The living room was to be cleared out to make way for our largest studio set, the white room. Muslin!
The purchase of the white muslin was a funny tale. We found the fabric place online. It was over in the valley, the inside was dark and filled with more muslin then one could imagine. No sales person was in sight. A man, nay a gremlin of a man came out to help us, he had long fingernails and reeked of coffee. I was slightly convinced at that time that if the undead walked among us, this man would have been one of them.
"How much you want?" He asked.
"A whole roll of it," we replied.
This blew his mind, what could two nice boys like us want with all that muslin? He was not empowered to make a decision on the market price of the white. He pointed us to a back corner muttered something about go see the boss. The boss was a used car salesman, who had found himself a gold mine in the fabric trade. He took one look at us and knew we weren't in the fab-biz, as they call it in the trades.
"Well we don't have a whole roll of muslin here," the boss told us. I could sense his bluff, he was stalling for time, trying to feel us out. "Now what's this for again?"
"We're using it to build a white room, for a set."
"Oh, a movie, I knew it, you boys aren't from California right?"
"No, we're from New York."
"New York," he said, "never felt the need to go there. I mean if I want tall buildings, I just go to downtown LA."
He meant to squeeze us. Like all the other merchants we crossed paths with on this trip. This was in fact Los Angeles, a city where they are often suspicious and none to kind to us movie folk.
http://www.frightnightfilmfest.com/
I think we are up for best short at this festival.
Back to my musings of Lily. In June I moved out to LA and immediately saw there were no plans in place to start shooting. In fact, there was still a bit of casting to handle. Then there was the shooting schedule to make. And all the props to buy.
A note on shooting schedules, do not use pen.
But first I needed a bedroom. We stuffed a couch in the kitchen, and bada beep bada boop, bedroom. The living room was to be cleared out to make way for our largest studio set, the white room. Muslin!
The purchase of the white muslin was a funny tale. We found the fabric place online. It was over in the valley, the inside was dark and filled with more muslin then one could imagine. No sales person was in sight. A man, nay a gremlin of a man came out to help us, he had long fingernails and reeked of coffee. I was slightly convinced at that time that if the undead walked among us, this man would have been one of them.
"How much you want?" He asked.
"A whole roll of it," we replied.
This blew his mind, what could two nice boys like us want with all that muslin? He was not empowered to make a decision on the market price of the white. He pointed us to a back corner muttered something about go see the boss. The boss was a used car salesman, who had found himself a gold mine in the fabric trade. He took one look at us and knew we weren't in the fab-biz, as they call it in the trades.
"Well we don't have a whole roll of muslin here," the boss told us. I could sense his bluff, he was stalling for time, trying to feel us out. "Now what's this for again?"
"We're using it to build a white room, for a set."
"Oh, a movie, I knew it, you boys aren't from California right?"
"No, we're from New York."
"New York," he said, "never felt the need to go there. I mean if I want tall buildings, I just go to downtown LA."
He meant to squeeze us. Like all the other merchants we crossed paths with on this trip. This was in fact Los Angeles, a city where they are often suspicious and none to kind to us movie folk.
Monday, May 26, 2008
ESPO SINGS R. KELLY
Some say I might be a little ESPO obsessed. True.
It's summer time in the city, that means trips to Coney Island.
Here's what you missed last year.
Video by Matt Goias
It's summer time in the city, that means trips to Coney Island.
Here's what you missed last year.
Video by Matt Goias
LILY
Lily Part 1 of 5 (Prelude - Beach Peril/The Birth)
Lily Part 2 of 5 (26th Day in the White Room)
Lily Part 3 of 5 (Cliff Confrontation/The Keeper's Lair)
Lily Part 4 of 5 (Pier Search/Beach Dig)
Lily Part 5 of 5 (Reunited At Last/Coda - A New Beginning)
Lily started for me as a phone call from my old friend Dan Boneville aka Daniel aka the Bone. He was living out in LA and still editing YEARN, a movie in which I starred as the Boy from the Lake. He had just shown the movie to Peter Facinelli, and Peter had really liked it. Especially, the part played by our friend Shane. Peter encouraged Dan to stop editing YEARN and get working on a new project, one that he agreed to star in.
At the time of the call, I was employed as a industrial/commercial editor on Long Island. A few weeks later, Dan sent me the early version of the script and I began my initial breakdown of props and locations, and we started talking about the timeline for this project. I think we initially figured we'd do a month in LA, two weeks preproduction and two weeks production (yeah, right). This was sometime around May 2005.
So I packed up my little life and moved back to LA in early June. More words soon to follow.
Lily Part 2 of 5 (26th Day in the White Room)
Lily Part 3 of 5 (Cliff Confrontation/The Keeper's Lair)
Lily Part 4 of 5 (Pier Search/Beach Dig)
Lily Part 5 of 5 (Reunited At Last/Coda - A New Beginning)
Lily started for me as a phone call from my old friend Dan Boneville aka Daniel aka the Bone. He was living out in LA and still editing YEARN, a movie in which I starred as the Boy from the Lake. He had just shown the movie to Peter Facinelli, and Peter had really liked it. Especially, the part played by our friend Shane. Peter encouraged Dan to stop editing YEARN and get working on a new project, one that he agreed to star in.
At the time of the call, I was employed as a industrial/commercial editor on Long Island. A few weeks later, Dan sent me the early version of the script and I began my initial breakdown of props and locations, and we started talking about the timeline for this project. I think we initially figured we'd do a month in LA, two weeks preproduction and two weeks production (yeah, right). This was sometime around May 2005.
So I packed up my little life and moved back to LA in early June. More words soon to follow.
Sunday, May 25, 2008
Lipa Schmeltzer
5 years ago I had the pleasure of creating this video for Lipa Schmeltzer. It was a very fun video to make, and became an internet sensation. Garnering millions of hits and was featured as one of the top videos on Google video. Because of retail sales issues, the video was taken off the net, and has only been seen by people who purchased the HASC 18 DVD.
When I was in Israel a few years ago eating a schwarma at MASSOV, the young yeshiva boys at the table next to me were discussing this very video. It made me smile to know something I made had such a life of its own.
The part of the video with all the Lipa heads came to me in a dream the night before I shot it. I think it might have been slighty inspired by that old dee-lite video.
Lipa has been in trouble recently with a bunch of Rabbis, he had to cancel a big concert at Madison Square garden, because they felt if he played his music on Purim, it would have caused a riotous party and you can only imagine what would happen if a bunch of guys had that much fun!
This video was great fun to make and helped me make my mark in Jewish Music.
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