From Genetically Delicious

I have teamed up with a few hometown friends who've been making sketch videos under their tag Genetically Delicious Films since high school. Now the power team is up and running, and our first short is up, "Ball Juice". Check it out and send it to your friends so that they may also get figuratively kicked in the balls, whether they have them or not.

Video Break: Doctors With Guns

Shoot the leukemia out of her!

Video break! - Silent Star Wars

So the last I posted was APRIL F-ING FIFTH. It is now the next month that starts with an A. So I'm going to try this again. I have installed a nifty Safari (don't judge me!) extension to help me blog more intuitively, if you see me again, it's working. If not, maybe its better to just shoot me an email if you want to talk.

Video Break

"So other than being a handsome guy, lets go over what Anakin did to win over Padame..."

Soccer Mom on vimeo!

Figured it's about time.

Related: Soccer Mom Website

Return part Deux

Hi world! Blogs suck. They take dedication. Who's got that to spare? Not me!

But I'm back, and maybe I spend a tad longer hanging around and posting funny videos of animals sleeping.


Watching "Ghost in the Shell", the original. Dated, yes, lots of mullets and puffy jackets, but animated boobs never go out of style. The movie features a stunningly intense opening credit sequence that's very inspiring in it's capacity to grab the viewer by the shoulders and shake 'em up.



And of course it's very much the sci-fi design that has inspired the genre following.

New Video - Record Year

Been working on this the last two months. An attempt at a serious drama? Say it aint so!



Youtube (and big HD viewage) is here.

Video Break

"Stop that lying!"

Also fascinating is John Waters' gallery art.

I've upped my movie quota in order to not forget that that's the point of my life. I'm going to list what I watch to make sure I don't forget them (tends to happen). So here's the first.

I love it when good stars work on short films

It says something about their priorities. It also adds a wealth of legitimacy to the legitimately undervalued shorts world.

http://stereogum.com/archives/video/new-feist-video-the-water_063601.html

Lovely.

Zombie gets a date

Online and for your on-demand pleasure, double-click to watch in screen-defying HD:

Something to write about

I promise I am not a pessimist. I'm a realist. I didn't mean for this blog to get so snarky and sad, and all of us in LA are a wee bit pissier in the wintertime. I disappeared amidst the studio deadline for our movie and the production of my own little project (updates to come, after the polish that is Color Correction). I meant to triumphantly return to this blog with something a bit more upbeat, but then I came across this angsty piece from a Development Exec Blogger. Despite my vastly improved mood as spring blooms, what he (she?) has to say continues to ring true.

I’m pretty sure the term high concept was hatched years ago by studio execs that were completely stoned out of their head and didn’t have the attention span to read a whole paragraph, so they called their preference to only read one-liners the “high concept.” ... And that my friends, is how good weed and parents who would rather load their own kids up with drugs because they are too proud to call them dumb, have ruined the movie business. Thanks, Mom!

I still love high-concept, though. A high-concept movie with character, that's the one-two punch that puts me in a coma, my friends.

Speaking of high-concept:

In my head.

The Fix: Danny Boyle

(So this is the start of a technique I'm using to blog more consistently. This is The Fix, where I talk about something that inspires me creatively at the moment.)

I started mucking around the interweb about Danny Boyle based off of the interview I posted from Variety, and youtube handed me some fine videos of the man giving some real sincere insight on filmmaking. I love this man. He gets me to go all night! (Writing that is! Your dirty mind, he has like a 20 year old kid or something!)

On Child Actors:

On location shooting:

On casting:

On Science:

On storyboarding and prep:

On shooting Sci-Fi:

Omlettes!

This new video from my good friend from NYU, Stephen Neary, forced me to break my blogging silence. And good thing too! The guilt was getting kind of old. As Burbanked put it, a week is like four months in the blogging world.


come have an omelette with me from pizzaforeveryone on Vimeo.

Visit his blog to see his daily incarnations.

Public Service Annoucement

Watch this show. It looks like the 80's but it was made in 2004. That's the point, the all-encompassing, glorious, effervescent pastiche. It's the headroom, it's the music, it's the crappy continuity, the jump cuts, the blatant sexism, the hideous camerawork... it's more 80's than the 80's. And I love it to death. I've known and loved "Darkplace" for a while, and have recently rediscovered it on DVD (you must have a region-free player, fellow Americans). "Garth Marenghi's Darkplace" is a singular gem that I still have no idea how the hell it was made and actually shown. I mean, this kind of genius, this magnitude of genius, usually gets irrevocably lost. The fact that this exists on DVD form on my shelf and on my TV gives me hope for the future of awesome. Yes, such amazing things exist, and will continue to exist, however few and far between they may be.

Wikipedia

"Dagless: I just can't believe the Temp is dead
Reed: It's alright Rick, we'll get another one."

Video Break #3

Doing my part to push Jeff Stearns, the filmmaker and now a friend, to a million views, here is "Yellow Sticky Notes", one of the films that competed alongside "Zombie Gets A Date" at the Tribeca Film Festival 2008. All the animated shorts at Tribeca were so uncomparable to the rest of the films that a lot of people got to wondering whether the festival should create a separate animation category. This film is a prime example of how animation and live-action, while both telling the same stories, have trouble competing in the same categories because they tell them so differently.

Watch in higher definition at the Youtube Screening Room.

Video Break #2

David and I graduated from NYU animation together. Do you know how many people specialize in Lego Animation? Not very many! (way to be special, dude.)

Soccer Mom Trailer

Help bump the views count!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJ2Jfiab9RA

Also check out the new site http://www.soccermomshort.com

Tribeca Video Bio

The Tribeca Video Bio is online. It is on the first page, click the image of the red-haired chick labeled "Zombie Gets A Date". I apologize to everyone that sees it for it's semi-pretentious nature; I fell sick as a dog at the time and couldn't scrounge up the energy to do something truly engaging. Next time though, eh? Weird to see it up there... and to think people are watching... and reading... me... but I guess that's the point of this blog.