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you fucking idiot.

take me to your hood

So this is basically gonna chronicle my film experiences/life experiences from now on.

I want to track the growth of my work and the mistakes I make and solutions I come up with. 

My 5 month project 'Outcall' is NOW IN POST. lookin great ;)

Here's the stream 

Outcall is done

and that's all i have the energy to write

The Stream

I shot a little film I'm calling 'The Stream' last weekend.

It was just me and my actors. There was a script, but we improvised lines and scenes. There was no artificial lighting, no non-diagetic music, no clunky equipent to carry around. One take for most of the shots. Pure, no budget, guerilla film making with an emphasis on story and acting.

And the thing is...it's probably the best thing I've done to date. 

So I learned a bit from this experience:

Fuck everything that slows you down or takes away from your vision. Focus on the story above everything, then directing, then acting, then presentation.

Film school students tend to focus on the last item in that last far too much. And what really shows is that they don't know how to tell a story.

I think the film fits under the Dogma 95 requirements. Check it out.

And check out the film Ballast...or at least the clips on its website. Go Lance Hammer.

I'll post the film soon. 

Q: What is the only time raisins are good?

A:When you're a broke college student and there's nothing else to eat in your pantry

A girl turned to me tonight and said, "I would gain weight to be a plus size model."

While looking at holograms

I'm going to say it right here and now, holograms are the future in technology. 

Movies+holgrams = telepresent experiences = $$

just a heads up

so while doing research into the technology, i came across someone who said this: 

"In a sense, the idea that man lives in space, that an entire family can fly across the globe, that we can instantly communicate with each other, that you can download knowledge, capture time, play music from a box, entangle particles, summon fire and water at will, revive the dead, cool and cook things in seconds, slow aging, control machines with the mind, could be seen by an ignorant mind as divine or magic."

and the fact that in 1800 there did not exist a map of the world.

that's what's blowing my mind right now

Good inspiration

Encouragement for screenwriters

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It's nice to know that those we revere didn't really know what the fuck they were doing.