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Purism has no place in film
Perhaps because it’s an industry where you have nothing to show for your skills until you have a movie out, young filmmakers develop ways to show that they are good at what they do. I’ve found myself in many a pissing contest over who has seen more Kurosawa films or tips on lighting a scene,…
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You’re invited to a test screening of Shabbat Dinner!
(cross posted on Kickstarter) Whew! We filmed on November 12-13 and I’ve been editing ever since. We have a good rough cut, and because we are trying to hit some festival deadlines in TWO WEEKS, we’re fast tracking the editing of Shabbat Dinner. This means that we need to lock the picture by the end…
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10 steps to (really) speed up your mac
Don’t buy a new computer for the holidays. First try bringing your old one back to the speeds you remember it having! Even with the beautiful OS that is Mac, the system accumulates a whole bunch of crud and slows down over time. It turns out that there are tons of hidden places that crud…
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Filming finished! Editing begun!
(this is also cross-posted on our Kickstarter.) Well, thanks to your support, we filmed last weekend over Saturday and Sunday. The shoot went fantastically and I hope to put up some video from it soon, but for now I am steadily editing, editing. I’ve got a rough cut of the first few scenes done and…
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SOPA is coming and it’s terrible
Read about SOPA – it will build censorship into the core of the US internet. Write your congresperson. I did, and Kirsten Gillibrand’s mailerbot responded: Dear Michael, Thank you for writing to me regarding S. 968, the PROTECT IP Act of 2011. I understand your concerns. I am a cosponsor of this legislation because I…
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Shabbat Dinner: Funded and Raring to Go!
Wow! It was three weeks ago that Aidan and I were discussing our film’s budget and how much we thought we would be able to raise. We picked a number that we thought was acheivable, but we really had our doubts–and we were blown away. With every new backer we were touched, and would like…
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Tools for the Google Reader diaspora
Well Google did a dumb thing just a few days ago. A few dumb things, actually..and I can’t help but wonder if it’s the new management or just old structural problems that are leading them down this terrible direction. They got rid of the sharing features of Google Reader and moved them to Google+. Here’s…
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A week after coming back from Kenya
January 29. I think I was sitting in a coffee shop listening to complaint after complaint. I’ve forgotten that sweet soft sadness that comes when nothings wrong That plaintive complaint wrapped in a bow Everything I see and touch was crafted to satiate my raving mad stuffed-with-nothing ego. Fuck you for taking me on this…
