Everything is Everything

“I think it’s because it’s a mile up” – overheard cell phone conversation in Denver airport Even in Brooklyn, even in a park surrounded by trees, I feel the city. It’s not entirely physical, though the musty air contributes. It is more a rising feeling of restlessness, need to get away, the desire to be…

Kanye West…what’s not to love? Thanks Paul and Storm for starting the meme, and Huffpo for picking the funny ones.

“But we are shooting on the RED camera. It is 4K.” – hilarious! Thanks to Mark for finding spot-on, very funny depiction of low budget filmmaking and its deluded filmmakers (nobody I know made it, someone was asking me that.) I am happy to count myself among that demographic, but I try not to exploit…

Virtual reality is the new reality, or so says my friend. She has been on about 13 dates since joining OK Cupid, which was about two weeks ago. And she blogs about them with such wit and scandal that you wish you could be a fly on the wall. My idea is that she should…

This is part two of a four-part series. Check out part one! The call on Sunday, our first day, was 11:00 AM, and I was up at 8 buying a few last minute items. We had stored some things at my friend Josh’s apartment (thanks Josh!) and went to pick them up and meet on…

(Part one of four. Skip to part two.) The signature on all my emails says “Filmmaker / New York, NY” under my name. I put it there the same day I decided to say “I am a director” instead of “I want to be a director” when introducing myself, a decision not to wait for…

This music video thing is really happening! Mark is fully on board, we have an incredible DP (Vadim Putimtsev) and I am meeting with costume / set designers tomorrow. All we are missing is camera equipment, and I have been upturning every rock I know to find a RED or HVX camera for the 3-day…

I’ve been looking for a tool to generate a heatmap of transit times from any point in Manhattan, and just discovered the awesome triptrop NYC. For any address in New York, it displays a map of transit times to the rest of the city. Very useful for sussing out potential places to live. It even…

Ever wonder why you have to wait three seconds to install a Firefox add-on? I’ve always thought the delay was to make sure that I read the security box. Turns out it’s more inspired than that: a hack can be created that preys on human reaction time to get them to push the button. Imagine…

Remember the old days, before everyone went bonkers?