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Twelve days, four projects, six showings
Aahh!! It’s one of those weeks where I wonder “how in the hell will I get through this” at the same time as being so excited that I get to live through such a week. After all this is over I’m taking a day or two off next week! Check out what’s going on, and…
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Growing
As I grow old I travel through the crowd That girl with guitar open, she could be me. That boy with a nintendo and gum in his hair That’s who I could used to be And the bankers with ties and suits and hollow stares aren’t so old any more Holding a child, losing a…
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November: Special ONLINE screening plus screenings all over the world
I sent this email out last week: Hi everyone! Hope those of you in the Northeast are hunkered down and staying safe.Shabbat Dinner just won the Audience Choice Award at the Barcelona G&L Film Festival. What an incredible festival run! This month we screened in 13 cities and three countries, and if you still haven’t gotten to see…
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A Dispatch from Staten Island
Five of us went to Staten Island on Saturday. Here’s an excerpt of our day, cross-posted from the Huffington Post: I can only relate the small picture we got from the ground, hopefully it will inform people who want to help out. Four things to know: They don’t need canned goods right now, at least…
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Manhattan in the dark
We biked across the Manhattan bridge to see New York without power. Halfway across, there were no lights and we were plunged into darkness. It was eerie, but not nearly as strange or lawless as I had expected. Order is being kept, in part by the police cars that sweep the streets silently, lights flashing.…
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Quick run through the aftermath
I went on a run for about 45 minutes this morning to the Brooklyn Promenade to survey the state of Brooklyn after the storm. Here in Ft. Greene (where I am for a few days before I move to Williamsburg) things were surprisingly calm. I was accompanied by dozens of other runners, all of us…
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I’m a minimalist myself
Janelle Monáe actually is..but this is pretty hilarious. (In response to a Sonos ad.)
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You’re Ruining My Burn
The temple burn at Burning Man is a solemn and quiet event. A wooden structure that has been written all over with Sharpie’d memories of loved ones, dreams, and thoughts that people wished to expunge is meant to go up in the dead silence of 40,000 awed Burners. It’s a huge contrast to the man…
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New website!
Welcome to my new website. I’ve been meaning to do a refreshed and was pushed to with my hosting expiring, so this is a bare bones sketch of what it is going to look like once I trick it out. It’s clean, it’s fresh it’s modern…it’s..well it’s.. …but aren’t we all?
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Shabbat Dinner summer screening update
I sent this email out to my friends and acquaintances last week: Hello friends, When I last emailed you it was to ask for assistance with funding a short film project. I’m overjoyed to tell you that we surpassed our Kickstarter goal by almost 40% and shot the film five days later. Watch the new trailer! Shabbat…