and the fat drummer hit the beat with all his heart.

the work of jonathon glazer will make your day (be sure to hit HD):



kick off your shoes.
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the intervention.

for the last few months i've become increasingly more interested in the sub-genre of mumblecore. which, according to wikipedia, started in the early 2000's and is "primarily characterized by ultra-low budget production (often employing digital video cameras), focus on personal relationships between twenty-somethings, improvised scripts, and non-professional actors."

i find these flicks fascinating in their simplicity and how their stories naturally progress through the performances. the first filmmakers i found in this sub-genre (and probably my favorite) are the duplass brothers (the puffy chair). i recently bought their shorts on dvd and here's my favorite:



have a week.
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oc films.

the kind people over at ocfilms.com approached and asked me to feature two of my shorts on their site. i checked out the site and immediately accepted. despite the site being a new venture, it's chalk-full of awesome shorts by local artists.

check them out here:
www.ocfilms.com

happy 5th.
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321.

this past weekend i shot a short film that was apart of what's called a 321 project. the rules are simple: 3 pages, 2 characters, 1 location. for my project i decided to adapt an old twilight zone episode entitled "button, button" which is also being remade by richard kelly as "the box". here's a few production stills courtesy of cody peterson:




buy more fireworks.
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take away shows.

i'm a huge fan of vimeo (www.vimeo.com) and recently i've been exploring "la blogotheque" which is a small group of french filmmakers that create some pretty stunning of-the-moment music videos.

Bloc Party, 'This Modern Love' - A Take Away Show from La Blogotheque on Vimeo.

you can check the rest of their stuff out here.

buy fireworks.
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anis mojgani.

"the answer comes: already am, always was, and i still have time to be."
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taking the fall: conceptual art part two.

here's some more detailed illustrations for the short i'm directing in early august:


happy father's day!
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