as far as i'm concerned, every shoot should last one day.
you don't have time to get fed up with anyone.

my drug lair was a success, even though it got switched up on me at the last minute from a meth lab to a crack house.
crew members commented on it (and those crew guys are hard to impress), the musician's friends with real-life, uh, experience ( Read more... )

yesterday around 2:00 the producer from the ultra-low-budget feature i just worked on called me to work on his ultra-lower-budget music video. which was, at the time, to begin shooting in two days. by 3:00 i was on the subway and by 4 i'd done my location scout ( Read more... )

...so you had to know you'd hear from me.

a land with no middle class...and the labor organizers trying to change it
where you're either worth $10 million or you make $8 an hour.

“Letting guest workers in America doesn’t create an underclass, it moves an underclass and makes the underclass better off.”a ballsy plan to treat global income ( Read more... )

“Except for the small amount that’s been incinerated-and it’s a very small amount-every bit of plastic ever made still exists.”



Aren’t disposable razors and foam packing peanuts a poor consolation prize for the destruction of the world’s oceans, not to mention our own bodies and the health of future generations? there are too many frightening ( Read more... )

my apartment is making me crazy ( Read more... )

i also realized i just sent a cover letter with the sentence "My most recent feature was a stylized neo-noir shot in black and white, much like I imagine the aesthetic of your film" to a company making a health-care industrial.

We are searching DP for horroor movie

Production company Searching DP for horror movie in NY area,

Please the intresting Directors of Photography
provide for us your reels,or resume, and we contact you for more details

...bizarre
but it didn't stop me from answering their art dept ad.

hey, a job's a fuckin' job.

i got an email inviting me to an "open call" this weekend for a job at american apparel ( Read more... )

considering it's 7 pm and the only thing i've had to eat all day was a falafel lovingly made by my friend the falafel-shop guy, i should really get up now and make something to eat. alas, i have no groceries. i am pinned to the bed by hunger and exhaustion ( Read more... )

from the new york times review of "28 weeks later":

“28 Weeks Later” is rated R. Rabid zombies feast on living flesh, which causes their potential victims to utter an occasional obscenity.