Sometimes I forget what this blog is for now that I have Facebook, but I think one of its core functions should be to contain cool stories from my life which I feel like detailing at great length but which are quite possibly too boring for many people I know to physically listen to. To wit ( Read more... )

My final for Film Production, an abstract narrative originally conceived by my friend Sean and executed as a group project with myself and Adam. Some director's commentary about its conception should prove helpful: At the beginning of the semester everyone made short films out of found footage (Whatever previous students had left in the editing ( Read more... )

Been mulling over this CNN article about a Pew Research survey that found a correlation between church attendance and support for governmental torture. That's the sort of result that so closely reflects my thinking that I have to be careful to make sure that it's actually saying what I think it's saying. I'm fairly sure that it is though ( Read more... )

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Yesterday was Saint Patrick's Day. I happen to have a bottle of Jameson in my apartment. It is still full. Further more to that: Hilary Clinton was in Northern Ireland yesterday addressing the recent sparks of violence there, providing me - for once - with an actual excuse to blog about Irish politics. Yet there is no post on these matter. ( Read more... )

The National Film Board of Canada is a fascinating organization. I've nurtured a small interest in them for a long time, and since I started taking classes on documentary film that interest has grown substantially. And then as luck would have it I found out that they'd just started making all 70 years worth of their archives available online for ( Read more... )

Ya know, I kinda just don't care this year. My interests have their peaks and troughs, even the career worthy one, and I haven't felt like doing much movie going lately. I think the only movies I've seen in theaters in the past two and a half months are Frost/Nixon and Coraline. What this has highlighted for me is how counter-productively ( Read more... )

Pull up a chair and imagine something with me. It's the paleolithic era and a man has decided to gather members of his tribe (Much as I'm doing with you now) to hear a story. It is a time before the broadening of language, before the development of poetic form. Stories in this time are starkly functional: The story of what has happened, the ( Read more... )

Our nation's comedy institutions are facing a problem: They can't seem to find an angle on Obama. The Daily Show looks to be off to a very rough start finding humor in the Obama administration. Late-Night doesn't seem to be doing any better. SNL missed their chance to be relevant for the next few years when Palin/McCain lost. Doonesbury has ( Read more... )

I discovered this old Brian Eno essay a few weeks ago and it hasn't left my head since. Actually the ideas he presents in it have been been in my head for years, half-formed and simmering away. Over the last few months in particular, since I've lately been making stuff that I'm actually comfortable calling art, I've found myself working with ( Read more... )