Last night on my blog at TheLot.com (how many blogs can one man have, I wonder), I posted an earlier draft of the script for Schrodinger's Bedroom. It seemed like a neat thing to do, to publish the original plan for the movie and then compare that to the eventual final product. Quite a few things had to be cut between this and the sixth draft, which was the one we filmed from. A lot of the underlying science background, and a few double entendres...
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
Monday, February 19, 2007
Remember the telescreens in 1984?
If this is true, I wonder how long it will be before leaving the battery out of your cellphone for an inordinate amount of time becomes noted as suspicious behavior...
THE FORCE UNLEASHED: New Star Wars multimedia thingy headed this way
Same thing happened while I was working on Schrodinger's Bedroom that happened during my school board campaign: I got so focused on the task at hand that I missed other stuff. Fun stuff, even. This has been big news for the last week or so but I'm just now hearing about it. Sounds like this is gonna be something kewl...Way back in the pre-prequels halcyon days of 1996,...
THE SIMPSONS MOVIE third trailer hits the 'net
This is something that I've thought about saying for quite awhile now: it's now past time for The Simpsons to be retired. I can't remember the last time I went to the trouble of tuning in on a Sunday night for a new episode, when it used to be that it was one of the highlights of my week. The last recent episode that I can remember that I genuinely laughed at was the one...
Complete list of school board campaign posts
This is something I'd meant to do awhile back, then some real-life things kept me from devoting the time really needed to compile this together. I said way back when that I was going to be blogging about my school board campaign so that if others ever found this blog and if they were considering running for office, that I would do my best to describe what it's like to go through this process. Instead of forcing someone to wade through all those...
Sunday, February 18, 2007
Surprise performer Clay Aiken wows the crowd at Winter Jam in Greensboro
Last night Lisa and I went to the Greensboro event for the Winter Jam 2007 Tour Spectacular. It's a Christian concert thingy, and we went to the one last year too and had a good time. Tony Nolan and Britt Nicole warmed up the crowd before the main gig started. Then Sanctus Real opened up the show. They were followed by NewSong and then Hawk Nelson (who every time I hear the name of this band I think of Bruce Willis' 1991 bomb Hudson Hawk for...
Friday, February 16, 2007
SCHRODINGER'S BEDROOM premieres TONIGHT at ON THE LOT!
I had no idea this was coming, this soon. For the past few days I'd actually wondered if it would be hosted on the On The Lot website at all, considering how they've been flooded with entries.That and a few other things that I've heard about today has made it so that I'm feeling all the more floored right now, because this was something that I was in no way expecting to happen....
Is digital filmmaking really "filmmaking"?
Yesterday on my blog at the On The Lot website, I posted this essay about digital filmmaking, and whether it should count as "real" filmmaking. I thought it would be a neat thing to share here too...Is digital filmmaking really "filmmaking"?From the moment we saw the On The Lot promo during American Idol and my wife said I should go for it, to when it was mailed off, was exactly 28 days. Now that my film (is it really a "film"? We'll get to that...
Thursday, February 15, 2007
The Boston Red Sox and last night's LOST (and more about "Room 23")
I just finished watching last night's episode of Lost, titled "Flashes Before Your Eyes" for the third time (I watched it again from the DVR right after it finished airing too). Ooh-boy... and you thought last week's episode was something else. I like what one guy on Ain't It Cool said: "It's like Sam Beckett leaped into the Matrix as it reset itself!"About that: I think the Oracle... ummm 'scuse me, Ms. Hawking, is wrong: things don't have to...
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
My short film is on its way
Last week I wrote here about the new short film that I was making to submit to the upcoming Fox show On The Lot. The reason I hadn't been very active in the past several days on here is 'cuz I was furiously trying to get the movie done and submitted, because applications (which includes a copy of the movie on either VHS or DVD) have to be postmarked by February 16th. To give you an idea about how much I've worked on this, I was up at 4 a.m. on...
"Thanksgiving With The Kranzes"
This is hands-down one of the most hilarious and downright brilliant short films that I've ever watched. Make sure you've seen Ron Howard's excellent movie Apollo 13 before taking a look at this. Remember Gene Kranz, the mission controller played by Ed Harris in the movie? Well, what would Thanksgiving at his house be like? Here is Thanksgiving With The Kranz...
I have never understood Valentine's Day
If you love someone, you're supposed to show that person your love every day of the year, not just on one in the middle of February.But if we must: Happy Valentine's Day ...
"We now return you to our regularly scheduled blogging"
On January 25th I posted that I was going to be taking a break from blogging for awhile. It wasn't anything like my Lenten abstinence from blogging last year (although that's not too bad a thing to consider doing again this time either). It was because a number of things had come up in my life that demanded attention and I needed to focus on them before the blogging. There's been a few posts I've been able to squeeze in when time allowed (I just...
Saturday, February 10, 2007
It's "that video" from this past week's LOST
Lisa and I watched this week's Lost episode, "Not in Portland", last night off the DVR. That's twice I've seen this episode so far, but I've lost count at how many times I've watched this scene. It's so... weird, even for Lost. And that's saying something!Well if you want to see it again or if you've never seen the show and are wondering what some people are talking about, here is the scene in Room 23, where Kate and Sawyer and Alex go to find...
Anna Nicole and the crazy astronaut woman ZZZZZzzz...
Both stories are sad and tragic in their own ways.But we do not need wall-to-wall coverage of these stories.There are things going wrong in this world that demand our attention. Instead we continue to be captivated by the cult of the celebrity... to the detriment of ourselves and our children. Because I can think of literally dozens of news stories that in a sane world would warrant this kind of coverage. Instead it gets wasted on, pardon me for...
Thursday, February 08, 2007
Happy Birthday to John Williams!
John Williams, perhaps the most well-known composers of the modern age, the mind who did the music for the Star Wars movies and Indiana Jones and Jaws and Jurassic Park and the first few Harry Potter flicks and Schindler's List and Lord only knows how many other movies (and TV shows, and themes for Olympic games, etc.) is 75 years old today.Here's saluting a great man on reaching...
"We're the Government... and You're Not"
This is one of the most dastardly devious things I've ever seen on YouTube...
