David Licata | April 26, 2012
We all need some kind of reassurance from time to time. One of the things I need it for is my skill as a cinematographer. So on my corkboard is a print out of an email from Andy Bowley, a very fine cinematographer who shot much of A Life’s Work. Thank you, Andy. Your email [...]
David Licata | April 19, 2012
In case you didn’t know it, Saturday, April 21, 2012, is Record Store Day. Five years and still hanging around. I thought I’d recycle the post from last year (with some slight alterations), because it’s still appropriate. Many many years ago I worked in a record store in Hackensack, NJ with a whole mess of [...]
David Licata | March 14, 2012
Not too long ago I discovered that one of my Facebook friends, Christine Lofgren, had planted a bristlecone pine tree. I asked her if she’d grant me an email interview and she humored me, so here it is. Thanks, Christine. I understand you had the privilege of planting a bristlecone pine tree. Can you tell [...]
David Licata | December 6, 2011
Here’s about five and half minutes of raw footage from A Life’s Work. I shared this footage in an earlier post (Process: What I’m Thinking When I’m Shooting). I want to share it again for a different reason. I really enjoyed filming the climbers. They were smart, athletic, down to earth, and funny. They seemed [...]
David Licata | October 19, 2011
Here’s an excerpt from the Redwoods section of the sample of A Life’s Work. Notice the first two shots and the last two shots. Here’s about five and half minutes of raw footage from the Redwoods shoot. The first two and last two shots from the first clip come from this raw footage. This was [...]
David Licata | October 7, 2011
Last week I dropped a teaser about Sputnik’s impact on Jill Tarter, Director, Center for SETI Research, SETI Institute. (What’s the Filmmaker Reading?) In the clip below, Tarter reveals when she discovered her passion for science, the effect Sputnik had on her education, and more. Sputnik caused a seismic shift in educational priorities in this [...]
David Licata | September 13, 2011
When I deliver the elevator pitch of A Life’s Work– “a documentary about people engaged in projects they may not see completed in their lifetimes” –I’m usually asked to describe the projects. Sometimes the Black Gospel Music Restoration Project takes some explaining, and I think I know why: when we think of recorded music (or [...]
David Licata | August 9, 2011
Age eight is a pivotal year in human development. I’ve spoken to teachers and developmental psychologists and they’ve told me that’s around the time humans begin thinking about thinking. It’s also when you start becoming aware that you’re part of a larger world. It also seems to be an age when one’s receptivity to that [...]
David Licata | July 8, 2011
There has been a flurry of “likes” on the A Life’s Work Facebook page from the Arcosanti community. And by “Arcosanti community” I mean not the folks who are living there now, but people who have passed through the place in one way or another since construction began in the early 70s. It’s a large [...]
David Licata | June 28, 2011
Last week, the A Life’s Work blog turned two years old. That sounds pretty insignificant, and in the scheme of things, it is, but to me it’s kind of staggering. I track, list, and calculate many things, as you’ll see if you continue reading, but one thing I don’t dare track, list, or calculate is [...]
