You visit this blog once in a while. Maybe you even like it a little. But you’re busy, I know, and you can’t be expected to come here twice a week to read these scintillating posts. But you don’t want … Continued
I was going through my closet the other day and came across a flat file that contained this: This poster, designed by Heidi Fener, is for my first film, 8 1/2 x 11. (Heidi also designed the poster, postcards and … Continued
Baylor University, Dean Pattie Orr, Tony Tadey, Darryl Stuhr, Tim Logan, Amanda Harlan, Eric Spenser, Denyse Rodgers, The World Science Festival, Nicole London, Jessica Bari, everyone at the MacDowell Colony, Stacey D’Erasmo, Alex Halberstadt, Christian Barter, Matthew Connors, Janine Nabers, … Continued
I took Yasujiro Ozu’s The Only Son out of the library and I’ve been looking a lot at the DVD artwork, designed by Adrian Tomine. And I love it. Why? First, it is very suited to the film and to … Continued
I wrote this post for Extra Criticum about a year ago and miracle of miracles, it’s still valid. It’s slightly different from the original post: my E.C. persona and my documentary filmmaker persona are slightly different so I made a … Continued
Cinematographers travel with a lot of equipment, and it all looks scary when viewed through an airport x-ray machine. That’s why every time they fly somewhere and unpack the gear bag that’s been checked, they’ll pull out one of these: … Continued
Update: You can read the story here, on the blog. “There Is Joy before the Angels of God,” a story I wrote that appeared in The Literary Review’s Winter 2010 issue, is available online. So if you missed out on … Continued
Here are the first few images shot for A Life’s Work (fall 2006). It’s a distillation of the first twenty minutes of footage. It’s only after twenty minutes of tape that the fifth shot, the one of Arcosanti, appears, … Continued
October 30, 2006, cinematographer Wolfgang Held and I landed in Phoenix and drove north to Cordes Junction, where we’d spend the next three days shooting Arcosanti, Cosanti, Dome House, and interview Paolo Soleri. November 3, 2006 we left Cordes Junction … Continued
While I was at Blue Mountain Center I edited a Black Gospel Music Restoration Project section with headphones on so as not to disturb my fellow residents. Unlike the clip that’s online, this bit takes place at Baylor University (Waco, … Continued