Please Forget Me
I attended a holiday party at my day job not that long ago and one of the people attending was someone we interviewed. I say we, but I actually didn’t do the interviewing, my colleague did. I operated the camera. … Continued
Ask the Filmmaker a Weird Question
Longtime friend and supporter of A Life’s Work, blog contributor, and all-around awesome guy Haroon Butt recently sent me an email. “Weird question. How did you decide the colors of your website? They really fit.” Not a weird question at all. In … Continued
Johnny Cash Understood A Life’s Work
What’s the filmmaker reading? Cash, by Johnny Cash, his second autobiography. Here’s a passage where he writes about his grandfather, John L. Rivers. It seemed relevant to this here blog so I thought I’d share it. … Long after Grandfather … Continued
Keeping Up with Robert Darden and the Black Gospel Music Restoration Project
In December 2013 the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture announced that it would be welcoming into its collections recordings from the Black Gospel Music Restoration Project, yes, the project started up by Robert Darden and featured … Continued
New Writing: Other Leevilles in Paper Tape
I’m delighted to announce that Other Leevilles, a short piece I wrote has just been published by Paper Tape. (How short? Very short, 466 words, takes about three minutes to read.) I’ve been working on a collection of related stories for … Continued
Ten Best Blog Posts of 2013
My blog posts are not at all like my children. I have some favorites and some are less than favorites. I would rather share the positive than the negative, so here then are my favorite posts of 2013, in no … Continued
A Present for You – Still More Classical Guitar Music
Happy holidays from we here at A Life’s Work. Here’s a recording of me playing Heitor Villa-Lobos’ Prelude No. 3 beside a creek in Wyoming. [sc_embed_player fileurl=”http://alifesworkmovie.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/villa-lobos-at-ucross-1.mp3″] Apologies for the sound quality and the missed notes. Want more lo-fi classical … Continued
Cameras: The Ugly
Ugly, Part 1 I once took a very dangerous photograph. So dangerous, I can’t even show it to you. But I can tell you about it. I took it a couple of years ago. I was on my bike and I … Continued
Win a CD Comp Full of Killer Gospel Music Guitar Tracks
We have a winner! Congratulations to M.E. Hope. The contest is officially over. Here’s a clip Robert Darden of the Black Gospel Music Restoration Project. He mentions some recording artists. [youtube]http://youtu.be/VxtEO1JGWoQ[/youtube] The first person to leave a comment on the … Continued
Cameras: The Bad
As you might have read in a previous post, I am fond of cameras, but… Maybe I just don’t like change. Maybe I never did. Here’s a photo of me taken in my parent’s kitchen more than thirty years ago. … Continued