It’s a Nostalgia Kind of Day
Today is my birthday so you’ll excuse me if I’m feeling a little nostalgic. Here are some photos of things from my childhood that I still own. This may be the first photograph I took. It’s of my family on … Continued
Success: A Georgia O’Keeffe Quote
Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing. ~ Georgia O’Keeffe Thanks to friend and poet Susan Elbe for bringing this quote to my attention. The Getty Museum … Continued
Back to the Old House (Clematis)
I spent my teens and early 20s in a lovely New Jersey suburb. My family had moved from a super urban city to this place covered in green. There were trees, shrubs, and grass everywhere, and being city folks, we … Continued
How Not to Make a Documentary, Lesson 2 DI(A)Y
Do It All Yourself You have one of these. And you have something like this on your computer. And you also have this on your computer. And you know what buttons to push to make them do stuff. You’re pretty … Continued
Tourist Eyes – William W. Heffner
William W. Heffner, friend and A Life’s Work’s secret weapon (many of the links and photos on the ALW Facebook page are posted by Bill) sent me some photos he took with his tourist eyes. Bill writes: On a warm … Continued
Time Lapses
Where Does the Time GO? Wikipedia tells me that Georges Méliès first used time-lapse cinematography in his 1897 film Carrefour De L’Opera. Since then it has been used only god can count how many times. Many people, myself included, would say overused. … Continued
Reality vs. Art(ifice)?
Recently I came across these two videos within 12 hours. Blast Off On a Saturday night, I watched ” a movie from the point of view of the Solid Rocket Booster with sound mixing and enhancement done by the folks at … Continued
Walter De Maria, Paolo Soleri, and A Life’s Work
The New York Earth Room and The Lightning Field I first heard about Walter De Maria back in the 80s. I was working in Soho at the time and someone or something brought The New York Earth Room to my attention. I … Continued
From Concept to First Day of Shooting
Here’s an encore post, written four (FOUR!) years ago, with the first bit of video we shot for A Life’s Work. I hope you like it. I was having lunch with my friend and colleague, cinematographer Wolfgang Held (who shot … Continued
It’s All True: The Baseball Platitudes Post
Sometimes when you’re discouraged you need a good baseball platitude. Sometimes you need ten good baseball platitudes. These were all culled from columns published in the last few days, hence the omission of some of the classics. “I feel more … Continued