Giving Thanks, 2018
Every Thanksgiving for the last nine years I have written a post that thanks everyone who had something to do with A Life’s Work that year. 2018 has been a funny year, because there have been few people to thank. … Continued
11th Hour Fundraising!
Hello Friends, I’m very pleased to announce that A Life’s Work is very nearly complete! I know, I know, I don’t believe it either. The colorist will be done coloristing in a matter days, the credits have been compiled, and the music will be … Continued
Anointed Songs
I wanted to share this email exchange I had with Robert Darden of the Black Gospel Music Restoration Project. It’s a subject I find fascinating. I wrote: I’ve heard you refer to certain songs as being “anointed.” I love this … Continued
Six Hours Is Not Long Enough, and Too Long — Wild Wild Country
Interesting article the other week in The Atlantic by Ronit Feinglass Plank about the Netflix documentary, “Beyond the Spectacle of Wild Wild Country, ” a six-hour film about a religious leader (Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh) and his enthusiastic followers ( “sannyasins”) numbering in … Continued
The “Problem” with A Life’s Work
A mess of years ago I took a thirty-minute work-in-progress sample of A Life’s Work to a film market. Imagine a speed dating event taking place in a high school gymnasium. Imagine there are 9,000 courters (filmmakers) and 45 courtees (producers). … Continued
Thank You 2017
Since 2009 I have thanked the people who supported me or the film during the year. This Thanksgiving, like the past eight Thanksgivings, there are many people to thank. Anton Shelupanov, Peter Kellman, Jennifer March, Cassandra Graham Hall. Sam Richman, … Continued
Interview with Claire Carter, Curator of the Paolo Soleri: Mesa City to Arcosanti Show at SMoCA
I met Claire Carter in 2015 at Arcosanti, in the cafe, while having lunch with Jeff Stein. She told me about an exhibit she was curating about Soleri — which was going up in what seemed like the way, way, … Continued
I Will Be Anthologized
20 months ago I wrote these two sentences in a draft for this here blog. One of my stories, The Wolf Is in the Kitchen, has been chosen for an anthology called Two-Countries. Publication date (or as all my writer … Continued
Picture Lock
Many years ago, I think I was maybe 24 or 25, I was walking a dog named Chloe and wondering how Jackson Pollack knew when his drip paintings were finished. As I pondered, Chloe assumed her doggie poop position, dropped her … Continued
Five Questions for Sarah Scoles, Author of “Making Contact: Jill Tarter and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence”
In April 2017, Bill Diamond, President and CEO of the SETI Institute, told me that there was a biography of Jill Tarter coming out in July. I was thrilled when I later heard that it was written by Sarah Scoles, a … Continued