Your Future Is in Good Hands
Periodically, I look through footage that on first blush, I’ve deemed not too useful. This practice led me to this clip. In June 2008, Tom Harting, CSC, and I followed Jill Tarter and a bunch of SETI REU students (Research … Continued
It Was 50 Years Ago Today: A Clip
April 8, 1960. Frank Drake conducts the first SETI experiment, pointing a radio telescope in Green Bank, West Virginia, at the star Tau Ceti. To commemorate the anniversary, here’s a snippet from a sample I put together a while back. … Continued
Seven Wishes for A Life’s Work
If I had unlimited funds for the film (this itself is a big wish), what would be on the money-can’t-buy-it wish list? 7. End credits song: “This Old Guitar” by Neil Young * 6. Robert Zemekis and company’s permission to … Continued
Breaking News! Breaking Me?
Recently, the Dallas-Fort Worth NBC affiliate broadcast a piece on the Black Gospel Music Restoration Project and Robert Darden. Click here to see it. Mentioned in these four minutes and twenty five seconds are Darden’s relationship to gospel music, the … Continued
My Other Hat, Part 2
Update: You can read the story here, on the blog. My story in The Literary Review (“There Is Joy Before the Angels of God”) is available NOW at your finer bookstores! It may be on The Literary Review website at … Continued
A Filmmaker’s Progress
My residency at the MacDowell Colony ended March 19. So did I accomplish what I had hoped to accomplish? Yes and no. I selected the sit down content for the remaining two-thirds of the film. I erred on the long … Continued
Music, or How to Stay Sane in the Studio
It’s easy to go batty when you spend day after day holed up in the studio. I’m not complaining, it’s a great problem to have, but I definitely need to make time in my day to do something other than … Continued
Images from the MacDowell Colony
Here are some photos I took during my six-week residency at the MacDowell Colony.
Golden Record
I’ve mentioned the Golden Record in a previous post but I just discovered that you can listen to the contents and look at the images online. http://www.goldenrecord.org/ You can also listen to it here! [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/playlists/129030648″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”450″ iframe=”true” /] … Continued
We Have a Winner!
Congratulations to Haroon B. for correctly answering the four questions. He wins snowball, an original work of art and an accompanying film, both by me. Here are the answers. 1. “The impossible just takes longer.” David Milarch after the redwood … Continued