Cross-posted on Extracriticum.com On 7/25/11, I’ll be giving away a copy of The Film That Changed My Life to one lucky subscriber to this blog. So if you haven’t already, subscribe now. And remember you haven’t subscribed until you confirm … Continued
As mentioned in last week’s post, here’s the bag Robert Darden sent me, full of groceries. It was part of his SXSW swag and, generous soul that he is, he gave it to me. In my thank-you e-mail I wrote: … Continued
Recently, a person who wishes to remain anonymous made a generous contribution to A Life’s Work, and to show my gratitude I sent Anonymous a DVD of my short films and some other things. The cycle of thanks continued when … Continued
I met Josephine Crawford, artist, one time Arcosanti resident, and A Life’s Work supporter, via the wonderful world of Facebook. We’ve had interesting exchanges over the course of our friendship, mostly via the FB comments. She left the first comment … Continued
Dear Filmmaker, Do you know what your next project will be? Curious in Caldwell. Dear Curious, Yes, I do. Thanks for asking. David in New York City. … Okay, I don’t usually reveal future projects but I consulted my Magic … Continued
Thirty years ago, I used to be able to play this fairly well. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmTnLcOYEGE Not as well as Maestro Segovia. I mean, come on, he’s Segovia! And not as fast, either. Segovia is playing this monstrously fast. But I played … Continued
When I first had the idea for A Life’s Work, I was considering a number of subjects/projects. Here are some of them. 10,000 Year Clock – “A monument scale, multi-millennial, all mechanical clock as an icon to long-term thinking” to … Continued
This is the blog’s 200th post. That may not seem like much in 18 months (there are bloggers out there who do that in a month), but if you told me when I first started that I was going to … Continued
Someone else shoots and someone else edits. So what exactly do I do on A Life’s Work besides sit opposite these amazing people and ask them a bunch of questions? I make a lot of decisions. Who, what, where, when? … Continued
Sometimes, no, often, writers of biographies and filmmakers dealing in nonfiction films begin to relate to their subjects in ways they never imagined they would. Here’s the SETI Institute’s Jill Tarter answering a couple of questions. What are the challenges … Continued