Christina and I are finalists in a contest for Lowes and we need your help (and votes) to win! This time the prize isn’t fame or glory, but rather something completely practical that we could definitely use: lawn equipment.
Here’s how it works: go to YouTube.com/Lowes, click on “Vote”, find our video (you can watch it below), and give it a “thumbs up”. There doesn’t seem to be any limit on how often you can vote or how many times, so vote early and often! Thanks!
If you haven’t seen Susan Boyle’s performance from a recent “Britain’s Got Talent”, I recommend clicking here to check it out. It is a remarkable and stunning clip.
I absolutely love Lisa Schwarzbaum’s commentary on it over on the Entertainment Weekly PopWatch blog:
In our pop-minded culture so slavishly obsessed with packaging — the right face, the right clothes, the right attitudes, the right Facebook posts — the unpackaged artistic power of the unstyled, un-hip, un-kissed Ms. Boyle let me feel, for the duration of one blazing showstopping ballad, the meaning of human grace. She pierced my defenses. She reordered the measure of beauty. And I had no idea until tears sprang how desperately I need that corrective from time to time.
Thank you Susan Boyle for reordering the measure of beauty for us this week.
This is fantastic. Someone somewhere came across a 125 page transcript of the story meeting between George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, and Laurence Kasdan when they first sat down to brainstorm and create “Raiders of the Lost Ark” and the character of Indiana Jones. That same someone then scanned it all to a pdf and posted a link to it here, so that the rest of us could enjoy it.
I’m still working my way through it, but it is wonderful to be a virtual fly on the wall as Lucas & Spielberg dream and plot their way through the characters and story ideas that would become “Raiders” (as well as a bunch of ideas that got cut from “Raiders” and then used in the later Indiana Jones films).
For a few highlights from the transcript and a great analysis of it from a screenwriters perspective, check out this post from the Mystery Man on Film blog.
I saw this video a little while back & it came to mind this morning. It’s beautiful, odd, playful, sad, & strangely tragic all at once.
A little post-Easter chocolate bunny video art for you:
I saw this wonderful stop motion mixed-media short in the collection of 50 Incredible Stop Motion Videos that I posted a while back. I think it’s sweet and beautifully made:
Tom Pollard, who was part of several of my short films last year is one of five finalists in the “Sing In The Shower” contest put on by Garnier. He needs your help to win! To view the video of Tom performing Madonna’s “Material Girl” while being accompanied by himself &…himself, click here & then select the “Online Video Contest” (the “hot” shower handle on the left). Be sure to vote for Thomas P.! You can only vote once in the contest & if you do, you’ll be entered in a contest to win a 8GB iPod Nano! So head on over and vote now!!!
This trailer is absolutely wonderful. I’m very excited for this movie:
In celebration of today, here’s last April’s film, “April Fools Day”. Now in HD! (click here & then click the “HD” button to watch the larger version)
I felt a subtle ring of truth as I watched this paradigm-shifting talk from author Elizabeth Gilbert about her study and thinking on the nature of creative genius.
ht to bob carlton
For Christmas this last year, my wife Christina surprised me with an incredible gift: she had full-size movie posters for all 12 films designed, printed, and framed for me. Needless to say, they turned out incredible. They were designed by our friend Daniel Benitez, and he did a fantastic job of giving each one its own unique style and look.
Film #1: Mystery Box
Film #2: Click Click
Film #3: Paper Covers Rock
Film #4: April Fools Day
Film #5: I Don’t Want To Live On The Moon
Film #6: Eliza’s Last Day
Film #7: The Pick-Up
Film #8: No Rest For The Weary
Film #9: Shadow Of Revenge
Film #10: Going Postal
Film #11: Skytalkers
Film #12: Home For Christmas
