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Wine for Three

It’s been a long time coming, but here is the edit of a video we shot last June:

This was shot at Californos in Westport with a stellar volunteer cast and crew.

Buffering / We’re On Our Way Back

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Weekly Update(s) 03/07/2010

My computer died last Tuesday. There’s an update for ya. I still don’t really know what happened, but something somewhere shorted out and it put the whole following week into a bit of a fritz. It was okay though, the hard drives are all fine, it’s just something in the motherboard that’s mad at the [...]

Weekly Update 02/21/2010

"What does the future hold?"

Truth is, not much to say this week.
It’s been a ‘heavy’ sort of week.  We celebrated the first birthday of Brainroot on the 18th, but along with the festivities came an extended period of brooding.
We’d like the company to start looking like a real company this year, but there is a lot that needs to [...]

Weekly Update: 02/14/2010

The gloves are on.
No, I didn’t mix up my metaphors. We’re gearing up to enter the ring. No more bare-knuckle boxing in the back alley. Sure, it’s fun and it gives you a sense of adventure and makes you feel tough. But when you operate outside of the mainstream where only a few people know [...]

The Yoga Fly Experience – Part 2 A

I wrote a fair few words in Part 1 of The YogaFly Experience, but if you haven’t read it and don’t wanna (tsk) here’s the necessary info: three high-school buddies were about to leave college and enter the real world and they wanted to make a movie together; around March or April of ‘08 they settled on a roughly treated, underdeveloped, unwritten story called The Yin of Gary Fisher’s Life; they would shoot it in July; come mid-May the script was still unwritten and all subsequent details were undetermined; and it didn’t matter because they had one mindset: “Let’s do this.”

Read on.

Weekly Update 02/08/2010

Good day to you.
As you’ve become accustomed to, nay, dependent on, the weekly update normally comes out on Sundays.
Today is Monday.
On Sunday, the time when the weekly update normally comes out, I was, rather than writing the weekly update, hanging with the Prairie Village police.
I was not, as you may have assumed, working on my [...]

Mastering your Eye

'F' This!

Or
“Your Eye Can’t See”
A little while back a wrote a post entitled, The Straightest Path to Better Cinematography.  I had considered including a long section about light and the way we see it, but I realized the post was already too long and someone like me wouldn’t read it.
So consider this part II.
First, lets get [...]

Weekly Update: 01/31/2010

So what the heck have I been up to? Simply seeking the Runes of Power. That’s all.
The majority of my fairly fractured time over these last few weeks has been spent rehashing the Brainroot pro site. A lot of 12-16 hour days sitting in front of my computer monitor (which, thanks to my family+Christmas is [...]