looking back on the project 3 film shoot

the music video shoot of Wax Lips was frickin awesome. we shot for an entire saturday, meeting bright and early at 8:30. the bulk of the shoot took place in the drummer's house. we completely rearranged the living room space into a dance floor for the extras and set the band up in a corner next to the massive stone fire place. my job was lighting, so i checked out several lights (300, 650, and a 1k), a ton of green, blue, and orange gels, diffusion, flags, c-stands, and the like. we had various lighting setups for the band (alternating between those 3 colors) to give off a concert feel. we also had a scene that took place at a bar inside of their house and i decided to light it green and orange. the make-out scene was lit blue, of course. later that night, we shot at lucky's pub while the band performed on stage. lauren kicked ass as the producer and assistant director. will and alex were in top form as director and DP. great great crew! all in all it was one hell of a fun shoot, and i just wanted to thank darion for coming out to help.

more 35 mm!!

grandpa


mom (kinda wishing i had a pola for this one)

Concerning the Art House Reading

I find the concept of the microcinema brilliant. Many cinephiles such as myself struggle to see lesser known films on the big screen (I would like to see Lars Von Trier's latest film Antichrist on the big screen, but that aint gonna happen here in wilmywood because audiences would flee in terror), but it is not practical due to the existence of pop culture. One of my favorite theater experiences occurred when I saw David Lynch's INLAND EMPIRE (yeah he wants it in all caps) at Thalian Hall one night. There were probably 15 people in attendance, all of varying ages, and after the film ended, we all talked about it afterwards for at least 15 minutes. That wouldn't happen after a showing at mayfaire. I think it would be awesome to start a weekly or monthly screening (even if it is at my apartment for example) for fellow cinephiles to kick back and relax to films that are not widely seen on dvd and then discuss them. Hmmm. Maybe....