Amazing Grace. Amazing drums.
14 October 2009
13 October 2009
JJ Grey & Mofro
Let's enumerate what this music video has going for it:
- down and dirty groove
- solid, traditional engineering
- humor
- solid, traditional cinematography
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12 October 2009
Uuungh!
I saw a video with this gal a long time ago and forgot about it. This grooves real hard. She's like an undercover Marcus Miller - and she sings!
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11 October 2009
Slide Guitar that Does NOT Suck.
Slide guitar. Good music. Scientists must have dedicated massive resources to overcoming this longstanding mutual exclusivity.
10 October 2009
Mr. Spriggs
It has come to the attention of management that some of you still have not viewed this important training video. Please take a moment before our next meeting to bring yourself up to speed.
09 October 2009
New Misc Photos
In Misc set at Flickr. Had to go for a walk w/ new lens to get it out of my system so I can get back to work.
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My Documentary Treatment
I am presently working round the clock on the treatment, rough cut, and narration script of my current project, a documentary on the history of my church congregation. It is a fascinating history spanning the late days of the American frontier, Kansas City in its boomtown days, the entire modern era, and the present.
I just wrote this line in the treatment and thought I should share it with the world, considering that it probably won’t make it into the film in any form:
Read more...Scene: Reenactment In 1897 on the Jesse Barlow farm in Lisle, MO, wife Emily goes to draw water at the family well down by the railroad tracks. As she is executing her chore, she finds a newspaper called The Gospel Trumpet, a publication started in 1881 to promote the principles of D.S. Warner's brand new Church of God. She reads it and is pursuaded of its merits.
[A prominent KC Historian] describes how this is as American as apple pie, baseball, and coochie shots of celebrities.
30 September 2009
More Driver's Seat Photos
03 September 2009
Added some more pics taken from driver's seat.
I am up in Iowa again for a show and the countryside is interesting to see. I have made several pictures from the driver's seat.
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21 August 2009
Grizzly Man
I have been working a documentary video lately – a change of pace for sure. Most of the skills from still photography transfer, but there so many others required. I have been reading on everything from myth’s role in cinematic storytelling to camera movement, and of course I have been watching documentaries that are supposed to be exemplary.
One that is often suggested is Werner Herzog’s Grizzly Man, which does in fact own. However, it is not as entertaining as an insightful account of an unhinged nature lover as it is a glut of schadenfruede – a sort of feature lenght “Leave Britney Alone.” Also there are the foxes that break into the subject’s camp and steal his hat. Comedy gold.
15 August 2009
This is the greatest prank call of all time. This telemarketer actually tries to close the deal on mortuary services after the prankster tells him that he is going to kill himself.
14 August 2009
More Roadside Pics
Not sure whether this qualifies as necrophilia, since this blog has lain stagnant long enough to be declared dead in even the most conservative pockets of Haiti. Here are a bunch of "new" pics from the driver's seat (newly dumped off card). This is *so* fascinating.
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