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“An M.I.T. neuroscientist named Ann Graybiel told me that she and her colleagues...”

– - Charles Duhigg, via How Companies Learn Your Secrets […] Tell me this doesn’t explain everything about everything. via alexbaca Bingo. via the browncoat I need to find a way to work this M.I.T. story into FToM :P I think it’s easy to assume that people get addicted to the freedom of travel...

Feb 18th

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“IFP’s unique year-long mentorship program supports first-time feature directors...”

– via NoFilmSchool, IFP’s Independent Filmmaker Labs On this weekend’s to-do list: finish filling out the application for IFP’s documentary lab program. I’m really just at the stage now where I need a lot of help with sound design, which I mentioned recently here. But, of...

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64 Days - part 2

Jan 25th

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This is the first teaser from the 16mm footage we took during the trip. This is probably my favorite shot out of all four reels… the speed and feel to it is very beautiful.  All the 16 was shot with the intention of acting as a “memory” for Larry. I just wish I had more than the 15 minutes I have - it intercuts very powerfully next to the HD footage. 

Jan 25th

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This was one of the rare days that the wind didn’t blow directly into Larry’s face… he could really fly when he wasn’t the only object in the way of the wind ripping across miles of field…  I love this part of the country - the big sky, the endless green. It’s all so flat and boring and unchanging… but something about it really eats away at you after a...

Jan 25th

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This was the last time I laid in the grass. My head closest to a tree, my feet pointing towards the river. Watching the leaves dance back and forth in the wind. Enjoying the cloudless blue sky. The warm sun burning up the cotton in the air.  We were still in Glacier Park, Montana. One of the most heartbreakingly beautiful places I’ve ever seen… 

Jan 25th

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This is Larry. This is somewhere between point A and point B. Where ever it is… I miss it. I miss kneeling on-top of the van, working the crane, watching Larry push through the wind. Knowing that every mile meant something to him… something people wouldn’t see passing by in their cars. Something subtle. 

Jan 25th

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Amanda and I decided we have so much extra footage floating around the timeline, that it would be fun for us to randomly pick 20 seconds here, 30 seconds there and post it on a consistent basis. This first teaser is just Larry cruising along some road… somewhere *shrug* I’m too lazy to look it up :) but it’s pretty where-ever it is. 

Jan 25th

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Jan 22nd

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“The decision to use voice over must be a well thought out one, and one made long...”

– - Frank Darabont This entire post was a very enjoyable read, but this quote is especially fitting to something I keep coming back to in FToM. *fingers crossed* 

Dec 26th

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“And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the...”

–  T.S. Eliot, via ned hepburn

Dec 25th

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Trying to pick myself up and get a grip on my to-do list. Which, as of tonight, looks something close to this:  The film: editing (feedback), archival fill-in shots, sounds work, coloring, music. 64 Days: Revisit remaining scripts / outlines, music. Countdown / build-up. Connected site. FToM trailer. Player research.  I know some of these are more vague than others; but, all the same, I’m...

Dec 19th

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Nov 29th

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After a 5 day straight holiday editing binge, the film is ready for the next stages of post-production! I managed to do everything I wanted to do with the timeline in the last few days. I might go into the details of those fixes at a later time, especially if anyone has specific questions, but!, for now, it’s getting past my bedtime and I do have work in the morning. I just wanted to say...

Nov 28th

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Nov 25th

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Nov 20th

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I wish I had more shots like this… but sadly the crane was snapped in half during the trip, but that’s another story for another time.  I have yet to really touch the film since showing the current edit to Larry. I am, as much as I’m scared to say it aloud, lost. I feel as though I stand in the way of FToM these days more than I help it inch the last distance of post-production; to be...

Nov 18th

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Oct 27th

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via Vimeo : Somewhere between Anacortes and Bar Harbor I came across this clip while re-checking the mp4 footage taken during the filming of FToM - I have hundreds and hundreds of clips like this one, but, for whatever reason, this especially made me miss the crew and the road. I can’t remember where this was taken; I do know that Jef and I made some extremely messy...

Oct 24th

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Oct 21st

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via karen abad: Bleh. New Camera - SNOOZE. […] Find a good story, actors, production designer, director, editor, sound designer, etc, and you can make a good film regardless of what new camera you shoot with. A new camera can only help the quality of your images get better, it doesn’t make or break it.  Agreed! As of writing this, Larry is somewhere between Big Sur and Los Angeles, and...

Oct 18th

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I’m going to sit down and create a new draft of the script - my current print is so overwhelmed with sticky notes and scribbles in the margins that it’s just not efficient to work off of. It should take me a day or two to make sense of everything we’ve written in the last four months and work it into the script - and from there I’ll feel more confident about my editing decisions.  I had been...

Sep 17th

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“I’m not sure there’s anything important about filmmaking you can’t learn from...”

– - Stu Maschwitz  Out of all the years I’ve been on twitter - out of all the millions of twitters I’ve read and skimmed over - this is the truest thing I’ve ever read and will ever read on Twitter. Skip the suffocating, soul-crushing debt of attending a slow-moving, out-dated film school; watch...

Aug 24th

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It’s been a year now of nearly solid editing on FToM - the year before was spent 90% finalizing the story / script and and the other 10% editing down footage and seeing which pieces I had to work with - and during the entire post-production process I’ve always edited around temp narration tracks done by myself; I suppose I mainly did this because I was still working on the story and...

Aug 11th

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Some of you may have noticed that FToM, and all sites related to it, went down for about a week - typing in the URL prompted a this site may harm your computer screen that looked very scary; turns out several years ago I had played around with a Wordpress install and then, having not been too crazy with it, left it collecting dust buried deep in my server archives. Which, it turns out, is a bad,...

Aug 7th

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Aug 5th

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I have a challenge for anyone who is into Google maps and wild-goose-chases: it involved the last 30 seconds of a video I posted over 4 years ago already, back then it was called Episode One [above] of Project Pedal, but now, being that this video - along with the four episodes that followed - doesn’t smoothly tie into explaining FToM and its making-of, this video has been long-since collecting...

Aug 5th

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Jun 17th

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I’m going to sit down and create a new draft of the script - my current print is so overwhelmed with sticky notes and scribbles in the margins that it’s just not efficient to work off of. It should take me a day or two to make sense of everything we’ve written in the last four months and work it into the script - and from there I’ll feel more confident about my editing decisions.  As of last...

Jun 10th

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“Scenes reflect what has not yet happened, scenes anticipate what has already...”

– Steve Erickson, Zeroville (via loopermovie)

Jun 8th

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May 31st

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I’ll keep this post short, as I would like for these updates between Hedge and I to be manageable and something I can stay on-top of between editing. Amanda and I are meeting on the 28th to re-watch the current edit of FToM and take more notes, I’ll share what I can from those after I get everything down on paper.  Yesterday’s meeting with Amanda went great - it took three hours longer...

May 30th

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