and that's cool and everything, but . . .

Nov 05

ON THIS DAY IN 1955

dinosaurparty:

Dr. Emmett Brown was standing on his toilet seat on the evening of Nov. 5, 1955, attempting to hang a clock in his bathroom, when he slipped and slammed his head on the side of the sink. Never forget.

Oct 21

GPOYW - yay! First unemployed GPOYW for me, very exciting.  Here I am, in my boyfriend’s apartment, taking a quick break from working on festival submissions.  The big list of festivals to submit to is kinda visible in the right of the picture.  And on your left, the huge and imposing Raging Bull poster that might have been a tip-off about the bf’s potential personality disorders had I been willing to pay attention to that.  Which I hadn’t!

GPOYW - yay!

First unemployed GPOYW for me, very exciting.  Here I am, in my boyfriend’s apartment, taking a quick break from working on festival submissions.  The big list of festivals to submit to is kinda visible in the right of the picture.  And on your left, the huge and imposing Raging Bull poster that might have been a tip-off about the bf’s potential personality disorders had I been willing to pay attention to that.  Which I hadn’t!

Oct 16

Oct 07

thedailywhat: No. No No No No No No No. No. of the Day: Tweets as speech balloons in the first issue of Image Comic’s upcoming series Forgetless. [via.] I like it.  I can see how it might easily go horribly wrong, but I like its potential.

thedailywhat:

No. No No No No No No No. No. of the Day: Tweets as speech balloons in the first issue of Image Comic’s upcoming series Forgetless.

[via.]

I like it.  I can see how it might easily go horribly wrong, but I like its potential.

Oct 05

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Oct 02

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Many women artists are very talented at creating their work but have great difficulty with fundraising and publicity. The traditional wisdom is that these artists should go to more classes that teach these skills and somehow make time to do all the extra work. But does that really make sense?

We don’t ask plumbers to fix our cars, and we wouldn’t want a dentist doing open heart surgery. Even in the world of arts management, a bookkeeper would have a hard time getting a job as a marketing director. Why do we think that a talented musician should spend her time writing grant proposals or that an actress should write her own press releases?

In almost every other sector in our economy, we recognize that the division of labor is more efficient because it lets everyone do what they do best. If we truly respected the skill and experience and rehearsal time that it takes to create great art, then we would want our most talented women artists to focus on their art, and we would find people who were talented at managerial tasks to work with them.

” — Martha Richards, the founder of WomenArts/The Fund for Women Artists

I’ve officially been named a co-producer of The Sundowner, which is terrifying, flattering, and exciting. We are in the final final stages of production, now.  Although I’ve been on the sidelines of this project, giving informal feedback and helping out with transcripts and whatnot for almost a year, only at the time of extreme procrastination am I offered a credit.  It makes sense, though, as I’m older than both the primary filmmakers and have many more years experience finishing projects in a tight crunch.  It took me about three hours while simultaneously working my desk job to complete a task that should have been done weeks ago.  Not to brag or anything! :) The next few posts will explain a bit more of what this short documentary is about, and about the impact Jon (the doc’s subject) has directly had on my life and, most importantly, my decision to quit my job.  I should have them up in the next day or so.  I don’t have that many pictures, so y’all will have to deal with the screenshots I already have.  An early cut of the film is available (highly inferior cut, with temporary music and only coming in at about 12 minutes, but it was still good enough to win an award) if anyone is interested in viewing it. Now, back to the desk job for a few hours.

I’ve officially been named a co-producer of The Sundowner, which is terrifying, flattering, and exciting.

We are in the final final stages of production, now.  Although I’ve been on the sidelines of this project, giving informal feedback and helping out with transcripts and whatnot for almost a year, only at the time of extreme procrastination am I offered a credit.  It makes sense, though, as I’m older than both the primary filmmakers and have many more years experience finishing projects in a tight crunch.  It took me about three hours while simultaneously working my desk job to complete a task that should have been done weeks ago.  Not to brag or anything! :)

The next few posts will explain a bit more of what this short documentary is about, and about the impact Jon (the doc’s subject) has directly had on my life and, most importantly, my decision to quit my job.  I should have them up in the next day or so.  I don’t have that many pictures, so y’all will have to deal with the screenshots I already have.  An early cut of the film is available (highly inferior cut, with temporary music and only coming in at about 12 minutes, but it was still good enough to win an award) if anyone is interested in viewing it.

Now, back to the desk job for a few hours.

Sep 29

DVD insert for The Sundowner.  I’ve been watching this project come together for over a year, and the final design is so strangely appropriate and inappropriate.  What’s appropriate is that it’s very beautiful and simple, but what’s inappropriate is that there appears to be a serious lack of drama.  Only the last phrase of the DVD synopsis even hints that something might GO WRONG in this story, and in reality the wrong-going is what makes the story work. We argued about this for awhile, and decided that people who would be interested in the film as already described would appreciate the drama all the more, whereas trying to hype it based on the drama would be exploitative and inaccurate, and most of all disrespectful to the man the story is about. I guess if you are going to make a documentary about a personal friend, you have to either be fucking cold-hearted enough to exploit them like crazy, or make a documentary that is ostensibly boring as shit and thus unlikely to make any money. But here’s hopin’, anyway!

DVD insert for The Sundowner.  I’ve been watching this project come together for over a year, and the final design is so strangely appropriate and inappropriate.  What’s appropriate is that it’s very beautiful and simple, but what’s inappropriate is that there appears to be a serious lack of drama.  Only the last phrase of the DVD synopsis even hints that something might GO WRONG in this story, and in reality the wrong-going is what makes the story work.

We argued about this for awhile, and decided that people who would be interested in the film as already described would appreciate the drama all the more, whereas trying to hype it based on the drama would be exploitative and inaccurate, and most of all disrespectful to the man the story is about.

I guess if you are going to make a documentary about a personal friend, you have to either be fucking cold-hearted enough to exploit them like crazy, or make a documentary that is ostensibly boring as shit and thus unlikely to make any money.

But here’s hopin’, anyway!

Sep 24

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