It's Just Talk

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A few weeks ago myself Casey Moran, Caitlin Roy, Emily Geanacopolous, and Leela Pahl entered ourselves into Boston's 12 Hour Film Race.

We put up a vailiant effort and our results follow. Our results immedietly dropped us into the final judging rounds of the 12 Hour Film Race, and the decision lays in the hands of you the internet viewers.

I'm not going to try to sway your vote. I'm just going to ask you to vote.

In the meantime enjoy our entry. It's Just Talk.

T Model Ford

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He's 82 years old. When we approached the house his wife immedietly got up and went into the house to get him up. I joked, "Are there a lot of northern white folk that come randomly stopping by?" She laughed and confirmed.

T-model was laying in bed and his eyes widened at the sight of two young white kids stopping by his bedroom. In his southern drawl he uttered, "Hey, you wanna play?"

"No, I don't play." I said.

"Dja want me to play fo ya?"

"Sure if you don't mind."

"Grab that gitar case and ampifier, and I'll play for ya. Jus let me get my pants on."

I didn't even have to twist his arm. He played for an hour. Often playing the same songs over and over - here is edited footage of one song that he did twice, I edited the 2 versions together. Sometimes mixing the songs together, sometimes having the one version standing on it's own.

Film Race Finals!

My team are in the Boston Film Race Finals.
Our movie was a gender/genre bending film with emotional twists and turns.
A roller coaster ride for our therapists!

The film is titled: It's Just Talk

Click and find out why! Oh, and please vote for our film!
VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE

Graceland Too

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We weren't supposed to videotape in Graceland Too. Paul McLeod who runs it (it's his house filled with Elvis Memoribilia) is sort of capitalistic.

So, we snuck this video camera in the guise of a still camera and got a tip of the iceberg of eccentricity of the man and the obsession of Elvis Presely. We took an hour and a half tour of his house that is brim filled with crap every knook of reference to Elvis is in this house. Plus his whacked out claims of celebrity gossip.

He claims Bill Clinton offered him a million dollars for the 45 of Elvis' first number one single, and he denied it.

The list goes on. He rambles on, often not making connections to his original points and links.

He claims he drinks a case of coca-cola a day and it makes him horny as hell.

Watch the video and wish that we taped more like we do. You can go to Graceland Too: the movie

to get a better understanding of what this place is all about.

Birds & Blues (Bugs & Blues)

Birds and Blues

UPDATED!!!

On the Road

I'm currently in Mississippi meeting new friends.

Check out Birds & Blues to see the video attempts that almost weren't.

JOB LIVE #6: The Feast of Flesh

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Mister Reusch

J. Cannibal

&

Mary Widow

come by the show to talk about the latest installement of Feast of Flesh the multimedia zombie show happening at the Coolidge Corner Theatre this Friday April 13rd at Midnight.

Sound Art

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I make sound art for a young woman who had food poisoning

http://www.DVBLOG.org

My work is featured on Dvblog.org

This is an excellent site that features artists of all types and genres. I can insert a clever from to and you would get the picture. One of the few comprehensive websites that stick to their mission, and one of the few sites that host true video art, and video artists. Not many sites are in this category, you need to dig the blogosphere for people like them. Michael Spazkowski, one of the guys that runs the site is the nicest!

What's also great about this site is their love for the QuickTime format. I don't think many people appreciate what the QuickTime program does. It's a great platform.

Film Race

If you're reading this and you're in the Boston area come out this Wednesday at 8 o'clock to the Brattle Theatre in Harvard Square Cambridge, Massachusetts. I don't know why this link is so long.

They're screening the 25 entries of the Film Race that occurred this past Saturday. Myself and 4 other friends shot, edited, and scored a film in 12 hours. Come see the results.

George Kuchar-Hold Me While I'm Naked (1966)

I remember my first film class. It was a Super 8 class with Luther Price. I was a snotty nose teenager wanting to make comedy films. Luther taught us how to process our own film and put emphasis on the straining the batch of chemicals to it's last potential.

Well we saw a lot of experimental films in that class. At the time a lot of them past through my memory. Except Hold Me While I'm Naked from George Kuchar. There was a lot of talk about the way George used light and color and exploited the 16mm saturation of color. Although that was very important to the film, I was more interested in the delivery of the film. George Kuchar was filming a melodramatic sequence which pulled you into the drama effectively. He also showed you his directing techniques in the form of a performance within the film. George combined music and his fantastic exploitation of his directing to execute a hilarious pathos on both himself and his talent. Key scene: George holding the bird on his finger. Cinema's greatest capture of the pathetic nature of sniveling poetics.

Here is YouTube's destruction of Hold Me While I'm Naked in two parts. I suggest trying to find this picture yourself and attempt to watch it projected or on your television.

See also: I, An Actress

Part 1


Part 2