2010 | Mar 10 09
Short: Pivot
“I find motion-captured performances (see: Robert Zemeckis' CGI films) to be comparatively lifeless when measured ...”
08
Presentation: Design Outside the Box
“I have played one video game in four years; I'm not a gamer per se. ...”
05 04
Short: The Sandpit
“I've been wanting to use tilt-shift interludes as part of a feature film for a ...”
03
Poll: Where do you buy your DSLR/video gear?
“Most shooters don't put together a camera package all from one source, but for anyone ...”
02
Seen: Heavy Rain
“According to the New York Times review, the new Playstation 3 game Heavy Rain offers ...”
01
Seen: Chat Roulette
“When moviegoers started going to theaters less frequently in favor of watching a videotape or ...”
| Feb 26 25
Seen: Apricot
“The most beautiful footage I've seen from the RED ONE to date.
http://vimeo.com/8076064
”
24 23
Seen: Liars - Scissor
“Life just feels like this sometimes.
http://vimeo.com/9591751
”
22 19 18 17 16 15 13 12 11 10 09 08 05 04 03 02 01 | Jan 29 28
Guest post at FreshDV: 7 ways the iPad will affect filmmakers and creatives
“Here's the lead from a post I wrote immediately after the Apple iPad announcement yesterday; ...”
27 26 25 21
Welcome to the new nofilmschool!
“Thanks for visiting the new nofilmschool: a site for independent creatives and multi-hyphenates. If you're ...”
19
Seen: Rejected
“I can't imagine why the Family Learning Channel would reject these. NSFW if you consider ...”
18
Seen: Lost In The Air: The Jason Reitman Press Tour Simulator
“A nice reminder that pre-production, production, and post-production are only the beginning of a film's ...”
| 2009 | Dec | Nov 30 20 19 03
The problem with "number of views"
“When an online video series claims a hundred million views, but absolutely no one you ...”
| Oct 28 27 20
The thing about light is...
“First, Canon has announced a 24p/25p update to the Canon 5d Mark II; this is ...”
16 12 05 | Sep 22 11 04 02
Seen: The Wire, "Fuck"
“An oldie but goodie. I just moved out of my East Village apartment -- in ...”
| Aug | Jul 30 27
Internet video gets eyeballs, not dollars
“UK-based author Russell Evans has a book on web filmmaking coming out in April of ...”
24
Productivity in an age of constant connectivity
“I affixed a quote from a GQ interview with Philip Roth into my writing notebook ...”
| Apr | Feb 26 23
I did not expect to say this
“I may seldom agree with the Academy on what constitutes a "Best Picture," but congratulations ...”
17
Seen: The District
“From my (disad)vantage point as an ex-MTVer, the new web series The District, from Newsweek ...”
14
Save New York's TV and film tax credits
“I'm a few days late on this, but as someone who's been trying to get ...”
| Jan 23
Belated thoughts on The Dark Knight
“Nominations for the 81st Academy Awards were announced yesterday, and the longstanding rumors of a ...”
07
Ten films from 2008
“Film critics are all releasing top 10 lists this week; I'd like to post a ...”
| 2008 | Dec | Sep 23 06
IFP's Filmmaker Conference, September 14-19
“IFP's upcoming Filmmaker Conference takes place here in New York September 14th-19th and features such ...”
| Jul | Jun 03
Episode Four at IFC Center this Thursday
“Sorry for the duplicate post (also at TWS blog). Hustling to finish Episode Four!
--
This ...”
| May | Apr 24
Blood for oil
“From: appointments@nybloodservices.org
To: Ryan Bilsborrow-Koo
Date: Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 10:35 AM
Subject: Donate Platelets get a ...”
08 03 01 | Mar 23
The connection between The Wire and On the Road
“I just finished the final season of what will go down as the greatest standard-definition ...”
18
Seen: Good Copy Bad Copy
“A year ago I wrote, "in an effort to post more regularly, without having to ...”
| Feb 19
Atonement is this year's Crash
“A couple of years ago on this site I deemed Crash "one of the worst ...”
| Jan | 2007 | Dec | Oct | Sep 07
I Know What I Did Last Summer
“About a year ago I wrote a lengthy post, as I do, comparing the events ...”
06 | Jul | Jun 09
Your firstborn for a chance at $100k
“I've been working on an internet video serial for the better part of the past ...”
| Apr | Mar | Feb 15 09
Seen: You're Going to Die
“As the sheer amount of video content on the web grows exponentially, the percentage of ...”
02 | Jan 11
Shit
“2007, I say to a friend, is the year I get my shit together.
No, he ...”
| 2006 | Dec | Nov 22
The ten best Hollywood movies of 2006 (pre-holiday/Oscar season edition)
“1. The Prestige
2. The Prestige
3. The Prestige
4. The Prestige
5. The Prestige
6. The Prestige
7. Insert other ...”
| Oct 28 26
Applies to musicals in general
“Last night I saw the Bob Dylan musical The Times They Are A-Changin' (comp tickets). ...”
12
Douchebag
“Yesterday I wrote an article at DVguru titled 10 reasons you shouldn't go to film ...”
| Sep 29
Search engine optimization
“Internet searches that resulted in a visit to this site:
"filmschool or no filmschool"
"without film school"
"film ...”
19
Wicked Harmonies
“Here's a student project I shot and edited sophomore year at Middlebury College. It's ...”
07 | Aug 09
What percentage of bums are telling the truth?
“I've been incredibly busy as of late hunting for an apartment (conveniently, it's the worst ...”
01 | Jul 15 11
Edwards and Obama in '08
“Why not? With their youth and charisma, they'd be a shoo-in.
Oh wait... apparently some ...”
07 03 | Jun 29
You turn on the TV to watch the first game of the World Cup. The first person you see is...
“It's the opening match of the 2006 FIFA World Cup--Germany vs. Costa Rica. ESPN's ...”
24 05
How to get a job in New york
“Ironically, now that I finally have a job in the city, you might not hear ...”
| May 21 17
Must... resist... the urge... to make a pun... about URGE
“I couldn't do it. I just couldn't help myself. And neither could the ...”
16
What does "human resources" even mean, anyway?
“Now that I'm gainfully employed at MTV, I've been enjoying receiving boilerplate rejection emails from ...”
15 02 | Apr 30
What does it say about the current state of the mainstream media when our most prominent truth-tellers are comedians?
“It's been a serendipitous day. First, the college buddy I'm staying with in Connecticut ...”
29
Corporate whore
“DVguru is part of the Weblogs Inc. network, which is owned by AOL/Time Warner. ...”
18
Gazing at my own navel-gazing
“On the eve of leaving North Carolina, I wrote a very long, very unfocused treatise ...”
10
How to get a MacBook Pro and an iPod for the price of a dinner date
“After a feature I wrote for DVguru made it onto the front page of digg, ...”
05
So much for the city
“These days I'm staying with a college buddy in Connecticut. It's not quite New ...”
| Mar 29
Pushing the limit
“In my previous post I claimed I'm not a criminal. That's not entirely true, ...”
23
Things to Do in Durham When You're Dead
“I'm packing up and moving to New York this weekend, so over the next week ...”
13
We Three Kongs, part 3 (2005)
“At long last, the not-at-all-anticipated part three of my Kongparison, wherein I jot down notes ...”
06
Why Crash is a Bad Movie
“Last night after watching the Academy Awards I told a friend that I explicitly did ...”
05
Booooooooooo
“Several weeks ago I wrote, "it's not worth either of our time for me to ...”
04
Alternate verses from The Strokes' "Ize of the World"
“I came up with these in a flurry while listening to The Strokes' "Ize of ...”
| Feb 27
We Three Kongs, part 2 (1976)
“Here is the second installment of my three-part King Kong comparison. The '76 film ...”
23
We Three Kongs, part 1 (1933)
“After seeing the Peter Jackson remake of King Kong in December, I felt the need ...”
11
You can't always get what you want
“Life as a twentysomething can be somewhat of a rollercoaster, with small things adding up ...”
| Jan | 2005 | Dec 23
I won a grant, but Microsoft Word crashed my party
“Microsoft Word is unbelievable. I just wrote a few pages about the experience of ...”
15
Breaks. Like. No. Other.
“The days of gift-giving approacheth. Let me share one bit of advice:
Don't buy anyone a ...”
11
The World Wide Web is closer than my front door
“I finally caved.
After years of trying to avoid the iPod, because a) everyone has it, ...”
09
A rite of passage
“Apparently this site has gotten enough hits (about 70,000 since August, according to ShortStat) that ...”
| Nov 16
New demo reel online (already?)
“Does nothing in this world last? A scant three days after posting my demo ...”
13
Demo Reel online
“After six months of writing reactionary blog posts, with nary a video posted to demonstrate ...”
02
The argument against Freakonomics
“I REALLY THOUGHT whoops, caps lock.
I really thought I was going to like Steven Levitt ...”
01
Compare and contrast: no commentary necessary
“Black Eyed Peas - "Bringing it Back" (2000, Bridging the Gaps)
I know I'm not the ...”
| Oct 30
Kingdom of Heaven could've been such a great film
“But it's not.”
20
A basketball TV show that's better than most basketball movies
“Basketball season is about to be underway, and here I am with a busted ankle. ...”
11
The month in movies (special 2-month edition)
“I haven't yet figured out an ideal way to post updates to the Actual Movies ...”
10
Current Actual Movies
“If you are unfamiliar with this new and ridiculous ratings system, please refer to the ...”
04
Some like it raw
“There's a problem with sex in the movies: there's not enough. Crotchety old people ...”
| Sep 28 20 18 15 07
Overheard on the subway
“"Oh, so you girls are in college?"
"Yeah, we're all in school together."
"So, wait, that means ...”
05 | Aug 30
What was the point of that?
“"Out of the Closet" has been up for three weeks now. So far I've ...”
12
What is a Dechievement?
“The concept of the dechievement is simple: in the struggle to "make it" as an ...”
08
On-demand publishing is cool. That is, if you find that sort of thing cool, or even remotely interesting
“So I just found out about Lulu.com, which is a publishing website, primarily for books. ...”
03
Is R. Kelly Advanced?
“
Damn. With the all-capitals formatting of the title you can’t tell that “Advanced” is ...”
| Jul 26
Actual new stuff
“ On the sidebar to the left, I have posted some new stuff. Because they ...”
23
Actual Movies, explained
“What is the Actual Movie rating? Isn't a movie just defined as a "moving picture," ...”
07
Batman Begins and Sin City are the best comic book movies of all time. Can we stop making comic book movies now? Also, a lengthy rant on Hollywood's New Lows
“If almost every movie nowadays is based on an existing property of some sort–and if ...”
| Jun 27
Is the Black Eyed Peas' "Monkey Business" appropriately titled, or is it just indefensible crap?
“
Critic: With the release of Monkey Business, The Black Eyed Peas have finished what they ...”
26
Career, or lack thereof
“This is how the story begins: as of this writing, I am currently unemployed and ...”
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