No Film School

The digital video blog I used to write for, DVguru, has been axed by its corporate overlords, which, in my (obviously less than objective) opinion, was a shortsighted mistake. I will now write about why this is the case, I will take some time to further inflate my own ego, and I will come […]

Some scenes from my Junior-year student film at Middlebury College, which also played at film festivals in New York, Boston, and North Carolina in 2002:

Fanfare was meant to refer to the container–the bookends and the constant audience presence–while Higher Education was the film-within-a-film (thus Fanfare for Higher Education).
I shot the 17-minute short during the first […]

I’m at a barbecue with one of the other designers from MTV. While introducing ourselves and jumping through the usual smalltalk hoops, we mention we’re designers. In turn, we’re asked by a nearby female party, “so what do you do, like, draw pictures?”
The two of us look at each other. He’s about […]

Yesterday I wrote an article at DVguru titled 10 reasons you shouldn’t go to film school (update: a week later, I followed it up with my disingenuous 10 reasons you should go). Thanks to making the frontpage of Digg, the article garnered a lot of comments. Here’s my pick of the litter:

“Is it […]

I’m starting my own internet company.
Blah blah blah, Web 2.0, blah blah blah.
More news soon.

Ironically, now that I finally have a job in the city, you might not hear much about it. This NYTimes story (about bloggers getting hired and fired due to their online disclosures) might as well be about me (the hiring part, not the firing part). In light of these issues, I’ve already erred […]