It's been a while

Almost two years long since I posted anything. The short finished and went into the world with much fanfare to my surprise. It's been amazing. One of my favorite highlights was a French student asking if she subtitle the film for her English class.

Then there's the other side. I got an email the other day that one of the leads in the short Phil had passed away recently. Just terribly sad news. I only knew him briefly but he was an amazing actor, professional and kind. A joy to work with that brought so much to everything he did. I'm currently writing a feature version of the short and to be honest it's sad to imagine that character without Phil. It's a sad day. R.I.P. Phil Davidson.

Monday Inspiration: Fahrenheit 451 Titles

In 1966 Françios Truffaut released his first and only English language film, he worked for six years to bring it to the screen, and I like to think he had these titles in mind from the outset.

This is what every designer/title designer speaks to when they they talk about the titles being apart of a film and setting up the story, but rarely does anything thing work as well as these do. What's startling about them isn't the design or type or anything that you typically associate with title design. These titles have no type and they're deceptively simple. Just a series of single color ZOOM IN shots of TV antennas and a narrator speaking the names aloud. The bold colors evoke color bars, and this was also Truffaut's first color film, it feels almost like a painter saying "these are the colors I will be using throughout the piece."

From a storytelling viewpoint they're almost unmatched by any sequence I've ever seen. What better way to introduce the audience to a world where the printed word is outlawed than this?

poster_2

did this more as a warm up to get back into using the cintiq.

暗闇の軍隊

monday inspiration: Vania Zouravliov and Rockin' Jellybean

Vania Zouravliov



Rockin' JellyBean

anime

so I grew up watching Japanese animation whenever I could, but lately I've sort of fallen off the wagon, and then along comes this and remember what got you hooked in the first place.

Juan Francisco Casas

so I just heard about this guy. does these drawing with a bic pen on 10ft tall paper. bad ass

Your Luck Day Poster

in multiple colors.

"do you respect me?"

Yesterday I'm waiting for the 37 bus to take me out to Alki, I was bored so I kept walking and ended up on 2nd and University, I had stopped because a woman was lacing up another woman's corset on the street and this odd sight seemed like a good enough reason to stop for a while.

While standing on the corner I was checking the bus time on my phone when I see two thuggish ruggish bone looking guys approaching, I drop my phone back in my pocket and resume waiting. One walks by me, goes and stands about 15 feet away, the other stops directly in front of me and drops a coke he was carrying at my feet. He then tells me to pick up his coke. I say "no." He then proceeds to ask me if I respect him, he shows me some of his ink, namely the one of a coffin with numbers on it, I'm assuming he didn't want my artistic opinion on them. Then again he says that I should pick up his coke out of respect. I tell him that I don't know him. It goes on like this.

All I know is that when someone like this guys asks you to bend down to pick up something for them, you don't do it. Eventually as he inched closer to me I the my hands up and said "I'm walking away" and I walked away.

I don't know if he picked his coke back up.

YLD: wrapped

Photo by Matt Daniels

Here's Rider Strong. He was kind enough to come out and shoot with us for a couple days.

came across this the other day

the opening title to our still un-produced internal short film at oh, hello. I like it, and it builds excitement for the next. which we're shooting in 14 days. so soon.

birthday movie tomorrow

theme wedding penultimate

YLD: 24 days to shoot

We shoot in just over 3 weeks. I'm excited and cautiously optimistic. Here's the kind of stuff I do to prep for the shoot.

analogy of conservatives

We've all seen this or I'm assuming you have. It's an optical illusion. The question is which table is longer?
The answer is that they're the same.
This is how I feel about republicans, conservatives and evangelicals. Even after you take out a ruler and see they are indeed the same, they will still tell you that the table on the left is longer.

the good and bad of this weekends movies

the good:


the bad:

threadless 2nd try

these balls are mega.

Our first day of shooting for Your Lucky Day was really more of pre-day or a non-day, it was just a couple of hours in front of green screen so we can put together what should look like a live local lottery broadcast, hopefully the fake and the real will all be one unnoticeable whole in the final. But I did get to make these charming cue cards.

this jacket has 55 pockets.

a lesson on business cards