Tranferring Super 8 to Quicktime

So this is not the most enthralling video post, but I just wanted to say hooray for the Northwest Film Forum. http://www.nwfilmforum.org/

But if you are looking for a really cheap way to transfer your Super 8 film to video in Seattle. Join Northwest Film Forum and take the certification and you can transfer your own reels via their funky vintage transfer apparatus which employees the use of a Commodore 64. Best $5 transfer ever!

Concrete Indians Portrait

A few weeks ago I was lucky to have a talented photographer named Nadya Kwandibens take this photo for her series called Concrete Indians.

You can see more of her work and the work in this series at:

Concrete Indians Facebook
Concrete Indians Myspace
Nadya's Flikr

Western Spaghetti

Funny Fun for Everyone!

Impeach Barack Obama?

I attempt to be impartial and let a man who joined a Facebook Group Called Impeach Barack Hussein Obama explain his position, and what it's like to be a self acknowledged conservative in super-liberal Seattle.

Hotel Max: Art Gallery and Hotel

VIMBY - Hotel Max

Problems Caring for Disabled in Washington State

Moksha Clothing University District Seattle

VIMBY - Moksha

Santino Rice Fashion Event at Heaven Seattle

VIMBY - Santino Rice's Red Carpet Fashion Show

Burning Hearts Burlesque

VIMBY - Burning Hearts Burlesque

Making use of that grant

So the big news is that I am starting to use up that travel grant. I have relocated to Seattle for the next few months so that I can have some room to breath and work on editing. I almost have an assembly edit completed, and I will easily be able to reach my goal of finishing the assembly before the end of the month.

But in even bigger news I will be traveling to New York to work on the animated portion of the film in a few weeks, and the week after that I will be traveling to Hawaii to meet with a few people for potential funding, including the Vice President of Creative Services at PBS Hawaii.

Success!!!

Thank you so much to Laurence and Roberta at the Ford Foundation! I just got approved for $3,000 toward the project!!!! Hopefully this will be the first of many more good things to come.

I also just got back from Los Angeles. I am applying to Film Independent's Project Involve program for promoting diversity among emerging filmmakers. You can see more about the program here

I visited with some old friends and made a few new ones. Thanks Karin for letting me use your office, Echo Park is really great!

Moving Slowly but Forward

That is my new motto. The beginning of February was taken up getting together my application for the Pacific Islanders in Communications Media Fund. It was a really crazy few weeks actually everything that could go wrong went wrong. There were a lot of silly technical difficulties. Like going to digitize the last tape of a sequence and the deck for some reason would not accept it. Making it so I had to run out and borrow another deck.

There have also been housing difficulties with insect infestation. Really? I don't think I need that.

My friend Fran is helping me with a website, and I am very excited about it. It looks really good, and it should be up in the next couple of weeks.

I am also going to Los Angeles for job interviews next week. Since I am thinking about moving there. I will also say hello to some friends from NY who have moved and see how they are doing. It should be a fun little trip.

New Year, New Motivation

I have digitized all my footage!!!! And I did accomplish my goal of getting a trailer together before I left for the holidays. However it is pretty slapdash, but I am eager to begin cutting together the larger piece, so at this point I am just going to move forward with that and say to hell with the trailer. It will be easier to distill a trailer from a larger piece anyhow. I think?

I am always looking for feedback though, so please do not hesitate to write me with any thoughts that you have about the movie from what you see in the trailer. What draws you in makes you curious and want to see more and what you don't like.




Currently, I am about neck deep into the long and arduous process of logging all of the tape now. I am already on tape 10 so not it's coming along, but I can't wait until all of that footage is just embedded in my brain so that I can just play around with it.

I am also very excited about fund raising in the upcoming year. I have gone to two workshops given by Morrie Warshaski this weekend on the subject of fund raising. He empowered me with the brand new knowledge that between 82 - 89% of all money given to independent filmmakers is given by individuals and not foundations!!!

Especially for emerging filmmakers such as yours truly. This is obviously not the sort of thing I am very comfortable with, but if I am serious about making a career out of making films, and since I am. That particular hang-up is something that I am just going to have to toss out. It is actually really exciting. In the upcoming year am ready to take some risks makes some mistakes, and make a lot of new friends.

Woot!