Archive for January, 2010
This was intended as a Night-Themed week, but life intervened. My night-subject for Saturday fell through, and then a non night-related milestone presented itself on Sunday: Mon – my roommate Spencer and I chasing one incredible sunset Tues – some spontaneous Laverne and Shirley with some passing strangers, most of them social workers, conducting a ‘homeless count’ [ READ MORE ]
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Starting Tuesday, this was one rainy week. So I used some rain-themed songs to set the mood: Mon – Meet Batman. Aka Chris Shaw, of Nick’s Window Tinting in Santa Monica. An amazing man. And part of a documentary I’ve just started shooting, about LA’s car culture. Stay tuned. Tues – it felt like we entered an [ READ MORE ]
With the help of this online tutorial, I figured out a much better way to encode HD for upload. Huge thanks to Ed McNichol for making it. I’ve reposted Week #3 now, and the difference is huge. [ READ MORE ]
Mon – high school puppy love, with Real Life in the background Tues – banana girl in Venice Wed – Statue of Liberty Man rolls up on a kid Thurs – Venice travelers Fri – my roommate’s dog (doesn’t give a care) Sat – ‘Checks cashed for low fees?’ Sun – two animated onset stills from Patty Yu’s “BaO Eat You [ READ MORE ]
To Mr. Jay Duplass for allowing VOTD to upgrade to high-def. My job now is to get better at compressing and uploading in HD, so it plays as crisply as the actual footage is. And your job is to go see Fox Searchlight’s CYRUS (starring John C. Reilly, Jonah Hill, Marisa Tomei, and Catherine Keener), when it [ READ MORE ]
10 – a cold day outside Beijing’s beautiful National Center for the Performing Arts, aka ‘The Egg’ 11 – an entire cart-ful of food to be dropped into boiling-hot oil and devoured, at the traditional Chinese hot-pot place Nick and Even took us to 12 – i call this one “Don’t Sh!t Where You Shower (or Brush [ READ MORE ]
1 – Bri plays Godzilla at the Beijing Urban Planning Museum (wrong country, we know) 2 – more jackhammering right outside our door 3 – imagine pooping with the urinals in plain view – South Beauty szechuan restaurant 4 – our first night in China, and Bri’s first foray into couchsurfing.com, we find ourselves on the way outskirts [ READ MORE ]