Off to the beach today with the most beautiful girl in the world. +5 cheese factor.

if you don't get any criticism, constructive or not, then you cant evolve in your craft. thats why I like telling people they make crap. Some people just need to be told that their work sucks, cause if you go around babying people they'll never want to get better.

shipping off

Im on vacation. I want nothing to do with anything related to anything that even resembles filmwork. If you need something filmed. Call Seth. He has all my equipment for the time being.

Burnt out. Its about that time of the year I guess. fighting off a cold and sleeping all day. then shooting all day. I just wanna do music videos. That way I don't have to deal with actors.

Drunkumercial

Call Me

We shot this a couple of months ago. Seth came over one night and decided to shoot a short at 2 am. We called Jamiel up and he came over already buzzed from the party he was at. We like to take advantage of the fact that he can cry on command. We shot it without sound so I knew eventually we'd have to build everything from the ground up. So cut to a few months later and me and Seth finally get down to creating the sound. Literally everything you will hear in the video was created by us. Its probably the best thing we've done sound for.

Now I gotta go outside and pick up poop.

The Process

This film I worked on is called The Process. Its a Sag short shot all over the bay area. We're in this little store called Star Grocery in Berkeley. Some really funny stuff went down. More about it later. I'm gonna make spaghetti

Pre-On Set Blog

There are many things that go through my head the night before or right before a shoot. I think I stopped being nervous to film stuff cause I feel really confident in my skills. I tell myself, Yes, this is what I should be doing. And Yes, I'm getting good at it. I think about all my peers that are venturing into the filmmaking world. My experiences, and the people I will meet will one day help me in the future. I think about my future and how scared I am. I don't want to be that guy. The kind of guy that goes to film school and then LA without a name or any contacts. Thats what I think about before a shoot.

Oh, and all this is done is 3 inch heels. (hehe)

Damn money vampires

just got hit with another damn fraudulent charge. The last time was through my bank and some crazy fool up in Istanbul. Got that taken care of. Now i got another one that completely wiped out my funds. Damn. And this one is through paypal, so I got a whole other thing to worry about. and all these damn customer service numbers are either closed on the weekends or close at 6. what the hell. As if things aren't stressful enough. its daylights savings and I have to get up and like 4am and go to Berkeley to PA for a Sag short. Damn. I hate banks and money and customer service people and the bastards that are stealing my fundage. Don't they know I'm a broke starving artist? haha. I can't complain tho. At least I have legs. Some people don't even have that.

2am

As I'm writing this my friend Matthew is on my couch sleeping it off. I turned on the abridged series of Dragon Ball Z so he can watch it before he crashes. I keep looking behind me and I see him sleeping. But every few moments he opens his eyes, looks at the screen and chuckles. Earlier tonight Adam, Matt and DJ came over. Adam was already a little buzzing cause he was pitching Drunkumentary to people at an Italian restaurant that used to be Uncle Bong's in downtown Susuin. Adam attempted to make red curry and it came out really well. We decided to do some drunk filmprov. (improv on film, I coined the term but its probably been coined already).

Earthquake in Japan and Tsunami's are on their way. I honestly can't stop thinking that the world is going to be ending soon. There are so many signs. But thats just the paranoid conspiracy theorist in me talking.

I love my girlfriend.

Broccoli

So I'm rummaging through my collection of dv tapes trying to find the footage of the band Taller Than Trees in the studio. I told my buddy Luis that I'd cut a little music video out of it and its been almost a year since we shot it.

I've been taking these online typing tests and I've discovered that my average wpm is about 48-50 words per minute. Heck yeah.

I steamed some broccoli and brussell sprouts today. I figure I'd eat healthy today. But I'm grilling me a steak later.

The class that I film for did their midterms today. They did public service announcements. The kid with autism did his psa about finding a cure for autism. He said he wants someone to find a cure for autism so he can learn to drive and be normal. George was in tears. As a camera operator for auditions its best not to show emotions.

I guess I'm gonna film a short tomorrow. My buddy Alonzo has had a short script in the works for like a year. Finally he's gonna get it shot. Haha. Lets hope the rewrites have gotten better.

Listening to Norma Jean. Gotta clean.

Food pictures

My very awesome girlfriend sends me a ton of picture texts. A lot of them are of food.

a few little updates

Its been a bit since the last post. so lets start with few things.

So this is the kickstarter page for our latest project called Drunkumentary. please give us your money. thanks.

So I worked on a zombie short called Human Root this past weekend. I dont think I've fully recovered. I'm still so tired. I feel like a zombie.

I've been swamped with work lately. between getting the kickstarter up and editing, and re-editing these real estate videos I've found that I am glued to my computer. I need to go outside. I want to skateboard again but i still feel sick and its kinda raining outside.

hmm, what else is new? I still need to clean the office, it just got destroyed again. I hate having to find a simple little item and then turing the entire room upside down looking for it.

I'm eating wheat thins.