December 2010
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Motel Movies
I love crappy motels. There’s something so great in the air, especially if you’re shooting a movie. People stay in motels for all sorts of reasons. When people go on vacation they stay in one. Some people have to travel to a job conference or seminar. And then there are all sorts of naughty reasons why people pay money for a bed other than their own. All this stuff enforces and...
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I finally spiffed up my youtube. It was very necessary. I’ve been neglectful. Also uploaded ODITHOL. GO HERE AND WITNESS THE GLORY
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Zi8!!!
Irina got me a Kodak Zi8 for Christmas! I am so very excited about working with this little thing. It’s my very first hi-def video camera, which is funny because I am pretty sure that a hundred dollar cam can’t really be all that hi-def. That’s why I wanted it. I love shooting off the cuff. This thing is tiny - pretty much the most non-cumbersome video recording device in...
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Why? Oh, Yeah!
I make my movies using cheap consumer products ON PURPOSE and for very specific philosophical reasons. Also, I truly love the aesthetic. I am a proponent and advocate for it. I find myself in a very small minority. Now, people seem to want to laugh at low-fidelity. I recognize it as an art form. Minds are shackled to staid concepts and the staid conceptualization, which is a virus infecting most...
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Solstice Eclipse Film Magic
I had mentioned in previous posts that I had three rolls of this gorgeous, magical and very extinct film stock called Kodachrome 40 left in my freezer and I was holding on to these cartridges, waiting for the perfect thing to shoot. A funny thing happens in this mindset. You never end up shooting anything! But I had to, because Dwayne’s Photo won’t be processing it anymore after the...
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Dengar!
My good buddy Leland got me the new Dengar action figure for Christmas! Pretty awesome. A major improvement upon the good old one from 1981.
It is so weird that the bounty hunters from Star Wars The Empire Strikes Back made such a huge impression on so many of us kids back then. They’re barely in the movie for five or six seconds, yet I was obsessed with them. Over the years I find out...
I have been ACTING in a new JEFF G(W)UAY movie. He’s a super cool guy and makes some of the COOLEST and HAUNTing fLICKS I’ve been looking @ l8 lee.
We did some SHOOTING @ my FAIV-O-WRIT bar ever 4EVER. gr8 peeple = GREAT time!
I am UTAH JAZZed about the completed movie. It will be UltraSpecial. I reallyreallyreally IN JOY wrrking w/ JG.
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Some Focus For My Focus
I’ve been chipping away at the Felony Flats series, Death Doesn’t Hide Her Panties, and I’ve written the first draft for a feature entitled Flesh On Fire. But I have yet to complete a complete feature since I finished Overdose In The Hospital of Love back in February. On the plus side, I did complete three new zines this year.
It’s a funny thing. When I was a teacher in...
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SHOCK CINEMA!
Sadly, over the years so many great zines about strange, forgotten, unknown, and underground films have folded. I’ve been reading Steve Puchalski’s SHOCK CINEMA since the mid 1990’s and I am so very happy they are still going strong.
Back in 1998 I sent in a couple of my shorts for review. Steve pulled no punches on RICH LITTLE RICHARD III VERSUS THE CRACK WHORE MARINE...
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Bad Lit’s Holiday Underground Shopping Guide for 2010 included a link to my etsy store! Totally awe=sum! You should visit it and pick up a few fun things.
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Goodbye, Kodachrome 40
Kodachrome 40 was one awesome film stock. The colors were rich and gorgeous. The grain was fine. The film was flexible, working beautifully in a variety of settings. It was discontinued by Kodak in June of 2005. Today there is only one place with the proper machinery to process this incredible, outmoded, film: Dwayne’s Photo located in a small town in Kansas. The sad thing is that...
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Man, I love movies made in Hungary. Perhaps it’s because my roots are Hungarian, but I am always crazy about their downbeat bleakness. Last night I saw Janos Szasz’s 1994 production of Woyzeck and it truly floored me. I love Herzog’s version, so I wasn’t sure if this interpretation would measure up. But it did. Big time! The black and white photography captures a putrid...
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Merci Bleh Bleh!
That’s the name of my wife Irina Beffa’s Etsy shop where she sells totally fantastic handmade paper goods. So far, she’s got a bunch of amazing cards for all sorts of occasions from birthdays to Hanukkah, and a mystically gorgeous 2011 wall calendar.
She takes stuff that’s around the house and transforms it into a whole new thing via artistic alchemy. That’s...
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