2007/09


High Desert Shorts International

Friday, I was invited to the 2nd annual High Desert Shorts International Film Festival as a guest. It’s a small festival in Pahrump, Nevada, but the organizers are super-nice. I sat on a Q&A panel with my wife, Anita, who was a co-founder of the Dam Short Film Festival. Also present was Dee Wallace, […]

Aargh…

Shiver me timbers. A pirate lass it be for my next paintin’…

Victoria Final

Done!

One challenge when painting is figuring out when each area is finished. I find it fascinating that some areas require only a few brush strokes, while others take hours to refine. The best example of “knowing when to stop” is the glass matte paintings that were created in Hollywood before the digital age. When […]

Burning Man 2007 360 Sense-o-Rama

It’s difficult to capture the sheer size and 24-hour cacophony of Burning Man. Therefore, I put together a little movie that pans across the Playa and captures the general audio ambience. (It’s 29 MB, so have patience.)

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Hopkins & Lynch on Career & Art

I attended the CineVegas Film Festival a few months back and have been carrying around several audio recordings on my phone ever since. The first is Sir Anthony Hopkins talking to an audience about the circuitus routes careers often take:

Click here for Hopkins audio.

The second is David Lynch reading a fragment of poetry:

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Burning Man 2007

What the Heck is Burning Man?

Burning Man is a 7-day festival in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada that encourages radical forms of self-expression. This year, 45,000 souls arrived on the flat lake bed (known as the “Playa”) to set up a temporary city (known as “Black Rock City”) - complete with roads, street lamps, […]