Finding Fellini

I feel like a part of me is missing. Descanso en paz, senor.

I've been doing a page one rewrite of the New Orleans script the past few days. I started just doing some outlining and some light rese...

The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world. Federico Fellini

I've been either stressed out or down and out with a head cold all week and yet I have to say it's been a fantastic week. In additi...

The DVD encoding conflama consumed all of yesterday. The morning edition solved some problems and confirmed the errors of the previous day....

Yesterday we finalized the color on But A Dream and output it to Digi-Beta and DVD. I worked late at my office getting the Sundance applica...

Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young. W. Somerset Maugham

While hurricanes battered the Southeast we were in Sisters, Oregon enjoying perfect weather. Grazie, Signore Direttore

I've spent the better part of the week in post-production houses working on But A Dream. Talking about my ideas and their realization w...

The Betamax, one of our first timeshifting devices. I liked the smaller tapes, personally. And I've always been a Sony fan. Perhaps d...

I am unhappy but not too surprised to see McCain currently leads 50-46 in a recent USA Today poll. I know it's a post-convention bump. ...

Honor the source. David Simon

A 'professional', at least in the common usage of the term, is one who is very far from being 'independent'. If the artist ...

I had a spotting session for the sound design of But A Dream at Digital One this morning. It was one more experience that I went into unea...

I loved this film. You, too, can go see it at selected theaters like The Hollywood in Portland. It's well written, well acted and beau...

Thus ending another summer. All three of our children are in school this year. Rented three units in the apartment building - only one uni...

I watched the first cut of Dangerous Writing today. I prepared myself for some big holes in the story and some gut-wrenching pain as best I...

Success is a finished book, a stack of pages each of which is filled with words. If you reach that point, you have won a victory over yourse...

Going to a Woody Allen film in the past ten or twelve years has been a tricky proposition. He's made a few good ones and more than a fe...