Finding Fellini

Let me say it very very LOUD - Danny Boyle is a hack. He's a music video director. I can never forget I'm watching a movie when watc...

What a lovely combination. I've enjoyed being at high elevations this week on Mountains Hood and Bachelor. Snowshoeing on Sunday and s...

This HBO mini-series is awesome. I read the book a few years ago and I have to say I liked the show a lot better. Not that the book isn...

It took me a long time to get around to the most acclaimed show ever to be canceled after one season on television. It was worth the wait. ...

Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure ou...

Finally saw Rachel Getting Married tonight. What a wonderfully truthful film. I had stayed away from it based on comparisons to Margot at ...

This morning I cycled to my office to meet a camera rental customer. Usually I work out and then go to the office. Lately there have been ...

The past week I've been on my own with three kids. One of whom has been ill, as I have been. We are managing, but it takes a tremendous ...

My wife leaves for a work trip to Africa tonight. We spent some time hiking the Ridge Trail in Forest Park. It's a thousand plus foot ...

A friend of mine quotes a famous friend of hers on her blog as saying that if a resolution doesn't embarrass you, it isn't challengi...

It's been 2009 for about a week now. The sound edit of DW has resumed. Some visual effects work is in progress. I've met with my ...

And I do place emphasis on the happy. I started the year with some hard and fast (for me) running and some yoga. The rest of the day I'v...

I've tried in the past few days to come up with a ten best films of the year list to post. Living in a small market really puts a kink ...

I've mapped out some fitness goals in a very specific manner this past week. I created a specific, realistic and attainable objective b...

Not much blogging lately. No year end best lists from me yet. No progress reports on the various projects. Here's one: Berlin said n...

Okay, now I'll say we've got some winter going. Though driving is still very easy with snow tires or chains. I took my mountain bike...

An apocalypse of bad weather has overtaken Portland this week - closing schools and wreaking havoc on our fair-weather city. (I've had ...

Moving fast is not the same thing as going somewhere.

Eighty percent of success is showing up. Woody Allen

The talent is in the choices. Robert De Niro