“Deadpool” is one of the better movies to watch with a theater audience laughing along with the insane, absurd antics. The movie weirdly works as both a superhero flick and as a savage parody of superhero flicks and movies in general. It’s practically cathartic to...

This week, my daughter Alyssa tried a spectacular new food for the first time ever: pancakes! In fact, mommy’s Sunday morning pancakes with syrup. Remember when trying a new food was something so impossibly new and exciting? For my four-year-old daughter, this must...

Ya know, I know I’m doing some really interesting things creatively with the video art and writing I’ve been doing. I can sincerely feel it. It may not win me a ton of awards or loads of recognition, but that’s okay. At least I’ve striving to do something interesting,...

“Nothing deflates a director’s ego more decisively than a box office disaster”… “Shocked by the onslaught of critical outrage over The Thing, John Carpenter retreated from his detractors, and privately suffered a painful period of self-doubt”… “It was a rough go. I...

            I come from a school where I was taught to express yourself creatively every single day. Specifically, the director of my graduate program, Edmund Skellings, then Poet Laureate of Florida, told one of the poets in our program to write a poem each day. I...

The Mysterious Case of My Video Students and Their Magically Malfunctioning External Hard Drives The best true story I have from teaching this week was discussing with my video students about the grave importance of backing up their work on multiple hard drives....

It’s now a couple of weeks away from my daughter’s 4th birthday. Wow! So once again, I put together a short video compiled from the edited video footage I shot of her development and the special little moments from each month over the past year. There are a lot of fun...

I’m finally getting to fine-tune edit, color correct, and color grade the June and September 2014 American Southwest video footage I shot. The work is really coming alive now. Today I worked on The Wave video imagery. It’s thrilling to see the before and after color...

11-17-14: I'm currently at an intensive three-day workshop in South Beach Miami, Florida learning how to fully use the RED DRAGON HD camera with cinematographers and film production people from all over: Iraq, Seattle, New York, Puerto Rico, and Uruguay. Learning a...

Day 114 of video editing all the material I shot in June and September in my trips to the Southwest. I’ve been burrowing through over 14 hours of footage and whittling it all down to individual segments. There’s some good stuff in there, some of the best video I’ve...