So once upon a time I directed and produced a Showcase. And in that process I had the pleasure to collaborate with a Michigan-turned-Syracuse fellow by the name of Andrew Banas. The story of how we came to work together is convoluted, but needless to say it was a good time and resulted in that [...]
Tag: film
Book Adaptations Wishlist
Hi Internet. Happy November. I'm tired and a bit of a nervous wreck, so let's take a break from reality to indulge in some bookish wonderings. As I'm mentioned, I watch a lot of YouTube, and one such vlogger I follow is British BookTuber-extraordinaire Jen Campbell. She did a video recently talking about books she [...]
Update on that Crazy Idea
Hi internet! Happy Monday. So do you recall a month ago or so I wrote this? TL;DR, I had a mighty need to make something, and I had a concept. Well, I've actually done it--in part. Yesterday I got a bunch of hapless souls--er, minions--er, friends--together and we filmed the first half of my dance video [...]
A New Crazy Idea
Six years ago, I told a little white lie. I wanted to make a movie trailer for a book I had written. Just a few problems: I hadn't told anyone save my parents and three trusted confidants that I had written the book in the first place. I needed a cast of dozens, but I didn't [...]
Trumpets in the Quart: My First Music Video
I'm a skeptical person. It doesn't take long, when walking into a new situation, for concerns to seed, grow, and flower into doubts regarding the success of a project. It's not that I'm eagerly waiting for people fail--I've just seen it enough times that I've developed a healthy caution for ambitious undertakings. But at the [...]