Tag Archives: independent filmmaking
Chicken or Steak
While I have been dining, impromptu singing, running up and down urban beaches this summer, I’ve kept a shaky, handheld record of my friends and our adventures. Snapping every toast, recording every song, filming every low, breaking wave. I like remembering things with a lot of motion and elements. Photos are nice sure, but an [...]
Oh My Awesomeness: Week One
Each week I’m going to tip my red, straw summer fedora to AV projects I think are awesome. (And in the cooler months it is the tip of a knitted beanie.) This week it’s a hearty “hooray!” for the creative duo Dorothee and Mark at OrganicNation.TV. Organic Nation Trailer from OrganicNation on Vimeo. And it’s [...]
Stories from the Olden Times of VHS
Somewhere in the 1990′s my husband John was studying film at Columbia College Chicago after departing a chemistry program at Oberlin. (“I was always protesting apartheid, I couldn’t concentrate,” he would tell me.) Over the weekend as I was raking my way through what production contracts look like, and just generally trying to learn the [...]