Category

Musings

• 10.22.07
  If you can’t handle my realness, you can go to the dean’s office
  2006, Important, Musings, Writing (0)

  Looking for material that I wasn't ashamed of to submit the Student Upstart Films script contest, I stumbled upon something that I hadn't thought about in over a year: (Click for a PDF of the 7 page script) It's a play called Ms. Perkins that I wrote and got performed at the Horizon Theatre in Atlanta as part of a series of 10 minute plays put on by The Process Theatre Company. I learned a whole lot in Atlanta about theatre two summers ago while we were doing Because the Boss Said So. I'd actually written the script in Orlando specifically for ...
  
  
• 09.06.07
  Flashlight Party
  2007, Important, Musings, Video (0)

  Back in early May (2007), I got a chance to shoot a music video for Morningbell's song, Faster Than Eagles, Stronger Than Lions It was co-directed by Andrew Kamphey and myself. (39.8mb) We came up with this great formalist concept about the whole video being lit by flashlights. The band would appear and disappear, and the lights would be held by eight people dressed in black and choreographed to created the "movement" in the video that usually is created in "more standard videos" by quick editing. The video would begin with the room lights on to establish the conceit of 8 people in ...
  
  
• 08.20.07
  How Irrelevant, It Must Be Funny
  Important, Musings, Video (0)

  More than two years after the fact, I present to you all 23 minutes of The Taco Bell Effect (2005), my first ever big video project directed by myself and Starline Hodge. We did it for Jean Dennison's Visual Anthropology class at UF. (71.7mb) Re-watching this for the first time in two years was weird -- like watching Friends episodes from the early nineties and realizing how much fashions and actors looks have changed. All of the people in the video look totally different here than they do presently, and the strangest part is that I don't remember them changing at all. ...