theremin chronicles

lately i’ve been mentally travelling through these good ol’ united states of america for a script i’ve been inspired to write. i gotta admit, battle mountain was pretty hilarious and wonderful. now i’ve now stumbled upon the most awesome list of 6 things i didn’t know about idaho. oh… those poor geese.

i was recently thinking of a billboard i saw during a cross country road trip in 2004. it had a picture of the statue of liberty and it was shot from a low angle, so you were looking up at her from just below her underarm. the text read: “battle mountain, nevada. the armpit of [...]

are we doing enough to protect our insurance companies?? will ferrell doesn’t think so.

i think my favorite mit hack was when they turned the dome into r2d2, their latest rickroll of the dome is probably my second favorite!

my film bench here’s a peek of my film bench at work. because the technology of filmmaking has changed so much over the past decade, it doesn’t get as much use as when i first started out as an assistant editor, but it’s still loved.

this short video made by trey parker and matt stone have been circulating around video production houses for years (i have an old beat-up vhs copy and it’s fading fast). it’s a pretty fantastic piece and i’m glad to see it’s made its way onto the internets. remember… sweeten, enhance and beautify!

the guardian has a list of the 50 things that are being killed by the internet. most i agree to (and as filmfatale pal ben cerveny pointed out to me long ago, privacy was one of the first things to go), but i’m a little boggled by telegrams at weddings. i don’t think i’ve ~ever~ [...]

here’s some more furniture to add to my luggage fetish. a fold-away office that’s packed away into an oversized steamer trunk. i think michael is grateful that i don’t have $4k to blow on this thing. i’m sure it doesn’t fit in the house, but… i would find a way. (link via treehugger)

thanks to gizmodo for pointing this out, here’s a great little video that chronicles 100 years of visual effects. you should check it out!

while listening to somafm’s mission control, i was cracking up when they started talking about moving the COLBERT treadmill. i had totally forgotten all about that stunt! (and of course, any mention of the colbert report brings back fond memories of being a guest in their audience for this piece that some cow-orkers and i [...]