Self Promotion/Exposure

Last week I found out that pitchfork media was contacting this band, harlem, asking for a copy of my music video. I am pretty pleased. The reason they found it was because a blog called gorilla vs. bear made mention of it two weeks ago and then it was viewed by about 1,000 people in one day. The reason gorilla vs. bear mentioned it was because they stumbled upon it on youtube and the fact that I had been pushing the video on myspace and facebook gave it more views, making it easier to stumble upon. Anyhow, I don't get any money but I do get a bit of exposure.

Here is the link:
http://pitchfork.tv/videos/harlem-witch-greens

CELEBRITY SPOTTING!

Ok, so everyone should go check out the Cookie Lounge in West Campus (http://www.austincookielounge.com/) if they get a chance and love cookies.

The Cookie Lounge is the last place Jason and I did a "restaurant" review for our TV show, and tonight, as I went to go pick up some late night snackums, Robert Rodriguez and three of his r-named sons hopped out of their dumb H2 Hummer and went into the aforementioned Lounge of Cookies. So, if Rob Rod buys his pastries there, you should, too.

Come on, he made Sin City...the man knows sweet.

portrait of my friend shane

this is terribly compressed but hopefully still enjoyable

Full Frame Vol.3 RENT IT!!

So I recently checked out the Full Frame Vol.3 from Spiro's rentals. It is a dvd compiled of several short documentaries that I think you should all check out. The topics range from a search for the best Philly Cheesesteak (Hilarious characters, a tale of two vietnam soldiers falling in love while being trapped in a fox-hole, all the way to my favorite, the last meals a handful of death-row inmates selected.

All of the short docs on this dvd are unique in their own way. I believe that it would be beneficial for us to watch this dvd to not only entertain, but I believe that it can help you analyze and stir up some ideas to incorporate into your docs. Since we don't have all the time in the world to express our interesting subject, I think we can model our work after the structure of these documentaries.

Obama!

Scrabble Championship documentary

so if any of you out there are really into scrabble or the scrabble national championship, you may like WORD WARS!!!! Word Wars is a documentary that follows six contestants in the 2007 Scrabble National Champion and it pretty much documents their crazy study habits and lifestyles that they devote completely to this game. i saw it tonight with some people that i live with and it was pretty dope. the filmmaker was not there for any Q&A, though. one of the guys that was a part of the competition actually took a vitamin cocktail everyday for his brain and another dude would meditate all the time and it was pretty creepy. another guy would also practice reading his word cards while driving. i thought that was pretty fuctup. anyways. its awesome. check it out

change of mind update!

hey hey there. so i was originally starting my documentary off as a nature mockumentary on housecats but turns out that i have changed my mind on my topic. i simply don't have the time limit freedom i wish i had to work with animals. they're just not very cooperative. anyways!!! on November 15th my residence (21st Street Co-op) is having a birthday party. (&&& YOU'RE ALL INVITED!!!) every year, this party brings thousands of party-goers to one spot in west campus to experience one crazy night of debauchery. it's pretty ridicuslous. last year there were 30 kegs, over 2,000 people, and helicopters and the fire department showed up. anyways. one thing that we all put together is a fire show. this includes spinning poi, spinning staff, fire blowing, and various other dangerous verbs. ive recently started to learn to spin poi and im going to spend the next two weeks learning to fire dance. my documentary is going to document this learning experience up to the fire show on November 15th. im actually very excited. stoked, in fact. here is a video of some really good fire dancers. the girl in the video is spinning a staff while the guy is spinning poi.

This could be one big, awful disaster as well. it's going to be interesting to get this all on camera.