April 27, 2005
Ah, to be back home and penniless again. I always feel like I'm starting from scratch again after returning from film-related adventures. Until I can remind myself where I was and what I was working on when I left, I'm always sort of adrift.
But I think I'm back up to steam now (I've got other people's films to produce, after all). I've got some more substantial writing on the way (not counting my review of Melinda And Melinda), both here and elsewhere. In the meantime, here are a few links of note:
1. From a student newspaper, a very well meaning but unintentionally humorous article on our lecture at the Texas Film Festival earlier this month - humorous primarily for the mis-spelling of one of our recommendations.
2. Slate.com on the Fiona Apple album leak. There have been other articles written about this, saying much of the same thing, but this is one is the most substantial.
3. Yen's Philly journal.
4. Moriarty's excellent account of his visit to the set of Tim Burton's The Corpse Bride. I had to skip a lot of it for spoiler reasons, but I was interested to learn that the animation is being recorded via digital still cameras. Just like my film! Only with a difference of large handful of megapixels per frame.
Speaking of that film - I managed to finish three shots between returning from Berlin and leaving for SXSW, and only last night did I finally hit the switch on all the lights, dust off the set and get back to work. By the time I finish it (hopefully by late May), it'll have been so long since I began it that it'll end up being pretty anticlimactic. But at least it'll be done - and (I think) done well. I have about three seconds of footage en route between the camera's memory card and my hard drive as I write this, all ready to be imported into FCP and animated...
Posted by David Lowery at April 27, 2005 12:57 AM