http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/ en-us Copyright 2010 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:46:59 -0600 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 01:12:09 -0600 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=4.01a http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Some quick notes, from bed, all cozy-like: freezing precipitation blew into Austin Texas this evening, prompting an early return home after a perfectly lovely four-movie stretch. This morning saw me running from Lovers Of Hate, after catching the first forty... http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2010/03/four_days_into.html http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2010/03/four_days_into.html Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:46:59 -0600 The proximal relationship being: I don't try to match the movies to the drawings - I try to match the drawings to what I know the movies will look like. These will be hitting the big screen starting Friday.... http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2010/03/pretty_close.html http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2010/03/pretty_close.html Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:16:09 -0600 Possession has become a curious thing. I can glance to the shelf of DVDs at my left and see evidence of a time when the procurement of physical media meant more to me than it does today, and I can... http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2010/03/on_possession.html http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2010/03/on_possession.html Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:15:18 -0600 I'm bursting with pride for these guys. If you haven't seen 45365 yet and you're in LA, you can catch it at the Silent Movie Theater on March 18th. Tickets, which will sell out, are available here.... http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2010/03/45365_ftw.html http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2010/03/45365_ftw.html Sun, 07 Mar 2010 14:51:49 -0600 As I procrastinate on preparing a new snippet of journalism for Filmmaker Magazine's site, I took note of Scott Maccaulay's link to this article by Nancy Angier in the Times science pages last week concerning a study on the evolving... http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2010/03/pink.html http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2010/03/pink.html Sun, 07 Mar 2010 01:19:21 -0600 ...and awake just long enough to report that somewhere just shy of 30 people came to the screening at 92Y last night. Almost three times my estimate. Thanks to everyone who got the word out, everyone who came and to... http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2010/03/back_in_la.html http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2010/03/back_in_la.html Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:56:22 -0600 I love the notion of staying in while traveling. I'd rather be sitting in my friend's cozy apartment looking at the blizzard that hit New York yesterday than actually plunging out into it. Of course, I'm about to do just... http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2010/02/back_in_new_yor.html http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2010/02/back_in_new_yor.html Sat, 27 Feb 2010 14:58:04 -0600 Dear Friends, I would like to invite you - those of you living in Manhattan and its outer burroughs, at least - to join me February 27, a week from tomorrow, for a very special screening of St. Nick... http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2010/02/st_nick_at_92y.html http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2010/02/st_nick_at_92y.html Fri, 19 Feb 2010 01:52:38 -0600 This was the entry to a longer piece that I started a few weeks ago and then promptly forgot, inspired by a viewing of Spike Jonze's I'm Here at Sundance. * * * Whimsy is a delicate thing. As much... http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2010/02/notes_on_whimsy.html http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2010/02/notes_on_whimsy.html Wed, 17 Feb 2010 20:22:16 -0600 Last night, towards the end of a particularly good Valentine's Day, I was running to the car to grab some spare change when a woman crossing the parking lot stopped, looked at me and called out "you look just like... http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2010/02/a_smith_brother.html http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2010/02/a_smith_brother.html Tue, 16 Feb 2010 02:25:00 -0600 The result of discovering time and time again that magic never happens according to plans is that, eventually, you stop planning altogether. I've learned to trust in vague notions and my own eye for the moment. Sometimes I'm off,... http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2010/02/a_small_piano.html http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2010/02/a_small_piano.html Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:52:29 -0600 Always plenty of room for some soft-focus nods....... http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2010/02/miniatures.html http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2010/02/miniatures.html Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:53:44 -0600 Ten years ago today I began to shoot Lullaby, my first attempt at feature filmmaking. I was recently nineteen and had hair reaching far past my shoulders. I'd spun in my head a dozen more Proustian onsets to this entry,... http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2010/02/a_decade_old_lu.html http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2010/02/a_decade_old_lu.html Fri, 05 Feb 2010 01:46:34 -0600 The 2010 SXSW lineup just went live, and chief among the titles I'm happy to report about is the world premiere of Frank V. Ross' Audrey The Trainwreck. As has been writ often on these pages, this film is a... http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2010/02/catch_the_train.html http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2010/02/catch_the_train.html Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:20:07 -0600 Coming February 23rd...... http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2010/01/have_one_on_me.html http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2010/01/have_one_on_me.html Thu, 28 Jan 2010 23:18:27 -0600