sony 3d workshop

This week I started with this workshop at Sony Pictures. The idea is that there will be a lot more filming in 3D in the future so directors, cinematographers, and directors of photography all have to learn how to use this technology. So they have these little nonsense scenes on various sets for the directors to play with. On tuesday a pretty star studded cast of directors was there, not to name names but the directors of Thirteen Days, Boys Dont Cry, and Alvin and the Chipmunks were all in attendance. In the morning they were loudly arguing over the technology, some bemoaning the fact they had to be there, others wondering what would become of their critters in 3d. So me and Lauryn Cantu went through a scene with a pizza delivery boy, too much furniture and ex cons operating the cameras. In the afternoon I got to watch the footage and it was really just a cool experience all around. Today I did it again for some directors of photography and it was a completely different experience, and a room with more polaroid cameras than any room since the late '80s. It isnt paying but it is a useful experience any time you can get up in front of the best technology in the world with some of the most successful directors working today.

Track of the Day

Billy Bragg & Wilco - California Stars

the 110 south

when I graduated college I was worried not being in school would give me some disconnect from community. there was always something comfortable about belonging comfortably to a community, waziyatah, tampa prep, and usc normally being my communities. tonight as I was driving though I realized I am part of a really cool community of all the people who came out west looking for something, it spans across time to oklahomans risking life and limb to see the pacific ocean. the life and limb I risk to see my friends in manhattan beach on the 110 south is not exactly comparable, but you know what I mean. also LA has so many actors, that even though it is a fierce competition there is wonderful community among the artists. just today a playwright friend and me talked about just getting together some friends to work on a script in development. this is the kind of work I love doing, and its really invigorating.

these revelations are wonderful because I had been watching these civil war documentaries. every time I watch those documentaries I totally assume I would have died in war before age 22 at any other point in history.