lots of close-ups, and of course a few time lapse shots...

i just saw the "director's" cut (also known as the cut-it-to-be-more-action-packed-or-we'll-do-it-for-you-oliver cut) of alexander. it was about as bad as i expected it to be, but to be fair i'm not really a huge fan of oliver stone.

i have watched a lot of cool stuff in the past couple of weeks though.

spring, summer, fall, winter...and spring- i dug this movie, but i was really in the mood to watch something slow and pretty at the time. i think that's needed.
contempt- i could write about 20 pages on how much a loved this movie. i wont.
raising arizona- kelle had never watched this, so we did. the first 10 or so minutes of this movie, right up to the title coming on screen are just genius in my mind. the rest of the movie is awesome too, don't get me wrong, but the start of that movie is just killer.
deadwood (season 1)- i thought it started kind of slow, but once they figured out all the characters i thought is was great, with the last 5 or so episodes being awesome. i can't wait for season 2 to come out on dvd. what season is airing right now?
six feet under (seasons 1-3)- i love this show. the first 5 minutes of season 3's first episode are maybe my favorite in tv history. season 4 comes out on dvd towards the end of august, so i'm just counting down the days.

i'm going to go watch alejandro amenabar's the sea inside now, i hear good things, take it easy.

water bottles beware...

andy chao and i were shooting an effects test for the the sci-fi thing, and that turned into a short film. THE FAUX PAS AT DEER CREEK stars andy in his first film role where (to my knowledge) he isn't playing a caveman named 'gam'. it's about a man who goes crazy and gets 'revenge'...sort of...i don't want to ruin it for you, haha. we haven't really shown it to anyone, but i'm going to try to get it up on the net.

hello...

i'm donald, but if you're here you most likely know me. i shoot incoherent short films, music videos for broken up bands, and documentaries that people pay for and no one sees. in short i'm an independent film-maker. this page is a generic personal blog i suppose, but it's also for the few of you that seem to like my work. my hope is to use this space to, among other things, be able to update what not just i, but my friends in the film world are working on, how it's going, and how to see it.

i have a few short films going on right now, primarily a sci-fi adventure comedy i'm working on with andy chao. i'll be sticking info up on that soon. i'll also be putting up info on older projects i've worked on. anyway...we'll see how this goes...thanks for stopping by.

-donald