House of Passion

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Goodbye to November and to Videoblogging Month 08. I started late, but I had great fun (and cleared part of the attic as well).

Color Field Painting Homage Constructed from the Film "The Tender Touch"

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One last color field painting. And one last video for Videoblogging Month. What will it be? I'll worry about that tomorrow!

Salt

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I channel Andy Rooney. It's nice to be a grumpy old man now and again.

Need

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I'm not a steampunk, but I do love old technology. Here's a love note to the phone booth. My wife, Maribeth concieved and shot the movie. I cut it and added music.

Thanksgiving Story

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Here's a Thanksgiving Video Special from the Hopper Video Vault (12/05).

One interesting and sad coincidence, in the section of the video where things start to go badly for the Indians; I use football footage to parallel the narration regarding war. The football footage includes quarterback Michael Vick, who would later be sent to prison for dog fighting. The human bloodlust has not been satisfied yet. And on that happy note, have a wonderful Thanksgiving.

Here's a Thanksgiving Next To Heaven.

My Shoes Are Killing Me

This is another video from the attic. This is the third and last, to date anyway, 48 Hour Film I helped to make. You can see the first two here and here. If you like the film please visit some of the key players online.

48 Hour Film Project
Sandie Black
Maurice Martin
Joe Hansard
Chris Griffin

Sweet System

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NOT SAFE FOR WORK!!

Here's another from the attic. This movie is the my second post-linear editing effort (I bought a used Media 100). My great buddy Maurice Martin and I came up with the idea of a character that had trouble differentiating between technology and nature. We walked around my neighborhood and shot Maurice in character. By the way, I did not ask him to lick the tire, I said "look at it lovingly" --- and the rest is history (we washed his mouth out with peroxide).

This picture doesn't show much discipline or focus, but it does show my excitement to communicate in new ways and with the fancy new tools! Fun days (of more than 10 years ago). You also get a look at the original, epic, and silly Hopper Video logo.

Morning Hair (Unmodified) w/Cary Grant Mask

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by flash-light: Kid Congo Powers @ Civilian

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Kid's a great showman, and you want to see his face as he's singing, but there wasn't enough light for my camera to capture his face. So, I made the most out those instances when I had light via nearby photographers.

Tape Damaged Pope

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Exam

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Next To Heaven Season 2

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Here is a teaser episode from the second season of Next To Heaven. You can see all of Season 1 in one handy dandy page here. Season 2 will feature some episodes with all found footage, some with all newly shot footage, and some with a mix. Look for a 26 week run sometime next year.

Flow: A Sculpture by Dennis Beach

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Dennis Beach is a friend and a terrific artist. Dennis' sculpture "Flow" is currently part of a show called Aquifer curated by J.W. Mahoney and Deborah McLeod. Aquifer was mounted by the Washington Project for the Arts and the Washington Sculptors Group. If you're near DC please check out the show at Pepco's Edison Place Gallery, 702 Eighth St. NW, Washington, DC 20068 through December 19.

As to "Flow" it was great fun to shoot because every angle I could come up with looked good. Now that might be a criterion for great sculpture . . . perhaps!

Color Field Painting Homage Constructed from the Film "This is Hormel"

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Videoblogging Month is swell. You make new things and clean out the attic too. This one is from the attic . . . an experiment just now seeing the light of day.

D.C. Drive

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Chicago Stream Crossing

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I'm loving Videoblogging Month so far. It's clearing the pipes! Not enough time in the day to see everything everyone else is doing, but I'll catch up at some point.

SOUP

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I forgot to post this earlier. Now I'm at an event. But, it's an event with a computer. I'm here.

The Family Circus Homage

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11/12/08

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There is nothing like a day.

My Eleven Narrative Films

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Hot.

Happy Song

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Welcome to the hangover kids!!

Some light reading on the topic can be found here.

History Night 8/28/08

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What a difference two weeks make! I still think Obama is going to win. He’s still a great communicator and still has the better plan for America. But, back on August 28th I did not imagine that Obama would shortly be smeared as a pedophile, that McCain would pick an unqualified running mate, that this running mate would distort her and Obama’s record and be allowed to get away with it for days on end, that the media would accept this unqualified running mate being sequestered from public questioning, and that fake charges of sexism would dominate the news for days. Good God, the market place of ideas seems to be broken this September. Fear not, there are better days ahead. I hope.

Thanks Pauline.

Chicago Leap Day Party 2008

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I had the great good fortune of being in Chicago this Feb. 29. Our friends Byron and Karen threw a party. B & K's friends are great, and, as you will see, very patient with having a camera in their faces --- Damn photogenic and interesting too!!

Next To Heaven/all

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www.nexttoheaven.net/all

There you will find all 52 episodes of NTH season one; set up for easy one-page playback.

Meanwhile, I’ll be releasing NTH Season One on Youtube – so if you want to see NTH through the prism of a crappy flash codex go on over there. You’ll also be able to follow the action on revver, veoh, dailymotion, and metacafe.

And, NTH season two is in the works. I’ll be casting and shooting his spring! See you soon!

ROBOT

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Sometimes the robot is more human than the spokesmodel. Thanks to Honda, Asimo, and the latest red-headed android.

Your Metal Brain

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“Your Metal Brain” is a film I made for an event curated by uber-videoblogger, Mica Scalin, called FEAR REVERE.

Here is a description from the website –

“Fear Revere is a collection of 13 short films by an international group of artists and filmmakers. They were asked to reflect on the genre of horror and the general idea of making something for the purpose of frightening ones audience. Boo!

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FEAR REVERE was originally presented on Tuesday October 30th, 2007 by Mica Scalin at the Pioneer theater for the Fourth Annual Month of Horror, Terror, and General Mayhem.”

You can see many of the other Fear Revere films here.

Your Metal Brain marries two of my favorite things -- weird Japanese things (in this case, Shinya Tsukamoto's "Tetsuo: The Iron Man") and the coming technology Singularity. You couldn't tell it from the film, but I'm looking forward to the Singularity. Nonetheless, I'm still a bit . . . fearful!

For Ray, with Love!

Killing Movie

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Shoot. Punch. Slice. Stab. Kill, kill, and kill some more . . . That's Entertainment!

Not Yet

Wet. Reproduction. Bursting. Verdant. Fragrant. Warm. Spawn. Love.

Black Stripes White Tummy

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Poor Black Stripes White Tummy! What will I do without it. A lost dog tale.

Parking Meter

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We had some nice weather so I walked about looking for a video. I found decay, death, and development. This is the first real "Hopper Video" I've posted in awhile. Feels good!

Secret Identities

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The second of three "48 Hour Films" I helped make. Superheroes, violence, and sex . . . what more could you want!!

Interest

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a nice mic, women, soft cotton . . . what more is there.