And so it comes to pass that I can share with the world the reason for the peculiarities of my blogging schedule in the last couple of weeks; the reason I needed a sanity day; and for those who care not about such things, I just get to brag.
As some tiny number of you know, I'm not just a fella who like to watch and review films - I'm also a fella who has for a great many years wanted to make films, though things from lack of funding to lack of creativity and imagination have stymied me ever since 2005, when I finished a real damn bad debut feature.
That has now changed, thanks to a contest hosted at Trigger Street, and sponsored by Stella Artois. I have now put together a six-and-a-half minute short film, and thrown my hat into the ring for a chance at $50,000. There is no reason for me to have shared all of this backstory, but anyway, you can view the short at http://stellaartois.triggerstreet.com/ShortFilmProject/index?id=2484308 (scroll down; there's unfortunately no way to embed it here, that I can tell).
Now, I'm not asking all of ye my blog minions to go out and vote for me en masse... Actually, seriously, I'm not asking that. The voting process is too arcane and requires registration and all sorts of crap, and anyway if there's a sudden influx of new users all giving high marks to one movie, it's probably going to run me afoul of some rule or another. I really just wanted to share it with everyone who reads the blog, and in the process call into serious doubt whether I have any right to bitch about other people's filmmaking skills whatsoever.
18 June 2009
2 comments:
Just a few rules so that everybody can have fun: ad hominem attacks on the blogger are fair; ad hominem attacks on other commenters will be deleted. And I will absolutely not stand for anything that is, in my judgment, demeaning, insulting or hateful to any gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or religion. And though I won't insist on keeping politics out, let's think long and hard before we say anything particularly inflammatory.
Also, sorry about the whole "must be a registered user" thing, but I do deeply hate to get spam, and I refuse to take on the totalitarian mantle of moderating comments, and I am much too lazy to try to migrate over to a better comments system than the one that comes pre-loaded with Blogger.
Good luck in the competition. As soon as my internet connection stops f**king about and gives me more than just a couple of minutes of connectivity at a time, I'll check it out ...
ReplyDeleteReally liked the minimalistic tone and color correction. Also, you broke that rule of "don't shoot blank walls" which worked for the benefit of the film. Very humorous. Also, I didn't know we both had produced flops! Here's to a bright future for blogger / filmmakers!
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