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Surreal propinquity to Tiger Woods; I know nothing about golf

May 10th, 2018

I’m in Florida with old collaborators, shooting the The Players Championship, and spending an inordinate amount of time in surreal propinquity to Tiger Woods. I know nothing about golf. I am perfect for the job.

Last day of color correction for 7 SPLINTERS IN TIME

April 16th, 2018

Last day of color correction for 7 SPLINTERS IN TIME. For real.

Make-up for ‘women of a certain age’

April 11th, 2018

Making a make-up tutorial with friend, and collaborator of many years, Tracey Jackson, for ‘women of a certain age.’ Always fun to bring the band back together.

Trenchant, receptive questions at Gasparilla

March 24th, 2018

An abbreviated journey to Tampa, where I attend a screening and Q&A at Gasparilla Film Festival for 7 SPLINTERS IN TIME. A lovely reception and trenchant, receptive questions.

7 SPLINTERS IN TIME shipped to Gravitas Ventures

March 21st, 2018

Felicitous, momentous moment: we ship 7 SPLINTERS IN TIME to our distributor, Gravitas Ventures.

Final polishes to 7 SPLINTERS IN TIME

March 9th, 2018

Prior to turning 7 SPLINTERS IN TIME over to our distributor, Gravitas Ventures, we do a final polish on picture and sound. On March 9th, we’re at Metropolis Post with the talented and punctilious Jason Crump, adding some punch to the s16mm flashback sequences. On March 12th, Mike Flannery and I meet at his studio for a last balance of the sound mix.

Cinequest

March 3rd, 2018

We are rolling deep at the Cinequest Film Festival in San Jose—11 of us in all from cast and crew—and ebullient to be at the 7 SPLINTERS IN TIME festival premiere. We pack the screening, the 250-capacity theater selling out. A long-in the making happiness.

Drag queen impresario

February 23rd, 2018

I am the DP/impresario of a 5-drag-queen, 4-camera, 2-studio, 14-hour shoot for RuPaul’s Drag Race.

Flinty champion of the left + automobile pyromaniac

February 16th, 2018

Last leg of our top-secret crime show, in that most under-celebrated and threadbare of US municipalities, Cleveland, hearing about a fellow who used to blow up automobiles and meeting a flinty champion of the political left, circa 2004.

Grace Kelly

February 10th, 2018

On a shoot for the phenomenally talented Grace Kelly, shooting a live-recording deep in Brooklyn. Catz got chopz! A lovely day, and lovely folks all around.

Button to Gabriel Judet-Weinshel DP Mini Site

'The Imperfect is our paradise.' —Wallace Stevens
'All our land is scarred with terror/rendered unlovely and unlovable / sundered are we and all our passionate surrender / but somehow tenderness survives.' —Dennis Brutus
'A poet is deeply conflicted and it's in his work that he reconciles those deep conflicts. The place is the harbor. It doesn't set the world in order, you know, it's the place of reconciliation. It's the Consolamentum, the kiss of peace.' —Irving Layton
'They might have emptied your pockets / but at least they left some poetry.' —Vusi Mahlasela
'The incompatibility of aquacity with the erratic originality of genius.' —James Joyce, ULYSSES
'A singer may be innocent/never the song.' —John Berger
'I want a good life/with a nose for things/the fresh wind and bright sky / to endure my suffering' —Jeff Tweedy
'Everyone tends to remember the past with greater fervor as the present gains greater importance.' —Italo Svevo
" 'How do you eat an elephant?' Cuaron asked me. 'One spoonful a day.' " —interview w Alfonso Cuaron on GRAVITY in NY Magazine
'Ask the young. They know everything.' —Joseph Joubert
'Money doesn't make films. You just do it and take the initiative.' —Werner Herzog
'The reason ... our pervasive cultural irony is at once so powerful and so unsatisfying is that an ironist is impossible to pin down.' —David Foster Wallace
'I’m so sure you’ll get asked only two questions. Were most of your stars out? Were you busy writing your heart out?' —J.D. Salinger
'Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.' —Calvin Coolidge
'The thing of course, is to make yourself alive. Most people remain all of their lives in a stupor. The point of being an artist is that you may live ... You won’t arrive. It is an endless search.' —Sherwood Anderson
'The troubles came and I saved what I could save. A thread of light, a particle, a wave.' —Leonard Cohen
'As you left their voices behind, the stars began to burn through the sheets of clouds, and there was a new voice which you slowly recognized as your own, that kept you company as you strode deeper and deeper into the world, determined to do the only thing you could do—determined to save the only life that you could save.' —Mary Oliver
'In the spent of one night he wrote three propositions: / That Hell is the Denial of the ordinary. That nothing lasts. / That clean white paper waiting under a pen / is the gift beyond history and hurt and heaven.' —John Ciardi
'Poets are band leaders who have failed.' —Ayi Kwei Armah
'That's what the practice of any art is. It isn't to make a living. It's to make your soul grow.' —Kurt Vonnegut
'Let all go—the / big small middling / tall bigger really / the biggest and all / things—let all go / dear / so comes love.' —e.e. cummings
'I was the shadow of the waxwing slain' —Vladimir Nabokov, PALE FIRE
'If you hear the dogs, keep going. If you see the torches in the woods, keep going. If they're shouting after you, keep going. Don't ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going.' —Harriet Tubman
'Every man should pull a boat over a mountain once in his life.' —Werner Herzog
'The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste.' —Susan Sontag
'I'm not a master of films. I'm rather a slave.' —Ang Lee
"The object of art is not to make salable pictures. It is to save yourself." —Sherwood Anderson
'New things had to be made out of fragments.' —Kurt Schwitters
'Song dogs barking at the break of dawn / Lightning pushes the edge of a thunderstorm / And these old hopes and fears / Still at my side' —P. Simon
'There is another world, but it is in this one.' —Yeats
'Maneuver and mislead, but always deliver.' —Werner Herzog
'Get used to the bear behind you.' —Werner Herzog
'No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.' —Confucius
'To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan, and not quite enough time.' —Leonard Bernstein
'Now I am quietly/waiting for/the catastrophe of/my personality/to seem beautiful again,/and interesting and/modern.' —Frank O'Hara
'And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.' —John Steinbeck
'I read this book about how some scientists tried to get primates to paint. For 10 years they worked on it, and nothing happened. Then, one of the monkeys suddenly began to paint, and what it painted were the bars of its cage. So, in my writing, I believe I'm painting the bars of my cage so that I can get out. This is something you have to get done before you can meaningfully move on in any way.' —Ferron
'Ms. Ramsay showed a mastery of mood and atmosphere, an ability to make narrative film feel like an intoxicating and abstract fusion of painting and music.' —A.O. Scott
'A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.' —Orson Welles
'If you don't become the ocean, you'll be seasick every day.' ―Leonard Cohen
'When everyone is telling you something can't be done, that's how you know you're on the right track.' —George Lucas
'Love is a better teacher than a sense of duty.' —Albert Einstein
'Being able to write becomes a kind of shield, a way of . . . turning pain into honey.' —John Updike
'We are all born so beautiful / the greatest tragedy is being convinced we are not.' —Rupi Kaur
'Poetry must entertain if it is to heal.' —Max Ritvo
'Whatever you plan on doing eventually, do immediately.' —Jeffrey Katzenberg
'There's only one instant, and it's right now. And it's eternity.' —Richard Linklater
'To survive, you must tell stories.' —Umberto Eco
'I believe Icarus was not failing as he fell, / but just coming to the end of his triumph.' —Jack Gilbert
'In the dark times, will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.' —Brecht
'A film is a petrified fountain of thought.' —Jean Cocteau
'Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.' ―James Joyce, ULYSSES
'I found that things became a lot easier when I no longer expected to win. You abandon your masterpiece and sink into the real masterpiece.' —Leonard Cohen
'Poetry can repair no loss, but it defies the space which separates. And it does this by its continual labor of reassembling what has been scattered.' —John Berger
'You write in order to change the world, knowing perfectly well that you probably can’t ... The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way a person looks at reality, then you can change it.' — James Baldwin

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