I’ve been working with the very funny Portland cartoonist Carolyn Main on what I’d guess you’d call a web series. I like to think of it more as an infrequently updated online comedy variety show with cartoons and talking animals….
I generally hate possums, but this morning I saw a possum with two babies clinging to her back.
My brother Jon turned 30 on Friday. He decided to have a comedy party, which is where everyone would have to do stand-up, roast him, sing a funny song, or tell a story. It’s a fun idea for a party….
If you remember earlier this month, I showed a bunch of notecards for a new movie. I spent April turning those notecards into a script. It’s just a first draft but it will hopefully be a shooting script a year…
My daughters always want to make a movie with me. Usually, the movies they explain in detail are feature length and run a budget of about $78,000,000 because they have active imaginations and uncompromising visions. A few months ago, I…
It’s time for my favorite film festival in Portland–Filmed By Bike! I throw some kids on the back of a cargo bike every morning to take them to school, then I ride along the Springwater trail to work. But I…
I took a week-long break from Twitter, Facebook, and constantly checking my phone for updates or messages of some kind. Sort of a technology cleanse. By the end of the week, I decided I wasn’t getting anything valuable out of…
Whoever leaves eggs with treats on the springwater trail every year, thank you. Also, thank you for not poisoning me yet.
This is still my favorite part of making a movie. The notecards, the writing, the re-writing, the wondering if this is going to turn out like you hope.
