Coachellalternatives

It’s the end of April, which means – that’s right – it’s time for polo fields and mercurial temperatures to be combined as only the Coachella Music Festival can. An annual gathering of bands and 250,000 of their closest friends on a polo field roughly the size of Wisconsin, Coachella’s mecca for anyone who can endure temperatures that are even higher than their favorite music...

Stills Crazy After All These Years

For those of you who are into this sort of thing, I’m posting stills from the weekend shoot. While I could tell you that the graininess is a conscious artistic decision to reflect the grittiness of 1980’s cop movies…I actually really need a new camera. Check the pics out...

Cop and Cup!

Yesterday was the beginning and end of principal photography on COP & CUP, our 60-second buddy cop movie about a tough-as-nails detective who’s partnered with a crime-fighting beverage. This was the first guerilla shoot I’d directed since film school (I’m referring to 290, not that regrettable incident at the LA Zoo) and with it came all the bizarre strokes of luck and grueling twists...

It’s Color Time

I know – the pastels are a little late for Easter Sunday. But in my defense, the color bars aren’t being used to catch the eye of a chocolate-crazed kid, fake bunny ears askew on his head as he overturns houseplants in a mad quest for another piece of aluminum-covered heaven (Easter Eggs, not a Ford Festiva). And no, they aren’t being used as some sort of weird, internet equivalent of...

Races Can Ruin

Fact of the day: ‘Races Can Ruin’ is an anagram for ‘Car Insurance’. How do I know that? Well, the short answer is that I’ve been spending a scary amount of time thinking about car insurance lately. The long answer involves why. Like a lot of people out there, listening to the radio on my way in to work is one of the old standbys of my patented morning routine. But lately, it seems...