Midnight Express Makes Another Stop

Thanks to an invitation from the good folks over at the box[ur]shorts film festival, THE MIDNIGHT EXPRESS will be playing for the next four months in Los Angeles, New York, Switzerland and Japan! Skipping pesky middlemen like tickets and theaters, the fest takes short films right to the people. Or, more accurately, to custom-designed art boxes in the bars, restaurants and coffee shops where the...

Czech This Out

Staring down the barrel of another Monday/Tuesday weekend and realizing I’d already seen most of the sights in Praha proper, I strapped on my kicks, picked a distant spot on the map and hit the road in search of must-see’s a little further afield. Within about six blocks of my apartment, I learned three very valuable lessons: “Further afield” is a relative term, Prague is an incredibly...

Storming The Castle

Last weekend, believe it or not, wasn’t Saturday and Sunday – it was Monday and Tuesday. And while my cohorts in the production office explain this as being the result of a strange shooting week, I prefer to believe that it’s the result of a complex conspiracy regarding the international date line (meaning the imaginary line dividing the Pacific between one day and the next, not the...

Flip Side Of The Coin

In the same instant I was writing yesterday’s post about Coke BlãK disappearing from store shelves nationwide – no doubt to be sealed in the same abandoned mine shaft as the world’s unsold beanie babies, 462 million gallons of Crystal Pepsi and every E.T. game cartridge ever manufactured for the Atari 2600 – a debate was raging as to when Apple’s iPhone, the star of my next...

Jetpack, Time Machine, Zombies

The distribution of my mattress full of disposable income (seriously – who trusts banks these days?) is something I usually leave up to the guys over at Uncrate, and today was no exception. They brought to my attention a website called Robots & Monsters, which is run by San Francisco-based artist Joe Alterio. His goal, aside from having the (second) coolest domain name in cyberspace? ...