Brian making film budget

This is me at the kitchen table working on the budget for You Poor Thing.

Ken Nordine - Levi's Ad

Water Safety: Kenny

Sesame Street - Alphabet with Lou Rawls

CAN - Bring Me Coffee or Tea

This is an atmospheric and moody little music video by one of my favorite bands, CAN. It's from 1972. Damo seems pretty stoned. Everyone else looks really serious. I like how everyone is wearing big ass headphones. This track has for a long time reminded me of one of François de Roubaix's themes from Le Samouraï, (at about 3:45). 

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Cinema One: Signs and Meaning in the Cinema

The book is not telling me what mysterious and scary image is on the cover. I haven't read it yet. But the stills make it look promising and I like how spooky the cover is.

Chinese Laundry (1894)

Fun In A Chinese Laundry (1964)

Red(d) Fox(x)es

Joe Meek // BBC doc & interview (1964)

Happy Record Store Day. Support your local record shop! Watch a documentary about Joe Meek. It's good.

The Muppets // Ralph // Onions

Basketball Series 4.19.12

Film Archive // Northwest Film Forum

This is nice. I'm often at the Northwest Film Forum but I had no idea there was a room full of films and Gem working on cataloguing them until I asked Adam about where to get educational films from the 60's and 70's. Turns out you get them right there. That's pretty super. It was little like something out of Franz Kafka's The Trial when K finds people working in rooms he didn't know existed. Only its not scary or sad or nightmarish. It's just nice and wonderful and convenient.

I have a special project in mind with these old educational films, more about that later.

Cinema One: Val Lewton The Reality of Terror

I am really excited that I found this book at Powell's while I was in Portland last weekend. It seemed providential since You Poor Thing has been influenced by Val Lewton often during the writing and development of the project. He was known for horror films, but horror films that are literary, psychological, and not-very-violent. It's kinda hard to find books on Lewton. I didn't know there was a Cinema One about him until I found this.

YPT///PDX

You may or may not be aware of You Poor Thing. I've written about it here before, it's been a project I've been developing for over a year and it was going to be done in Milwaukee. Well, a lot has changed in 2012. I'm shooting it in Portland now. It's a shoestring budget feature, a monster movie, a page torn from the lives of love-starved criminals, a psychedelic film noir, and so much more. Since this is my first feature and I'm producing it, it made sense to move the project to Portland since its so much closer to me. Though I regret not doing this film in Mke, I look forward to shooting something there again in the future. And Portland is wonderful. I just got back from there where these photos were taken by me and Shantel Bennett, who's playing Colleen, the Bonnie Parker character.

Electrons on Parade (1942)

Ralph Steiner - Mechanical Principles (1930)

Norman McLaren - Dots (1940)

Louise Brooks: Portrait of an Anti-Star (1986)

This is a collection of essays I found with writing by Lotte Eisner, Roland Jaccard, Jean-Michel Palmier, and Brooks herself. I think all the essays are in other books but the stills in this book are the real deal. Beautiful stuff. I'm not scanning any of them in because the book is in such good condition. Definitely worth seeking out for Brooks fans. Originally a French book, which sort of accounts for its title.

Basketball Series 4.11.12

Eyewash (Robert Breer, 1959)

Race Symphony (1928)

Cymatics - Bringing Matter To Life With Sound

TVC15 --- David Bowie + Ruby Flipper

Oh my goodness. Heavens to Betsy. What is going on here? Read about this video here.

Jorge Luis Borges Interview

Even More Technicolor for your ears

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1. Salvation Theme - New Order

2. Love is Blue - Stelvio Cipriani

3. Amour, Vacances et Baroque - Paul Piot

4. Leslie Love - I Marc 4

5. Stars and Rockets - The Peter Thomas Sound Orchestra

6. Pushing the Car - Krzysztof Komeda

7. Improvisation Pour Deux Voies - Janko Nilovic & Dave Sucky

8. Death Wish (Main Title) - Herbie Hancock

9. Blue like a Dream - Armando Trovajoli

10. The Bestial Theme - Francis Lai

11. Hayes Theme - Francis Lai

12. Adios Mario - Jacques Tati

13. Assault on Precinct 13 - John Carpenter

14. Senza Motivo Apparente - Ennio Morricone

15. Oriental Dolls - James Harpham

16. Sarah in Bath - Krzysztof Komeda

17. Je Suis Sportive - Francois De Roubaix

18. The twins - Ruud Bos

19. Psico classico - Gianni Marchetti

20. Clara's Jerk - Jacques Loussier

21. Deserto di Fuoco (Main titles) - Edda Dell'Orso

22. Sabba - Bruno Nicolai

James Whitney : Lapis

Film in Sweden: Stars and Players by Peter Cowie

Independent Video by Ken Marsh (1974)

I found this at Half-priced books yesterday. Some of the illustrations are pretty psychedelic for a guidebook. It's pretty bonkers.

Playing Safe: Frisbees