Road Trip

Today was such a nice day that we decided to take a road trip. We started south and drove around Tacoma and then headed north up the Olympic Pennisula. On the way back we took the Bremerton Ferry back to the "mainland" here is a shot as we are approach the Coleman Ferry dock in Seattle. (You can tell where Chuck put the two pictures together...but it still looks pretty neat)

Here's another from a little farther away.

And another...

Happy St. Patrick's Day

Isn't she festive in her green Ralph Lauren polo?

The Day After

Whew.....the 48-Hour Film Competition is behind me. Actually it was not bad at all. We found out the critieria Friday at 6pm and worked until about Midnight brainstorming, writing, and making props. We re-grouped at 7am Saturday morning and started shooting. We wrapped about 5pm. The raw footage was handed over to editors extraordinaire Frank and Hayden, the rest of us dispersed to eat and sleep...yeah. We got back together Sunday afternoon for finishing touches and screening. So look for "The Adventures of Boss and Vasquez: Plight of the SIVRS" at the Maple Valley Film Festival. In case you don't know SIVRS are the infamous (and fictional) South Indian Venomous Rattle Snails.

We had a blast and it was great fun working with the "old team" again. Actually it's nice just "working", it gets the creative juices flowing and gets me re-interested in my own projects.

Up next....I think we're entering another competion in April sponsored by The Seattle Times.

48-Hour Film Competition

A few of the folks that worked on "The Ideal Wife" are entering a 48-Hour Film Competition this weekend and have asked me to be invlolved. Should be a good time. If you are not familiar with how it works, basically each team has 48-hours to write, cast, shoot, and edit a short film. There are several of these going on around the country and they all vary a little in how they work. In this particular one on Friday at 6pm a line of dialog, a theme and a prop will be posted on a website. As soon as we get this information we'll have until 6pm Sunday to create a 3 minute film with that line of dialog, theme and prop.

I'll let you know how it goes. Apparently cash prizes will be awarded to the top 3 films. It sounds fun, but I doubt it will involve much sleep over the weekend.