Shadows- Lindsey Stirling (by lindseystomp)

Words can’t describe what I would do to this woman!

I’ve been an amateur film maker for about five years now. I’ve written, produced, directed or acted in more than two dozen short films and two feature films. Honesty, most of it isn’t exactly professional quality. There are a few gems in there.

My film plans for this year include finishing a producing class I’m taking from Richard Dutcher. (The director of indie films such as God’s Army, Brigham City and Evil Angel) The class project is to produce a feature film and get distribution. So that’s going to take up a lot of my time.

I want to create one last short film before I tackle the director’s chair in a feature film. I’m thinking a 4 - 8 minute piece that I’ll shoot in the late spring/early summer. I don’t have a solid idea yet, but I know that I want it to be bold, original, visually pleasing and leave the audience feeling uplifted.

Too many short independent films are poorly acted, lit, written, edited and quite often they leave the audience feeling bored. That is if the audience watches the film to the end. The worst shorts end with the main character blowing his brains our of bleeding to death in a  bathtub after he’s slashed his wrists with a broken record or some dumb thing like that.

The film project I tackle this year, I want to make a serious run in the film festivals. I long ago gave up the dream of Sundance. However, I will submit whatever I end up doing to that festival. It would be just be so convenient considering I live about an hour away from Park City.

So, that’s the goal. Short film 4 - 8 minutes, high quality, make the rounds in festivals around the world. I think I can do that.

My buddy Brandon and I have been making films for about 5 years now. This is his director’s reel. 

I’ve been thinking that I need to get some professional pictures taken of myself for a while now. So I went out and bought a new shirt and tie. I took some test pictures on my MacBook Pro. Not too bad if I say so myself.

I know I covered this in my fist post. But whatever this is my blog and I can say whatever the hell I want. I’m really digging this idea of a “blog for strangers” or “brain dump blog.” 

I have so many thoughts going through my head at any given time that I want to write down, but I don’t because I know everyone I know will see it.

I was always shocked when people I don’t see all the time come up to me and say “oh, how did you enjoy such and such” or bring up something I did months ago. I would ask “How did you know that.” “Oh, I saw it on Facebook.”

Not that its necessarily bad, I just need an outlet where I can put stuff out there without having to censor myself because I know that my parents, siblings, friends, aquatints so on and so forth all have the ability to see it.

If you are reading this and are among the afore mentioned group. Congrats, you found my “secret” blog. I guess it isn’t really a secret, its just not a social network. You found my out let, my lair, my fortress of solitude on the internet.  

Or you happened upon it while googling my name. In which case, don’t you have better things to do? I guess you don’t if you’re here. 

But anyway, yeah. Brain dump for strangers. Even though its open to the public and anyone can see it. Who cares?

I deleted my blogger site today. Tumblr seems more hip and cool, and it makes me young and sexy, right?

I’ve found that all the social networks I currently use, pretty much everyone I know can see what I’m doing. So, I don’t have an outlet to just say whatever I want without a billion people seeing it. 

For me, the internet used to be a place where I could just shout into the universe and my words were heard only by strangers. Now that social media has connected everything I do and say online to everyone I know.

I just want a place where I can post whatever I want and not worry about who is going to read it. Well, people I know will probably find this, but not everybody I know will see it. Such as is the case with Twitter and Facebook.