Brooklyn, New York
Greetings friends,
It’s been 3 months since I started these updates, and I’m ready to expand the audience a bit. For those of you who are connecting to the updates for the first time – welcome! Please read the rules. We are still in the monoblog phase, which means it’s about me talking to you. As DOG gets closer to being done we’ll be transitioning to a more traditional blog format where everyone can contribute.
Why document this process? It’s good for goosing my morale and motivation for starters. This could also become a resource for the rest of the nutcases out there who aspire to make movies.
It’s almost a cliche to say that the means of (media) production is becoming more available to the average joe and a bit of a lie as well. You’ve got to be a first world upper middle class joe to even think about it. The entire world pays a big price for first world toys since ubiquitous computers and digital cams require copper and gold mining, oil for plastics, all that packing styrofoam – the mind boggles.
My strategy for redeeming these inherent digital sins is to use my gear to educate and enlighten first world humans – a tall order even for a supra genius such as myself.
Let’s face it, first worlders are pretty darn confused. Just one example is the widespread acceptance of the term “consumer”. That’s basically a plutocratic euphemism for slave. Ask an actual person what they do for a living and they’ll answer in terms of production – fix cars, heal people, cook food, build knowledge, make movies. To take without giving is no fun, who want’s that? Only the people on TV. Accepting a consumer identity enables the wholesale translation of the natural world into junk and toxic waste, paraphrasing Alan Watts. Somehow that’s got to stop.
Making movies is one way of waking people up. Art can inspire. So can mistakes.
I think mistakes are great. That’s why I made so many of them on this project. Without mistakes we’d all just remember that we’re GOD (or DOG) and then – game over dude! Back to eternity and total boredom. Mistakes are the grease of the mortal machine. What I am trying to say here is that mistakes are what I’ve got in spades and they are the basis for most everything I don’t suck at. If I can share my mistakes, other artists can have a good laugh and think of better mistakes to make, more ambitious ones.
At some point this update monoblog thing will be available to the general public, a great mistake for everyone to share. It might even be a revenue stream. A marketing scheme. A happening scene. My transcendental meme.
The rotoscoping saga is not over yet! I’ve been working with Pete O’Connell’s Advanced Rotoscoping Techniques for After Effects. Did someone say Pirate Bay? Stand by for late breaking news on this and other stories.