August 2011
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May 2011
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April 2011
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March 2011
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November 2010
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Six Months (almost)
About six months ago I managed to snag what is essentially my pre-career dream job. In all honesty I would be perfectly happy keeping this job even during my (hopefully successful) career as a cinematographer. This job is at what is, arguably, one of the best coffee bars in the states - Intelligentsia Coffee & Tea.
To preface this post I should probably explain a bit of my history with...
October 2010
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The Lab (A Coffee Training Facility Concept)
One of the things I love about the coffee industry is the excess of passion, almost everyone who works in specialty coffee is absolutely in love - dare I say obsessed - with what they are doing. This is a wonderful thing for an industry, it allows innovation to happen quickly and almost always for the better. However, despite all of this passion, there are few places baristas can meet up to...
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September 2010
7 posts
WatchReally catchy song, and a really fun music video.
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Amazingly awesome song, especially for nice cool...
August 2010
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Noir Monologue Draft
This is the very first draft of the intro monologue to the short noir film project I am working on.
It was two in the morning on Sunday, I was following this egg for a broad who thought he was sleeping around. What a waste of time, turns out he’s just got a thing for this Canary who plays nights at the Roosevelt Hotel. Two hours and all he did was dip his bill in a couple of whiskeys....
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Log Line Dilema
So myself and lotusmomma decided we wanted to film a short film in the Film Noir style and came up with these log-lines. We can’t figure out which one we would should make as we like them all. Thoughts?
Vivian, a gorgeous femme fatal, finds herself moving up in the world of crime. A week after killing Dick Hampton she re-visits the crime scene to find her lover, Dicks partner, and the...
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“Free flow of information is the only safeguard against tyranny. The once-chained...”
– Commissioner Pravin Lal
Plus One (+1)
Well, this time I managed to get two days before missing a day. Adding one day on to my thirty days.
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dear customer,
It is no secret to those that know me that I am somewhat in love with coffee, both as a beverage and as an industry. It is hard not to be, coffee has come a long way in the last twenty years and has some much further to go. One of the things that I love about the coffee industry is that it is such an organic entity, one that is still discovering itself, and is willing to admit that there is a long...
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Take two
So my first attempt at a thirty days thirty posts run failed, miserably, with one post then nothing for the next week. I really do want to try and do this so I am going to start the clock at zero and go from there, only this time I am going to add one day to the thirty days for every post that I miss, that’s is in addition to the post to make up for that day.
July 2010
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its summer!
Awwww yeah! It’s summer time! You know what that means? Forty hour work weeks and little free time, that’s what it means! Woo!
Ok, so maybe I don’t have as much free time as I would like, but there are up sides to my summer. First and foremost I snagged a job at Intelligentsia, which blows my mind. I have been working there for a little over two months now (it really...
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Thirty days, thirty posts?
For as long as I have been somewhat active on the internet I have had some form of blog, however me being the procrastinator that I am I get really in to writing posts for a few weeks then things taper off to one post every few months. So my plan for the next thirty days is to try and break that habit by doing the “one post a day” meme that has been floating around for as long as there...
June 2010
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Long, Arduous, but Worth it.
Today was one of those days where everything started off ok, but more and more things just kept piling on becoming more and more stressful. Today I officially moved in to the Roosevelt Collection, my new home for the next year (hopefully more). Originally my plan was to get off work, finish up the last bits of paperwork, and start moving in by three in the afternoon. Yeah, that was not going to...
Let's play with needles!
After three years of trying to decide on whether or not I want to pierce and stretch my ears, I have decided to go for it! I am going to Metamorph Studios in Wicker Park tomorrow after work.
Hopefully I will have pictures to post here of the process, or at the very least the results.
May 2010
3 posts
One year of film, one year of fun...
It’s hard to believe that my second semester of film school is over, I am now officially half-way through my time as a student. The even more surreal fact is that I have so many friends who are done with college, yet here I am really just starting.
Over the last year I have had pleasure and the privileged of working with a group of insanely talented people, people who not only share my...
Absolutely beautiful song - it will stay stuck in...
“Contrary to popular belief, actually seeing Zooey Deschanel will not cause you...”
– Chris Bosman - TinyMixTapes
April 2010
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““You are free. You are free before the noonday sun and free before the moon and...”
– Dan Choi - The Moth Podcast
Another short excerpt of a Radio Lab episode, this...
WatchA short video haiku I did for my Japanese Cinema class…
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A short excerpt of, what I think is, one of the...
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“I must hold in balance the sense of the futility of effort and the sense of the...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
Starting the Tumble
Joining the fad! I finally have a tumblr page, lets see what happens.