THIS JUST IN!!!!
A short film that I wrote, “Star Wars Made Me This
Way” is screening at VisionFest 08 on Aug 20.
For more info:
http://www.filmmakersalliance.org/VisionFest.html
My Other Websites/Blogs:
Dougtionary
My quest to create a new word every day for the next year.
My Creative Mojo
The creative process at its best (and worst)
Scroll down to see what I've been working on...
Everyone keeps asking me if SAG is going to strike,
and here's why:
Doug Allen, the Exec Director of SAG (left)
with Doug Allen, the comedy writer (right)
Karen Knotts at her show "Tied Up In Knotts"
with my ice sculpture of Mr. Limpet.
In the recording studio working on "Star Wars Made Me This Way", with
Kilyoung Baek and Yooyoung Choi
In the studio recording Storm Trooper dialog.
On location at the Los Angeles Convention Center
Alicia Silverstone, at the Silverlake Film Festival panel
on sustainable living.
Ed Begley, at the Silverlake Film Festival panel on
sustainable living.
A few photos from our United Hollywood shoot,
with actress Lana Ford and editor Eric C.
Andersen
2008 news highlights:
-- The strike is officially over and the WGA membership has
ratified the contract. Now it's time for collective
amnesia, so the writers and producers can all forget how
much they hated each other over the last 3.5 months and get
back to working together, because we need each other.
-- This technically falls into December '07, but it's how
we celebrated the end of 2007 and the beginning of 2008. By
renting Segways and zipping all around the Long Beach
harbor. It was more fun than I had imagined.
If you are in the Los Angeles area, check out Segway of Long Beach.
2007 news highlights:
-- The AMPTP walked out on negotiations again. This is
going to be a long one.
-- Due to the lack of any reasonable discussion between the
AMPTP and the WGA, the writers are now on strike. We're
hoping that the AMPTP will soon be willing to return to the
table to discuss a reasonable contract. At the moment,
AMPTP is not willing to talk, and it appears they are
content with letting the studio system implode on itself as
many mid and lower level studio employees are let go.
Until this is resolved, the writers are not working and
your favorite scripted TV shows will dry up very rapidly.
Here is a picture from Day 1 at the CBS Radford picket
line, on the corner of Radford and Ventura Bl.
Here are some links for more information on the situation:
http://unitedhollywood.blogspot.com/
http://www.deadlinehollywooddaily.com/
Youtube video, "Why We Fight," a
great summary of the current situation along with an
explanation of how residuals work.
And now for some of the less industry-impacting updates
from this year...
-- I just returned from my summer vacation in Montana. It
was Melissa's first trip, Billings, Red Lodge, the
Beartooth Highway drive into Yellowstone National Park,
then Ennis, Virginia City, Nevada City and Bozeman. Gotta
love the Big Sky Country.
-- I'm currently doing some joke punchup work for another
writer's romantic comedy.
-- I am also writing a mini-pilot / 5 minute promo for Big
Picture Production, which the producers will take to Comedy
Central, Spike, FX and other cable channels.
-- In addition to the above projects, I'm currently hard at
work writing a comedy pilot. The topic of the series...
we'll I'll keep that under wrap for now.
-- In February I had my annual pilgrimage to Montana for a
week of snowboarding and breathing clean air. We had a few
great days of snow with more than 18 inches of fresh
powder! I love visiting Montana and the exchange rate to
Montana dollars is really good right now, making food and
drink really cheap! :)
2006 news
highlights:
-- This year I graduated from
Second City's Conservatory Program, a one year intensive
program in improvisation. See clips in the Video section of
this site.
-- I purchased an old Mercedes diesel car and had it
converted to run on vegetable oil. Check out my blog under
the "Veggie Car" section.
-- In February, I survived a -10 high temp in Bozeman. When
the freeze finally lifted and the temp got up to +10, we
were rewarded with 3 feet of fresh pow at Bridger Bowl.
That was the best snowboarding I've seen in the last 5
years!
