Hey everyone not a lot of time for me to talk busy on working on things for finals that are coming up. No time to plan out a proper episode (I apologize for last week) so Im showing you guys my final project in my video strategies and tactics class. Now For the assignment we had to film the same narrative useing short cuts in one version long cuts in the other, and then the narrative with out any cuts.
Not my best work but Im quite proud with how it turned out considering the constraints. You should have seen my original idea it was pretty sweet, Super-heroes that teleport, but I digress.
Next Week I have a special episode planed out for you guys. I really hope you all tune in again next week.
Once again if you have any questions or comments feel free to email me at bsweichsel@mac.com.
Hey everyone sorry about the lateness of the episode being in college and finals and all. Busy as you can Imagine main topic in this episode is Iron Man having a open source villain and my thoughts on open source
Im sorry if anyone doesn’t like my thoughts but I would love to talk to you about it so email me bsweichsel@mac.com
Also want to shot off my most recent 2D class project. Let me know what you think.
Been doing alot of thinking about what art is, what it’s not (this I blame on my writing teacher), and honestly I can’t figure it out. It’s a question that I don’t like to think about to much because the more you think about it the more everything is art and nothing is art. Stupid I know but thats what happens. Personally if someone’s heart is in it and its true to them. It’s art regardless of what anyone else thinks.
Went on a movie buying spree over the weekend and picked up 5 movies. Jarhead, Black Hawk Down, The Machinist, Ong Bak, and Into the Wild. Now Into the Wild that movie was amazing you might remember it from the awards season where it was nominated for best film editing and supporting actor (Hal Holbrook). This movie was a interesting take on that sort of mentality it really doesn’t have a name even though people have tried to name it, Wanderlust, Luddite, Anarcho-Primitivism, but really it doesn’t have a name. If you get it you get it if you don’t you don’t. I’ve mentioned it in the podcast before that I’m a eagle scout, but what I’m equally proud of is that I did Philmont.
Philmont is a scout ranch out in New Mexico near the colorado border. Out there you do what is called a trek, 2 weeks out in the wilderness backpacking carrying everything you need. Amazing experience if your a boy scout or young enough to become a boy scout, become a boy scout and go to Philmont it’s a experience you will remember it for the rest of your life. Stuff like that I love to do. Every summer I try to do something like that at least once. Sometimes it’s canoeing for a week down a river, backpacking the white mountains, or this year road trip on my motorcycle (check out this week’s podcast for more info on that.) I think it’s important to keep everything in perspective with the real world and by real world I don’t mean the city or your job or what have you. I am talking about just the natural world.
I’ve given some thought to doing something like what chris did in the movie not for 2 years but more like a summer. I’ve thought about being a hobo and riding the rails out west. Will I ever do it? Who knows but what’s more likely is that I’ll work out at Philmont next summer
I am privileged to bring you all a IN PERSON interview with Seth Harwood the author of Jack Wakes up, Jack Palms 2- This is Life, Jack Palms 3, and The Short story series, Long Way from Disney.
I was lucky enough to meet up with Harwood while he was in Philly and he was generous enough to give me some of his time out of his busy schedule to sit down with me and let me interview him.
So thanks again Harwood your the man!
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Im really busy getting my new apartment set up and squared away. Not to mention some personal stuff that I would rather go into. But I do have two things for you all to look at
Box Social is a new TV series being shot here at Uarts and let me tell you it’s a mind fuck to be sure. Not gonna say much more but here’s a preview of the next podcast.
Sorry guys for no blog post’s this week been a very busy week and very dramatic one. But I do have a surprise for all of you. It comes in the form of a podcast novelist. Which one? You’ll have to wait to find out.
Hey everybody this is a treat for all of you a full length interview with actor and writer Tim Coyne. He also host’s the Hollywood Podcast.
In the interview we talk about his college experience. What made him decided to go for a career in acting and moving out to LA. This is a great interview for anyone thinking about becomeing a actor and or moving out to LA so send it to your friends.
So had the reading for Self Divided by Self. If your new to the show/blog I’ll go over it again. Considering that I think most of you might not know the story its not problem Hell I love to hear my self talk/write I wouldn’t be doing this anyway.
Self Divided by Self is a script I wrote way back in the summer of 2006 with the intention of shooting it in the spring/winter of 2007. Well that did happen sort of, Due to things beyond my control I was unable to shoot the the final scene and a scene in the middle so it never got finished having a half finished film all ways bugged me so I decided to try and re-write the script and 56 pages 2 endings later. I have this new script and I’m Planning on making it into film (shot on video cause Im poor) in may once school ends.
So If you follow me on my twitter feed (which you should its all sorts of fun) you know I’ve been racking my brain trying to get this thing edited. Well finally got it edited the night before the reading. Now if you don’t know why I would have a reading, it’s to make sure that it all works when it comes out on paper and people finally start reading it. Well me and my roommate Tyler got up early to get coffee and doughnuts for anyone that came. Cause if your willing to come and help me out since I can’t pay you I will feed and give you drinks. Also to make copies of the script. We get to the place and it starts to look rough. Animation majors have pretty much the same thing we do and not that I have anything against animation majors but they all seem to have a interesting quirk about them that seems to rub actors/actress the wrong way.
so we ended up only having one other guy and 2 girls show up. Which turns out is the minimum you need for a reading of Self/Self so that worked out. We read the script. Which has a lot more grammar issues and punctuation then I thought it did. Not to mention some just shitty word choices on my part.
In essence I got my ass handed to me.
I loved it. Thats the whole point of college isn’t it? To get your ass handed to you so that when you get out with your degree that your better then when you came in cause if your not then what was the point?
I may add more to the script due to what some people have said about the plot. Not that anything was bad but it had people wanting more. Have to think about that if that’s what I want or if I should simply keep it that way. Oh the thoughts of a filmmaker.
well until sunday when you guys get a great interview with me and Tim Coyne of the Hollywood Podcast
So I don’t know about you but I know I am a huge Scott Sigler Junkie. His puplisher at crown is offering the book download for 3 days only. So I urge you to download this book as soon as you can and then if you like it go out and buy it april 1st or buy it on amazon on pre-order or on april 1st as well.
Here’s the link to Sigler’s main site and then INFECTED novel’s site
