Sean Messenger

A bit of a random piece; I found some video I shot in Vegas on Sean Messenger's blog:




Check out his blog, it's very insightful.

http://seanmessenger.com/

Confused Director Productions

I created a new youtube account for my old highschool videos.




One day, in twelfth grade, I stumbled into the cafeteria, about an hour after class would have started. My friends, who also should have been in class, were hanging out, eating their breakfasts. I got a coffee, and sat down with them. I stared into the wall. I was unshaven and my eyes were at half-mast. I was wearing the same leather jacket that I wear today.

"Dude, you are such a fucking confused director," pipes in my buddy Chris.
"Huh?" I most likely responded with a bit of a delay.
"I mean... what the fuck is wrong with you? You're a living cliche. You are the quintessetial, absent-minded totally spaced out director. You are a Confused Director."

And then it just stuck. I was the Confused Director. It was my pseudonym. I designed a logo in CorelDraw: C connected to a D surrounded by a Question mark. I used this logo on the resume that got me into Sheridan. I made an e-mail address. I later made an animation of the logo; I still have the corrugated cardboard letters. My productions had a company: "Confused Director Productions"

After years of saying "I'd love to but I don't have the time" I finally buckled down and made a youtube account for Confused Director Productions, as to share the many video gems that were created in highschool and early college. There are many more videos to upload, but there are also many more that will never see the light of day again. Here's to the best of the best (of the decent)


Check out the Confused Director Channel to see more videos!


http://www.youtube.com/user/confusedDirector

Busy, busy, busy.

Yo.

I really, really, really wanted my next blog entry to contain an interesting piece of media, say a song or a video, but nothing has been 'just right'. So instead of delaying further I decided to go ahead and write a new blog entry to let everyone know I'm not dead.

I've been very busy as of late. A lot of this content you'll be able to see either on the offline, my blog, youtuve account, or my soon-to-be bi-weekly video blog.

In addition to corporate stuff (bleh) I'm cutting a short horror called "Behind Closed Doors". When my video blog goes online you'll see an episode all about special effects and behind the scenes on this fun little indy flick. You might even see some secret leaked footage! (I am the editor after all.)

I'm writing three sketch pieces. At least one of them will be funny and worthy enough to survive the rigors of story-editing, shooting and post. That one will be really really good.

My video blog will be epic. I've already shot the the first four episodes, and am in the midst of cutting the second. We discuss everything from coffee to the spice melange, to super worms, to wearing shorts in the month of April. Scattered within the blogs are also little bits of bits that never made it, were cut from other movies, were funny but didn't suit the mood, etc. It's really a great resource to get the inside scoop on EAT OR DIE Productions, The Offline, and related projects. Last, and certainly not least, every episode ends with a JAM SESSION. You'll see jams from myself, Brian Morgan, and fantastic local experimental bands such as Brunch, Sylvia's Taco Salad (feat. Paul S on kit) and The Henchmen of Xenu. You really can't lose. It's a variety show TO THE MAX!!

Tomorrow I'm doing a shoot with anybody who wants to help out. If you live in Burlington or near by and are reading this, get a hold of me and join in. So far almost ten people have said they're coming, but to be honest, although I love my friends dearly, I expect most of them will flake and it will end up being just me Brian and Corey. Who knows what it'll end up being. Whatever it is, even if it just ends up being me by myself, it'll be up on this blog in two weeks.

Peace until then.