Octoberfest

Word up.

For the interests of anyone who saw 6 hours away, either at this summer's Drop Your Shorts festival, or on DVD: Graham and I are working together again on a new film, to be shot next year. All other details are secret. Mainly because I don't even know them yet myself.

Drop your shorts is coming up again this month, and I will be submitting something perhaps the newest LumberJerks bit, which will also be available on theoffline.com by Sunday night. This newest one is by far the shortest, but funnily enough, took the longest for me to work on. Those assholes out in BC (I know you're reading this!) sent me an 8mm film reel, and I had to, surprisingly for the first time in my life, go and get it transfered to DV.

Corey Stevens, Ben Cooper and myself shot a little short recently. It's a little... risky. And by that I don't mean subject matter, but rather process. It might just be a giant, self-indulgent turd, or it will be a very clever, simple and fun piece. Updates on that as they come.

Paul and I are putting together a very epic short film about... internet memes.

That's all for now. Enjoy the video Corey and I submitted for the Halton Skills Competition when we were 17. SPECIAL NOTE: OUR VIDEO GOT THIRD PLACE. TAYLOR NORRIS' VIDEO LANDED FOURTH.




Cheers.

Naked City - Speedfreaks

The LumberJerks Trailer is out if you haven't seen it yet, check it out @ theoffline.com

A new episode is coming up this weekend, and another one two weeks after that.

I'm also working on putting together a new weekly show, hopefully I'll be shooting that with Ben Cooper.

The Say Anything interview I mentioned earlier is about to go up as well.

On to talks about music:

I've been listening to John Zorn since I was in highschool, but lately, I've been really into it. Here's a great Naked City song; it's been one of my favorite Zorn compositions for years.

LumberJerks - COMING SOON

Bill the Manager acting cool. lol.


Alright dudes, duds and dads.

Soon on the offline.com we'll introduce a new show. It's not so much of a show as it is a compilation of content, all produced by LumberJerk Film Co.

The LumberJerks are a film collective from some small logging town in BC, and "LumberJerks" will feature their content as it arrives to us in the mail. (They don't have regular enough access to the internet to use ftp) They make shorts, trailers, documentaries, and whatever else. Basically it's some goofy shit, and we're always happy to include other work from people who show promise, energy, and grassroots attitude.

I'm currently working on setting up the php and xhtml to get their material connected into the site, but it's a steep learning curve for me; it's been about five years since I've done any coding, and that was java and C++!!

Anyway, peace out and check theoffline.com often; we're about to explode with a whole bunch of sticky content!!

Behind My Eyes - Trailer

Here's a trailer to a movie I shot earlier this year.

Behind my eyes teaser trailer



edit: New video. (myspaceTV instead of youtube)

RIP RUSTY: We love you.

It's been nearly two months since I've updated my blog! Mister or Misses (I assume that I have one regular reader, and that they are at least a man or a woman) I am greatly apologetic.

First order of news, until the next blog (c'mon just being realistic here): RIP RUSTY



RUSTY CHEWBUGS BAXTER: (other known aliases: Roostor, Pusty, Russ, dog) Tuesday August 5th, a day that will live in infamy for the Baxter family, and for others as well Although for the others it'll live in infamy in the same way that Pearl Harbour does... I mean, can you actually off the top of your head tell me what day of the year the Japonese attacked? It's okay, I don't expect you to remember Rusty's death day. Err.... Moving on.

Anyway, he was a wicked bad ass and slightly wimpy dog. I loved him. He died 12 years old, an average age for a dog of his size to die. Earlier this year he had a terrible skin condition where he lost a lot of his hair. When the condition passed, his hair re-grew as richly coloured as it was when he was a puppy. It really was amazing. At the same time though his lungs and heart were getting worse. On Monday the 4th, him and I went through our regular 2am routine of me coaxing him out of my room so he doesn't wake me up four hours later. The next morning my sister and I woke up to the sound of Rusty trying really hard to keep his breath. We drove to the emergency animal hospital, and he died in my arms on the way. I experienced it shit, piss, death slobber and all. I hand my hand on his heart when it stopped beating.

My sister is really strong for being able to drive and get us to the hospital despite her dog dieing right beside her.

Here is the last photo of him ever taken, by mister Ben Cooper:



I stay up late most nights. Every time I get up to go to the restroom or get a snack, I open the door to the dark hallway and am surprised to not see rusty waiting outside of my door, trying to get in my room to sleep at the foot of my bed.

Leave comments for rusty; I heard canine spirits can access the internet.

Late June Update

List of things:

- LUMBERJERKS the first two of many LumberJerks segments are finished, and waiting on a few minor technical delays before they'll be up on the site. If you haven't heard of this series yet, let me tell you it's HYPE. One of the bits is a trailer, and the other is an old silent film that was found in some old case with a projector in an attic.

- THRICE. An interview with them. Expect one.

- SAY ANYTHING. An interview with them. Expect one of those, as well.

- VIDEO BLOGS. I've been having formatting issues with my blogs. Really it's not a big deal, but I have picky (ie: detrimental) standards. I'm re-rendering them all and re-uploading them. So episode 1 will be back, and episode 5 will be done as well (Oh wait, you didn't know about episode 4?)

- A WALK THROUGH THE ALLEY. Remember that old short that featured Brian Morgan falling in love with a bowling ball? We're re-shooting it the second I get back from NY.

- NEW YORK FUCKIN CITY I'm going to NY tomorrow morning. I will be there for a week. Perhaps some of this will manifest in interesting video content.

- BEHIND CLOSED DOORS a surreal horror short that I cut is wrapping up post production, and will be screened, many times, in many places, in the near future. Check out my video blog, episode 3 to see behind the scenes stuff.

- 6 HOURS AWAY I shot a short directed and produced produced by Graham Sheppard and Vanessa Jung. It is also wrapping up post, so stay tuned. It's pretty much some of the best DV footage I've ever shot. I'll post info on screenings as it wraps up.

- BEHIND MY EYES I wasn't going to mention this one because it's still in early post, but I shot a cerebral horror for Bob Barrow, and damn, I hate to toot my own horn, but it looks sexy. Well, as sexy as a shirtless man pulling his own teeth out can be, anyway. Again, I'll post links/screening dates when I can, but just hold tight since it's so early in post. Fellow OFFLINER Steve Leck is rumored to be editing it...

That's all. It's 3am and I start driving at 9:30 am. I should start packing, shouldn't I?

A Bridge on the River Que

A bridge on the River Que is now on youtube, on the theoffline account.



For some reason lately youtube has been having trouble recongnizing 16:9 video. I'm going to delete and re-upload my blogs as 4:3 with 16:9 tags, as well as adding episode five. w00ters. That'll be a fun four hours.