| Production updates! Mfish media overhaul in progress! | October 2, 2008 |
It's October! Yay!! Lemme bring you up to speed. I hooked up with local Boston rock band Aloud to produce a multimedia rock concert this coming November. They wanted to create film segments for each song on their new album "Fan the Fury", the entirety of which will be the show's setlist. I'm creating animation and film segments for about half the songs and I've got other animators working on most of the others. I'm still trying to find more artists, but I'm sure it will work out.
"I JUST WANT TO WITNESS..."
featuring the music of Aloud
and film work by Johnathan Carr
and friends (TBA)
Tuesday, November 18th, 2008 at 8:00pm
Cafe 939 at Berklee
939 Boylston Street, Boston, MA
I'm also planning to attend screenwriting guru Robert McKee's Genre Weekend writing seminar in New York City in a couple weeks. I took his Story Seminar back in 2000 and loved it! Very inspirational, I can't wait.
Omar and I are ramping up pre-pro for "Steamhander" which we intend to shoot late November/early December. So between that, the Aloud concert, and a bunch of random media work I'm doing for friends, I've got my hands full until Christmas. But in the few cracks of time I do have I am planning a massive overhaul of all the movies and media on my website. Just you wait...
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| Human piano assembles in Worcester! Ghosts on YouTube! | August 1, 2008 |
Oh yes, a tremendous couple of weeks of preproduction, and an amazing weekend of filming the Gabe Dixon Band "Till You're Gone" music video. I was in charge of the 45 extras we had on that day who had to form a row of human-sized piano keys. I also plotted the entire song note-for-note as it was played and would be filmed in stop-motion, frame-by-frame. It was awesome. I'll have a pix link soon to show you some behind-the-scenes stuff.
Also, my music video for Nine Inch Nails' Ghosts Film Festival was approved for their group on YouTube. Does that mean Mr. Reznor himself has seen my work? Hmmm... I don't know. But you can see it right here. The quality isn't perfect so I am planning on uploading an mov file on my site soon for download.
I'll have that available along with a few other updates to the site very shortly. It's been a long couple of months and now things seem to be winding down a little. Good thing? Hmmm...
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| Nine Inch Nails "Ghosts" video pre-pro! Updates soon! | June 6, 2008 |
Hey everybody! I'm in the preproduction phase of my music video for Nine Inch Nails' Ghosts Film Festival on YouTube. I'm choregraphing a dance piece with my good friend, Olivia Rizzo, for the "Ghosts" track and soon I'll be scouting some locale for the shoot. It's going to rock!
Also, Zhura and Improv Asylum have teamed up once again to produce a second "You Wrote It, Live" show, a live sketch comedy show written entirely by YOU!
Go to their site for more info!
Still waiting on Omar to get done with his Shakespeare stuff to start "Steamhander" - can't wait for that!
And congratulations to my good friend, Arika, for graduating from Harvard Graduate School of Education!! So proud of you!!
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| "You Wrote It Live" April 12th! Projects on the horizon! | April 10, 2008 |
So lots of stuff just around the corner, people. Don't think that just because I've got this job now, that I'm not constantly making movies in my sleep! (that didn't sound right) I've got two video challenges I'm very excited about, Paolo Coelho's Witch of Portobello and Nine Inch Nails' Ghosts as well as a few other videos on the back burner.
Comfortable with the story outline we've concocted, Myssi and I have finally started the episode writing of my top secret radio drama.
And in other news... Zhura and Improv Asylum have teamed up to produce "You Wrote It, Live" a live sketch comedy show written entirely by YOU!
"You Wrote It, Live"
Saturday, April 12th at 12 MIDNIGHT
at Improv Asylum in the North End
216 Hanover Street, Boston, MA
FREE ADMISSION!! CASH BAR!!
And I'll be there filming the whole show!
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| New camera finally here! Mfish lands job at Zhura! | February 9, 2008 |
Wow, lots to catch up on.
The new camera has arrived! That is to say, it arrive-d and then went away again and then came back! Let me explain. I got a brand new DVX-100 from New York just in time to shoot Second Shift performing at Arisia 2008 an episode of their radio drama. I started filming the rehearsal and ZOP!! the camera conked out. "F#@K," I thought, "Not again." But I sent the defective camera back to New York and they sent me a new brand new one lickity split. And I have a good feeling this one is healthy.
I was going to be filming a movie with Omar, but he's really really busy with his new Shakespeare Now troupe so I don't know how likely that will be.
I've submitted a preliminary letter of inquiry to the LEF Foundation for a grant to make my new documentary about rescue robots. But I'm having trouble staying in touch with my robo contact. So that is a little frustrating.
In the meantime, I've got two other projects that are looking good. My friend Chris Hallock approached me with a short film project he wants to do and I am thrilled. More on that later...
I've also started writing my top secret radio drama miniseries with my good friend, Myssi Cerebi. This will be awesome.
And I've started a new job! Go to Zhura.com to learn more about that.
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