Well, a little over a handful, actually; director Andrew Cymek has been diligently tweeting pics from "Dark Rising 2", pretty much the day of the shoot (one of the many benefits of shooting RED). If you haven't had a chance to look at them, check it out on yfrog. Here are a few of my faves:    Read Full Story

Awhile ago, I removed a lot if the old crap that I'd done on other people's projects that was cluttering these pages: production stills and storyboards and ancient concept art and sketches. There just didn't seem to be a place for them once I reorganized everything here (I guess I'm a bit anal in that respect). Well, it turns out one or two people enjoyed looking at some of that stuff, so I've caved and set up a new subsection of this site called "Old Junk" which is kind if a grab bag of stuf... Read Full Story

Awhile ago, I removed a lot if the old crap that I'd done on other people's projects that was cluttering these pages: production stills and storyboards and ancient concept art and sketches. There just didn't seem to be a place for them once I reorganized everything here (I guess I'm a bit anal in that respect). Well, it turns out one or two people enjoyed looking at some of that stuff, so I've caved and set up a new subsection of this site called "Old Junk" which is kind if a grab bag of stuf... Read Full Story

Apologies, one and all, for the lack of updates. Looking at these pages, you'd think, based on my previous post, that I was so upset about Roman Polanski's arrest in Switzerland, that I went into hiding. Far from it. I am alive and well (despite roaming clouds of H1N1 paranoia) in North Bay (in chilly Northern Ontario, Canada) helping out where I can on the low budget production "Dark Rising 2". Written and directed (and starring and shot and to be edited by) the spookily talented Andrew Cyme... Read Full Story

Apologies, one and all, for the lack of updates. Looking at these pages, you'd think, based on my previous post, that I was so upset about Roman Polanski's arrest in Switzerland, that I went into hiding. Far from it. I am alive and well (despite roaming clouds of H1N1 paranoia) in North Bay (in chilly Northern Ontario, Canada) helping out where I can on the low budget production "Dark Rising 2". Written and directed (and starring and shot and to be edited by) the spookily talented Andrew Cyme... Read Full Story

Trouble never seems to end for poor Roman Polanski. The director of "The Pianist", "Chinatown" and "Rosemary's Baby" (among many others) was arrested by Swiss authorities at the airport yesterday while in town to accept and award at the Zurich Film Festival. He now faces possible extradition to the U.S. for charges involving his flight from the country in 1978 following charges (and a guilty plea) of sex with a minor.  Polanski recently made a formal request to have the case dismissed ba... Read Full Story

Trouble never seems to end for poor Roman Polanski. The director of "The Pianist", "Chinatown" and "Rosemary's Baby" (among many others) was arrested by Swiss authorities at the airport yesterday while in town to accept and award at the Zurich Film Festival. He now faces possible extradition to the U.S. for charges involving his flight from the country in 1978 following charges (and a guilty plea) of sex with a minor.  Polanski recently made a formal request to have the case dismissed ba... Read Full Story

I like a good mystery as much as the next guy, but this comic, from a 1960 issue of a Dell publication called "1000 Jokes"* (yeah, I do some pretty strange things with my spare time) has me completely flummoxed. I'm serious, I've been looking at this thing for days and I can't make and sense of it: Does it have something to do with the fact that a lot of people are smoking during the intermission? Is that funny? Does it have to do with the fact that there's a naked woman standing outside smo... Read Full Story

I like a good mystery as much as the next guy, but this comic, from a 1960 issue of a Dell publication called "1000 Jokes"* (yeah, I do some pretty strange things with my spare time) has me completely flummoxed. I'm serious, I've been looking at this thing for days and I can't make and sense of it: Does it have something to do with the fact that a lot of people are smoking during the intermission? Is that funny? Does it have to do with the fact that there's a naked woman standing outside smo... Read Full Story

Merrel Davis over on his Uncompleted Works blog (@UncompletedWork on Twitter if you're so inclined), stumbled across a pretty devious scam on Craigslist directed squarely at would-be screenwriters that's worth reading (and watching out for, if you actually feel like turning to Craigslist to sell your writing, which is foolhardy to say the least).  The basic plot, so to speak, is that they want to setup this "ghostwriting team" who will take their treatment "and transform it into an ... Read Full Story