Recent content by miketv

JJ Abrams on TEDTalkshttp://blog.ted.com/2008/01/10/jj_abrams/ for the nay-sayers in this thread, pay close attention to the part between 13:45 & 15:13. Then explain to me again how your system isn't exploiting people & holding them back.

I appreciate the distinction, Knightly....I was starting to feel like a target for having the nerve to think differently. Your response is pretty much aligned with my own ideas, but we apparently have different takes on what the ideas mean. I'm still not satisfied. This standard hollywood...

Godfather & Clockwork Orange were both produced from award-winning & culturally-relevant novels. To me, that looks a case of inspiration producing a work of art, another artist interpreting it, & business making money. [Couldn't tell you about Breakin' 2 or Tree of Life....haven't seen them, but...

also, you'll have to proivide a better argument against my film & music comparison than that. If you want to refute it, do it with substance, not just an assertion. Give me something to agree to or refute....something discussable.

Now we're getting somewhere. Which one of these entities (gov't, business, military) do you think produces the best art? The most culturally-relevant? the most challenging? The most entertaining? Efficiency is efficient, but I don't operate under the assumption that it produces good art.

FIFTY people. On set. And you pay some of those people, right? Does it come out on screen? I mean....can you honestly justify that by looking at the a scene on the screen & saying "that took 50 people to shoot"? I haven't seen your films & I'm not judging, but -- unless they're laden with...

nice work

Gotta hand it to ya: you are the king of assumptions, CF. I'm not here to argue, I'm trying to hold a discussion that I feel hasn't been held. I've made movies. 3 minutes, 30 minutes....spontaneous & scripted...I've made good & bad. I've written songs both good & bad. Some of the best movies...

there's another forum I belong to that has a member map....it's completely voluntary & a great community builder. Members with no need for collaboration are constantly meeting up in real life because of it.

At least you were aware of that one. It was actually the 3rd time I wanted to roll my eyes & say "Okay, dad!" in response to your input. :hmm: Let's try to keep the baseless assumptions & personal accusations to a minimum til you know me a little better, k? Sonnyboo -- as JoshL noted (and I...

I love this.

Nigeria. That's where the film scene is. I just watched part of a documentary called Nollywood Babylon. Apparently Nigeria is where people are whipping out movies & selling them for money -to audiences- with no traditional Hollywood-style intervention. The main subject of the film is a director...

thanks for the feedback

I'm falling asleep writing this, but I watched about a minute of yr short & it looks great. I can't wait to wake up & watch the whole thing. Nice work.

short answer: at the time I made it, I had just noticed that most of my recent work was purely synthetic.... not using cameras, existing only in the computer from pre-prod to consumption. It was all incidental....I never intended to work that way, but just that's how my projects were going. So I...