#2wkfilm (aka Royal Baronial Theatre)

Art Happened Last Night (and it felt good).

 

Paintings: "Robot nuMber 1 - Beginning" & "Building with (my) eXplosions"

"Robot nuMber 1"

"Building with (my) Explosions..."

On the floor where I made them tonight.

Art Manifestation

Breaking News: BP Hires New Spokesman

Crystal Beach Musing 1

"Flowers" - Dharma Disappear to Hole Sequence

Here's an 8.5 minutes sequence from my next feature film "Flowers". My visual inspiration for this film are the works of Andrei Tarkovsky, David Lynch, Fritz Lang, Guy Maddin, and the classic black and white films.  About 30% of the film is now complete: shot and edited.

the block

we are dreamers, you and i,
     standing on a precipice
     looking into the abyss. waiting.

staring into the darkness
     helplessly grasping for light.
     blackness, empty hands.

yet we search still, afraid.
    the sea is foreboding,
    we were not chosen, delusional just.

an eruption burned so (created by another)
    such warmth
    we exploded with desire
    that brimmed fingers, toes,
    and breast,
    and left our silent soul still, for a moment, suspended,

    like an angel.

"Flowers" - Betrayal Scene

Here's a scene from my next feature film "Flowers". My visual inspiration for this film are the works of Andrei Tarkovsky, David Lynch, Fritz Lang, Guy Maddin, and the classic black and white films.  About 25% of the film is now complete: shot and edited. Please let me know if you like it, it really helps me get through the long process. Thanks!

Blowing Your Mind: Curating Tweets for Your Blog

Putting up your twitter stream on a blog is completely worthless. Why? Because some tweets are more important and you want to keep them around, a lot of tweets you really don't want on your blog at all, and tweets are on different subjects so you want to organize them based on topics.

Ready to have your mind blown?

Look at the right sidebar of this blog.

See it? There are featured tweets on the top, tweets organized into sections, and I don't just have just my tweets but tweets from other people too.

How did I do it? I made a TweetBlog on SlapBit which allows you to organize tweets into sections (ie: sections only have tweets from specific people, certain words, and/or limited to a location) and allows you to feature tweets and organize them so that the most important tweets stay on top. Then I put the TweetBlog in the sidebar of my blog.

Sounds like a much better way of putting tweets on your blog, don't you think?

Check out www.slapbit.com and TweetBlogs. Let me know what you think!

Thanks!
-REid

#iAmAnArtist Manifesto

This week seems to be the week of manifesto in Twitter-land as the battle lines of artists, indie filmmakers, distributors, social media pundits, critics, and such are defined, redefined, and bloodied.

The reality is that being an artist, filmmaker, musician, actor, etc can often be a lonely, empty space filled with existential angst and sometimes it REALLY, REALLY helps to know that there are other people out there who get you and appreciate the spark inside that drives you to live, breath, and create.

This is where the #iAmAnArtist Manifesto comes in. If some of the things below ring true please send out a tweet with the #iAmAnArtist hashtag. You can follow this twitter discussion here: http://bit.ly/cCYAr1

Here are some of the things that people throw at filmmakers, actors, musicians, and artists that really, really bother me:

• If you don't do X, Y, and Z you are a hack.
• If you aren't making money then you aren't serious, it is just a hobby.
• If you only do something for yourself without the audience in mind, it isn't worth doing.
• If you don't have the "right" resources, then you shouldn't make a film, art, etc.
• .....

Here is what I believe in because #iAmAnArtist:

• I can create in any way I want and in any form I want, I am an Artist.
• I am passionate about creating and it means a lot to me and defines me, it is not "just a hobby".
• I believe the best way to create is to look inward and express one's own passions and dreams.
• I create by using whatever is available to me, I will not let limitations prevent creation.