February 2012
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Gavrais putting out some awesome visuals and... →
January 2012
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Kalen blogs now.: Some Notes On Dating An Artist →
thatfilmdudekalen:
Dating an artist, you learn a lot of weird things. Artists spend an obscene amount of time observing, and you’ll inevitably absorb some bizarre facts. Shrooms improve long-term mental health, they’ll tell you. Photic sneeze reflex is recessive. You’ll begin to make a list of every sentence they…
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Please follow this link. A good friend of mine... →
“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that...”
– The Road Not Taken (via roadmovies)
One of my favorite poems. Somehow something so cliche (the idea of a fork in the road of life) makes the most sense to me in this context and seems less cliche.
Interviewer: I have to be honest with you. A while ago when I heard about your way of doing business, for filmmaking and doing so many takes, I sort of questioned it. But the more I’ve learned about the art of the industry, you have a very rare luxury of having the time to do this many takes and the way you describe your editing process, I don’t think you could do it with only four takes.
David Fincher: Well, I’ll go you one further which is… “What the fuck are you doing?” If you’re flying out actors from all over the fucking place, because they’re the right person to read that text, and you’re spending weeks with them in rehearsal, and then you get there and you’re going, “OK, trained monkey, do that thing.” How unbelievably disrespectful is it to everybody’s time? I look at it this way. There are a lot of directors who like having a Technocrane on the truck. So if they decide they want to do a crane shot, Technocrane’s there. OK, well, Technocrane’s fucking $3,000 a day. So, if you don’t have that, you can go another 15 or 20 minutes right before lunch in order to allow for that person to do something better. So I look at it as, I’ll always trade helicopter shots, steadicams, and that stuff in order to have the time to let somebody fail upward. To let somebody… they know what they’re doing, they’ve figured out who their character is. They’re coming from a solid place of contributing, and now you want to get them to a point where they are no longer thinking about, “Which hand is it? I didn’t pick up the thing…” It’s like, you do something 16 times, you can do it in your fucking sleep. Now, once you can do it in your sleep, now let’s get the words to come out of your mouth like it’s the first time you said it and you always talk like this. That’s what we were doing. So you sit there and you go, “Couldn’t the Winklevosses’ attorneys’ conference room be more marble, more carved wood?” Yea, it can be a much more elaborate thing. Does it need to be? No. Would I rather have eight days in there to shoot that stuff than six days? So if I take some of the elaborateness out and I don’t relight as much, and if I take some of the green screen stuff that I wanted to see out the windows of San Francisco and I take that out of my budget. I go, “OK, the windows can be blown out and just be a glow outside because that’s often what it looks like when you try to balance exposure for the real world to the real outside world.” Am I OK with that? Does it get me two more days with Andrew Garfield? Yea. OK, well, I’d rather have two more days with Andrew Garfield. I’d rather give him nine more bites at the apple on every setup.
December 2011
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Two commercials I worked on that I LOVE- gonna try... →
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abbey road live crossing webcam. I posted this a... →
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Intern blog post...
Time for another edition of Keaton rants!
Today’s topic, how we are all essentially pretentious a-holes.
ENJOY-
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Pretension is a wonderful thing (Image of me)
Pretension- 1. A specious allegation; a pretext. 2. A claim to something, such as a privilege or right. See Synonyms at claim. 3. The advancing of a claim....
Pretentious
We are all pretentious art-types arent we?
November 2011
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This is the latest song I recorded, its a little... →
Deep into whatever this is… | KTFE Weird...
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Question for everyone...
I’m moving out soon, and I got some awesome advice from our 1st AD yesterday. He’s a vet.
He said that this winter will decide if I have the chops to make it in the industry (due to the fact that it slumps from december to mid february) He said if I can come back and still love the work as much, its meant to be. I am wildly driven to become artistically, financially successful in this...
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I would like to meet the man who picthed the Chuck... →
October 2011
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you know when you just find those things? I have... →
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My mind has been blown by some awesome lighting... →
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This my friends, is a good example (not great) of... →
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Pioneers! O Pioneers! (A Call To Arms)
Well, its time for another blog post. This is once again written for my 6th semester blog in which we have to talk about our internships. Im never able to write just about the day to day happenings, so heres another one thats maybe too introspective for the situation.
Remember, this is opinion based, so please dont respond with some obvious point about how film will never die. I know that. Anyone...
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starting an exercise habit... →
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“To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering, one must not love. But then, one...”
– Woody Allen - Love and Death (but I think its derived from a Russian philosopher)
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Watchpenisdetective:
exorpissed:
This is the funniest video I have ever seen
it hurts to laugh
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Sooo
For my class I have to write a monthly blog about my internship (not on tumblr, I copied this over from the original blog) I like my first post… I hope you do too
FIRSTLY
Let’s see… what superlatives can I use to describe my time so far at Partners Film…
Wild, Crazy, Fun…
Theres some more…Tired, Hungry…
Out of those five I’ll stick with the...
Hey, dont forget to check out my website. I do... →
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September 2011
42 posts
thatfilmdudekalen:
I just witnessed a bird get zapped on a power line and die. There was nothing I could do. Damn, that really puts shit into perspective. This bird must have had goals & dreams and now he or she will never fulfill them. Act now people. You may get zapped tomorrow.
yes, and these goals included;
eat
poop on that guys car
eat
poop
poop
fly
fly into a window
pondering...