Saturday, September 27, 2008


We're going to destroy things! That's Steve showing the ad agency how large our location is for these Nintendo spots. I didn't instruct him to raise his hands, but I think it's a nice touch anyway.

It's great to be back in LA after a really productive week in England. It's almost fall and my jackets and sweaters are beckoning me to come hither from the dark recesses of my closet.

I found this amazing PSA on youtube today. The parents' utter disappointment is especially funny when you consider the likelihood of seeing the exact same reaction at a dinner table conversation years later when their college-aged child announces that he's dropping out of law school to join a band or take up painting. Go arts!

Monday, September 22, 2008


We filmed over 200 sheep today. How awesome is that? 

Friday, September 19, 2008

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Friday was dedicated to location scouting. We spent the day in the English countryside, looking at estates that are older than America. 

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This was a farm from 1066 that's still in use. My producer Camila and I jumped into a grain silo and spent the rest of the afternoon picking what looked like Rice Krispies out of our hair.

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This is the closest I've ever been to a bull. It smelled like what you'd expect.

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These sheep had never seen an American before. 

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Sadly, we won't actually be filming any peacocks.

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Camila went to Cambridge and speaks like, 5 languages. My mispronunciation of British words and phrases amuses her to no end.

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Miles of emptiness...

Thursday, September 18, 2008


The view from my window in... um, an unspecified area of the English countryside? The jatlag is killing me. I'll figure out my exact location when I wake up tomorrow. Our shoot is on Monday, and until then I'm going to spend as much time as possible chasing the manor dog through wheat fields.

Wednesday, September 17, 2008


That's my latest poster print, a mixed media piece called "Please". It's accompanied by a second print called, rather predictably, "Thanks".

Tuesday, September 16, 2008


I couldn't sleep a few night ago, so I rearranged all of my cds by color. It starts brown, turns red, then pink, yellow, green, blue, etc. The picture above only shows the first half. Just below, the white albums fade into grey and then slowly into pure black.

At 4am this seemed like a perfectly logical thing to do, but now I can't remember the spine color of the last UGK album.