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A good friend of mine has started doing reviews of some of cinema’s more sleazy digressions. Check it out!

Here is the project that myself and the rest of The Last Quest have been working on for the last three months. We all love doing it and the results have been pretty awesome. Check out all the awesome local Seattle music we use for the soundtracks!

The story of one family’s search for shelter. Pilot story for the upcoming national online storytelling corps America in 5 (www.AmericaIn5.org). This video was produced in seven days by a team of Seattle-based storytellers including a comic artist, an audio producer, a journalist and a filmmaker.

Produced with the generous support of the University of Washington’s MCDM program and Department of Communication.

First shown Friday April 16th at TedxSeattle.

Joy from The Common Language Project on Vimeo.

So back in the spring of 2009 The Last Quest decided to work with The Common Language Project on the International Documentary Film Challenge. This film was conceived and completed over the span of five days at the beginning of March 2009. After screening at the official Doc Challenge screenings the film was submitted to many film festivals. Here is a list of some of the festivals it was selected to play:
The Seattle International Film Festival
DC Shorts
Milwaukee Film Festival
Tacoma Film Festival
BendFilm Festival
Local Sightings

Here is the “logline” for the film:
“As newspapers across the country struggle to stay viable both culturally and fiscally, Seattle’s own Post Intelligencer is slated for closure. ‘It’s in the P-I’ tries to capture the confusion and disappointment of the people who worked the last few days of this 142 year old Seattle institution.”

Be prepared for gory-tree-revenge!

“Treevenge” played at SIFF and was my favorite film from the “Nightmare Factory” program.

Thanks to twitchfilm.net

This is a movie I worked on as a part of the 911 Media team. We got our theme (superstition) and a required detail (taking a pill) at 10pm on a Friday. We had to turn the completed film in at 10pm on Saturday. It was kind of brutal and I’m not sure I’m going to do it again especially with a crew of 16. I ended up being a producer on the movie.

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Here is a film by David O’Reilly. It is the 2009 winner of the Golden Bear award for best short film. It blows my mind… truly.

The marching bands have invaded!

This Saturday the streets of Seattle’s Georgetown neighborhood were covered with people holding instruments, dancing their asses off and confused drunkards whose faces rarely showed a frown. It was like being witness to some great random flash mob. I had no idea what was happening and like great acts of guerrilla theater the audience (myself included) was transfixed. These people had so much energy and joy it was hard to be the usual curmudgeonly old man I have a tendency defaulting to in public situations. Here is some iphone-o-rific videos:

In front of Smarty Pants:

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In an empty lot:

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In the damn street on Airway Drive:

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Here is some madman who figured out how to make his ipod touch a part of the horn section:

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So all the while that this marching band madness was going on The Stevedore was preparing to play at The Mix. They are normally a five person band that played as a four piece for this show. The other member of their band is in Pakastan right now doing international reporting. So they had someone sing his part. She was named Jennifer(?) and she was awesome. Here is some video of the very end of the show:

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This screening is for cast, crew, friends and family.