Post-production on Discouraging Words is getting crazy (in a good way?) because I need to have a screener done by the seventh of May. Here’s where I withdraw into my hole and become an antisocial hermit until the movie is finished, so if you send me an e-mail or Facebook message or the like, don’t expect to necessarily get a reply. Ever. Fair warning—that’s just the way I roll.

Anyway, here are two things that you might find interesting. First, a frame from some news graphics I’m currently rendering out:

And here is an actual scene, presented in its entirety: Continue reading →

No sense in keeping a lid on this anymore… Continue reading →

Many years ago, back when I was first making films with any seriousness, I helped to make a short film entitled RRRR. I did not write it, nor did I direct it. The movie was—quite intentionally—relevant to nothing. The only comment it received on YouTube was “not funny.”

The central (only?) point of the movie was that you couldn’t play the word ‘RRRR’ in Scrabble.

…until this week, when Mattel announced a new version of Scrabble that allows the use of proper nouns. Since RRRR is the title of the film, it is a proper noun and therefore a playable Scrabble word!

I’m so, so sorry.