I was in 8th grade when I made my first film. it was a class project about suicide prevention. instead of writing a long paper I asked the teacher if I could make a short film instead. he agreed. needless to say I made a mockery of the project by showing ways kids are committing suicide by demonstrating on a wooden doll I created. I threw it off a bridge, dropped cement blocks on it’s head, and the grand finale, my friend and I shooting the shit out of it with 12 guage shotguns. my father helped film that segment.

I edited the clips together with a camcorder (borrowed) plugged into my fathers VCR. I had no idea what I was doing. in my head I figured I would play the raw footage and hit record on the VHS player. unfortunately the record button had a 1 second delay so to get perfect edits was impossible.. and if I made a mistake on an edit 2 minutes in the film, I had to start over again. major pain. but after numerous attempts I finally got an end product. then I found the second audio feature on the VHS player. this thing was high tech in it’s day. it had a feature where I could play music behind footage. you couldn’t mix it, but this meant I could take my fathers old vinyl and put a soundtrack to some of the scenes. thus my first montage attempts.

I played bob Dylan’s ‘like a rolling stone’ over the credits at the end with outtakes that didn’t make the film. naturally, ’suicide is painless’ opened the film. I think the end product was about 10 minutes which is long if you ever tried making a movie.

when the credits rolled, which were written on butcher paper with a sharpie, the class went crazy and clapped loudly. my teacher was impressed and I got an ‘A’ on the project. I thought Igot over on him because I had fun filming and editing the whole thing.

since then I’ve created a few more films including the high school freshman orientation video. you can see my latest films which are my father, brother and I golfing. I’d put the link here but I can’t cause I’m writing this via my iPhone.

short golfing video i put together last summer with my father and brother.

let’s start with my lineup. peyton manning, no brainer. I got larry johnson and selvin young as my running backs. santonio holmes and jabar gaffney are my wideouts today (plaxico played on Thursday, 13 points!). vernon Davis at the TE with the bills defense and jeff reed of the steelers as my kicker. I’m feeling good, also have one of the highest previews in the league.

mine, and many other men and women’s Sundays are ruined for the next 16 weeks. needless to say, I’m stoked! I let you know how I did later, if I can even write.

“and how bout the janitor who told me i never go no where, this one’s goin out to you but i really don’t care.”

sort of like this blog.

my next door neighbor and i vchatting