DVD bonus material.
July 26, 2010
Dear reader, not sure if you knew this or not but I recently shot and produced a web series called The Steps with actor Dylan Kussman (Dead Poets Society, Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken).
We've been working on it for 19 months with. We finished Season One (10 episodes) last week.
And LAST night we filmed some interviews of Dylan and I talking about how we made the show. These interviews will be on the DVD which should be available in September.
I was a little nervous about the interview because I often have trouble expressing what I'm really trying to say when the camera is rolling.
But last night I felt really comfortable and I think you will like hearing the stories about me figuring out how to film a web series.
Some of the questions included:
1. How did you get involved in this project and what was your role?
2. What kind of camera did you shoot the series on?
3. What was your favorite scene to shoot?
4. How did you write the theme song with Dylan?
5. Are you happy with the way the series turned out?
You will be able to order the DVD online (in September, 2010) on http://watchthesteps.com.
The Day I Turned 28.
July 23, 2010
It's been over a year and a half since I wrote a song. That is depressing as an artist. So when a song landed in my lap Friday morning as I drove to work with a coffee in my hand, I was flipping out. I even considered not going to work at all so I could finish this idea in my head. I ended up fleshing it out on my lunch break. No guitar in hand ... but I knew I had something good. *I will upload an MP3 when it's complete.To capture the general idea, I sang the melody into an audio recorded app on my Droid (called Rehearsal Assistant). By the way this is a great app for recording song ideas on the go. Check out the screen shot below.
The Day Before My 28th Birthday
July 22, 2010
I told myself I would wear this bracelet till it fell apart. I remember thinking several years ago " when this thing falls off I have a feeling it will be at a significant time in my life." Well the day before my birthday I woke up and it was gone. Later I found it buried in the sheets. That same day Mia gave me a birthday present. It was a beautiful oil painting of an eagle feather laid over an Ojibwa beed design very similar to the bracelet which was hand-made in 2005 in Ontario, Canada.
