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"We are all angels. It is what we do with our wings that separates us."
- Father Harlan, NORTHFORK
"We all have wings...only some of us don't know why."
- Michael Hutchence / INXS
My latest film work: Production on THE DEAD MATTER wrapped on 1 September. I served as Assistant Director and Unit Production Manager. THE DEAD MATTER is being produced by Midnight Syndicate and P13 Entertainment . THE DEAD MATTER is being directed by Ed Douglas and produced by Gary Jones and Robert Kurtzman. Release date is set for Autumn, 2007.
Line Producer on Frat House Massacre which wrapped production in January, 2007. Released is TBD.
In 2006, I served as UPM (unit production manager) and 2nd 2nd AD (assistant director) on Robert Kurtzman's latest film, THE RAGE
Arbor Ave. Films is my production company.
IMDB - the Internet Movie Database: Here's my ...IMDB entry... .
HORRORS OF WAR A publicity still from HORRORS OF WAR:
"Horrors of War" is an independent feature film I co-wrote and produced. We completed the film in December, 2005, and have been going through the process of releasing the film and gaining distribution worldwide. The film is currently in release in Japan, The Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg. More territories are in the works.
"Horrors of War" was made in a B-movie style, yet with a dramatic grounding and an eye for bigger production values.
Synopsis "Feeling the pressure from Allied advance, Hitler unleashes his secret weapons. HORRORS OF WAR follows a wayward soldier during World War II in the European theatre as the O.S.S. sends him to investigate Hitler's arsenal of experiments.
Misc stuff......
This is a photo I took in Irwin, Ohio, very early one morning in the fall of 2004. Beautiful Ohio.
"When I was a child, I thought as a child,
but when I became a man I put away childish things."
As a friend of mine said "I've almost been killed too many times to count so I must be invincible."
Favorite poems:
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening - by Robert Frost
THROUGH A GLASS, DARKLY - by Gen. George S. Patton, Jr.
Thanatopsis - by William Cullen Bryant
The Dead Flag Blues Lyrics by Godspeed You Black Emperor
The car's on fire and there's no driver at the wheel
And the sewers are all muddied with a thousand lonely suicides
And a dark wind blows
The government is corrupt
And we're on so many drugs
With the radio on and the curtains drawn
We're trapped in the belly of this horrible machine
And the machine is bleeding to death
The sun has fallen down
And the billboards are all leering
And the flags are all dead at the top of their poles
It went like this
The buildings tumbled in on themselves
Mothers clutching babies picked through the rubble and pulled out their hair
The skyline was beautiful on fire
All twisted metal stretching upwards
Everything washed in a thin orange haze
I said, "Kiss me, you're beautiful.. These are truly the last days"
You grabbed my hand and we fell into it
Like a daydream or a fever
We woke up one morning and fell a little further down
For sure it's the valley of death
I open up my wallet
And it's full of blood
Auld Lang Syne by Robert Burns (English translation)
Should old acquaintance be forgot,
and never brought to mind?
Should old acquaintance be forgot,
and auld lang syne?
CHORUS:
For auld lang syne, my dear,
for auld lang syne,
we'll take a cup o’ kindness yet,
for auld lang syne.
And surely you’ll buy your pint cup !
And surely I’ll buy mine !
And we'll take a cup o’ kindness yet,
for auld lang syne.
We two have run about the hills,
and picked the daisies fine;
But we’ve wandered many a weary foot,
since auld lang syne.
CHORUS
We two have paddled in the stream,
from morning sun till dine (dinner time);
But seas between us broad have roared
since auld lang syne.
CHORUS
And there’s a hand my trusty friend!
And give us a hand o’ thine!
And we’ll take a right good-will draught,
for auld lang syne.
CHORUS

My Interests

film... filmmaking... nature... weather... graphic design... architecture... paranormal phenomenon... arcana mundi...

history... WWII... photography... art... storytelling... comics...

I'd like to meet:

Frank Darabont, Clint Eastwood, Steven Spielberg, Roger Waters, Ridley Scott, Tak Fujimoto, Curtis Hanson, Guillermo Del Toro, Alfonso Cuarón, David Lynch, Sting, Thomas Newman, Sigur Ros

Music:

FILM SCORE COMPOSERS
Thomas Newman
Hans Zimmer
Michael Giacchino
film scores

WORDS CAN'T DESCRIBE
Explosions in the Sky Godspeed, You Black Emporer! Sigur Rós Biosphere Global Communication

CONTEMPORARY Moby Coldplay Radiohead Sting The Police Tori Amos Pink Floyd REM White Stripes

THE MAN Johnny Cash

CLASSICAL COMPOSERS
Claude DeBussy
Aaron Jay Kernis
Samuel Barber
Aaron Copland

MUSIC VIDEOS & DIRECTORS
Jonathan GlazerMark Romanek
Michel Gondry
Chris Cunningham
Spike Jones

Movies:


Films I've worked on:
THE RAGE (in post)
FRAT HOUSE MASSACRE (in post)
BUCK SHORT (short film)
THE BAG (short film)
HORRORS OF WAR
FOX AND THE HOUND 2
MADAGASCAR
SHREK 2
SHREK 4-D
SHREK
Steven Spielberg's A.I.
MINORITY REPORT
EVOLUTION
THE MEXICAN
PEOPLE I KNOW
THE DEEP END
VFX tests:
HONG KONG FOOEY, FANTASTIC FOUR
Favorite films include:
The Shawshank Redemption
Children of Men
Pan's Labyrinth
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Au Nous La Liberte
When Harry Met Sally
Blade Runner
L.A. Confidential
O Brother Where Art Thou?
Night of the Living Dead
Moulin Rouge
City of God
The Exorcist
Gattaca
Rules of the Game
Blue Velvet
Alien
Capote
The English Patient
Lost in Translation
Oldboy
Silence of the Lambs
The Sixth Sense
Unbreakable
V for Vendetta
28 Days Later
Batman Begins
Gladiator
40 Year Old Virgin
Brick
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Superman: The Movie
Dawn of the Dead (both versions)
From Dusk Til Dawn
DOCUMENTARIES:
Baraka Visions of Light The Cutting Edge American Nightmare Investigations Into the Invisible World Genghis Blues Step Into Liquid Half Past Autumn: The Life and Works of Gordon Parks Frazetta: Painting with Fire
WAR FILMS:
The Thin Red Line
The Big Red One
Saving Private Ryan
Cross of Iron
Full Metal Jacket
not to mention... HORRORS OF WAR

Television:


Twilight Zone (original)
Six Feet Under,
Deadwood,
LOST,
Rome,
Battlestar Galactica (new)
Grey's Anatomy,
Discovery Channel,
History Channel

Books:

In the Blink of an Eye (Walter Murch)
The Declaration of Independent Filmmaking (Mark Polish, Michael Polish, Jonathan Sheldon)
Story (Robert McKee)
California Sorcery
Slippage (Harlan Ellison)
I Am Legend (Richard Matheson)

Heroes:

dad
martin luther king jr.
rod serling
nicola tesla
batman
leonides

So live, that when thy summons comes to join
The innumerable caravan, that moves
To the pale realms of shade, where each shall take
His chamber in the silent halls of death,
Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night,
Scourged to his dungeon, but sustain'd and sooth'd
By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave,
Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch
About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams."
--from "Thanatopsis" by Wm. Cullen Bryant

My Blog

New Photo Series "Abandoned"

Some images I took in 2005 while scouting locations for "Horrors of War.""Abandoned 0""Abandoned 1""Abandoned 2""Abandoned 3""Abandoned 4""Abandoned 5"Arbor Ave. Films...
Posted by philmmaker on Wed, 20 Sep 2006 07:24:00 PST

About those Arbor Ave. Films Photographs

A lot of people have asked me about the photographs used for the Arbor Ave. Films logo and on the Arbor Ave. Films web site.The images were taken on 19 September, 2004 when I was on an early morning d...
Posted by philmmaker on Mon, 18 Sep 2006 05:23:00 PST

Some of my favorite lyrics

Danny Boy Oh Danny boy, the pipes, the pipes are callingFrom glen to glen, and down the mountain sideThe summer's gone, and all the flowers are dying'Tis you, 'tis you must go and I must bide.But come...
Posted by philmmaker on Tue, 12 Sep 2006 11:58:00 PST

Movies Watched Log, UPDATED 2006 09 12

Geez.... haven't updated my blog in months, let alone my Movies Watched log.  So, here we go... HOLLYWOODLAND - It appears director Allen Coulter (Six Feet Under) watched "L.A. Confidential" a hu...
Posted by philmmaker on Tue, 12 Sep 2006 11:34:00 PST

What's new, Pussycat? (logged 2006 07 31)

Busy times.  Trying to get a lot done this week, including wrapping up a location scout for a VW photo shoot, a DVD project, and paperwork for the domestic release of HOW.  The film has been...
Posted by philmmaker on Mon, 31 Jul 2006 10:26:00 PST

Movies Watched Log, UPDATED 2006 03 01

Films FRAZETTA: PAINTING WITH FIRE - Excellent documentary on the artist Frank Frazetta. CURIOUS GEORGE - Took Hayden to see this and he absolutely loved it.  Know how I know?  He sat still ...
Posted by philmmaker on Wed, 01 Mar 2006 07:12:00 PST

What's in The Bag (logged 2006 03 01)

Updates, updates, updates. What's in The Bag?Well, it's a good question, but in order to understand the question, you would have to see The Bag, a new short film by writer/director C. Alec Rossel.&nbs...
Posted by philmmaker on Wed, 01 Mar 2006 06:45:00 PST

All good things...(logged 2006_01_20)

Ok, lots to write.  Just got home from a screening of THE NOTORIOUS BETTY PAGE, introduced by Christine Vachon of Killer Films, with a Q&A after.   Good stuff.   The film ...
Posted by philmmaker on Sat, 21 Jan 2006 09:05:00 PST

Latenight Lunacy (logged 2005 12 19)

Not sure why, but I find this funny. Well, sort of. Spider-Man will make you gay.
Posted by philmmaker on Mon, 19 Dec 2005 10:34:00 PST

"It's been a while..." (logged 2005 12 14)

It's been a while since I've posted.  Between finishing HORRORS OF WAR, beginning to freelance, wrapping up teaching this quarter at OSU, and prepping for the holidays, I've been a little busy. S...
Posted by philmmaker on Wed, 14 Dec 2005 09:29:00 PST