David - ProfilesArchive

About Me

I'd like to think I'm truly nice and rather witty; but I only use my wit for good. Gotta be making something. Usually upbeat and hopeful, but a sucker for bitter-sweet stories. I like myself a lot but don't think I'm better than anyone else. Helpful to a fault. Easy to get along with and usually well liked; except for that one dude at that party -- I don't know what his problem was. But rather than get pissed I try hard to find sympathy for anyone who's being mean. I've a collaborative sense of humor and am told my laughter is contagious. I aspire to make movies that turn people's lives around; or at least turn their days around. Maybe help them feel that although life is very messy it's likely to work out okay. I'm the proud parent of the most loveable chicken-shit lab/greyhound/pit mix in all of Willamsburg. Oh, and despite the glasses and living in Williamsburg I really don't think I qualify as a hipster.

Check out our movies at www.professorbright.com

Check out my most famous bizarre side project at www.20kride.com . More than 250,000 visitors so far! Can you believe so many people are into this crap??

My Interests

filmmaking, bright people, art, extracurricular activites, creative projects, human relationships, travel, rock climbing, asia, colorful tins, blowing in dog's ears, robots, toys, steampunk, mysteries of the deep, sexuality, good-natured intellectual debate, cooperative video games, camp fires, my dog Katie !

I'd like to meet:

I really can't ask to be blessed with more fantastic friends than I've already been given, but I'm suppose I'm always open to meeting more inspirational people who are keeping it real, keeping it positive, and doing their own thing. People who really listen and if there's an interruption remember what you were saying. People who make stuff just because, give as much as they get, are genuine, warm, playful, open, laugh easily, and never yell at the wait staff.

Oh, and people who think that, in spite his caller's foibles (and in part because of them), this guy is absolutely brilliant:

Music:

all sorts of eclectic crap

Movies:

Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, Floating Weeds, Antonia's Line, Lost in Translation, Chungking Express, Say Anything, Sideways, Ghost World, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Sense and Sensibility, Goonies, Aliens, Robocop, Amelie, Smoke Signals, The Neverending Story, The Sixth Sense, Yojimbo, Ikiru

Television:

Homestar Runner, Nova, Fronline, Wide Angle, (PBS is the only station I get)

Books:

The Amazing Adventures of Kaliver and Clay, Waiting, The Red Tent, Anna Karenina, Understanding Comics, Blankets, [un]fashion

Heroes:

My Dad for his kind nature, my Mom for her courage in sticking with Planned Parenthood, Yasujiro Ozu, Wes Anderson, Akira Kurosawa, Jacques Cousteau, Osamu Tezuka, Egon Schiele, Morrie Schwartz, Albert Einstein, Ghandi