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flash

y'all just need to peace the eff out

About Me



a freelance film/video editor with a day job, i most recently finished filming and editing a sing-a-long music video for the filmed by bike festival. other projects include directing/editing a short narrative in super 8, editing a palestinian documentary on health care, and editing an art installation that played at the PDX Film Fest.

my video portfolio: www.redflashfilms.net

My Interests

experimental films, docs, music videos, the color red, the smell of fresh rain on concrete, moonlit hiking, traveling, the beach, sleeping in

I'd like to meet:

art people, film people, people that love Jesus, and anybody else that will hang out with me despite my propensity to eat too many chocolate chip cookies, watch anime, put tuna in my macaroni and cheese, and touch people sensually with the eraser of my mechanical pencil.

Music:

air, architecture in helsinki, aqueduct, band of horses, beck, bloc party, the bird and the bee, blood brothers, brand new, bright eyes, broken spindles, camera obscura, chromeo, cursive, daft punk, electrelane, the faint, fischerspooner, ghostland observatory, the GO! team, the helio sequence, hooverphonic, hot chip, iron & wine, IQU, joanna newsom, juliana theory, the knife, les savy fav, loscil, M83, milemarker, mirah, muse, new order, new pornographers, pinback, pink martini, postal service, psapp, the rapture, ratatat, rilo kiley, silversun pickups, sufjan stevens, tegan and sara, tracy+the plastics, under the influence of giants, the unicorns, the white stripes

Movies:

adaptation, amelie, babel, the darjeeling limited, donnie darko, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, the fifth element, fight club, junebug, little miss sunshine, the long goodbye, lord of the rings, lost in translation, matrix, mononoke hime, mullholland drive, nausicaa, night watch, pan's labyrinth, princess bride, rear window, royal tenenbaums, RUN LOLA RUN, rushmore, the seventh seal, singin' in the rain, vertigo, willy wonka, 28 days later

Television:

not so much. but, i do watch LOST and sometimes the office.

Books:

harold and the purple crayon, stuff by c.s. lewis, dave eggers, jane austen, donald miller, miranda july, the worlds of shannara and midkemia

Heroes:

sailor moon

My Blog

Desperately Unemployed

I'm currently hiring for an open shuttle driver position at work. It's a crappy job where you drive the same small circle all day. But, despite the fact that I actually described the job as tedious in...
Posted by flash on Tue, 07 Oct 2008 05:06:00 PST

How we breathe

Something's been gnawing at the back of my mind for the last month or so. There is an overwhelming sense of approaching, unavoidable change. I feel as though I am about to turn the page on a new chapt...
Posted by flash on Tue, 09 Sep 2008 10:37:00 PST

Restless

I am getting restless. Not for lack of activity, but for its abundant presence. I am creating again. I feel on the edge of doing something real, and I am having a hard time focusing on the things that...
Posted by flash on Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:14:00 PST

Sweaty Goodness

Two happy things in the last 24 hours:   1)   Though pressed by the masses of young gyrating bodies, I almost didn't mind the ponytail in my face or the stench of perspiration so l...
Posted by flash on Thu, 24 Apr 2008 02:40:00 PST

Car Thief

The house was empty and only the soft hum of the computer could be heard mingling with the birds chirping outside. There was much to do, but I slumped back in my chair and let my mind wander. I imagin...
Posted by flash on Thu, 10 Apr 2008 08:38:00 PST

Bicycle Alphabet: Be There!

Woohoo! The Bicycle Alphabet is officially in the Filmed By Bike program for 2008. There were over 100 entries, so we’re pretty happy we are among the 38 that made the cut. Come on out and join ...
Posted by flash on Sun, 16 Mar 2008 02:01:00 PST

under & overwhelmed: LA debrief

I’m back in Portland and I must say it’s good to be home. LA is dirty, expensive, and overpopulated. Coffee is scarce and redbull flows more freely than water. I was offered one probably 4...
Posted by flash on Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:52:00 PST

LA Day 1

-Passed Woody Allen, Jerry Seinfeld and Ray Romano surrounded by photographers.-Police escort for a car scene being shot. Basically a bunch of cameras in the back of an elaborate flat bed truck towing...
Posted by flash on Thu, 06 Mar 2008 09:01:00 PST

bicycle alphabet

And that's a wrap. The bicycle alphabet is officially in the canor mini-dv case I suppose. We've worked our way from axle to zoo bomb in the sun, rain, and snow. Now comes the fun part for me as I fi...
Posted by flash on Mon, 18 Feb 2008 09:00:00 PST

How low would you go?

Okay, so I have this idea for a game show and I'm working on my proposal for all the major networks to fight over. It's a self-mutilation competition of sorts.  Ahh, you are interested now, yes? ...
Posted by flash on Wed, 23 Jan 2008 10:38:00 PST