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[April 19, 2011 | 04:30 pm] |
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More flickr updates from a recent concert I attended:
I'm really starting to like flickr...I resisted digital photography for a while because it seemed like by making printing unnecessary, taking the picture became a dead end, and most digital photos where never even looked at again. I admit this is happening with me (two harddrives full and counting), but having my stuff up on the web makes it feel like passing around a newly printed stack of 4x6's...almost. |
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[March 26, 2011 | 04:10 pm] |
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My flickr page has been getting some action lately from some pictures I took yesterday downtown at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire 100th anniversary memorial parade. Check them out here:
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[March 16, 2011 | 12:20 pm] |
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If I wait any longer to update, it'll be spring! Today is a rainday; everything seems to have stopped because of the drizzle. But I'm happy because I realized yesterday that it was getting very close to the application deadline for the Cannes Residence Cinefondation, so I was able to finish that this morning when I realized I had no plans. That brings this season's screenplay applications to six, the most ever! Rejection letter season doesn't start for another four or five months. |
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[February 22, 2011 | 07:50 pm] |
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The days have now been very short for a long time. There was a bit of warm weather recently, but now it's frigid again and the saddies are in full effect. The only positive thing to come of 4 months of 15-hour nights is that there's plenty of time to write, which is nearly impossible when it's light 18 hours a day and 95 degrees, like it was all last summer.
I have been secretly writing something new, which, along with desperately looking forward to spring, has by now taken up the majority of my winter. It'll be spring in less than a month! |
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[February 13, 2011 | 09:00 pm] |
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Just in case you thought I forgot my own news page's anniversary, I didn't. But...since I've posted so much stuff lately, I have nothing left! Except this picture:
Happy eight years to me! |
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[February 01, 2011 | 11:30 pm] |
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This Friday I had the priviledge of attending the cast and crew screening of Kelvin Bias's first feature, Noctambulous. The event was held at Tribeca Cinemas, in the very same theater where Puzzled played as part of the 2009 Big Apple Film Festival. The theater was packed with the cast, crew, and friends, and seeing the film, which was shot in New York on a very low budget for a feature film, was an amazing experience.
I don't know what the future of this film will be, but I'm excited for Kelvin. It's a huge achievement completing a feature film, and I can't wait to see what happens next!
www.noctambulous.com |
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[January 25, 2011 | 05:20 pm] |
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I am now the proud owner of a Flickr page! Here's the first photo I uploaded:
From now on I'm going to try to keep images on Flickr and embed them here, so if you're so inclined, you can comment on my pictures! That's fun!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/preginning/
But that's not all! Corn 2 is on Vimeo and better than ever. Will there ever be a Corn 3? There was about 10 years between shooting Corn and Corn 2, so I wouldn't be too hopeful...yet.
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[January 04, 2011 | 09:00 am] |
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It's a brand new year. I've changed all the 2010s to 2011s on every page of this site. I missed a few.
My computer will turn six this year, which in computer years is actually 00100110100001110111100. Now when I export things like videos or sometimes even pictures, it takes forever, I guess since all the fancy plug-in app dingle flash formats keep getting more space-age and I'm still lost in the 00s. I'm exporting something now, which is why I mentioned how slow my computer has gotten, since, while waiting for this update file to open so I could type, I had a few minutes to think. And what I had in front of me was a safari window with www.preginning.com open in it, and I was looking at the © 1996-2011 that I'd very recently changed in accordance with the calendar, and I realized that it's been, or will be, sometime later this year, 15 years since Sight & Sound Film, where it all began.
In case you've been spending the last 15 years doing something other than following my artistic progress, Sight & Sound was my first filmmaking class, back in sophomore year. It's also where Group 8 was formed, and maybe was the best creative experience I've ever had. How can making 20 films in a 15-week semester be anything but?
But the year is only 4 days old. We will have time to return to this as the days grow longer.
I am grateful for the friendships I have, especially for the long ones, the ones that can remember a time just different enough from the time we live in now to be considered different. Friendships that saw places that don't exist any more, did things in a way that isn't done any more, maybe even met people who aren't around any more. And because whatever I have that can be called a career is irrevocably tied to the friends I have, don't be surprised when I announce my 15th Anniversary Sight & Sound Film Reunion Weekend Extravaganza, timed to coincide with the exact weekend that we shot Pepper.
But to business: Corn is now on Vimeo! Happy New Year:
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[December 28, 2010 | 09:20 pm] |
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There is a ton of snow on the ground here in Brooklyn, so I've spent the majority of the last 48 hours indoors. Therefore, I've had lots of time to do a bit of sprucing up with the old website, including, at long last, putting The Making Of Puzzled up on Vimeo. Now it looks even better, is DVD quality (probably), and plays on your PC (I think)! Could it get any better? Okay, I'll just embed it right here. So you don't even have to click.
(Actually it would help if you clicked Play.)
(Any time will do.)
(No rush.)
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[December 21, 2010 | 11:50 pm] |
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Photo © 2010 Lesley Shires
Well, like March in the old riddle, 2010 on this news page has come in like a lion and gone out like a sad, tired, and inconsistent lamb. All in all it was a fun year, and productive, too! I finished a short film, wrote another feature, designed video for a play, and probably other stuff too that I can't remember just now. The best part of the year was collaborating creatively with Matt Carlson, Jim Chan, and Jim Vidal...they say film is a collaborative art but a lot of it sure feels like sitting in a room by myself staring at a computer screen.
However, as 2010 gets nailed in its coffin and 2011 bursts forth from its father's ear, I'll leave you with this awesome video I shot at the Hudson Guild Theatre during Matt's soundcheck for the (so far, but definitely not forever) most recent performance of We Outran the Sun. I can't wait to see what's to come with that show in the next year! All in all, 2010 was good, but 2011 will be better...I'm excited!
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[November 16, 2010 | 10:10 pm] |
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In the interest of November's pride, I am updating today with little to report. However, since I couldn't let a whole month go by without an update, I figured now was as good as any time to submit November's entry.
As the weather is colder and the days are almost unbelievably shorter, which makes me think back fondly to summer, when the sun shone before I awoke and after I went to sleep (maybe). I am wrapping up a photography project that I've mentioned before, but haven't yet completed. Anyway, now's the time to finally share a picture I took, and since this posting is dedicated to the month of November, here's a picture taken this very month:
It's a picture of Vinegar Hill House, which is in Vinegar Hill, which is a weird place. This place sure packs them in, though. Not sure how anyone finds it. Darn New Yorkers know everything. |
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[October 26, 2010 | 08:50 pm] |
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Well, if you weren't at the Hudson Guild Theatre last night then you missed out! We Outran the Sun looked and sounded great. Due to constraints of the stage, the projector was on a box, the canvas was on a easel, and the piano was an electric keyboard, but the performance was inspired and the portraits only seemed richer with a few months separation from the last time I'd seen it all together.
This is the part where I take just a little bit of pity on you and give you a glimpse of what you missed:
Lighting Design by Kate Ashton; Set Design by Damon Pelletier; Performed on the set of Once Upon a Time in New Jersey; Design by Jen Price Fick; Lighting Design by Isabella Byrd |
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