Taken from my car on the Miracle Mile, Los Angeles, California, 14 November 2007.
Pic of the Day: Textured tree
This tree had really amazing bark. Taken in Marina Del Rey.
Pic of the Day: Pool Steps
Taken at night in Encino, California.
Pic of the Day: Look Don’t Touch
I have been trying to take a lot of pictures from my car while I am driving. It’s an interesting challenge, but you end up seeing LA the way most people experience it on a daily basis. I miss so much because I never pull over. Even so, found art is always waiting to be found.
Pic of the Day: Look Don't Touch
I have been trying to take a lot of pictures from my car while I am driving. It’s an interesting challenge, but you end up seeing LA the way most people experience it on a daily basis. I miss so much because I never pull over. Even so, found art is always waiting to be found.
Pic of the Day: Bougainvillea
The bougainvillea is in bloom. This stuff grows incredibly fast, like many climbing plants out here.
Pic of the Day: Refraction
This crystal doorknob only gets hit by direct sunlight in the winter for just a couple of minutes in the morning. I raced to get the camera before it faded, because it shoots light all over the room. I missed the best of it, but you can see some of the prisms. Had to be there, I guess.
Transgender Day of Remembrance is next week
The 9th annual Transgender Day of Remembrance is scheduled for 20 November 2007. It’s an annual memorial to those killed by anti-trans violence. This is much more likely to occur among our youngest and most vulnerable community members.
More info:
* Remembering Our Dead
Banner courtesy of Margaux Schaffer, creator of the Arizona Day of Remembrance site.
Pic of the Day: Bust One
Bust one. Taken at a Los Angeles street fair, 18 August 2007.
“Casting Pearls” festival screenings are winding down
This was probably the second-to-last big weekend of festival screenings for the short I directed, “Casting Pearls.” We played on both coasts, and we play again next weekend at the MiX NYC Queer Experimental Film Festival in Manhattan (SoHo). They have a lot of amazing stuff planned, so check it out even if you have seen our short. If it’s the last one we play in, that’s cool, because it’s a festival with such a great history. I mean, they have been doing their thing for 20 years, so they remember when New York City wasn’t all yuppified!
I’m really proud of the response so far, and it’s been especially gratifying to have been included in several “best of” series this year. Many festivals have stipulations that you can’t have aired the film before they show it, so now that it’s premiered on Logo’s Best in Short Film series and is available to watch online, the number of screenings will likely drop sharply.
Calpernia did a great job in a film that is almost pure performance, and I think it turned out OK for my first narrative short. Next up is probably something with a much different tone, but we will see how that goes! You never know out here!