This blog started as a photo-a-day blog in 2006, October 2009 it become an official WHAT-NOT blog and/or random thoughts from a Filmmaker blog.

Thursday, March 08, 2012

Napoleon Dynamite Principal... aka my cinematic dad

That's right Tom Lefler, my cinematic daddy-O. Tom has had my back for 20 plus years. He has a sharp mind and has given me feedback on many of my films. He is one of the first people I talked to at byu after I decided to become a filmmaker. You may recognize Tom from Napoleon Dynamite as the principal. One of my favorite scenes in the history of cinema is when he is back stage watching the high school drill team girls dance, that kills me every time. Tom you are a legend, good to see you today. Happy Thursday.
(photo: Tom in front of Anna Ferrin's ceramic BFA show at byu)

Wednesday, March 07, 2012

1970's Skateparks in So. Cal.


My wife Noelle found my old skateboard photo album and talked about it on her blog. It is true I use to skate quite a bit and did hit all the skateparks of the day.

Tuesday, March 06, 2012

THE COLOR RUN Las Vegas video


Here is the video I worked on last weekend. It was very fun to film thousands and thousands of people just having a good old time. There were smiles everywhere and a lot of positive energy floating around. ENJOY!

Monday, March 05, 2012

Those Who Make


I stumbled into this blog when I saw that they had posted my video about Jon Hanson the bike builder. This is a cool Tumblr of short nonfiction films. This is really my favorite kind of filmmaking right now, short nonfcition films that live on-line.
Check out the ”Those Who Make” blog here.
Check out the video about Jon and his bikes here.
Check out Jon’s bikes here.
Happy Monday, now I need to go and make stuff, ...films.

Friday, March 02, 2012

art.words



I know you see these little quote things all over the place, but here are a few more. I am taking break from editing the art series to shoot art students working on their prints. It is a documentary series about art students and the creative process, it is fun work. Have a good weekend, Peace.

Thursday, March 01, 2012

Tarahumara, 380 East Main Street, Midway, Utah



I love the idea of living in the country and I love the idea of living in the city, I know that is one of my problems- I can find reasons to love and hate the same thing at the same time, I am trying to work though this. One answer we have come up with is living downtown in a small town and that is why we moved to Midway. Noelle and I had been stalking this town for about 20 years and thought let’s just move there and we did. We have great mountain bike trails, a view of the lake, a great store, a wood fire pizza oven restaurant, we are close to Park City (where Noelle teaches skiing now) and we have world class Mexican food, some say it is the best in the state--I will not argue with that. Tarahumara is pretty much across the street. It kills me when I open the garage and I can smell the carne asada from the grill!!! I am a Mexican food freak and eat there at least once a week. Greg and Gloria, the owners, feel like family. I have not ordered anything on the menu that I did not like, but I am kind of stuck on the chile verde pork right now and I like the mole a lot too (get the chicken shredded it you do get the mole). Anyway, they started with the restaurant then added a cantina and in a few weeks we are getting a Tarahumara bakery, life it sweet! Like I always say come visit and we will have a taco, oh yeah the salsa bar is legendary-- Buenos Dias!

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