Saint John of Las Vegas trailer

I finished the trailer for Saint John of Las Vegas a while ago. Before the trailers for either Brief Interviews With Hideous Men or Green Zone went to finish. I don't know why it took so long for this one to go online, but anyway, here it is. Once again, the sound mix sucks. And on my computer some shots look out of sync that should not look out of sync. But don't get me started on it. Sigh. Maybe it's just my computer. Anyway, have a look.

Green Zone trailer

And here is the trailer I cut for the new Matt Damon movie Green Zone, from director Paul Greengrass (United 93, The Bourne Supremacy & Ultimatum).

Once again, some wonky choices were made in the sound mix without me there, but overall I'm pretty happy with the piece. Particularly since I've been working on this movie since 2007, so getting the trailer finish on it after all that time feels pretty good.

The other cool thing is that I was able to use music by three friends of mine (Dan Wool, Mike Patti, and Paul Henning) in this trailer, which helped them out a bit financially and made the piece ten times better.

Watch it embedded below, or watch it in HD here. Hope you dig it!

What a Fun Day!

What a great weekend we had! On Saturday our friends Shane and Lori got married in what was easily one of the best weddings I have ever been to. I'll post some photos as soon as I manage to get them off of Kelly's sister's camera, but just to paint the picture: It was a costume wedding, with all the guests in costumes. The ceremony was held at the site of the Old LA Zoo, in one of the old bear caves. And the officiant was dressed as Elvis in a bear suit. A man named Hannibal with an amethyst in the middle of his forehead sang "Your Song," Shane wore a killer sort of rockabilly suit with alligator skin boots, and Lori was absolutely stunning in a blue Quinceañera dress that they modified to turn into a very piratey ensemble complete with rhinestone skull and crossbones on her back and long feather in her hat. It was amazing, uniquely them, and, above all else, truly heartfelt. Their vows were perhaps the most honest, beautiful vows I've heard at a wedding (except my own, of course!)

The Quinceañera dress reminds me that I never posted anything about our neighbor's daughter's Quinceañera, which we went to a couple weeks back. A lot has happened lately and I haven't really had much time for any substantial blogging (not to mention that, as Wil Wheaton says, it's tough to write a blog and a novel at the same time). It was tons of fun and I will post photos soon. Basically, there will be a catchup post in the next week sometime.

But first things first. It was a great weekend! Saturday was the wedding, and Sunday was Tristan's first time on the swings at the park as well as his first trip to the pumpkin patch!

As is my way, I have put together a little video of the day's adventures. Enjoy!

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This Is Too Cool

Apparently this video was made by students at UQAM, Université du Québec à Montréal. It blows my mind. For a fun game, see if you can count how many people are in this video. Then see if you can count the number of shots.

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