I spent about five hours this weekend cutting and sleeving and filing medium format film negatives and some 35mm stuff too.
The occasion for this was that I had just brought back 40 sheets of 4×5 film back from LightWaves lab* in Berkeley, and looking at it reminded me how much dust effects the viewing experience. [...]
Think it will work?
This admonition was adapted to my own uses in a flash of inspiration from some now forgotten snippet of fleeting conversation or writing, jotted on a handy piece of paper, tucked in a pocket. Amy brought it to me tonight.
I hope it will serve as a foil against a more or less constant (and [...]
Here’s a lovely essay on how equipment is related to the way we work. It is a finer articulation that I can manage, not least because it effectively raises the question: Which came first–the gearhead or the disease?
With a big camera, you miss a lot of pictures you might have gotten with a little camera. [...]
So, on our last day, the hotel van was scheduled to take us to the airport at 11:20. At 11:03am, Amy and Nutan hugged–the final subtitle was nailed. It looked like this (the hug, not the subtitle):
Pure jubilation. Well, filtered through exhaustion.
From that joyous point, we had to get all that stuff home.
Eleven boxes of [...]
We use lavalier mics a lot. Pretty much any time we have a camera on a person, we try to have them mic’d with a lav.
If they’re sitting still, we use a wired one; if they’re moving around, we stick a wireless on em. We like people, and in the course of making films about [...]
