this is my 1000th liked photo. of my likes: 607 are photos (with 64 of them being animated gifs), 187 are text posts, 137 are video posts, and 69 are audio posts. (my 100th like post is here and it’s done much better, but 1000 posts is a lot to crunch.)

chandler corallo is my top crush with 11%, followed by: olive garcia at 10%, jenny harrison at 9%, danny jelinek at 8%, low leaf at 7%, brittany pires at 6%, and aaron moles tied with will hawk and himanshu suri at 3%.

i’d say today’s thrift adventure went well. murder on the orient express (lumet), mst3k: the movie (mallon), alien (scott), & club paradise (ramis - betamax, even). oh, also, a signed portrait of a military official thanking another official for something-or-other.

ramblescramble:

nettie, sunset
12.13.11 // nettie harris - portland, oregon [347/365]

i did a shoot with nettie harris last week. it went super well (you can see the shots here [nsfw]).

today is the last day to watch desolation wilderness. thanks to anyone that watched it and a bigger thanks to everyone that worked on it. derek mungor and i worked extremely hard and many mistakes were made (a lot by myself [huge apologies to derek, mostly]) that were remedied/fixed by many different parties (looking at you, nic zwaart). this was no easy-going shoot; “sometimes you eat the bar and sometimes the bar eats you” and all. in the end, i learned a lot about myself (blah blah), filmmaking, and how if you don’t have celebrities in/behind your projects no one cares.

anyhow, it’s a strange little film that i’m (currently) particularly proud of. i think it landed within a short distance of what we had in mind. it’s interesting that literally almost 100% of this movie was done by derek and i. we wrote the story, derek wrote the script, we paid for it out of pocket, produced it, acted in it, edited it, did all post work, created (pretty solid, in my opinion) viral/associated content, and acted as our own pr group (probably our biggest misstep). all of this by two people — no small feat, i would imagine.

conversely, at our sides during the two week shoot were darren orlowski and ralph jimenez who — and i don’t want to understate this — contributed greatly to the project. when we brought them on board it was with the understanding that they weren’t acting as crew, but as equal partners in how the shoot/story/final product unfolded. they weren’t paid (no one was, really) and the surroundings were about as cut off as they are in the film. not to mention jason aud who absolutely made the film work with his score (seriously, the first rough cut didn’t have most of it and it was a near mess). additionally, most everything you see in the film is due to massive favors on the parts of many different people we called upon for help — all uncompensated. it was truly a labor of like like.

to summarize: it was a long road with a lot of help from people who didn’t need to. i do realize that i’m leaving loads of “thank you”s and insight out, but this hopefully isn’t the end of that road for the film so i’ll let there continue to be some things left unsaid for now.

here’s a bts shot of abed on tv. taken while doing effects work for the movie. more can be found here.

music from the motion picture: desolation wilderness is a 26 track compilation of music used within the film. selections include (the incomparable) jason aud’s entire score — including original works, songs by jason the swamp, and sprawling soundscapes — plus songs by why?, desolation wilderness, lake, and karl blau. encoded in 320kbps for the highest quality, it clocks in at just under two hours of a sometimes-relaxing, sometimes-harrowing audio escape.

stream on enter desolation wilderness or download for free.