Monsters Vs. Aliens

Many critics have already railed against this film for being gimmicky. I’m here to tell you they are right. But most of those critics saw the film for free, meaning that they didn’t get the full experience that I had last night. Freya and I decided to see the film on the IMAX screen in [...]

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Adventure Button

This morning as I drove to work, the clouds were temporarily ripped around the Nashville Metro area to allow sun in. And as the early morning sun streamed down, and the clouds reclaimed some of the liquid that they have given us the past few days in a hazy steam, I was reminded of my [...]

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Poem from John Updike

Fine Point
December 22, 2008
Why go to Sunday school, though surlily,
and not believe a bit of what was taught?
The desert shepherds in their scratchy robes
undoubtedly existed, and Israel’s defeats-
the Temple in its sacredness destroyed
by Babylon and Rome. Yet Jews kept faith
and passed the prayers, the crabbed rites,
from table to table as Christians mocked.
We mocked, but took. [...]

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Final Cut Pro and Motion Tutorials

Today I’ve had a few people ask about learning Final Cut Pro so while I have a ton of videos compressing here at work, I’m going to search the web and try to compile some good resources for FCP.
First of all, you should know that if you want to make a video like I did [...]

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Nashville Film Festival

As I return from the SXSW film festival, I’m looking forward to what’s upcoming. Here’s some highlights from Nashville’s Film Festival, which is running April 16-23 this year, and looks to be very strong.
Narrative Competition:

Buick Riviera
Kisses (Slashfilm Review)
Pachamama
Sita Sings the Blues (I’ve heard nothing but praise of this film)
That Evening Sun (Jury & Audience awards [...]

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Learning about being Human

Films I’ve seen thus far at SXSW:

New World Order
Medicine for Melancholy
True Adolescents
Artois the Goat
Sin Nombre
it was great, but i was ready to come home.

They’ve ranged from american new wave (the second and the latter) to indie/mainstream mixes (the third and fourth) to  really affecting Indie dramas (Sin Nombre). Coming to this fest has taught me [...]

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Job Opening at my company

cj Advertising, the company that I work for (and might I add, love) is hiring a web designer. Here are the job specs. If this is you (and they are pretty serious on these specs) hit me up at peacefulchaos at gmail. I’ll give you the rest of the info and put in a good [...]

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Fearless Creation

Flannery O’Connor has popped up a great deal in my reading the past few days. (here, and here are two notable articles). That first link asks the question “is O’Connor overrated?” and arrives at the answer that she most definitely is not. I would agree, but I don’t claim special authority in answering that question.
But [...]

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Morning Distractions

Field of Dreams (1989) Has been the subject of a couple good blog posts lately. First, Alec at Art+Life+Spirit looks at the film in light of our rational Christianity, and then Phil Villarreal, critic in Arizona, has narrowed down the 4500 films he’s seen to the top 100, and Field of Dreams is number 5.
This [...]

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Morning Distractions

Good morning! This weekend was wonderful for me; saw The Godfather on the big screen, spent a good deal of time with some favorite friends, and played Sesame Street Chutes and Ladders over a few bottles of wine with said friends. But now to the interesting stuff:
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There’s a trailer out for Gigantic, a new movie [...]

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