US Open II
Sara and I went back for the men’s final as a gift to ourselves for our 18th anniversary. The match wasn’t great but it was fun to be there.
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US Open
Gwen and I went today. It was blazingly hot but we saw two good matches. The US Open is great and I have to remember to go more during the first week. I won’t bore ...
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Sprint with Stacy
I just returned from LA where I shot a Sprint commercial with Stacy. Some ladies are so excited about the new iPhone that they scream. Their screams are so high pitched that they break not ...
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Bill Viola
I forgot. When we were in Paris we saw a Bill Viola retrospective at the Grand Palais. The show really made me love the work, and understand it much better. They had an amazing book ...
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Eating Animals Johan Hultin
Johan Hultin is 90 years old. In 1997 he returned to a tiny Inuit village in Alaska to exhume remains from a mass grave that would hopefully contain cells and DNA from the 1918 ...
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This is life
I saw the Roger Ebert Documentary tonight because it had a 95% on Meta- critic and Kelly’s Movie, Night Moves, was not playing. I sometimes feel like showbiz is shallow and maybe worthless but ...
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Corsica
We are on family vacation in Corsica. I have never been before and I think it is one of my favorite places ever. Here is the river that cuts through our beach to the ocean.
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Fresh and Green Academy
In January 2012 I went to Ethiopia with Peter Hutton to shoot a film with him. While there I visited The Fresh and Green Academy outside Addis Ababa to find a Geocache. I met Yabsira ...
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Tom Poole
Tom is my colorist at Company 3 in NYC. We are doing the final color correct for The Cobbler. Tom is totally killing it. My goal in showbiz is to surround myself with as many ...
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Food in China
The prospect of eating food in China was very exciting. Sadly we weren’t always armed with the best info. Long Kuan took us to a few vegetarian places in Beijing that were really spectacular. Lily ...
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Forbidden City
My first day was a down day while Chris produced the whole China leg of our trip. I hired a guide and went to the Forbidden City and some Hutongs. Hutongs are the traditional alleyways full ...
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China
Flew thru Hong Kong to Beijing today. I have always wanted to go to China. Even the first day was exciting. My plane was very late into Hong Kong and I was going to miss my connection. ...
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Karuna Society
Today we went to an amazing little town called Puttaparthi which is on the map as the home of Sai Baba, a famous indian guru. There we met with Clementine, a dutch ex-pat who settled there ...
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Namakkal
Today we went to a western style factory egg operation in Namakkal. They have three hundred thousand birds in two multi-tiered open sided sheds. The smell is unbelievable. There are four to five birds in ...
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Ooty
To get to Namakkal we needed to go up over the top of some mountains. Ooty sits right at the top and is famous for tea production. The drive was one of the most beautiful ...
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Eating Animals India
I arrived in Bangalore 5/15 to shoot the India/China section of Eating Animals with Christopher Quinn. He arrived later so I went to Mysore to see the Raj’s palace and Tipoo Sultan’s summer palace. I ...
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SJP SPAR
I just finished a spot for Pret á Manger in Austria (SPAR) starring Sarah Jessica Parker. She was supposed to luxuriate in Central park in the fabulous NYC Springtime. But it looked like this. Ari ...
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Ida
Sara and I saw Pawel Pawlikowski’s film Ida last night. This is one of the truly great ones. Strangers in Film Forum had a spontaneous chat session about how excellent it was after the credits. ...
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“We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters”
Chris asked me to read George Packer’s book The Unwinding. This is exactly the kind of lefty Lit I love. The book elucidates the, I think, obvious ways that greed and politics are affecting the ...
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