So here I am in the cold wilderness of Iowa, here is a short clip...

Fisher Farm, IA from Kaleb Wentzel-Fisher on Vimeo.

More to come...

Frank meets Cris Doyle

My good friend Frank sent me an email at about 3 AM this morning about his day at work. Frank loads film cameras on movie sets and this is what he had to say:

I worked with the DP Chris Doyle today. He came on the truck in the morning before we started shooting and opened a beer. While he drank (and before we were introduced) he emptied his bag and handed me the contents to throw in the garbage: three empty beers and an empty bottle of champagne.
I thought he was crazy until we started to shoot.
Holy shit.
I didn't realize who he was.
He is the most talented DP I've ever worked with.
Watch the video and check out his resume on IMDB.



In the video you see his Hand-Held style that he calls "steadi Chang". It's basically a large bean bag thing we call a "Cine-bag" strapped around his waist. I spent a small portion of my day strapping it to him or, "chang-ing" him.


He didn't start making movies until he was 34.

You should read the Quotations on IMDB.

Totally awesome.

Ray Tintori to direct "Light Boxes"

I found out some interesting details about this new feature Light Boxes, its based on a book with sort of a strange story itself. The book is written by Shane Jones, and he only published 600 copies while living in his parents basement. The book took off and was bought by Spike Jonze and Penguin Publishing. First edition copies of this book are going for an unbelievable 150 to 350 dollars on amazon right now, but Penguin will release the book again this March. Here are a few links on reviews of the book, it sounds incredible. One line synopsis: A group of balloonists wage war against the never ending month of February.






http://shaneejones.blogspot.com/

http://www.apostrophecast.com/blog/?p=213

Enjoy!

I am finally doing this, cool stuff to check out

So, I have been procrastinating with this blog, but now is the time. My sister told to me get on the ball and start letting all of you out there know about the cool stuff I have found. I will be posting links to music, short films, books and other cool whatnot.

I would like to start with this short film I found, "Death to the Tinman". I found out about this as I was flipping through a Wired Magazine and saw a short article on a young director named Ray Tintori. Apparently Spike Jonzes is going to produce Ray's first feature length film, Light Boxes, based on a book by Shane Jones.

Check out the short, it's great! Here it is in two parts.