Blue VW bug under a Baltimore bridge
Still Baltimore, now with some color.
The photo from the last post won the “city life” contest!
John W Faidley Seafood Raw Bar Oysters Clams Beer
I have a lot of photos of Baltimore, so here’s another one in the set; I just submitted it to a photo contest, we’ll see if it makes the finals!
Whitey’s News Stand
In keeping with the Baltimore theme, here’s a photo of yup, you guessed it, the sign outside Whitey’s News Stand.
Baltimore – Fells Point
While I am working on making it back to editing my film, which has been waylaid by moving out of the country, I’m going to start posting a photo every few days. Here is one from a recent trip to Baltimore.
Rules
by Jim Jarmusch | Published January 22, 2004
Rule #1: There are no rules. There are as many ways to make a film as there are potential filmmakers. It’s an open form. Anyway, I would personally never presume to tell anyone else what to do or how to do anything. To me that’s like telling someone else what their religious beliefs should be. Fuck that. That’s against my personal philosophy—more of a code than a set of “rules.” Therefore, disregard the “rules” you are presently reading, and instead consider them to be merely notes to myself. One should make one’s own “notes” because there is no one way to do anything. If anyone tells you there is only one way, their way, get as far away from them as possible, both physically and philosophically.
A new project possibility
I gave this blog address to someone so now I feel pressure to update. What have I been doing in documentary land? Not a whole lot! I have tape footage of a wedding in France and a sheep shearing in North Carolina and another wedding in DR Congo that are sitting in my closet. If I could just capture the footage onto my new shiny computer, I’d be golden for editing….
I’ve talked to a few documentary film makers at screenings here and there, but followed up with few of them. Where did I put those business cards???
And I’m putting off returning an email about a project that I really do want to work on, which is based in Kinshasa. For the moment, I would just help with research, such as monitoring UN reports, among other things. Eventually I would like to be involved in the actual shooting and production, which should be possible as long as I can get myself there. Fortunately traveling there is part of my job description, so that should not be too problematic. The project is extremely ambitious but I think would be very interesting, covering different aspects of the current state of democracy in DR Congo and primarily produced by Congolese filmmakers and emerging talent.
