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!

House of Foam

Continuing the Baltimore photo blog post series…

APEX Theater: 2 new adult movies daily 10am

More Baltimore. Welcome to the Apex Theater.

Alterations & repairs

Continuing with the Baltimore theme…

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.

Things are going to get moving soon, I can feel it!

The past couple months have been busy, but not in a film editing sort of way. I was out of town for a short getaway and then a long getaway, the latter including a friend’s wedding in France at which I was the unofficial videographer.

I may or may not have mentioned the sheep shearing video as well…

So I have a lot of footage, at least 4 60-minute tapes, that need capturing and editing. And the elin o’Hara slavick film to finish. And I would like to do something more and bigger on Kinshasa, but I think I’ll need another trip before that happens.

There are several spots that I’ve found where I can edit videos on Macs (the Carrboro Arts Center, The People’s Channel, and UNC undergrad library’s media center) for free, but it means highly prioritizing these projects and making an effort several times a week to schedule ahead, make it to the locations during the hours that they are open, and (often) figuring out how to get home after the bus stops running.

To solve these problems, I’ve decided to take the plunge and update my technology.  I have a Compaq laptop that I bought in 2000, and since my needs began to outstrip its capabilities, I’ve counted on work or public computers.  We have a tax-free weekend coming up, so I see a new computer in my future!