Can You Spot the Celebrity Hiding in This Photo?

by Chris Buck

by Chris Buck

The answer is Jack Nicklaus from a celebrity photo series by Chris Buck, titled Presence.

Kinda cool, huh?

About Chris Buck's work from Slate:

In essence, Buck plays a game of hide-and-seek with his famous subjects, inviting them to hide for 30 seconds while he takes the portrait. Buck shot about 75 percent of the images in Presence piggybacking on assignments and asking the celebrity if they would be interested in being part of the project. The other images, including those of Cindy Sherman and Chuck Close, were set up entirely for the project. Buck has signed witness statements for each image that testify to the fact that the celebrity was in fact present for the shoot.

“I was having a rough patch with work and trying to build some interest,” said Buck about his inspiration for Presence. “People want to work with creative people, so I thought about doing something really outside the box … and it landed really, really outside the box.”

The Scared is Scared

This little gem has garnered a lot of buzz since it came out a while ago, though I just watched it today and really glad I did.

Kids are magic. And stories are too.

Thanks Bianca Giaever for creating this and sharing his voice.

Wild Sage by The Mountain Goats

from filmmaker Rian Johnson:

Back in 2006 when we shot the Woke Up New music video for the Mountain Goats, I wanted to also make something for my favorite song on the album, "Wild Sage." So I shot John Darnielle singing the song in front of a black background, turned the footage black and white and high contrast, and printed out every frame of it on 8x10 paper. I then took these stacks of paper to Cape Cod and began to animate them as stills, shooting with my Canon 5D. It took much longer than I thought, and my vacation was over before the video was shot, so I took them back to NYC intending to finish the video there. I never did. So this is all there is.

The printouts somehow ended up in my cousin Nathan's possession, and seven years later he found them stacked in a box and asked me what these thousands of bizarre photos of John Darnielle's face were for.

And I said "oh yeah, that thing. I should upload it to Vimeo or something."

Fountain + Highland - Screenwriting Made Easy

I like simple things.

And when I write with my computer there's nothing simpler than writing in markdown with plain text files. You know, instead of being forced to use final draft or microsoft word etc. you just open up any text editor on your computer and go at it.

In the past year or so I stumbled across a plain text screenwriting syntax called Fountain from a few really smart people, including filmmaker John August. Then, those same smart people developed a clever way to go from PDF files to FDX (Final Draft) files to plain text files.

It's called Highland.

I've been using Highland since the beta came out... Writing in plain text makes sense for my workflow (I'll try to do a post about that one day) since they're portable and future-proof and erase all distraction - it's just you and the words.

Check out John's blog and read why Fountain is how you should be writing and archiving your work.

Santa Monica Pier

Sky over the Pier before it started raining everyday for no damn reason.