Hey, I'm in my hometown of Clawson Michigan, and will soon be heading to the Hide Out!
Nothing makes me happier then spending time with my friends and family while staying at the Super 8, the only hotel in Clawson! In honor of this trip, I thought I'd post these pictures from the Super 8 taken a year or two ago.
When I got to the hotel, I turned on the TV and put the remote on the end table.
...but as I thought about it more something felt strange. Something felt wrong, and in that moment I turned over the hotel remote to find THIS...
Our first feature film Tracy is being screened in Ferndale Michigan this Saturday September 5th at 5:30 PM at "Go Comedy" as part of the 1st annual Ferndale Film Festival. If you live in the area and have yet to see the film, I think this is a great opportunity to see it!
You can purchase tickets by clicking here. Tell a friend!
I've been inspired by my friend Steve Purcell's recent blog series "High School Confidential" which feature some of his sweetly naive, yet strangely charming early artwork, to post some of my high school / college films and videos. It's a little embarrassing how technically amateurish some of these projects are, but perhaps slightly more embarrassing, how much more creative some of them are than the projects I'm doing now.
While most kids in Michigan where spending their 18th birthday buy cigarettes, going to Canadian strip clubs, and voting republican I spent my 18th shooting this film at and amazing local Michigan film workshop called Focal Point. Every student had one week to write, direct, and edit a short film and debut it to friends and family on the last day of the workshop. My good friends Justin Allen and Matt Cantu helped me bring to life this moving love story about an insane woodsmen and his love for a free spirited young man/woman.
"Die Fingen in Meinen Apfelsope" a film by Dan Scanlon and Justin Allen 1994
* Update!
Wow, so this film was actually taken down by UMG for having the song "Falling in Love Again" as sung by writer William S. Burroughs . I'm actually kind of shocked, last I checked kids were cutting all sorts of crappy videos to unlicensed pop music on youtube, I thought that's what it was for. Oh well, I guess Will's drunken German version of this nearly 70 year old song is pretty popular stuff.
Every now and then one finds a picture, photo, plant or mineral that looks just like one's self. I'm going to try to post a new FOUND caricature of myself every Saturday morning for the next month. Please let me know when you find them successful, or when you think they’re crap.
This classic A & W restaurant character bares a sad and slightly fat resemblance to my current state. As a kid my Uncle owed a local A & W drive in chain located in Michigan. In it's earliest years almost every member of my family worked there at one point in their young life; my Aunts, my Uncles, even my mom worked there as a roller skating waitress serving trays of greasy food to cars full of drunk teenagers. When my brother and I were very little kids, we use get to go to the drive thru on our birthdays and my Uncle would let us order as many large root beers and foot long chili dogs as we could choke down. In the early 90's my Uncle retired and sold the restaurant, but it still holds a special place in my clogged heart.Viva La A & W!!
