tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-112614362024-03-07T04:46:30.313-05:00aloofdorkUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger477125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11261436.post-90133722064045358092012-03-24T10:06:00.001-04:002012-03-24T10:09:09.165-04:00The new Star Trek series I'm working on<div class="pixcol">
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<a href="http://www.startrekcontinues.com">www.startrekcontinues.com</a>
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Time for my annual post ;) In beautiful Franconia, NH for a quick shoot for Shakespeare's Daughter with Cynthia Gibb and Mandy Patinkin.
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Is blogging dead? Anyone listening? This blog just came in handy for me, actually. I needed to look back to find out when I'd participated in an event, and voila, there it was.
</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11261436.post-28981961455181771882010-02-07T18:40:00.004-05:002010-02-07T18:58:59.316-05:00phinster<div class="pixcol">
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/aloofdork/4197307297/" title="phineas by aloofdork, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2677/4197307297_8b69e628d5_m.jpg" width="240" height="161" alt="phineas" /></a>
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phineas had a birthday a while back. i shot some fun pictures of him. here he models his present's wrapping paper. i had just purchased an off-camera flash unit and was learning how to use it.
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i've been taking lots of pictures lately, but sorry, none for this post. david hockney has my imagination lately, priming me with ideas about photography, painting, art in general. i read a book by lawrence weschler over the holidays titled "True to Life: 25 Years of Conversations with David Hockney". i feel as if i've been through art history all over again, and this time am excited about it. a while back, hockney began to think that old masters had used optical techniques to achieve their works, a controversial view even today. his investigations are fascinating. his point isn't that the works are any less compelling because the old masters may not have created everything on the canvas with their own eye, but that artists of that time used all the tools available to them to explore, almost like scientists. i love that idea.
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Specific, personal truth is the best medium in which to grow relationships.
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/aloofdork/4132211312/" title="cocktail party still by aloofdork, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2650/4132211312_ee8ee5223d_o.jpg" width="200" height="150" alt="cocktail party still" /></a>
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another long time between posts. i've been sick with flu, probably swine flu, for about four weeks. all that's left is lingering cough. despite physical discomfort, i've welcomed the opportunity to rest, reflect, and spend a lot of time alone. i was supposed to shoot a short movie, the first since making a short dramatic film six years ago, but i was too wiped out to do it. we've rescheduled for march, 2010.
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my film activities continue with star trek phase 2 and a couple documentaries, but they are not my own projects. being in bed has given my own projects new immediacy, because it feels like i have a lot less time to work. i know this flu will pass, but the restriction of waking time helps give weight to the most important things. i've resigned from the few boards i participate on, and have cut back on commitments. i sense the importance of having lots of time and time-space in which to create, to absorb, to integrate thoughts, ideas, images, sounds, feelings.
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i've watched hundreds of films while in bed, shorts and features, drama and docs. streaming movies are fantastic. the quality is okay, but having an on demand film festival in my lap worth the sacrifice. it's great to see so many films back to back, to compare styles, lighting, scripts, pacing, camera work, acting, sets, scenery, sound, music... for the last few years, i haven't been able to stay awake through a film. it still happens, but somehow watching so many films has awakened me. i'm looking at films not for entertainment, but for content, story, creativity, craftsmanship.
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i've watched a lot of short films. curiously, they are often too long, lacking density, plot, though often technically very good. the features, by and large, even the bad ones, tend to be more condensed.
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A long hiatus, yes. A molting process, yes. A shift in direction, yes. A new career, apparently. Renewed enthusiasm: yes.
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In a nutshell, I've become a budding cinematographer... budding at the age of 46. And why not? I'm an admirer of makeovers, especially buildings. What happened? Last summer I took a film lighting course at the Maine Media Workshops and loved it. Since then, I've become involved with <a href="http://www.startrekphase2.com" target="_new">Star Trek Phase II</a> helping shoot their one-hour webisodes of classic Star Trek, all for the fun of it. The production values are high and I've learned a lot on the set which operates more or less professionally in an amateur kind of way. Then this summer, I happened to see a course at the Media Workshops and lucked into it via their waiting list. I met some great people and we made some fun little films. After that, I was hooked and declared my intentions to take up filmmaking. It's not like I haven't done it before. When I sat down and figured out how many little films I'd made over the years it totaled more than thirty, a couple are award winners. But, deciding to move further into it is a big break from my prior architectural commitments but it feels right. If there were any place you'd know you weren't supposed to be, it would be a film set, because it can be brutally boring. If you don't have the bigger picture in your grasp it will feel insufferable. I've watched (and filmed) people in this mode and it's not pretty.
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Right now I'm working with Tim Wolff, of New Orleans, on his documentary about gay social clubs who spearheaded a unique gay rights movement in the south. I was down there to shoot earlier in the year and Tim is up here in Vermont now as we edit it. I love thinking about the structure of film, how to tell a story.
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I'm also working on a short film with Richard Ballon, a playwright and writer, whom I met at CineSlam, a short film festival in Vermont. Also in the works, possibly, is a feature to be shot in Los Angeles this fall or winter and for sure a segment in a documentary project about Vermont. I'll be helping one of the filmmakers I met this summer in Maine complete his project next week. I'm happy with the speed with which things have started rolling.
</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11261436.post-42171511262054805102009-03-16T09:08:00.004-04:002009-03-16T09:33:09.512-04:00facebook killed the blogger star<p>
as with all things new, there is a period of adjustment in which i figure out how a new thing affects the balances of my life. facebook has been a lot of fun but i find that i'm spending more time in facebook than writing here. i've substituted people watching for contemplation and reflection. composing the one liner status update is a haiku-ish art in itself and seeing what friends respond to is fascinating, but i miss the benefit of spending an hour or more stringing together more than one or two ideas.
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tomorrow, i am traveling to my meditation center where i'll be serving this time for about two weeks. i will be meditating, but not as intensively as if i were taking the course. i think i'll be learning to cook all the simple vegetarian food they serve and i'm excited about that as well as learning to integrate meditation with work. i'm not as successful as i'd like to be at maintaining my practice at home. it's easy when at the center. everything is set up to help you succeed. at home, much more difficult. i awake with thoughts of my business, things to do, and before i know it i'm out the door looking for a coffee.
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oh, and i won and lost the election. i got the most votes but because i was a write-in, and some folks wrote me into a slot i wasn't running for, i didn't technically win a seat. no regrets!
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i'm running for a seat on my town's selectboard. it just so happened that there was a slot on the ballot open and friends urged me to run. so, here i go!
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it's been three weeks since i started the no-snack experiment. results so far:
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<li>i've dropped three pounds (1 pound per week = 3500 calories per week = 500 calories per day. makes sense. i was probably eating about 500 calories in snacks per day).
</li><li>i <i>feel</i> thinner even though i would say i look the same.</li><li>i drink more water (instead of snacking).</li><li>i am less attracted to sugary food. in fact i don't think about it much at all. i used to crave sugar regularly. i wouldn't say that craving is gone altogether, but much reduced.
</li><li>i seem to naturally select nutritious foods during meals.</li><li>i enjoy the food i am eating more, much more. knowing that what i am eating is it for the next few hours shifts my attitude toward it.
</li><li>i am less compelled to eat seconds, which for me was about hording, competing, racing and probably has something to do with being trained as a child to clean my plate for seconds.
</li><li>i feel more in control in my life. this one was unexpected.</li><li>i never feel bloated.</li><li>it has been easy to stay faithful, even enjoyable, unlike any other food regime i've tried.
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this idea came to me late one night: to take a bunch of little pictures of someone, just of their edge, then layer them to create an outline portrait. here's the first one.
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okay, i'm sick of putting on weight. i'm a gay man and figure is important! so, i'm giving up snacks. i've tried diets, workouts, eating this, not that, eating that, not this. i've carefully combined foods, been a vegetarian, a carnivore, i've forsaken dairy and i've eaten pints of ice cream in a single sitting. i've slimmed my belly in photoshop. so, rather than add another impossible-to-maintain practice, i decided to keep it simple and real: no snacks.
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i can tell its working already. i'm hungry before meals--a nice feeling actually--that's so different from the perpetually stuffed feeling i've grown accustomed to (as has my belly). stomachs hold only so much and this no-snacker "plan" takes advantage of that. i figure three meals a day, no snacks, that's just about the right amount of food for me. if i only eat two or three times a day, how can i really overeat? there's just not room. when i'm hungry, i tend to be attracted to healthier food, too, so i don't really have to worry about downing too many sweets. i do like a little chocolate before meals!
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at dhamma dhara, where i meditate, we get two meals a day. in ten days i usually drop 5 to 7 pounds. i drink a lot of water, a dixie cup or two an hour. at least two of the pounds must be mental trash going out the door! but a lot of it is real weight loss, which just goes to prove that i'm on the right track with snackhibition. the two meals are breakfast and lunch, both vegetarian, no snacking between. this regime produces deep sleep with vivid (and informative!) dreams.
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it's been fun to notice when and how often i feel like snacking. since i seem think about snacks almost as much as sex, it's clear i was a snackaholic. i'm thrilled by the sense of control i'm feeling when i ignore my snack attacks. not being a victim to an open bag of chips is profoundly empowering. going into a meal knowing i can eat it all guilt free makes dining almost ecstatic. americans are terrorized by food and the food industry. they've convinced us we need food all day long. forget drugs, it's time to declare a war on snacks.
</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11261436.post-76535048607745377312008-12-12T10:10:00.003-05:002008-12-12T10:14:30.214-05:00Star Trek Phase 2: Behind the Scenes<div id="xrPlayerEmbededDivfa0cca90768d418583b29e338eea3b4e"><object id="xrPlayerEmbededfa0cca90768d418583b29e338eea3b4e" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,124,0" width="342" height="224"><param name="movie" value="http://exposureroom.com/flash/xrVideoPlayer.swf?domain=exposureroom.com/&assetId=fa0cca90768d418583b29e338eea3b4e&size=sm&titleColor=white" /><param name="allowNetworking" value="all" /><param name="quality" value="best" /><param name="wmode" value="transparent" /><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="false" /><embed name="xrPlayerEmbededfa0cca90768d418583b29e338eea3b4e" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" src="http://exposureroom.com/flash/xrVideoPlayer.swf?domain=exposureroom.com/&assetId=fa0cca90768d418583b29e338eea3b4e&size=sm&titleColor=white" quality="best" width="342" height="224" allowNetworking="all" allowScriptAccess="always" allowFullScreen="false"></embed></object></div><div style="margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: 10px;">On the Set of Star Trek Phase II: Making of the Child By <b>Matt Bucy</b><br /><a href="http://exposureroom.com/members/mattbucy.aspx/assets/fa0cca90768d418583b29e338eea3b4e/">View in <b>HD</b></a> <a target="_blank" href="http://exposureroom.com/members/mattbucy.aspx/assets/fa0cca90768d418583b29e338eea3b4e/">Download 404p Version</a> <a target="_blank" href="http://exposureroom.com/members/mattbucy.aspx/videos/">Visit Matt Bucy's ExposureRoom Videos Page</a></div>
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i shot this video last fall during the production of a new episode of classic star trek called "the child." peter west assisted me with shooting and editing.
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i spent a week in rockport, maine last summer at the maine media workshops. above is a short exercise i directed. we had two hours to come up with the story, choose a location, light and shoot. it was fun to screen this at the end-of-week showcase. it got good audience response. it had a beach boys "good vibrations" soundtrack, but i nixed it here. mara laine came up with the story idea--to use books titles as a dialog--which was great, and i came up with the idea to use the bookstore ladder as a dolly as well as the device that connects the two characters. jim mcgathey directed the lighting and championed the use of "kino on the floor", which i didn't like at first but i have to hand it to him, it works! he also stars. george lamboy set the lights and kept us all in order! i'm afraid i can't remember the name of the actress (apologies).
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i'm in new orleans shooting interviews for a friend, tim wolff, who is directing a film, "the sons of tennessee williams". it's about gay social clubs, the men who pioneered them in the 1960s and 70s and the men who sustain them today. gay men in new orleans took a unique path to carve out rights for themselves. they produced fantastic costume balls that provided a non-confrontational, but edgy, interface between straight and gay culture that tested and ultimately prevailed over anti-gay laws.
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<p>a great video by eva sollberger about our annual halloween parade in white river junction. it's part of a series eva makes called "stuck in vermont".</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11261436.post-54561926760069482112008-10-30T18:37:00.003-04:002008-10-30T18:39:15.619-04:00star trek phase 2<div class="pixcol">
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here i am in my second episode, seated 2nd from the left.
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my friend peter west came along to check out the production for a few days. we're going to be flying to new orleans next week to help friend tim wolff shoot his documentary about gay krewes. i'll be there with peter for a week.
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excuse me. i am still here. but, boy, have i not had time to write! advice: never plan three intense projects for one summer with the hopes that two of them won't happen. like people who don't like cats and always have cats jumping on them, they will all happen. and all will require your undivided attention, just like a cat.
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i got new glasses. i got a macbook. together, these resulted in this picture.
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dreamland's got lights! a generous donor gave me about 30 lights for the dreamland performance space/soundstage today. they're old, but in great condition, generally, and should allow me to set up a lighting grid sooner than later with the ability to light small performances decently. i think i ought to be able to use these for film production too, but they lack barn doors and filter holders and are set up to clamp onto pipe rather than c-stands. very excited!
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<img src="http://www.trekbabe.com/st_CENTER_phaser.jpg" width=240><br/>barbara luna in "mirror mirror"<p><br>
<img src="http://www.barbaraluna.com/images/phaseii_71.jpg" width=240><br/>me as a security guard (from barbara luna's website)<p>
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i briefly mentioned earlier that i am working on new star trek episodes with a dedicated group of fans. i mentioned one afternoon to an acquaintance that i'd like to do some sci-fi shorts and she told me about the production of new star trek episodes in upstate new york, about two hours from white river. so, i emailed james, the actor who plays kirk and who is the force behind the new episodes, who forwarded my message onto a guy named "sarge" and voila, i was engaged to volunteer. i couldn't wait to see the sets!
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i arrived well into the shoot because i had other obligations, namely taking the production lighting course at the maine media workshop. so, i arrived well prepared to jump into studio production. but, i didn't expect to be put in front of the camera, which is what happened within minutes of my arrival. better yet, i got to act with one of the original star trek actresses, barbara luna, who played kirk's girlfriend in the episode "Mirror Mirror". she taught me how to fall when phasered.
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i will be returning to the set in a couple weeks to assist in shooting "pick-ups", shots that are needed but didn't get shot during the principal photography. and i will be returning for another episode's production in october.
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you can watch the new episodes here: <a href="http://www.startrekphase2.com">www.startrekphase2.com</a>
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the dreamland studio made it into the news...
<a href="http://www.vnews.com/08222008/5015260.htm">check it out</a>
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peter and i whipped this up a couple weeks ago. he just quit smoking. rated R for language and sexual content.
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