Found some amazing locations!!

So I have been working in DC for the last year, and I found an amazing location near my office, which may be perfect to do some filming!! I am waiting to see about a certain camera I may receive for Christmas, but if not I will make due with some other things! trying to figure out what I'm doing and who to do it with! Anyhoo, I hope everyone is well during the holiday season!! This should be great!

Lindsay

KICK ASS!!

I am going to see Kick Ass tonight, and I am super excited about it, my only anxiety is about traffic and whether I can get across town in enough time to get to get to the theater!! I know its gonna be great, the question comes down to whether I should get popcorn? Because its a silent killer and there are just so many calories, but its liable to become my dinner so maybe I should. Or I can get another tasty treat like a hot dog, or pizza? Any other ideas?

Anyhoo, I guess I will make that decision when the time comes to it, I may not eat anything depending on the time I get there. Hopefully traffic will bend to my will and allow me to get there on time!! So ciao, ta ta for now!!

It's been a while

I apologize, to who ever read this, not that anyone does, but I am back again. One of our shows premiered last night to much acclaim, if you have the time, Treme, should certainly be at the top of your watch list, for shows. If not, you are totally missing out. I am continuing my script, and I have changed my title again, so until I get more down, I am going to hold off for registering it. Still trying to figure a way to get to Comic-Con, because it would be totally amazing to go this year, however, I was way to late to get tickets, but we shall see. I am liking my job, we are ahead of schedule at this point, which is great, but more is coming, and I am looking forward to that. Umm, got a funny manicure this weekend, who knew that just getting white tips on my fingers was such an ordeal, I mean my nails still feel wierd, but we shall see how long they last, hopefully it was worth the price i paid for them. My pedicure is great though. Umm, crazy friday into saturday, helping my friend Michelle with her film, but fun nonetheless, and I get a credit and copy, so that is good. I still can't believe we are in the second week of April, we are slowly creeping toward summer, so its crazy, and especially for all my friends still in school, who are graduating, they are so excited. I am so ready for summer, thinking about buying a kayak, but we will see how the rest of April goes, I don't plan on buying one till I am sure I am gonna use it! Alright, well I am gonna go, I will write more soon.

-Lindsay

HAPPY THURSDAY

So its thursday, the last day of the nweek, before the amazingly wonderful Friday weekend begins!! I am at work again, and its fantastic!! As well as the fact that the weekend is coming up, and I will be doing some fun stuff with my friends, which is well overdue!! This is gonna be a small post, today but I am thinking about going to see Alice in Wonderland tonight!!

End of Another Day

Its nearing the end of another day, and I find myself, excited about the weekend. I am finishing up some projects for the future, and then I will make the long trek, home, now the issue becomes, do I stay and work later in order to avoid the traffic, or leave at 6 and sit in traffic for hours. I believe I will do the latter!! Besides, if anything I will sit read Harry Potter, while I am waiting for stuff to finish!! So, I am just writing this at the end of another day, and its gonna be good! I am so happy to have a job! And I am so happy to have somewhere to go after its over.

-Lindsay

New Job!!!

I have a job, and I am so excited!! So we just had the 82nd Oscar Awards, last weekend, March 7th. And I have to say this year was the most predictable year ever, I believe. I think going in, most people knew who was going to win, which awards. Sandra Bullock for Best Actress, Jeff Bridges for Best Actor, the Hurt Locker for best picture and best Director Katherine Bigelow. Inglourious Basterds got its fair share of awards as well. As did Precious, which is great!! So I am giving a general note out to all, that I will hopefully be at the 85th Academy Awards, with something nominated, if my plans work out!! That is my goal. So while I am taking a few minutes at work to write this down, I just wanted to get that into the blogosphere!! LOL, umm I have yet to see Alice in Wonderland, which was released last Friday, but I am excited to see it and will probably do so in a week or two.

Ohhh, and I am going to Disneyland on Saturday, and I am ready to have a ton of fun at the HOUSE OF MOUSE!!! YAY

Hope everyone and all is well,

-Lindsay

Jan 2010

Hello,

I'm back, sorry for my december hiatus, but as the shows go, so do I!! LOL, no, I have just been spending all of my time looking for a job, and it sucks right now to not have one, so I am spending all of time looking for something!! So lets see, a movie update, because unfortunately I am not making any of my own films right now, although I have started to write a couple, I am gonna talk about the Hollywood movies I have seen recently that I think need to be talked about, ok, well "Avatar", was ridiculous, completely predictable but hey the technology was cool, so I guess if you wanted some visual stimulation, then have at it, but looking for a story line, seriously left me wanting.

"Sherlock Holmes," was fun, fast paced and full of action, many people have told me that there were many bits where Robert Downey Jr. was hard to understand, and yeah I could see that, the film required a unique amount of concentration, so those people who were going to a movie where they didn't want to think were probably disappointed.

Umm, what else, oh yeah "Princess and the Frog," was definitely my favorite film of the holidays, if not 2009 in general, I LOVED this movie, its message and the music, Disney did it again, and I am seriously loving every minute of it!! It had great memorable characters, and a disney couple which made my heart flutter.

"Invictus" was another great one, I really enjoyed this, what I guess I will call a Sports-biopic, about Nelson Mandela, and his involvement in the 1995 Rugby World Cup, as well as South Africa's eventual win!! With great actors, a very intriguing storyline, and background during a release where people really just want to feel better, it makes you feel like even when you want to sit down and give up, "you are the master of your fate, you are the captain of your soul."

"The Road" very dark, very depressing in some senses but the struggle that a father and son went through, just to stay alive, showed a fantastic side of the human spirit, of the need for survival, and the desire to try to make things better for the next generation, even when there may not be any hope left.

"It's Complicated" a funny romantic comedy with Meryl Streep, who's autograph I got, when I was a the premier for "Julie and Julia." Its a really cute little movie about 40-50 somethings who aren't the old frazzled people we sometimes see our parents as. These are people who are looking for love, and still have sex, and like having a good time doing things they love. It's a great movie to see with the parentals!!

"Leap Year," probably the most recent thing I have seen, and because I saw it for free, I don't really have buyers remorse, but if I had spent money on it, I would have been a little mad because its a really cute fun romcom, but the sweetness of it doesn't really stay with you after its over. You may walk out of the theater feeling a little bit better, but about an hour later, you probably will forget you saw it!

"Up in the Air," was not what I was expecting at all, which made it uniquely enjoyable, atleast until the last 15 minutes. I thought it was a great story for the times, and really showed the state of the world as it is now. I mean people who are brought in to downsize a company, because the head honcho is too weak to do it himself, can be characters who are aren't exactly rooting for, but George Clooney and Ana Kendricks, make their characters inherently flawed and believable to a point that while you may not like what they are doing, you are rooting for them anyways. And in the end when George Clooney's character arc doesn't end the way you want it to, you feel this sense of foreboding. Like "not all is well that doesn't end well." So the ending was sad and turned me off a little bit, the acting was impeccable, and it was an interesting story!

That is really all for now, and I have seen some others but I guess they weren't that memorable, since I am not adding them, but if I think of anything else, I will post something else.

I hope you are having a good friday,

Lindsay

Great weekend of Movies coming Up!

So this friday Dec. 11th, some really great movies are going to be out in theaters, and I am really excited!! One for example is Disney's "The Princess and the Frog," which takes us back to the 2D animation many of us grew up watching. A really interesting story, with great music, and fun quirky characters. I am really excited for this movie, not just because its an African American Princess, but because we are back to the original Disney movies, which are in itself, spectacles. So watch for it, because Magic only comes around every so often!!

"Invictus" is another film which comes out on Friday, and that is an exciting one about Nelson Mandela's unification of South Africa, after the apartheids. He used Rugby, as a unification agent, to bring his people together. Another one I am super excited about, and hoping that a lot of people see it. It has Morgan Freeman, who is legendary, and Matt Damon, who is also fantastic, but especially in this movie.

Then Peter Jackson's "The Lovely Bones" also comes out, based on the Bestselling Novel, and this one looks like it should be good. Not such a huge fan of the leading actress, who's names, unfortunately at this juncture is escaping me, but Mark Whalberg, and Rachel Wiez, are definitely two of my favorites, and while I don't like seeing actors I like play villains, Stanley Tucci, as the bad guy in this movie, does it well!

Well if you needed a boost, about something to see this weekend, I hope this helped, because if I will be at the theater as well!! Hope you are a well, and its getting closer to the holidays!!! YAY

-Lindsay

Really Funny Video!!

I was on Facebook, and my friend Kjell, just posted a link to this great video of the Muppets doing Requiem for Dream, and its fantastic!! If you literally just have five minutes, take a peek, at genius! I hope everyone is doing well, and have a great Thanksgiving, if I don't get back on before then. I posted the video below!

Click Here

Enjoy!

Just some Problems!!!

So I have started a new screenplay, a script, which I am really excited about, but then again I was really excited about all the other scripts I have started and not finished. It totally sucks to have an idea, however unformed it was, a good idea, and when you try to communicate it in writing, the coolness kinda fizzles away. So that makes me wonder whether the idea was good enough before I started writing it down, or wether I am just bad at writing screenplays. I hope its neither, but I am not sure.

So I would describe the script i am working on but I don't want to do it here, and have someone read my blog, and steal my idea, because that would suck. So I will keep my concept carefully sealed away till I have finished more, registered it with a WGA number and talked to my lawyer. And then I will, unleash my awesome concept on the world!!! I will finish this one, I have to, and I want to make something else short so I can enter a few festivals, because I am still a no one, and you have to be someone to make it this industry!! Anyhoo, I am going to enjoy my Thursday night, write some emails, and figure out my script!! I hope you have a good thursday night too!! Byes

A Saturday Morning, ritual, reviewing!!

Happy Saturday,

I am not sure why these days, there are no more original ideas when it comes to making movies. Old movies keep being re-made, and I am confused where all the creativity has gone. especially in horror movies, I mean when does, having the same basic structure in every horror movie finally get old!! We had Paranormal Activity, come out, and every body flipped a shit, saying how scared they were, when in fact the movie basically alienates anyone in the population, that hasn't had a mysterious demon who has been following them since when they 8. Which I would probably say is about 95% of the population, and I am probably being a bit generous!! I mean wow, if people can get freaked out by a bunch of closing doors, loud noises, swinging chandeliers, and bird feet (where honestly, it looked like an invisible Big Bird, thought he would by and visit.) AHHHHHH i am so scared. LOL, and I mean I was in the trailer for the freakin thing, yeah I was one of the special few who got to see it early, I am so glad I saw it for FREE!! WOw, I weep for the future of horror if shit like this gets people scared! I was well made, I will give them that, the premise could have been really scary, but the story plot, just killed it!! Anyhoo, I am glad it beat Saw, I mean 6 of those really!! Geeze, I am really excited about Pirate Radio, it seems to be a lot of fun, and I will be seeing it tomorrow. And the Men Who Stare at Goats, although I have gotten some mixed reviews about it! Well I hope this has proved to be enlightening to some people, hopefully those people who haven't seen it yet, won't see it, but if you have people asking you to go, I would say, you should respectfully decline!!

Stay cool,

-Lindsay

The Film Comps Trailer!!

This is a link to the trailer for the 2009 Occidental College Film Comps, which I helped make!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paQvEGe_5G4

YAY

-Lindsay

Why am I Making Movies Personal??

I believe that movies are the most critical form of mass communication available today, with the internet coming in at a close second. So I have decided to combine the two. I recently purchased a green screen, and a light kit, so that I could make funny visual effects on my own, but I haven't used it. I recently saw a commercial that sparked my interest, and showed me that you could put yourself the in the movies you really loved. Have you ever imagined yourself kissing the leading man or woman, jumping out of a airplane, having a shootout in a speeding car, or just being generally really awesome, and impressing all of your friends. But you haven't really accomplished all that yet, well here is your solution. Putting yourself in the movie makes them even more personal then they would be on their own. How cool is that!! Well that is my grand scheme, if your interested in being a test subject so I can find out if my plan really works, please let me know!! Post below with contact info, and I will get back to you!

Here is "The Make-Up" for your viewing pleasure!!

I made this as my senior thesis film at Occidental College, I really had a great time making it and I hope you enjoy watching it. Please give me your thoughts!!

The Make-Up

One of the first films I made at Occidental College, is about a love triangle gone wrong. There is no dialogue, so its music and body language based. It was quite fun to work on, and you will see some of the actors again in other films I make!

-Lindsay

Intro to LDWFILMS

I have films from my production company, that were made early in my career that I will add on the next post, however I don't think I have my external harddrive, with my movies, but we will see.  My latest film is called The Make-Up, and I will post it later.

-Lindsay