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thechrisgethardshow:

Here’s the official announcement of #BonnarooGethard, a project where I’ll walk across America to try and get to a show on time. It’s going to be physically taxing, mentally exhausting, and most of all, it’s going to rely on people all over the country finding out about it and choosing to get involved if I am going to survive it. Check out this video and if the project seems like something you want to get behind, feel free to share the vid and let people know about this one. Any help spreading the word is very, very much appreciated. Thanks! - Geth

This week we officially announced #BonnarooGethard, our new project that starts with a 11 day road trip across the United States and ends with us performing at Bonnaroo.

Three years ago I started carrying around a bag of stick-on googly eyes with me wherever I went. The only problem was that the times when I found something fun to put them on rarely overlapped with times when I had a camera. However, I recently got an iPhone which has been a real game-changer for documenting dumb projects.

GABRIEL DE URIOSTE: Hillman Curtis 1961-2012

gdeu:

Yesterday, my cinema hero and mentor, Hillman Curtis, died after a long battle with colon cancer.

Back in the summer of 2008, my friend Matt showed me Hillman’s short film Roof while we were working at the NYU Production Center. It’s a beautiful and chilling film and it instantly had me hooked….

Read the entirety of Gabe’s post about his personal experience working with filmmaker Hillman Curtis who passed away this week after a long battle with cancer.

A scene on the train: a brother and sister goofing around on the subway as their dad snores, completely asleep, next to them only waking up occasionally to physically separate them.

A magnificent thanks to everyone who came out on Sunday to see my short film Spacewalk screen at NYU. Films, even short ones, take a lot of time, effort, and pain to create and so even the tiniest bit of support at the end of the process means a lot. It feels good to finally be done with it and be able to send it out to festivals. I’ll post updates about future screenings as they come. Thanks again, seriously.

This is a new and extremely short short of mine called Extraordinary.

This is the first in a series of tiny shorts I’ve decided to write and direct so I can stay on top of my game and get to work with performers I haven’t worked with yet. This one is called Extraordinary and features the great Will Hines and Anthony King.

An email I received from my mom.

An email I received from my mom.

I came across this one-star Amazon review for Jacques Tati’s grandiose spectacle film Playtime. The reason I like the review so much is because describing it as being, “…just 2 hours of random people crossing the screen, never to be seen again.” is actually a relatively accurate portrayal of the film. But, as cliche as it is to counter that criticism with this: that’s sort of what I think is amazing about it.

I came across this one-star Amazon review for Jacques Tati’s grandiose spectacle film Playtime. The reason I like the review so much is because describing it as being, “…just 2 hours of random people crossing the screen, never to be seen again.” is actually a relatively accurate portrayal of the film. But, as cliche as it is to counter that criticism with this: that’s sort of what I think is amazing about it.

Broadcasting from my childhood bedroom for the second night. Tune in and influence my dreams, but not loud enough that my parents will wake up, please. As usual, navigate here: http://www.tinychat.com/jdamato

Broadcasting from my childhood bedroom for the second night. Tune in and influence my dreams, but not loud enough that my parents will wake up, please. As usual, navigate here: http://www.tinychat.com/jdamato