Thursday, August 27, 2009

Ah Pook Is Here


Writers work with words and voices just as painters work with colors; and where do these words and voices come from? Many sources; conversations heard and overheard, movies and radio broadcasts, newspapers, magazines, yes, and other writers.--William Seward Burroughs.

The title of this blog, which, I must say is brilliant, was stolen from two sources. The first, Old Bull Lee himself. He was writing a book way back when that was never published called "Ah Pook Was Here?" The other source is public restroom inscriptions like "Salt Chunk Mary was Here," or, "Edna Million was here, 2009." I stole these two ideas and created one amazing blog title. The addition I made was to turn the "was" into an "is" because only a fool would write they "was" somewhere. You "is" somewhere. Right?

Godard has created the most amazing film-universe through savage thievery. (That's the trick, you can't be a cautious or lazy thief) It is his gift to us, for now we may walk in its cruel and familiar beauty.

Everything belongs to the inspired and dedicated thief.

Saturday, August 1, 2009

Filmmakers on the Loose

Our first real Cinema Caldera business trip; we headed down to Sonoma County to film some kids from the Boys and Girls Club going to see the Santa Rosa Symphony.

We traveled all four corners of lovely Sonoma County, from Rohnert Park to Healdsburg to Sonoma town to Guerneville. All purple and gold and green with heavy grapevines in the sun as far as the eye can see.

In the meantime, we hit the cute little downtown market in Santa Rosa wednesday night for supplies.


We also got a chance to meet up with our friend Dan Donahoe of Teira Wines and Hudson Street Wineries to finalize some shots for his video and to share A LOT of delicious wine. And to have pizza with his lovely daughters and hang out in the grand event space there which we decked out for the video.

Darin and Stan began to bear an uncanny resemblance in aspect and demeanor. They even accidentally donned matching clothes which we lovingly called their Cinema Caldera uniforms: Columbia shorts with royal blue sweatshirts. Stan was too embarrassed to fully rock the twin look here but I think you can detect their odd alliance.


















Film-makers at work.
and loving it.