About this project
Film criticism has gotten a jolt of inspiration in recent years with the emergence of video essays, some of which are more cinematic and entertaining than the films they analyze. I have done my best to hold up my end of this amazing thousand-way conversation:
http://vimeo.com/user2134367
"The Best of Everything" is my latest and most ambitious video essay, a ten-chapter series. I use the format to lampoon, poeticize and dissect my own struggle to find love, meaning and a purpose during the tumultuous past decade in New York City. This is the story of a blue collar working stiff who insisted on writing and chasing his addiction (movies) against all reason-- and even after I went homeless. In this video, you will hear cultural/social commentary you just can't get from The New Yorker or The Times, not only from myself but also the movie-mad folks down here in the streets with me. I'm coming from a place Shohei Imamura called "the lower half of society"-- or, as I call it, the best seat in the house.
All my previous videos have been completed on borrowed, broken and public computers. (The New York Public Library and the Apple store will be thanked after God in my Oscar speech. :)) To bring off "The Best of Everything" I will require the following:
- a MacBook Pro with Final Cut Studio
-a Canon Vixia HF S20 camcorder
-a Sennheiser MKE 300 microphone
I pledge that the resulting video will be as thought-provoking, easy to digest and easy on the eyes as I can make it. It should also be pretty funny.
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This project reached the deadline without achieving its funding goal on July 19, 2010.
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A DVD of all Big Media Vandalism mashups-- a dozen music videos, as seen on YouTube and elsewhere online, but at master quality.
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2 DVD's: A Big Media Vandalism mashup/video essay disc PLUS the entire "The Best of Everything" series, with extras and a short film.
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I am a micro-budget filmmaker and film critic who loves both disciplines with equal passion.
Over the years, I have accepted money to write for many bigshot publications you've probably heard of, but I am proudest of the work I've done for The House Next Door (http://www.slantmagazine.com/house/2009/12/these-beauties%E2%80%942009-year-in-review/) and my own blog, Big Media Vandalism-- all for the love of it.
My colleague Matt Zoller Seitz has presented some of my videos at The Dallas Video Festival and The Kilruddery Film Festival in Ireland.
He also had some kind words for my work here: http://www.ifc.com/news/2010/01/ranting-in-pictures.php
