My last post about peak experiences and surfing and sex reminded me that inspiration is where you find it. And when you find it, you hold on and don’t let go. From BruceBrownFilms.com Bruce Brown’s sixth film, “The Endless Summer,” is the archetypal tale of two California surfers, blond Mike Hynson and dark Robert August, hitting [...]
Category Archives: Filmcraft
Size Matters More Than Ever!
June 12, 2008 – 11:42 am
Shine Louis Houston is using 35mm lenses on her current production! Previous posts: Size Does Matter (The Incredible Shrinking Focal Plane), Size Still Matters (Kirby Ferguson’s DVD)
Ms. Naughty Says Context is King (And I Agree)
November 30, 2007 – 7:30 am
Have you every noticed that talking/debating about porn is (mostly) more engaging than actually watching it? Anyway, Ms. Naughty, just back from bushwalking and wine-guzzling has added her two cents to the porn/blowjob/feminism debate in a post entitled Boring Blowjobs and Feminist Facials. This is the part that jumped out at me: “Can a facial [...]
No Sadness, Anguish, Pain, or Suffering – Part 2
August 9, 2007 – 12:47 pm
(From our upcoming BEN AND DESIREE) More than two years ago, in post entitled No Sadness, Anguish, Pain, or Suffering I quoted a bit from Violet Blue’s blog about her upcoming edition of Best Women’s Erotica 2006. Said Violet: “I don’t know, but I have to say that I’ve noticed a huge difference in the [...]
Bill and Desiree’s Screen Test
July 12, 2007 – 5:37 am
Flash back to the Spring of 2003. MARIE AND JACK has been finished for almost a year and a half. It’s done well in the few film festivals that accepted it. But so far, no one is interested in selling it. I am sending copies to anyone I can think of who might support the [...]
Reality Closely Observed
April 30, 2007 – 5:08 am
(From “Matt and Khym: Better than Ever”) In the book “The Conversations” master film editor Walter Murch talks about “reality closely observed” being an essential aspect of cinema. He traces this back to Proust and other ninteenth century novelists who turned their creative attention away from history and heros, and toward the drama of everyday [...]
Memo to Sienna Miller: Real sex does not have jump cuts
February 15, 2007 – 10:35 am
The story work on Ashley and Kisha’s interview is done. It’s smooth, it flows it has pace and panache. Right now I’m working the rhythm between the two shot and the close-up, using the camera choice to emphasis passages or highlight reactions. It’s one of my very favorite parts of making these films. I am [...]
Will HD Bring Pubes Back to Porn?
January 25, 2007 – 8:09 am
So the last 24 have had me corresponding with a few people in the sex-blogosphere and elsewhere about HD and HDV and focal length and focal plane and zits and razor-burn and genital herpes, and what it all might mean to the collision of sex and the moving image. Well guess what? It’s time to [...]
Porn in HD, or Why When Porn Sucks the Media Sucks on it Harder.
January 23, 2007 – 6:56 am
“Omagawd! Now we’re going to see that pornstars have pimples and razor burn!” Apparently that’s news enough for the New York Times to run yet another late to the party, misinformed and disinforming story about porn. Again I’m left wondering just what sort of porn the article’s author has been watching that the fact that [...]
How Painting Advanced with Paint Tubes
December 18, 2006 – 6:28 am
I’ve made more than a few posts on this blog about how technology has changed the business and art of photographic sexual imagery. I’ve made posts about the VCR, posts about the CCD chip size in digital cameras, posts about how fantastically capacious and inexpensive DVD replication is; and how all of this has contributed [...]