Year: 2000

  • Good news, uncertain news


    The good news: I finished shooting and editing the documentary, now titled “Spiral Fugue.” The other news: I’m leaving Creative Resources to go work at Atomic Films in Chattanooga, doing video editing and post-production. I don’t know at this time what that means for the future and/or usage of this hour-long documentary. Hopefully, time will tell!

  • More music interviews & shoots


    This week I’ll be interviewing Bob Bernhardt (conductor); visiting a Shaking Ray Levi Society music event; and either getting some African Rock or some Mountain Opry perspectives.

  • F2F flat ideas


    host camera guest camera flat design 1-b flat design 1-A

  • The Reckless Life


    Here’s a treat: a modern picture of me with hair… though not actual hair. Earlier this year (March & April) I had a role (in fact, three roles) in a play called “Reckless” (by Craig Lucas), in the Circle Theatre at the Chattanooga Theatre Centre. One of my characters was an insincere, smarmy game show host…

  • Sculpting


      To catch y’all up on some artistic backlog… I worked on some sculptures in clay back in the fall (1999) and spring (2000). The big bone-looking thing is supposed to be, well, a big bone. (Our model was from a cow, probably a leg or jaw or something.)       My main project this spring…

  • Musing on music


    Sure, music’s a lot of fun. And the convergence of computers with music has certainly been interesting so far. Take MP3s, for example. I thought the connection with Suzanne Vega was fascinating (thanks to King for the forward – link broken now, but discussed the influence of Suzanne Vega on the actual coding of the MP3 standard). Ok,…

  • Riverbend 2000 + Carmina


    Riverbend has begun. I’m looking forward to seeing Susan Werner perform on Wednesday (and perhaps get an interview with her for my ever-continuing music documentary). Here I am with Susan back in 1995. I’ve started working again on my Community Communication Project. Perhaps I can go ahead and change human society in my free time. And here is the…

  • Music documentary?


    I’m putting together a documentary on the diversity of music, using a nonlinear narrative style (look at it this way: instead of being told like a story, in a straight line, this look at music unfolds like a spiral staircase). It will probably be somewhat similar to the “Noteworthy” mini-series I created back in 1990-1991.…

  • SF 2000, Day 6


    (Due to an Earthlink/Mindspring outage the update was posted later than planned. ) I”ve updated the design of my daily updates, hoping to make it more read-able. I spent much of the day at the Macworld Expo in the Moscone Center, downtown San Francisco. It’s not as big as NAB/Las Vegas, but it certainly is…

  • SF 2000, Day 5


    It was actually overcast this morning — the first non-bright-blue-sky treatment I’ve seen since last Friday. And it rained, at least enough that I could see the raindrops; evidently this is the first significant precipitation in three weeks. By the time I left the apartment, though, the familiar blue sky had emerged. This afternoon I took a tour through the…

  • SF 2000, Day 4


    Today’s travels took me across the famed Golden Gate Bridge (The Big Red One) to Marin County (turns out it’s pronounced mare-IN). But first, we ate lunch at Joe’s Grill on Clement Street (though some people call it Bill’s Place) where I had a perfect bacon-BBQ-cheeseburger. King, his wife Gwen and I went to Muir Woods, part of the California…

  • SF 2000, Day 3


    Another day surveying the San Francisco Bay area. Today King drove us over the Bay Bridge to Oakland, then Berkeley, and then over a big hill and some twisty roads which eventually led us back to San Francisco. I visited my first California grocery store (a Safeway). And slept. (For more info on The City,…

  • New Year’s Day 2000 in SF


    New Year’s Day. First day of The Big Rollover. I’m not taking any strong stands on “New Millennium” vs. “2001 as the true mathematical heir” — it is The Big Rollover from 1999 to 2000 and that’s enough for me. For those of you just tuning in — I’m in San Francisco, California. Today King…