I’m on a new writing assignment.  It’s very exciting.  I sort of can’t believe my luck in getting the job….and I can’t say any more about it than that.

The project is very hush-hush at the moment.  In fact, if it weren’t for the fact that no one actually reads this blog, I wouldn’t even be mentioning it here.  Hopefully in a few weeks (months?) I can say more.  Stay tuned.

Anyone who’s interested can track the progress on the handy little “Current Writing Project” progress bar on the right side of the blog.  It’s a WordPress widget called Dave’s Whizmatronic Widgulating Calibrational Scribometer.  And that’s all I can tell you.

People are talking about Full Disclosure.

Official Best of Fest - The best movies you've never seen.

In putting up the Full Disclosure preview the other day, I was looking up links and discovered a couple interesting things.  First, someone has uploaded a pirated version onto YouTube.  So if anyone wants to watch the complete short film with horrible sound and picture and Italian subtitles, just go to YouTube.

The other, nicer thing is that a couple people wrote some very nice reviews about Full Disclosure as part of the new Official Best of Fest Sampler DVD collection that came out in December.  Full Disclosure was made years ago and didn’t get a lot of reviews at the time (no one reviews short films, it seems).  There are a few reviews floating around out there, but I’m not going to go dig them up.  But these reviews came out a little over a month ago, so I figured they’re fair game to post. (continue reading…)

Here’s the opening part of Full Disclosure. About a third of the film really. If you like it, the short is available for $1.99 from the iTunes Store or $8.95 on DVD on this site’s Store Page. You can also find some DVD collections that include Full Disclosure.

Here’s a moment I love from Entry Level. Sam Beirstagen (Cedric Yarbrough) is Clay’s job counselor. Big help he is. (continue reading…)

Dave Knudsen from Minus the Bear jams on a Verellen custom tube amp in my MTV.com video "Tube Addiction".

A few months ago I made a couple of cool little videos for a MTV.com as part of their upcoming series, $5 Cover: Seattle, directed by Lynn Shelton.  They were looking for filmmakers to do some fun, documentary-style videos on some topic around the Seattle music scene.

My videos were about Verellen Amps – a shop in Seattle that builds custom tube amplifier that’s run by and for musicians.  It has a sweet guitar performance by Dave Knudsen of Minus the Bear.  That one’s called “Tube Addiction.”  The other one is “Seattle’s Vortex,” about a rehearsal space crammed into an industrial park in Seattle’s North End that serves as an practice space/second home/band incubator for a lot of talented emerging bands like Three Chord Killer, Underdose, The Mercury Rising, and Achilles Fall.

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