been getting some love from AINT IT COOL NEWS and Variety! So i wanted to throw up another vid from about the halfway point through the ISS build process…

ISS in the backyard from panawill on Vimeo.

its been a heck of a ride! so close! been at sony all week finishing up the mix in the gorgeous William Holden Theater. a theater so beautiful i had to use caps out of pure respect. being in that theater is awe inspiring. sat and sun ill be finishing up some final color stuff, and then thats it, we print the s o b out!

myspace did a little blog on us and the trailer so i figured i’d toss the link here… though it links back to me, sooo its kinda like when you look into a mirror that looks into another mirror.. weird.

cant wait to show everyone the film!

myspace ava article

so, its been a really long time, i know….. but damn we are finally done shooting everything for LOVE. we are officially in the “tieing up loose ends” part… Was in ADR all day yesterday with Gunner, sound design is moving along and the tracks are getting polished etc. Its been a super long haul, but we are way close.

spent the whole morning cleaning up some of the monster mess I made last weekend while shooting.

its weird to think that this movie has taken around 4 years… i was 24 or 23 when this journey began and now im almost 28. its crazy putting this much of ones self into a project, but in a way its so awesome… a lot of the art in the film is stuff i was drawing back in high school, in the backround of one of the shots in the space station theres a picture of my dog who was alive while we were shooting and now hes past…i think in the world of film making its rare to be able to have the pallete of 4 years to create something… might not of had the budget, but we definetly had the time. both the film and i were able to go through some serious evolution. i think back about it now, and decisions i would have made about things back then i dont think i would have made now and vice versa. i think thats why the film will so cool though. the story almost loosely follows a similar path, or theme, of how time changes eveything, especially perspective. its funny how true the saying is: that only time can understand how precious love is… the irony is amazing.

while the film definetly has a lot of little metaphorical messages in it, im hoping everyone is able to find them in their own way… that to me is what film making as all about. connection is everything. love is everything.

been using my computer to keep notes on shoots. hopefully when the ava movie comes out i can release the zillions of pages i have on the whole thing. these are from the inserts for a different film i was workin on last weekend.

(i wanted to add, i sometimes do random uploads to tumblr and twitter which are linked, so if you want to add me to your twitter thingy heres my site http://twitter.com/superswift )

lost in space

so im pumped to be back because: there’s warm weather, or at least warmer than subzero … an editing office with cool shit happening ( i know i always say this … but i’m serious ) .. and i’m back with good creative people. ie. ava peoples… not to say where i was, was without creative people… but i have some intense stories to tell, that i will probably save for a couple of years from now, when the heat has died down.

whats on the menu for love, and what the f is happening with it…. in the final cutting stages with the vfx and some sound mixing mumbo jumbo. scott chesnutt a very talented cutter is doing the honors, which is only adding to the awesome base brian berdan set.

just finished up the coloring process for the new angels and airwaves music video “hallucinations” directed by myself and mark eaton… ive done a lot of music video stuff for ava and i think this is by far one of their best videos…

have some cool stuff in the works for another mind bender project… very cryptic, but very cool…