CAREER
Followed
a financially great year with one not so great. I had 6 months off at
the beginning of the year. I meant
to concentrate on pursuing scripted content, but in the end all I wanted to do
was paint! And so I did, and I put
a lot of time and money into creating and selling my artwork. In the end, I made a lot of contacts
and even some fans and got a decent foothold into the group art scene in Los
Angeles. I participated in
fourteen group art shows at galleries such as Creature Features, Bearded Lady’s
Mystic Museum, The Dark Arts Emporium, Forgotten Saints, San Diego Comic Con
Art Show, and even a longstanding dream come true: Gallery1988. I became the resident artist at Cross
Roads Escape Games in Anaheim, for whom I also designed a t-shirt. I obtained a seller’s permit and had a
vending table at Days of the Dead, Monsterpalooza and many smaller events
around the city, selling prints and t-shirts of my work. I sold a half-dozen original paintings,
including one for $1k!
My
feature documentary “In The Turn,”
continued travelling the world and has now been officially distributed. You can find the film so far on iTunes,
Amazon and Vimeo.
I
cut a second feature documentary this year called “Keep On Running,” about
marathon runners from Sierra Leone.
I am presently going through the notes process with the director, who
lives in London.
I
cut two short films for the OutFest OutSet program. One is called “Hey
Stacey!” and the other is called “It’s a Boy.” I love them both and they’ve been touring around festivals
this year all over the country.
I
wrote a short horror film called “Inspiration” that was filmed for CrypTV. Much of the same team from “Love in the
Time of Monsters,” created it. I
also edited my first horror short called “Mystery Phone.”
I
returned to professional editing in July. As such, I was the Supervising Editor of a new MTV show
called “Shinesty,” about a clothing company of the same name. I was very happy to lend a few days
work to this year’s TBS Christmas special called “Surprise! Instant Xmas
Carols,” which was the official kickoff to the 20th anniversary “A
Christmas Story” marathon. And I’m
currently back as Supervising Editor for season 3 of “Triple Play” for Playboy
Channel.
I
once again did not vote in the Emmys this year, only the nominations…too busy!
PERSONAL
Still
living with Chelsea, we’ve been together for 88 months now and our nub
continues to grow. I still love her and our life together with all
my heart! For our seventh anniversary in August, we basically ignored it
because we were deep into terrible wedding planning and a month away from
getting married.
Which
we did! We got married on
September 18th and it was awesome! It’s official, bees for life, yay! Obviously this is the highlight of my year.
Again,
we did not take many trips this year because of not having money coming
in. But I did have a bachelor
party in Vegas and my SCAD friends and brothers were there and that was also
awesome! And went to San Diego
Comic Con for my first time, which was a blast. And then I went to Savannah for a wedding in November.
I
continued to get my Friday the 13th painting autographed by stars
and crew members, and I’ve done several more horror themed pop art
paintings. I’ve become a little
part of the horror scene in LA as well and it’s super fun.
I
met a lot of my heroes including famed comic book artists and creators Paul
Dini and Bruce Timm, and lots of other people I met at SDCC, which you can read
about in that post. Met Tom Savini
and Tony Todd for a third time, Ben Edlund twice, Sean S. Cunningham, Fairuza
Balk and Rachel True, Larry Zerner, Adrienne King, John Carl Buechler, Bill
Moseley twice (he bought a shirt from me!), Derek Mears, Jessie Lee, Leslie
Easterbrook and Sid Haig again.
My
running and fitness went great when I wasn’t working, but was destroyed this
year by wedding planning. I lost 22 lbs but I still had to rent a
tux. Then I gained all the weight
back with interest :(
JAN
1, 2016 WEIGHT: 204
JAN
1, 2017 WEIGHT: 211
RESOLUTIONS
FOR 2016
1)
Write a good script.
2)
Cut a horror film/short.
3)
Cut “Keep on Running”
4)
Solo art show.
5)
Be really serious about fitness. I want a new PB 5k and to
fit in my tux.
6)
Marry Chelsea.
7)
Write a song for piano.
8)
Continue learning to use more graphics in editing. Use AfterEffects.
9)
Love Chelsea like she’s never been loved before. And then love her
some more.
10)
Continue being awesome.
RESOLUTIONS
FOR 2017
1)
Buy a home.
2)
Cut another horror film/short.
3)
Picture Lock “Keep on Running”
4)
Solo art show.
5)
Be really serious about fitness: Get weight back to 180s, new personal best 5k,
and run 1000 miles.
6)
BHOT
7)
A secret resolution I will not
tell you.
8)
Continue learning to use more graphics in editing. Use AfterEffects.
9)
Love Chelsea like she’s never been loved before. And then love her some
more.
10)
Continue being awesome.
I know, I gotta believe!
