CAREER
Followed a bad year
with perhaps my best so far. I worked
about ten months out of the year on tv shows and of course was doing art stuff
the whole time.
I’m still in the notes
phase of my second feature documentary called “Keep On Running,” about marathon
runners from Sierra Leone. I really hope to finish it this year.
I co-wrote a horror
script that was good enough to get a manager and distributor on board. Ultimately, another film came out that was
too similar, but I’m still working with all the same people on a new project
and we’ll keep seeing where this all goes.
If nothing else, it was a great experience to take pitch meetings and go
through producer notes, etc.
This year, I was the
Supervising Editor of a new Showtime show called “Naked SNCTM,” which is my
triumphant return to late night pay cable. I was an editor on one of
the more challenging projects of my career, “Who Shot Biggie and Tupac?” a
two-hour special event for FOX. I cut a
gameshow pilot that was bought by a network.
I helped out cutting on seven episodes of MTV’s Catfish. I’m now cutting a show for OWN called
“Iyanla: Fix My Life,” with the season premiere in just a few weeks.
Maybe my favorite
project was that I cut a trailer for my wife’s upcoming web series “Thank You
Come Again,” loosely based on her experience working in an adult novelty
store. It’s the first thing she ever
directed and she did a really great job!
I participated in 22
group art shows this year, in LA, Boston and Athens. 5 of them were charity shows, and some of
others I gave my proceeds to charity as well.
Those are my favorites. I was
super stoked to make my debut at a couple of galleries I have loved, including
CoPro, SugarMynt and Hyaena. Perhaps the
most exciting show of the year was that I finally participated in “Crazy4Cult”
at Gallery1988. I’ve wished I could be a
part of this show for 10 years, but I never thought it would actually
happen. It was a double whammy of life
dream for me because I painted a pop art portrait of Pee-wee Herman and then I
got to meet Pee-wee and he signed the painting!
And then it sold at the show as my personal best sale ever! What a night.
I did my first two
licensing deals, one for my “The Birds” painting that has now become my first
enamel pin! The other was my F13
painting, which was picked up by Creepy Co. for a limited edition shirt.
I once again did not
vote in the Emmys this year…too busy!
PERSONAL
Still living with
Chelsea, we’ve been together for 100 months now and our nub continues to
grow. I still love her and our life together with all my
heart! For our eighth anniversary in August, we kept it low key and had a
nice dinner after one of my art shows.
And there was the triumphant return of the Bee History of Time!
We did not take many
trips this year because of trying to save up for a house. We did go
to Vegas when Chelsea was invited to be a guest at ClexaCon and I got to meet
Eden Riegel and paint a picture of her for charity! The annual Memorial Day trip got postponed
until Veterans Day and we went to West Palm Beach. For the holidays this year we did Palm
Springs and Atlanta.
I met a lot of my
heroes including Paul Reubens, E.G. Daily, Babs Tarr (twice), Eden Riegel, Marc
Scott Zicree, Judy Tenuta, Ari Lehman, Tippi Hedren (again), Bruce Campbell
(again), Le Dosshaus, Thom Mathews, Bobby Ray Shafer, Devon Whitehead, Rob
Guillory, Kate Micucci (even bought an original painting from her!), and Lloyd
Kaufman once again.
I did a decent amount
of running and exercising this year but could not stay consistent, my weight
was up and down and ended on the upswing.
I did not check off a lot of resolutions this year, but I did do a lot
of awesome stuff I’m really happy about.
JAN 1, 2017 WEIGHT:
211
JAN 1, 2018 WEIGHT: 219
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.
RESOLUTIONS FOR 2018
1) Buy a home.
2) Write another good
script
3) Secret resolution I
will not tell you.
4) Be really serious
about fitness: Get weight back to 180s, new personal best 5k, and run 1000
miles
5) BHOT
6) Develop visual art
style
7) Learn more about
Wacom/designing
8) Finish second
feature film
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!
