Posted on Jan 24, 2014 in Being Ginger Tour
People are amazing. I think I watch the news too much sometimes; the news is always full of the worst bits of humanity. It can make you question basic human decency. But then you go out, and you put forth a little effort (or maybe a lot of effort) and your reward is a seemingly never ending stream of kindness. I flew up to Seattle on Monday. It was my first time in the Pacific Northwest. An old friend gave me a brief tour of the city, and I was able to grab a pint with...
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Posted on Jan 18, 2014 in Being Ginger Tour
I have never been so nervous in my life. I had been though six screenings of Being Ginger going into last night, and the audience reaction has always been nothing but positive. But this screening was different. My parents where there. One night back in 2001 I called my parents to tell them I had decided to change majors from Mechanical Engineering to Film. And in the last 13 years, I’ve never shown them any of my work. I think in my mother’s case she assumed...
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Posted on Jan 16, 2014 in Being Ginger Tour
So the Being Ginger Tour is off to a flying start. I had my first screening down in Austin on Monday, and it was a truly special experience. It was a rough day at first because I learned at midnight the night before that the theatre couldn’t play my BluRay disk. I spent the entire day trying to find a solution, racing back and forth across town terrified that we would have to cancel the screening. This was going on at the same time I learned the screening had sold...
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Posted on Jan 10, 2014 in An American Ginger In Paris, Being Ginger Tour
Over the last few weeks I’ve made a few jokes about the film’s “sequel.” I speculated that maybe I should hire a camera op to follow me on my film tour since I expect to get into various shenanigans along the way. It was a popular idea, but sadly it isn’t realistic. I suspected hiring a camera op would cost at least $10,000. I talked to a few friends, and they told me it would be closer to $30,000. (Maybe they could do it for half that, because it seemed...
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