Weekly Reading List: March 8, 2022

Poking a Dead Frog: Conversations with Today’s Top Comedy Writers by Mike Sacks The Marriage Book: Centuries of Advice, Inspiration, and Cautionary Tales from Adam and Eve to Zoloft by Lisa Grunwald and Stephen Adler U2 By U2 by U2 and Neil McCormick Art Brut: The Origins of Outsider...

Filming, googly eyes, and ripping CDs

Actual production on The Nick White Show has begun… sorta. The first video will be a little no-dialogue skit using the graffiti wall I posted about yesterday as an outdoor set. I filmed it this morning (because I forgot about the whole nasty black shadows on the set thing...

Friday Arts & Crafts Day Update: March 4, 2022

No knitting or stitching this week, it was all about the prop and set making for The Nick White Show this week. The biggest project was this graffiti and poster wall that I officially needed only for one quick shot in a montage in the trailer, but I kinda...

Weekly Reading List: March 1, 2022

12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos by Jordan B. Peterson Christian Louboutin: The Exhibition(ist) by Eric Reinhardt and Jean-Vincent Simonet The Marriage Book: Centuries of Advice, Inspiration, and Cautionary Tales from Adam and Eve to Zoloft by Lisa Grunwald and Stephen Adler U2 By U2 by U2...

Propmaking, rain, and a leaky dishwasher

Once again, the big activity of the week was making props for the trailer I need to shoot ASAP for The Nick White Show, but I covered that in yesterday’s post, so never mind. I have had a couple people now recommend I switch to Super Sculpey clay, and...

Friday Arts & Crafts Day Update: February 25, 2022

More stuff for The Nick White Show: It should be noted for the record that those Grammys are not Nick’s. Instead, they were awarded to his rival who already has a couple dozen of them kicking around in his garage: In other prop-building for the show, I’ve painted a...

Weekly Reading List: February 22, 2022

From the Ground Up: U2 360º Tour Official Photobook by Dylan Jones and Ralph Larmann Self-Promotion for the Creative Person: Get the Word Out About Who You Are and What You Do by Lee Silber 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos by Jordan B. Peterson Guerrilla Marketing:...