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McBride on Straightedge

Staley — Wed, 05 May 2010 23:47:44 +0000

Completed
And coming soon…

The Monkey Painter

Staley — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 03:21:50 +0000

Is it a monkey that paints? Or a painter who paints monkeys? Or a monkey that paints monkeys? You decide…

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These Strange Dreams

Staley — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 19:02:14 +0000

Soon I will be adding this to eleventhreehundred.com. But for now, the premier is here.

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Fire & water & blood

Staley — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 02:20:50 +0000

We had been talking about it for almost a year. Last night and into the early morning hours we finally shot it. We spilt fire and water and blood. I wish I could share some screenshots but I won’t. Saving them for the end result. I think it will be good.

Doodles

Staley — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 23:07:40 +0000

Sometimes in the morning Azure and I sit and draw together. She draws little dancing fairies in exquisite detail and I draw strange lumpy people(?)

What is R3TUAL?

Staley — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 22:52:19 +0000

I don’t know where this stuff comes from. These ideas. I think that the thing I’m most scared of in life is that someday there wont be any more ideas. For me, that is.

Hard to believe that I made this over 4 years ago now.

I was an inch away from calling it off. Throwing in the towel. Kept telling myself it was stupid. Was never going to work. I was going to fail. But when it was done… Man did I feel good.

I keep reminding myself to get back to that feeling. That gut level creativity. Where you turn off your mind and just make things. That’s how children do it. And it’s amazing to watch. It’s amazing to feel.

I have to get back to that.

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The 2009 DP Reel

Staley — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:32:14 +0000

The awesome thing about photography and filmmaking is that you never stop learning. There are always new challenges and new opportunities to express yourself.

Here’s the new DP reel.

The music is from my good friend at the Dead Beat Project, which I highly recommend if you are looking for awesome original scoring for any projects.

I’m very proud of this new reel but remain humbled by how much there still is to learn. Hope you like it.

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B3YOND

Staley — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 22:26:42 +0000

Every image here is from a digital still. Except the last, which was created in a program called Poser. It was all put together in After Effects and the music is a NIN track I remixed.

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A Couple Days

Staley — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 18:51:45 +0000

Yesterday BOY|MAN was accepted into 2 more festivals. That’s three this week. Pretty darn cool. Here’s what we know so far:

International Family Film Festival – Hollywood – February 26th – March 1st, 2009

Women’s International Film Festival – Miami – February 27th – March 8th, 2009

Cleveland International Film Festival – Cleveland – March 19th – 29th, 2009

I knew this great little film would have a life out there. I am excited for more people to see it. And of course, CORPSE RUN will be at CINEQUEST at the end of February too. It’s exciting to see Present Day Pictures making a strong representation on the festival circuit. Our little company was created out of a love and passion for cinema and it feels good to be able to share that love and passion with larger and larger audiences.

And this morning I awoke to an email from (Awesome) photographer Cynthia Karin of KARIN+RAOUL informing me that they were honoring me with a very complimentary plug on their excellent blog. To be in the company of the other selected works on their site is both immensely gratifying and humbling. The best compliments always come from other artists you respect and I feel very grateful for the nod from Karin & Raoul. Please take the time to browse both sites I mentioned, you will not be disappointed. Indeed Cynthia’s personal work is one of my favorite recent discoveries. I get the bulk of my inspiration from music and photography and her lighting and compositions instantly planted the seeds for future stories in my head.

If you choose this kind of life, many days are filled with rejection and failure. Or worse than that, simply silence and non-response. You are often left waiting, never achieving even closure for your failure. But you keep working. Keep creating. Keep putting yourself and your work out there. And then sometimes you get a couple days of very positive response and it feels really good. And you are grateful. And you enjoy it. And then you go back to work.

Boy of Blue

Staley — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:09:21 +0000

Chase Jarvis posted this on facebook. He’s one of my “friends” so I happened to see it. I thought it was so cool I had to repost it here. This guy makes cameras out of (among other things) human skulls.

I would love to learn how to make cameras. Not necessarily out of human skulls as I don’t really know where to get them and this guy already did a pretty good job of it. But it sure would be cool to build a camera.

Woah…

You ever get the feeling that your running out of time to learn all the cool stuff you want to learn? Maybe I just woke up that way and it will pass after my second cup of coffee.

- Staley Out