Dinosaur Speak

Some shots. TS

The poet Jack Spicer as drawn by Bob Thomas, a friend from my Ashland and Southern Oregon College days, 1969-1970. I rented a room from ...

I have a point to make, dammit!  Let me speak or I'll throttle you! TS

I may use this image by Charles Lucas in my film. TS

If you do nothing else today, read this epic poem by Nin Andrews posted at Tom Clark's Beyond the Pale . The MFA poem (or the anti-MF...

Editing, if you are searching as I am for answers, can be a slow, arduous process.  I worked all morning on "The Project," and I ...

Welcome to Sarajevo (1997) is a brilliantly effective feature film in the manner in which it intercuts location footage, newsreel and re-...

An important shot for the docupersonal. Diane and Harlan in Boston, 1975. Diane was affiliated with the Lewiston, Maine Tena...

This is the original Buddy, circa 1974. I liked the name "Buddy" from the get go, so I would eventually appropriate it for var...

(By 19 months I was already in the driver's seat.) A neighbor who has read my memoir wants to be in the movie! I have a perfect rol...

(My brothers Leo, Dan and Lyle, in 1954.  Lyle, the oldest, died in 1982.  Leo and Dan died last year.  I was 3 years-old when this photo ...

This is a gathering day.  I have over 100 black and white photos of various family members.  I'm sorting through them and shooting ima...

Awaaak this weather! I am regressing now.  Last week and the week before I walked and walked.  I had never been happier. My body felt ...

I spent the weekend working on the script and a few edits for the project. The film I'm making based on my book shall henceforth be kn...

The Northwest Film Center once paid homage to this scene from Wenders's  Wings of Desire for a Portland International Film Festival ad...