• 10:02 answering quesitons in an email interview about copyright. sigh. #
• 18:10 bit.ly/2rjRy #

• 10:36 standing up for #netneutrality at the #fcc bit.ly/2Eol3g (via @freepress (also wishing @freepress would stop emailing me so much)) #
• 21:03 looking at crap cycling lanes. funny and enraging at the same time. sigh. icio.us/w2jgp1 #

• 08:09 conducting an archaeological review of my past electronic lives... #
• 10:14 looking for a good alternative to loudtwitter that supports xml-rpc correctly. anyone have suggestions? #
• 15:50 reading unfortunate thread on drupal.org started by very disgruntled user. icio.us/5htocp #

For a little over 2 weeks, we've been in production for Truth On The Line, the new project I'm directing (and wrote). It's been very exciting, and things are going quite well other than feeling like each shoot is very rushed.

We have been shooting at quite a speed - an average of 6 script pages a day. Usually 5 is a good rule of thumb for an "indie" project. We've been pressured by time constraints involving the location and the natural light, as well as my own inexperience at scheduling, but for other shoots coming up I'm hoping that we can have things be a little more relaxed. Read more>>>

I'm in the middle of pre-production for a new project which I do not think I've mentioned before on this blog. Truth On The Line is a TV/web show which will be a hybrid of fiction and nonfiction, news journalism and drama. I like to say that it's a cross between "Slacker" and "Broadcast News", and the news will be real.

I first came up with the idea for this project almost 2 years ago, and have been gradually thinking about it and keeping it simmering on the back burner of my creative stove every since. It was this spring that I finally finished the script for the pilot episode and began. Read more>>>

We're still in pre-production for the pilot of Truth On The Line, the TV/web series that I've been developing for the last 2 years. I finished casting a couple of weeks ago and I'm now trying to schedule rehearsals and shoots, and it's really really challenging. There are 14 speaking parts, so trying to arrive at times where even most of the cast can be there has been crazy.

We did have one meeting where we did a first read-through and I managed to have all but 2 or 3 actors there. That was impressive and it went really well. A photo from that is above.

Truth On The Line is a unique film/tv/web project, telling the story of a varied group of characters who produce media and live their lives in the U.S./Mexico borderlands.

The show is currently in post-production on the pilot episode of TOTL. You can use this site to follow

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