They tried to stamp out piracy, but those teenage hackers in Eastern Europe and Russia were just too damn good. Unable to sell theater tickets, DVDs, or even the uber-cheapest of downloads, the studios turned to filling their films with product placements. But people quickly tired of films about Ipad smugglers or ordinary people turned into superheroes by drinking Coke. They tried watching You Tube videos to entertain themselves, but grew bored with skateboarders doing face-plants,…

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Cables, carts, and cardboard start long before the camera's role. For everytime "action" is said a million and one things have already occurred. A fleet of questions and phone calls to answer. The sheer military movement of the whole escapade is a welcoming home. My inner Marine soars at the…

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I've always been a character in my own productions. In every song I sing to an imaginary lover, the voice is my own. As a cartoon silhouette or the stark-white figure making snow angels on the basement floor, naked to the camera with a broken noose around his neck, I'm there. I speak to friends of loneliness, depression, compulsion and joy, every word thoroughly considered and rehearsed. So many actions and conversations are scripted and story-boarded in advance, some never seeing production.… Continue