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Another film appearance!

bodhipaksa — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 23:02:49 +0000

Last year, a week after returning from Ethiopia, I got roped into narrating a movie that was being submitted to the 48 Hour Film Festival in New Hampshire. As well as narrating, I helped brainstorm the plot and had a small onscreen role. I was asked to participate again this year, but since my wife works at weekends, when the competition takes place, I had to say no. But Newmarket is a small place…

So when the kids and I went down to Crackskulls Cafe for icecream, I bumped into the crew and was invited to be an extra. Fame! Again!

So here are two shots of my brief appearance onscreen. You really need the stills, otherwise you’d miss me!

And since only a trained observer could tell it was me in those two shots, here’s my name in the credits:

And here, for your entertainment, is the film itself. I think the guys did a great job this year.

Now I just have to sit back and wait for the Hollywood offers to roll in!

Intelligent Design advocates lie to get scientists involved in a film

Me and my boy at New Hampshire Media Makers

bodhipaksa — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 02:33:37 +0000

Sunday was the day for the monthly New Hampshire Media Makers meetup in Crackskulls Cafe and Bookstore in downtown Newmarket. Shrijnana had Maia at the inaugural young Sangha meeting at Aryaloka, so I took Malkias along with me. Considering it was a two hour meeting with lots of adult chatter, he did great. He even fell asleep for 40 minutes or so.

In the photo above, I’m sitting with the Nebula Award-winning author, James Patrick Kelly.

The guy above with the yellow t-shirt is a filmmaker, although I can’t remember his name. There are a lot of amazing people at NHMM.

Both photographs are stolen from John Herman‘s Flikr photostream.

Update: And here are three more pics from the mighty E. Christopher Clark (“Geek Force Five!“)

Ladybird visitor

bodhipaksa — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 22:05:14 +0000

Ladybird, ladybug. Take your pick.

This wasn’t the greatest photo since the ladyinsect was moving almost continuously and the light levels were low.

Golden fall

bodhipaksa — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 01:21:13 +0000

One of the joys of the fall: backlit maple leaves.

Golden beetle on slate

Dragonfly wing over peeling paint

bodhipaksa — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:55:39 +0000

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Golden beetle on slate

bodhipaksa — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 02:46:09 +0000

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Dragonfly wings over slate

bodhipaksa — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 02:37:18 +0000

I like this one too. I cropped it so you can see more of the detail. Related posts: Dragonfly wings against summer foliage Golden beetle on slate Dragonfly wing over peeling paint Related posts:

Dragonfly wings against summer foliage

bodhipaksa — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 02:25:27 +0000

I couldn’t resist playing with the macro function on my camera this evening after finding a dead dragonfly on the back porch. The picture came out rather well, I thought.

My movie début

bodhipaksa — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:02:32 +0000

So last night I went to Londonderry (New Hampshire) to watch movies that had been submitted as part of the New Hampshire 48 Hour Film Project — including the following short, film, in which I did the narration:

The 48 Hour Film Project is a worldwide enterprise where on Friday evening teams of filmmakers (usually amateur and often first-time) are given a genre (in our case fantasy — others included musical, suspense, cop, and buddy movie), a character (either Marie or Max Otterbein), the character’s profession (waitress/waiter), a prop (sunglasses), and a line of dialogue (“Don’t just stand there. Move it!”). Teams also had t include a New Hampshire landmark in the movie. By Sunday evening the film must be handed in.

John Herman was the force behind our effort. He’d asked me to do the narration, but I also got drafted in to brainstorm ideas for the script (although not to write the script itself) and I also had a small on-screen role at the start and end of the film. It’s not a perfect movie by any means, but I’m very impressed with what John and the team managed to pull off in the 48 hours available.

It was a lot of fun and I hope I get to be involved next year.

Monochrome Friday: Rye Beach

bodhipaksa — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 11:00:32 +0000

Shrijnana and Maia at Rye Beach, almost a year ago, in April 2008.

This photograph is part of Monochrome Friday.