The Selling: Picture Postcard Edition

The Selling is a horror-comedy that's kind of like Poltergeist, but instead of being scary for a family, it's inconvenient for a real estate agent.

Back when we made this award-winning movie, I spent time on set doing things like backing up footage from the camera, recoloring stills in strange ways with a program called RED ALERT, and assembling the film.

Although the movie was edited in Final Cut 7, when the end of the shoot came around I threw a bunch of those stills into iMovie to make a quick and easy slideshow. It was set to OKGO’s “The House Wins,” which seemed appropos. Today, the way the easing of the Ken Burns Effect™ clashes with the crossfades bothers me a little.

I bring all this up now because we’re just a few days away from the 1-month anniversary of halloween candy being on the shelves of my local grocer, so Halloween season must be getting into high gear. The perfect time for a scary laugh!

The Selling stars Gabriel Diani, Etta Devine, Janet Varney, and Jonathan Klein, with Barry Bostwick, Cole Stratton, Kitty Swink, Phil Proctor, and Delilah the Goat. Stream it today!

Brand New Tuba Music

Here are some thumbnails I made for the TMBG Live at Kings Theatre video, so that YouTube could run A/B tests to see what was the best clickbait

YouTube’s results said that they were all completely amazing and that I’m very clever and smart and good-looking.

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Also, that the video didn’t get enough clicks to measure anything.

You win some, you lose some.

TMBG live at Kings Theatre - a fan concert film

On the list of things that I do, one of them is hoard They Might Be Giants bootlegs. I like the varying arrangements of songs, and picking up on little differences and details, or noticing what was happening in a certain moment lights up the same part of my brain that likes figuring out what an actor is going for when I’m editing a scene.

A little while ago, I noticed that there was one particular show - at the Kings Theatre in Brooklyn in December of 2024 - that had an unusual amount of audience recordings posted to YouTube. There were cameras on both sides of the stage and one person who shot a 2-hour wide angle of the stage. They’re the real hero here, making everything else possible. As a bonus, the sources I used for audio didn’t even have an audience member screaming straight into the mic or talking through the whole show. We really lucked out here.

I thought it would be cool if we had an ‘I F’n Shot That’-style film of a TMBG show and then before the idea calcified into Brain Crack, I got to work. I think there must be a lot more audience recordings of the same show out there, but I like a nice finite project, something with an ending. And a beginning for that matter.

So please enjoy this homemade concert film of TMBG on 2024/12/13, a John Henry spotlight show.

Show credits:

Flans (left) side stage cam: SusieTMBGfan

Linnell (right) side stage cam: Dave idmarx

Left balcony: Larry Rulz

Right balcony / Wide master shot: Tunes Chino! (he is our hero)

Center section right: Chad Sclove

Center section left: Everything Concerts

Also center section: Opmi

Setlist scan: Wireless mike

Editor: http://normalwebsite.com

and Performing songs: TMBG - 2026 tour tix on sale now!

Huddled Masses

Here’s a music video I helped out on for the NY Civil Liberties Union, directed by Jessica Sanders. Editor Nadine Mundo brought me along to do some assistant editing and graphics work.

Don’t miss the breakdown at 3m.

Not Art #30: Unacceptable, chapter zero(?!)

A new issue for an old year, about old issues from older years. Don’t tell anyone, but the issue title font is wrong.

Next year, I’d like to start sending out a new serial that I’ve been dwelling on for a long time, and try to get over the idea that I’m bothering my subscribers by sending them the thing they signed up for. You could always become one of them, you know. Nothing drowns out the publishing guilt with not-publishing guilt like a new subscriber!