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First get mad at DIY DAYS & then all will fall into place

OpenIndie was asked to participate in the DIY DAYS incubator on April 3rd 2010 where Kieran & I spent the whole day reviewing the strengths and challenges of introducing OpenIndie to the world. The tail end of the day was spent preparing and rehearsing this presentation that I then gave to the DIY DAYS participants. [...]

Can portable devices support a new film experience?

David lynch is pretty set on people really missing out if they try to watch a film on a phone. But this doesn’t mean that smart phones can’t enhance the cinema experience. Here are a few obvious things I see as valuable in designing a new film experience: • Discovering near by screenings of [...]

OpenIndie launched & We Live in Public released

Watch Video On YouTube Today, March 1st 2010 OpenIndie launched in beta to the 100 filmmakers who provided over 12,000 dollars to have the site built by myself (Arin Crumley) and my co-founder Kieran Masterton. I was blown away by Kieran’s quality of programming and design at launch. The site is truly inspiring to me and [...]

Too Many Plantain Chips (NEXUS ONE)

This new years eve crystallized some big concepts for me. I wasn’t planning to create new years resolutions but as I let my self sleep in recovering from the catastrophes of the day before the ways in which I’d like to improve came flying into my head. While coming to terms with it all I [...]

25 and a half hours in Madrid

I’m headed to Madrid for a very short trip. Landing 10 am tomorrow and leaving 11:30 am the following day. Ridiculously short. I’m in the thick of preparing for a shoot this upcoming weekend so I’m really forced to ping over there then ping back. Normally I’d want to stay a [...]

FIRST YOU HAVE TO GET MAD! – Then build OpenIndie

You are not the only one struggling. Everyone is. And we can do something about it. But first you’ve got to get mad. Post a video or tweet saying, “I’m as mad as hell and I’m not going to take it any more.” Put @openindie and we’ll find it and make a [...]

Paranormal Activity demonstrates OpenIndie.com method

During my talk at the Filmmakers Forum I presented OpenIndie.com to a room full of filmmakers and got very positive response including someone cutting me a check for 100 dollars to join the list of pioneering filmmakers that will launch the site. I didn’t have the heart to tell him it’s actually better to make [...]

Your Phone Can Make a Change – Be A VJ

As a tribute to the brave video journalists that risk imprisoned to bring us news from the front lines I have teamed up with DogWoof & The Co-Operative to produce a series of videos that teach people how to Be A VJ. The more video journalists there are the less effective it is to [...]

Wine Cellar Heated Debate on State of Industry

Exactly a year ago a room full of filmmaker and technologists got together to discuss what was wrong with the film industry and how we might go about fixing it. Parts of the discussion turned into almost a screaming debate as we all struggled to get our ideas heard by the rest of the table. [...]

“Be The Change” – BULL SHIT!!!!! (just kidding of course)

I first saw this Ghandi quote on my friend Eugina’s myspace profile several years back and vaguely remembered it from elementary but mostly it felt fresh to me and really thought it resonated. At the time I had been trying to talk about new film industry models which my friend Andrew A Peterson referred [...]

2 Terabytea & a microphone

Answering a couple questions about the GH1

You can friend me on facebook for discussions like this we often have in the comments of status updates, or feel free to message me anytime, everyone helps me out so much that I of course want to do what ever I can to help you guys back.

Thank God for the Internet! We’ve met our kickstarter Goal!

Thank god for the internet and thank god for all of you. Thank you to everyone who contributed and/or asked others to do so. We reached our goal of 2,500 dollars and it keeps climbing. (see current status of campaign here) Amazing! This is huge for me and is opening my view into a whole slew of [...]

Need $1,860 donated by AUG 26th 10AM or we get nothing

A new video is in the works to post tonight giving us tomorrow to be the big final 24 hour count down to when our kick starter campaign ends at 10 AM on wednesday August 26th. So tonight I’m hoping to quickly resign up with iContact.com (is this the best?) for a bulk email service [...]

Finished at Kushi Institute then went to Stafford Springs CT

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A sip of Clarity

This song is ‘Videotape’ by Radio on ‘In Rainbows’ and is available in iTunes & amazon.

Looking for video software developer to facilitate GH1 workflow

We’ve gotten 595 dollars on kickstarter!!! Keep spreading the word, if we get to 2500 then we’ll be able to get the lights and generator we need for our upcoming shoot. So here is more about the software I talk about in the above video that I hope a developer can start a kick starter page to [...]

I bought a Pannasonic GH1 Today

Search vimeo.com for “GH1″ and you’ll find great samples of this amazing camera. Here is my new philosophy, DV & HDV are for filmming weddings. An SLR camera is an artists tool. If DSLR cameras can now shoot beautiful HD video then it’s time for all filmmakers to sell off their shitty tape based super heavy [...]

Shooting at Burning Man 2009 – Production Blog

So today a lot shuffled around but the team is now locked. I’m heading out into the desert to shoot with Roger Ingraham, Tarynn Weihahn, Susan Buice & Josh Steinbauer and AJ Abucay will be my second camera operator. I’ll write more about what the story and concept is later, but for now, here is a video [...]

Iran has grabbed our attention now we should also look at Burma

I don’t know what’s worse, the situation in Burma, or the world finding out via smuggled footage what was going on and not doing anything about it. As in Iran there are other governments that open fire on their own citizens when the people try to have a say in how their society is governed. Freedom of [...]

Radar Party

After Alex Johnson and Lance Weiler worked their asses off for 6 months they’ve now completed 12 episodes of the Radar Series that have gone live on Babelgum. The episodes document innovative artists in snazzy 3 minute powerful mini documentaries. The basic concept is this series can be your Radar for up and coming neat [...]

Meeting KS12 in Berlin

Today I speak at BTK in Berlin about the future of filmmaking and what my Berliner host Gabriel is calling Hypercubism. He also has a clever name for editing video which he calls tesseracting. So I think it’s appropriate to have cut together close to real time my journey from New York City to Berlin [...]

How do we do what we do?

How do we do anything in life? How do we walk? How do we digest food? How the hell did we develop language and story telling? The answer? I don’t have a clue. All I can tell is that we look around us at the objects and landscape and other creatures before us and we take [...]

Can’t we all just get a long?

FIlmmakers and digital exhibitors both need each other. They both expect a lot out of each other. Sometimes it hasn’t been communicated what the expectations are. Sometimes it’s good in relationships to just step back and spell out the needs. What are the exhibitors needs? What are the filmmakers needs? In this video a panel [...]

Arin Crumley & Michael Morlan

I met up with Michael Morlan out at SXSW 2008 to talk about the RED camera. Thanks to Mike Hedge for filming.

Out of Jail & Headed to YouTube Live

Heading to Becket to Edit

If you are in london on october 22nd and 23rd come visit Power To the Pixel to see our presentation for From Here to Awesome and our sneak peak of the rough cut of the trailer to As The Dust Settles. We'll be presenting to a room full of potential investors, sponsors and TV channels that [...]

DIY Days Boston was a huge success

DIYDays Boston Originally uploaded by stevegarfield Great attendance, great vibe and a really cool conversation. Todd Dagres really grabbed my attention and woke me up and gave me that feeling of, “oh my god guys, this is a DIY DAYS event!” I loved hearing lance break down all of the traditional deal land mines and how to [...]

Hurricane Ike Sucked

Coming back from Burning Man and re-introducing myself to society has been hard. Kind of depressing. The real world is so slow. Connections formed on the playa don’t have permission to grow anymore. Watching Hurricane Ike on the plane pretty much summed it all up. It’s the end of the world. Or at least it [...]

DIY DAYS LA & SF DVD SET

3 DVD set with over 10 hours of keynotes, panels and case studies. To see a list of speakers and topics visit www.diydays.com To get a DVD make a donation to the project and receive your copy of DIY DAYS LA & SF. Pick the donation you’d like to make and receive the 3 DVD set [...]

“Pre Post” As The Dust Settles – Arin Crumley Video Blog

Words can’t describe the experience at burning man. For now all I can really say is how the preparation for post production is going. So here is a little video blog announcing the rough cut test screening happening in park city utah in january of 2009. To become a part of the test screening visit: [...]

Film Fans “Mobilize” for screenings in your town!

Wow, it’s finally happened, a company has finally picked up where Susan and I left off with Four Eyed Monsters Heart Map allowing film fans to mobilize around a film they’d like to see in their local cinema. The effort is called MovieMobz and is being spear headed by a friend of mine named Fabio Lima. The [...]

arin crumley as the dust settles production 08_22_08

Oh my jesus! We are leaving in the morning to drive 10 hours to the desert and start this film! It was all too much earlier today and I did this video just after I started to feel a weird cough coming up in my chest and took a break. I think I avoided getting [...]

Arin Crumley – AS THE DUST SETTLES pre-production 8-21-08

Wow, we’ve made 250 dollars on indiegogo.com. Anyone can be an associate producer, test audience member or Partner with the film. Head over to indiegogo.com/asthedust to get involved. Also everyone showed up today which went amazing. So good to see all of my most favorite people that exist and I’m really pumped to get to [...]

Pre-Production Blog for “As the Dust Settles”

I’ve started work on a new project called As The Dust Settles. Donate to the post production budget now and get a free DVD of the finished film: http://indiegogo.com/asthedust More information about the project at: http://asthedustsettles.com http://arincrumley.com Formats available: Quicktime (.mov), Flash Video (.flv)

FHTA invades San Francisco

FHTA invades San Francisco – Screenings and DIY DAYS

DIY DAYS SF

Lance and I have put together another DIY DAYS event taking place in San Francisco on August 17th. The LA DIY DAYS event was a huge success and all of the videos of each presentation are up on the our From Here to Awesome Blip.TV account. Check out this video invitation that Current [...]

What’s the difference – 20×2 performance – SXSW 2008

I was one of the 20 people asked by the 20×2 organizers to answer the question “What’s the difference” in 2 minutes. They said I could do a film, speak, play music, what ever I felt like and since I had recently had fun making music, I decided to write this song. It [...]

The Power of Natural Healing – I’m filming again this year

I went to this event last year to shoot video with my friend Isis Masoud who produced the ‘Art for Life’ portion of the conference. Sara Mayti shot photos of the whole event as well. We had a complete blast hanging out and it was my introduction to Macrobiotics. Eating food [...]

I was on Mark Kostabi’s Game show “Title-This”

Mark Kostobi doesn’t just make paintings. He also has a public access TV Game show dedicated to naming them called Title This. Watching at home I had now idea what to name these pantings, but once I was on the show getting 20 dollars per tittle I was 100 percent focused on the task. Game [...]

In Chicago – DVD available nation wide Starting Today

I’m in chicago right now and starting today the new Four Eyed Monsters DVD that comes with a free CD and the new episodes is in Borders nationwide. Please support our filmmaking and come out and get this jam packed DVD/CD set!!!!! Also I’ll be doing an appearance at at Borders in Chicago. The plan is [...]

Drexel University: Episodic Cliff Hangers & Spontaneous Camera Attacks

At Drexel University in Philidelphia on Monday I showed a clip of Episode 12. After that I spoke a bit about spontaneous filmmaking and always having a camera on hand in case you want to document something. Then I talk about episodic cliff hangers and a structure we found ourselves coming back to time and [...]

Nokia College Tour – From Here to Awesome – DIY Workshop

This is a little update to let people know what I’m up to. In this video I mention how I’ve just moved out of my loft and am going on tour and then I invite people to check out the Nokia College Tour, From Here To Awesome and the DIY self distribution workshop we are [...]

DIY Workshop in Boston at the end of May

If you have a film you are self distributing you should strongly consider coming to the workshop that susan and i have been asked to put on at Boston University in the last week of May and first week of June. Details and registration here.

Nokia Tour

Come to one of these talks, they should be fun and educational and I’ll be giving away Four Eyed Monsters DVDs! April 21st, 1:00pm Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design: Drexel University University Crossings Room 028 N. 32nd St. and Market St. Philadelphia, PA 19104 April 23rd, 1:00pm University of Miami School of Communications Studio A 5100 Brunson Dr. Coral Gables, FL 33146 April [...]

What’s wrong with the film industry – Part 1

submit films | watch films | learn to make films | fest news | fest streamGet the special Embed code or quicktime download links here. This is a video about how film festivals are suppose to function as a filter to decide which films are seen by distributors and therefor end up getting in front [...]

We are talking at SXSW about FEM & From Here to Awesome

*Do you plan on being at SXSW? Which talks do you think would be good to attend? Do you know of any good parties? Do you know of a place we could crash? Do you want to participate in our round table dinners discussing the media revolution. Do you know of any [...]

Clothes made from Recycled Fabric

HATERS IN A HOSTILE WORLD

Download this Song: Mp3 | AAC | .FLV | iPod Video | Apple TV Bookmark this Video: DIGG This is a mash up of real hate comments and hate mail I got in reaction to my last video. The 4 places I [...]

Where to begin with Macrobiotics

I’ve been exploring the macrobiotic diet since my friend Isis Masoud brought me to the Kushi Institute Summer conference in August 2007. I’ve recently been getting it down pretty good and making meals for friends. As a result people have started to turn [...]