Walter Ate a Peanut... the blog...

To track the joys and disasters of our short film "Walter ate a Peanut" we have set up a site here. It's early on but perhaps breathtakingly interesting to some. Forgive the left over html goo... it's my first day.

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Darrell really is a genius

So I and Darrell and Kathleen Lopez all met for dinner on Friday night. After a few hundred hours of story telling we finally got down to the business of shooting this sucker. Ultimately its going pretty well. There are some pretty big tasks at hand but we seem to getting though the list. I had this brain storm... I plan on coming back to Portland with the whole family this summer. We should shoot another one of these. We need another script from Darrell. So I tell him about this and he says, "Well, you know, I just can't come up with things that quickly..." I said I understood but if he did have any other ideas he should let me know. We eventually said our goodbyes and I headed back home. Before I went to bed I checked my email, there were 2 news stories from the maestro... Darrell really, really is a genius.

"Walter Ate a Peanut" The Movie

Folks there is a new project beginning. Remember my friend Darrell's amazing short story, "Walter Ate A Peanut?" Well I am going back to PDX and we are going to turn it into an equally amazing short film. And here's how: Like Chris Marker's famous short "La Jetee" we are going to do it with a still camera and then edit the stills into a movie on my laptop. We are shooting for a budget of around a hundred bucks. Which is less than half the budget of the commercial that brought me to this lonely place at the top of the advertising food chain. Anyway like that commercial we will use next door neighbors exclusively as talent. Hopefully my old friend Kathleen Lopez is going to produce it. Tune in regularly to follow this hot, fast breaking story.