Strange Loop Productions

Sorry About The Delay

2010-09-01T20:26:00.001-07:00

I know it's been quite a while now since the last episode of "The Good Stuff." For those of you who don't know, I teach at three different colleges, each of which began classes in the past two weeks. This has been a case of bad timing. I chose the end of the summer to start this experiment. As a result, my course-load has gotten in the way of me shooting and editing the next video in a timely fashion. I hope to have it finished in no less than three more weeks. Then I will get it posted as soon as I possibly can after that.

To tide you over, here is a REALLY goofy video that my wife and I made back in 2008 as an entry in the "Your Memphis: Take One" Youtube competition. The point of the competition was to get people to make videos about what it is about Memphis that they love. I was in grad school at the time, and the Digital Cinema class I was taking at the time was required to submit to the contest. So I decided to go for EXTREME cheese. Go ahead and get yourself a good chuckle out of it...

And here's another entry into the competition by my friend Alex Paulus. It's even funnier...

80s Cartoons (In Preparation For Episode 2)

2010-08-13T15:24:00.000-07:00

In preparation for Episode 2 of The Good Stuff, which will be a top ten list of 1980s TV shows that should or should NOT get the Hollywood treatment, I thought I'd post a few short samples from some cartoons that were considered but didn't make the list. Either I didn't consider the show "eighties" enough or I found that I really didn't care strongly enough about what Hollywood may or may not do to them. These are mostly nice and short. Enjoy...

Horn Island Voices (2009)

2010-08-11T11:28:00.000-07:00

The following is a video by Memphis filmmaker Willie Bearden entitled "Horn Island Voices". It focusses on an annual expedition taken by Memphis College of Art students, faculty, and alumni to Horn Island, a small barrier island just of the gulf coast of Mississippi. Willie put it together in celebration of the expedition's 25th anniversary in 2009. Some of my good friends and I (with considerably shorter hair) are featured in the video being interviewed by Willie. So, I just thought I'd share it here...

"Horn Island Voices," and all footage therein, is the property of Willie Bearden.

My MFA Thesis Work (2008)

2010-08-10T19:45:00.000-07:00

The following is a suite of four videos that I submitted for my MFA thesis in November, 2008...

The Good Stuff: Episode 1

2010-08-10T10:26:00.000-07:00

FRAILY is a great film worthy of "classic" status. Unfortunately, I think it was a victim of unfortunate release date timing...

The Good Stuff: Prologue

2010-08-10T10:16:00.000-07:00

This an introduction to STRANGE LOOP PRODUCTIONS and the video series "The Good Stuff"...