jared hogan

my last trip to nashville.

Tue, 29 May 2012 23:59:14 -0400

my last trip to nashville.

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help tell cheslie’s story

Tue, 08 May 2012 12:33:00 -0400

help tell cheslie’s story

some stills from my documentary on my friend cheslie. she’s 21 and was recently diagnosed with...

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 13:20:00 -0400

some stills from my documentary on my friend cheslie. she’s 21 and was recently diagnosed with cancer for the second time.. we just started shooting a few weeks ago. i’ll be following her through treatment and her journey for the next several months. we are releasing a video to help fund the film this week, so more on that later. but keep cheslie in your prayers and keep up with her on her blog.

a study in grey

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 16:23:49 -0400

a study in grey

I’m out here a thousand miles from my home Walking a road other men have gone down I’m...

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 10:36:57 -0400

I’m out here a thousand miles from my home

Walking a road other men have gone down

I’m seeing a new world of people and things

Hear paupers and peasants and princes and kings.

Hey hey Woody Guthrie I wrote you a song

About a funny old world that’s coming along

Seems sick and it’s hungry, it’s tired and it’s torn

It looks like it’s dying and it’s hardly been born.

Hey Woody Guthrie but I know that you know

All the things that I’m saying and a many times more

I’m singing you the song but I can’t you sing enough

‘Cause there’s not many men that’ve done the things that you’ve done.

Here’s to Cisco and Sonny and Leadbelly too

And to all the good people that travelled with you

Here’s to the hearts and the hands of the men

That come with the dust and are gone with the wind.

I’m leaving tomorrow but I could leave today

Somewhere down the road someday

The very last thing that I’d want to do

Is to say I’ve been hitting some hard travelling too.

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here are some things i’ve gathered for my film small little things. the process is achingly...

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 14:22:00 -0500

here are some things i’ve gathered for my film small little things. the process is achingly slow, but i’m still dreaming.

and here’s the music i’ve collected that’s been spurring me on as well.

atmosphere | joy division

i drive | cliff martinez

ghost dream | blouse

montana | youth lagoon

you are my sister | antony

kettering | the antlers

into black | blouse

fishing bird | grouper

kids on the run | the tallest man on earth

an ending [ascent] | brian eno

a pile of tires | war on drugs

do your best | john maus

given the time | craft spells

transmission | joy division

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in honor of their amazing new release, i present you with my favorite m83 songs: teen angst from...

Wed, 19 Oct 2011 10:39:00 -0400

in honor of their amazing new release, i present you with my favorite m83 songs:

teen angst from before the dawn heals us

gone from dead cities, read seas and lost ghosts

graveyard girl from saturdays = youth

let men burn stars from before the dawn heals us

kim & jessie from saturdays = youth

safe from before the dawn heals us

the highest journey from digital shades, vol. 1

lower your eyelids and die with the sun from before the dawn heals us

and my favorites [so far] from hurry up, we’re dreaming:

intro

soon, my friend

my tears are becoming a sea

outro

1. to find the truth, get your own heart to pound while you write. 2. story is metaphor for...

Tue, 18 Oct 2011 07:11:00 -0400

1. to find the truth, get your own heart to pound while you write.

2. story is metaphor for life; no story is innocent.

no story is just entertainment.

3. an honest writer constantly questions the human significance

of what he has done.

4. story lies in the gap between expectation and reality.

5. a writer must use both sides of his brain, right and left, equally.

6. it’s as if one half writes emotive poetry, the other, diagnostic criticism.

7. i encourage you to study both positive and negative examples

of writers you admire.

8. of the five faculties a writer must have - analysis, insight, craft,

interpretation and judgement - judgement is bedrock to the other four.

9. sharpen your working judgement against a whetstone of honest insight.

10. creative judgment is grounded in result, not intent.

[by robert mckee]

the 9 commandments of screenwriting I. thou shalt respect thine audience. II. thou shalt...

Tue, 11 Oct 2011 07:57:00 -0400

the 9 commandments of screenwriting

I. thou shalt respect thine audience.

II. thou shalt research.

III. thou shalt dramatize thine exposition.

IV. thou shalt layer a subtext under every text.

V. thou shalt create complex characters rather than merely complicated story.

VI. thou shalt use neither false mystery nor cheap surprise.

VII. thou shalt not use deus ex machina to get thine ending.

VIII. thou shalt not make life easy for thine protagonist.

IX. thou shalt take thine story into the depth and breadth of human experience.

[by robert mckee]

“being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me … going to bed at night...

Thu, 06 Oct 2011 14:06:40 -0400

“being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me … going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful … that’s what matters to me.” - steve jobs

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