I'd love to hear your thoughts.

How to Survive a Plague is now on Netflix streaming.

That article is dated May 2011.  We've known for some time that there is plenty of footage just sitting on the shelf.

Thanks for correcting my spelling mistake as well in the thread title.

Joe is an old buddy of mine, and yeah, I love Joey Diaz and Ari, but I tend to go to his episodes with ACTUAL guests first.

Drew, I might actually take you up on that.  I have some stupidly talented friends in Chicago, and I have a few ideas that might require them as subjects.

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Registration opened today, and I'll be registering Team Laser Fist on Thursday.  I'd like to start compiling email address for those interested.  Message me contact I to or email me at laserfistmedia@gmail.com

I passed through the everything is bullshit phase and I find myself in this weird place of "Of course it's bullshit, but that's ok as long as we understand why."

It's very rare to be unique in film, and I've realized now that the line between genius and failure is often razor thin. The thing that pisses me off the most these days is cynicism, certainly in watching films, but definitely cynicism while MAKING films.  There are some films where you can just smell the apathy by all people involved in making it.

Or do what this guy did and WIN AT FUCKING LIFE.

http://steampunkworkshop.com/daveveloz.shtml

I tried to do the Unarmed/Hand to Hand build because God DAMMIT did I want more than anything to punch a Dragon to death, but I found that the power kind of caps out around level 25.  I turned that guy into a Shield Mage.

I didn't even get halfway through the main quest until I was level 47.  MY main character is a sneaky assasin type who uses illusion magic (nightblade build, essentially) but with points in destruction magic and archery.  So I became Dean of the College of Winterhold first, then became leader of the Assassins Guild, then I got Mehrune's Razor, then the Mace of Molog Bal, then the Sanguine Rose staff (perfect for fighting dragons), then I became leader of the Thieves Guild (the Nightengale Hood has an awesome Illusion buff), THEN I finished the main quest.  Then I became a Werewolf.

THanks for the interest guys.

So it's 5 days starting Feb 28th (one week after my birthday) to March 4.  The way it works is at a certain time on the 28th, all the teams (FYI, our team name will be the name of my production company, Team Laser Fist) will get emailed the genre of doc that they must do, as well as the theme.  Our base of operations will be my guest house, and all local volunteers should plan to be at my house at that specific time (non locals can join us via skype) for the announcement.  Once we know theme and genre, we all will start brainstorming and researching ideas that we know we have a shot of executing based on whats within driving distance from LA.  Once we're decided on topic and approach, then we hit the ground running.  If Jeff is down, I'd like him to be parked at home base (aka Laser Fist Mountain) where he can oversee the post workflow and start ingesting and logging footage as it comes in.  Teague, in collaboration with whoever wants to help from remote locations, can start fiddling with the score, either from home base or the Cahuenga Labs. 

I'll need someone with actual Producer experience, as well as a couple writers who have some (though not necessarily a lot) of experience with writing for non-fiction filmmaking.  If you're a writer who's never done this and want to try, I can work with you a bit on how the process is different before we start.

One last note.  In 2007 I entered this and did all the jobs myself.  I was doing it just for the experience of doc filmmaking in 5 days.  This year I'm out to win.  Behave accordingly.