CurlyHairedPeople

City Hall

2011-11-07T08:59:00.001-08:00

Fleet Week 2011

2011-10-09T11:58:00.000-07:00

Took my camera to a pier this weekend for the air show.

LOBSTER!

2011-07-21T15:51:00.000-07:00

Amesbury Style Skiff

2011-07-10T18:17:00.000-07:00

Oars

2011-07-10T18:16:00.001-07:00

Planking complete. Only two bandaids needed!

2011-07-09T18:24:00.000-07:00

Frame, Bottom Cleats, Knee, Transom, and Stem complete

2011-07-09T18:23:00.001-07:00

Model Boat Building Weekend in honor of my grandfather Joseph Giordano

2011-07-09T18:21:00.000-07:00

When It Rains on the Roof

2011-02-17T10:57:00.001-08:00

New Lens

2011-01-02T12:49:00.000-08:00

The Door

2010-12-17T15:58:00.001-08:00

Downtown San Francisco

2010-07-21T10:43:00.000-07:00

There was some great SF fog this morning.

FIFA players at their day job

2010-07-01T16:17:00.000-07:00

more 48hr film festival pics

2010-06-22T11:24:00.000-07:00

2010 48hour Film Festival

2010-06-22T11:20:00.000-07:00

Here are some screen grabs from this years 48hour film festival. We drew Adventure Serial and made a film called the Prism.

There is a war being fought outside of time.

Warriors from throughout the ages fight for one purpose:

The chance to return home.

The Prism is the gateway.

Touch the Prism and you enter the arena....

Skateboard Design

2010-04-16T09:15:00.002-07:00

http://www.zazzle.com/spare_pins_skateboard-186458399991891998

Skateboard Design

2010-04-16T09:15:00.001-07:00

make custom gifts at Zazzle

2010-03-29T16:26:00.001-07:00

I wonder if there has ever been a Valet who's last name was Parker?

Select Scenes from Avatar

2010-02-20T12:50:00.002-08:00

The really big tree.

Select Scenes from Avatar

2010-02-20T12:50:00.001-08:00

The Na'vi attack the mother ship.

Select Scenes from Avatar

2010-02-20T12:49:00.000-08:00

Learning to control his Avatar.

Select Scenes from Avatar

2010-02-20T12:48:00.001-08:00

The sex scene that I wish was in the movie.

Select Scenes from Avatar

2010-02-20T12:47:00.001-08:00

After the humans attack.

When it Rains, it Pours

2009-12-21T16:11:00.000-08:00

I swear this happened to me and my Umbrella today! Although this is a reenactment, this is how it went down.

Break it to Me Gently

2009-11-24T12:24:00.000-08:00

SOON (trailer)

2009-08-26T15:55:00.000-07:00

Here is trailer for our lastest short movie SOON.

Photoshop Class

2009-07-10T14:32:00.000-07:00

I'm taking a class on Photoshop for Photography. Here is one of my color corrected images.

2009-06-23T16:20:00.000-07:00

Just found out we won the coveted Audience Award for our group at this year's 48hour film festival.

The Greatest Holiday Film Never Made

2009-06-16T14:59:00.000-07:00

Here is our submission to this year's 48hour Film Festival. 71 teams competed this year. You basically meet at 7pm on Friday and then have to turn in a completed film by 7pm Sunday. You draw out of a hat a GENRE. We drew Holiday film this year. There also had to be a PROP:Hat, LINE:"I believe anyone can change." CHARACTER: Claudette Green, Guitarist.

Get the Lead Out

2009-05-28T16:47:00.000-07:00

Here is a short for a MTV contest we entered. We didn't win... that's bulls@&t!

You had to spoof a film. We did the Texas Chainsaw Massacre!

"Honey! Can you come here for a second?"

2009-04-29T14:06:00.000-07:00

Button House for Stop Motion

2009-01-18T09:47:00.000-08:00

Here is a Maquette for a button house. We are in pre-production for a stop motion music video that has buttons and zippers as the actors. Sort of a Romeo and Juliet acted out with buttons and zippers.

Final Project

2008-12-10T09:03:00.000-08:00

Here is my final project for a Cinematography class that I took. The music is from the Abyss by Alan Silvestri.

Stop saying Hello!

2008-12-02T08:39:00.001-08:00

The other day a friend of mine answered her iPhone with a "hello?" No one does that anymore, especially the hello with the tone "who could this be?" She knew who it was. Everyone has caller ID now. I guess our generation that lived before caller ID is still having problems with just saying,"Tom, how are you?" or "Lisa, what's up?" We still feel that it is proper etiquette to open with Helllooo? Say good-bye to hello people.

more pics Permanent Ink

2008-11-01T16:13:00.000-07:00

Permanent Ink

2008-11-01T16:07:00.001-07:00

We were recently in a 48hour film festival. They give you a genre, prop, line of dialogue, and a character that have to be in the film. We drew THRILLER! Since is was Halloween we used a lot of blood! Through a friend of a friend we scored a tattoo parlor to shoot in. Thanks the Painted Lady.

21st Century Acronyms v.1.0

2008-09-14T13:21:00.000-07:00

Hello, friends. Here is a cheetsheet legend I made for you "older" people to help you stay young and hip when chatting with the younger crowd. Please refer to it whenever talking to someone under 30.

15 Second Slow Mo Film Contest

2008-09-12T17:51:00.000-07:00

Here is a 15 second film contest that we entered. It had to incorporate slow motion in it. We didn't win.... that's Bu#&%$@!

Chihuly at the de Young Museum.

2008-09-01T09:55:00.000-07:00

I went to the de Young Museum yesterday with my friend Donna. A man named Chihuly was the featured artist. He works with glass. Here are some pictures I took. It was like being in the church of Color!

Study in Laughter

2008-08-21T08:54:00.000-07:00

Here is a study in laughter without sound. I was interested in SEEING laughter instead of HEARING it. This is some deep poo poo. Damn it! I should have used bigger words to convince you. How about, the Hippopotamus was laughing in the gymnasium while eating mayonnaise.

And the Winner is...

2008-08-15T08:12:00.000-07:00

We won an award! We got a trophy and everything. Just like the Oscars, although ours had stars on it, and Ok it was made out of plastic, but we won for the category BEST SPECIAL EFFECTS! Thanks Al. That's right Special Effects. We're pretending that our film is now up there with The Matrix or Titanic... Special Effect wise, anyway. I mean we did get a trophy for it. We are also pretending that Julia Roberts was there. That's right, I got her number.

Award Show

2008-08-13T12:33:00.000-07:00

Beware tooting of ones on horn to follow. Who cares we worked really hard on this one. We were nominated for an award for our latest film 187. The awards show is tonight at FAT CITY. It's nice to get a little recognition from people other than your friends. Just being nominated is cool enough, but we want some hardware!

Thurs Night at the Movies

2008-07-26T14:46:00.000-07:00

The great thing about the 48hour Film Festival is that they show the finished films at a REAL theater...popcorn and all! Look at the people lined up to see our film. Ok, maybe they were there to see their own film, but I'm choosing to believe they were there for ours. A live audience really lets you know if your film is good or not. Ours was well received. It's the greatest high when a group of people laugh at your jokes. Thanks 48.

Friends at Opening Night

2008-07-26T14:42:00.000-07:00

Check out our sexy friends that we paid to go with us. Kidding, they did look great, though. I forgot to have someone take my picture! I mean it IS my blog damn it! Is it too much to ask for one of you to take my picture! My new Aldo shoes were looking sexy, with my jeans and sport coat. I even had a top button undone to let a hint of chest hair out!

Green Screen Shots From 48hour Film Festival

2008-07-21T09:46:00.001-07:00

Here are some shots from our make shift green screen room.

48hour Film Festival

2008-07-21T09:17:00.001-07:00

We did another 48hour Film Festival this weekend. It was insane! Friday night at 7:30 we met 34 other teams at a bar. You draw out of a hat to find out what genre you have to make your film in. We drew Detective/Cop this year. They then give you a prop, character, and line of dialogue that has to be in all films. (PROP: bus ticket, CHARACTERr: Gloria Lorenz, Trade Expert, LINE: Forget it, I already have.) Sunday night by 7:30 you have to turn in a completed film. We got there at 7:25, I swear! It is showing at the Roxie in the Mission this Thursday at 7:00 if you want to see. Yeah right, like you're gonna show.

We wrote the script Friday night till way past my bedtime. We started shooting Saturday morning at 7am. Our first location was on Taylor St. The spot where Steve McQueen did the famous car jumping scene in a Ford Fastback. We tried to recreate it with remote control cars..... it was a nightmare! We got the shot, but everything that could go wrong went wrong. We where about to say action when a garbage truck pulls up right into our shot. We waited 10 minutes for them to leave! I don't know if you've ever seen a garbage man collecting garbage on the hills of Taylor St., but it is not a pretty sight. When the guy returned from the bottom of the hill with the garbage can, he was so out of breathe I thought he was going to die. Suddenly I thought, I'm right in the middle of a 48 hour film festival and I might have to give the garbage man CPR.

We also shot in an alley. There are lots of pigeons in a San Francisco alley... one of them shit on our camera. If I ever see him again...

Special thanks to Donna Solanga, you are amazing! Pauby Widjaja, you drive better than Steve McQeen! Nicolas and Gil... you guys were so funny! You bastards, stole the film! And Al, who did all the green screen effects in one day...wow. Good night.

iRene

2008-07-17T11:09:00.001-07:00

I bought the iPhone.

That's right... I bought it! I see you looking down on me with your Samsung.... with your little flip open phone! Your little I ain't got no stinking GPS phone. Looking down on me for joining the MASSES. For standing in line three hours to buy it! That's right, I did it! I was part of the group! That's right! I bought the iPhone.

Her name is iRene and we are in love.

Here is a link someone sent me. They saw this on YouTube. That's right! I watch YouTube! You can see me standing in line with my arms crossed looking really mad.... oops! I had to do it, just to say I did it. That's right... I did it! I bought the iPhone.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVnUsZcncnE

More Nenad Went home Pictures

2008-07-17T09:06:00.001-07:00

Here are some more photos of Nenad's going away dinner. Check out the last one. When I picked him up to take him to the airport the next day he had his hair cut. Nenad had a pony-tail for eight years. His daughter probably won't recognize him when he gets off the plane.

Nenad Went Home

2008-07-17T08:58:00.000-07:00

I dropped Nenad off at the airport today. I was said to see him leave. I now have a brother in Serbia. We took him for Sushi last night for a going away party. My dinner never showed up. When we asked our waitress about it she said,"Oh.... we don't serve tofu at night," and then she walked away.

Good luck to you Nenade.

Peter Schifrin

2008-07-17T08:52:00.000-07:00

Peter Schifrin was my director when I was a sculpture student. Check out this installation he was just commissioned to do in New York.

Our Mother!

2008-07-14T08:50:00.000-07:00

We needed someone to play our Italian mother in our latest film. This is Linda. We hired her through SFcasting. Her comic timing was amazing. We laughed a lot this weekend. Thanks Linda.

Bill Sanchez Blog!

2008-07-09T14:41:00.000-07:00

Bill Sanchez now has a blog! Check it out. theBillSanchezart.blogspot.com

The Villain

2008-07-05T11:25:00.000-07:00

I bought our latest actors off the internet. Ebay is a great source to find talent. We are using remote controlled vehicles in our next short. Here is a before and after photo of our next villain. It looked a little too clean so I had to "dirty" it up.

It's not every day that you have a pineapple in your kitchen, so I jumped at the chance to use one in my photo. You can see how big the truck is compared to a pineapple. It is also not every day that you can say, "you can see how big the truck is compared to a pineapple."

When this came in the mail, it felt like Christmas, although I was at work so I didn't get to open it in my pajamas.

Vintagius Rotarius

2008-07-03T10:34:00.001-07:00

Here are some photos of a short we are putting the final edits on. My sculpture degree makes me love to use "found objects" as actors. The premise of the film is some cell phone archaeologists are digging in a blizzard and stumble upon a once thought of mythological creature named Vintagius Rotarius (Rotary phone). They dig it out and the ice starts to melt, bringing it back to life. It then proceeds to terrorize the cell phones.

The background sky photo is a six foot print out of an image our friend Jeremy painted digitally for us. We even paid him real money to do it!

The snow is a hundred dollars of baby powder that we are still cleaning up! That's right this film had a budget, people.

Green Screen

2008-07-01T09:06:00.000-07:00

Yesterday was a good day. Our ideas have led us to need some green screen shots. We had a blast. The school where I work has a great room that already has lights installed and everything else you need to be Neo. The other guy in these photos is Al. Al knows his way around the green room and was a tremendous help. That's right, I said tremendous. My vocabulary is huge today! A hippopotamus has hairy hoofs. Wow! Where am I channeling this from? That was alliteration (the repetition of the first consonant sound in a phrase.) Assonance is repetition of vowel sounds. Why it needs to have an ass in front of it, I don't know.

The Big Picture

2008-06-30T08:51:00.000-07:00

Here are some more photos of our film shoot this weekend. Our friends are amazing. They gave us a whole Saturday to help shoot this scene. We couldn't pay them, but did feed them Pizza and Sushi.

The Baron

2008-06-30T08:42:00.000-07:00

This is the Baron! The Baron is a model at the Art School where I work. I work for the Illustration department, so our models usually wear costumes. If a teacher tells a model to go to the costume room and be a gladiator, they usually come back wearing plastic armor and a plastic sword. If you tell the Baron this, he comes in with his own costume that is metal and weighs, well a lot. He then proceeds to tell you a story about where this sword came from and that he is really a Prince. Are they "Large" stories? Who cares, the Baron entertains.

We have made many films now with the Baron. He has a great face. Today we started shooting our next short and the Baron is playing GOD.

Karaoke Kings!

2008-06-26T08:10:00.000-07:00

My best friend from high school Kelly was recently in town on his honeymoon with Anna. We rented out a Private Karaoke room in Japantown and had a Concert of epic proportions!

Nenad's Art Opening

2008-06-23T10:59:00.000-07:00

I know two people from Serbia. This guy is Nenad. He is the tall one in the photograph. Nenad is a work scholar at the school where I work. I'm his boss! He makes us call him Nenade (Nen-nah-day) because he says it makes him sound more important. Nenade is funny. He is going home soon. I have been glad to know him, but he is always late for work and I have to yell and curse at him frequently. With his Serbian accent he always says, "Dax, I must tell you." He then proceeds to give this amazing excuse. The other Serbian I know was always late too! Hmmmm.

Nenede is a painter. Last night he had an art opening in the Mission. He takes frames from actual movies and paints them. The changes are subtle but his concepts are deep! He is currently working on a series that will be amazing. It will be twelve frames of a finger pulling a trigger. How many frames does it take to kill someone? Deep!

CurlyHairedPeople Beginnings

2008-06-23T10:17:00.000-07:00

A few years ago during my senior year as a sculpture student, I decided to make a movie with found objects for my final project. Bowling pins to be exact. The whole short film was me chasing them around the city trying to knock them down.

This is when I met Alessandro Squitti. He is straight out of Rome! I had been taking an Italian class for one of my LA classes and tried to speak Italian to him every time I saw him in the halls. For a while, he just looked at me like I was weird. But we quickly became friends.

I am second generation Italian. My grandparents came over on the boat. Aldo Santi and Joseph Giordano were friends, so my mother and father actually grew up together being in the two familys. The picture above is my father giving my mother his cub-scout ring! My grandfather was picked on for having an accent. Instead of becoming a gangster and shooting them, he decided that he was now an american and vowed to make his family as american as he could. So I just speak English.

Alex was into making movies and is actually a Jedi when it comes to computers. He helped me edit my film. We started talking about making another and CurlyHairedPeople Productions was born. The lighting in our first short is very bad, in fact we didn't even use "movie lights" but we had lots of fun. It can be seen at www.curlyhairedpeople.com. It is called Metallica Toothpaste. We shot it in the women's restroom where we work. While we were shooting the cleaning lady walking in on us. She still looks at me funny.

Nico Speaks!

2008-06-18T13:19:00.000-07:00

Here is a picture of my brother Dion and my nephew Nico. Nico has just started speaking. He has a toy frog. Thing is he calls it his fuckie. He can also say clock, but Dion tells me he leaves off the L. So we still have a few kinks to work out but welcome to the world of language Nico.

Office Paper

2008-06-18T09:57:00.000-07:00

I currently owe Sallie Mae so much in students loans that I'm embarrassed to say how many commas she uses when she sends me my statements.

So that leads to this post. Since I graduated from college and while I wait for the fame and fortune that comes with an art degree, I've had to get an office job. I've tried to massage those muscles on that side of the brain, but they are suffering from atrophy. For instance, I had to spell check atrophy. I mean thats a big word like gymnasium and mayonnaise. (here is how I spell gymnayzium without spell checker and I still don't believe mayo has two "n"s in it.)

I sit at a computer all day. The only art I get to do for the day is paint a smile on my face. Today its Picasso. It's not that bad, just trying to add some dramatic effect. I actually work with some great people, and they are all artists too, trying to figure out how to fix the paper jam.

So these two images show how my enviornment (fuck it, I'm not spell checking enviornment!) is affecting me. There is paper everywhere in my office. On the walls, under me, in front of me, behind me, in the recycling bin, in the trash bin cause sometimes I don't recycle, just to be an office rebel. Maybe that paper belongs in the regular trash!

I have one question for you. Since you are reading this, does that mean I am blogging you right now?