Working but nothing to show for it yet.

That about sums up 2007 so far. I’ve been working hard on SpinXpress - designing a whole new website that let’s you interact with the desktop application. I did a tiny machinima experimentRyanne and I have started to work on a major update to Freevlog and I’m working on an idea that may make use of all these - SpinXpress, Machinima & Freevlog - but it’s still a ways off.

In the meantime I’ve been enjoying the new Shins cd. Rebecca and I are going to see them in Austin a couple of days before SXSW which I’ll be speaking at by the way. I’ve also been really disappointed by the new David Lynch film, Inland Empire. Obviously I think it’s great that someone like Lynch can just grab a consumer DV camera, make a film and distribute it himself. That’s what we’ve all been going on about for the last two and half years. But what just infuriated me about Inland Empire was not that it was hard to follow or that there wasn’t much of a plot (I’m expecting that much) but that it was just plain boring. Boring boring boring. 3 hours of vague creepiness and Laura Dern with a what-the-fuck look on her face punctuated by 15 minutes of mildly interesting variations on Lynch themes done much better in Lost Highway and Mullholand Drive.

Anyway, both The Shins and Inland Empire are inspiring me (for opposite reasons) along with a bunch of projects that I’ve been catching up with - Frank and DaleWreck & SalvageNoodlescar DailyNext to Heaventhe delicate museum