An ox (plural oxen) or bullock (Australia, New Zealand, India) is a bovine animal trained as a draft animal. Oxen are commonly adult, castrated male cattle, but cows (adult females) or bulls (intact males) may also be used in some … [read more]
Category Archives: collaborators
Sep 19
“You have died of dysentery,” my computer tells me. Before that, both my oxen fell. I was never a good hunter either. Ultimately, I was doomed from the start.
Here’s to hoping the 21st century serves me better than the … [read more]
Aug 06
Remember when I was all like, “I wanna make a Myst movie!”? Remember that? Yeah…What was I thinking?
It’s 12:30 pm and I’ve officially been up for 24 and 1/2 hours straight. Why you ask? Why? I’ll tell you why: … [read more]
in collaborators, communications
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tags: dead, depleated, drained, empty, exhusted, gone, sleep, tired
Jul 31
Disappointing but not unexpected news… We’ve had our first official pass on the project by a studio. The call came late yesterday.
While there is always a tinge of hurt that comes with any rejection, we are not discouraged in … [read more]
in collaborators, communications, planning
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tags: disappointment, not worried, pass, rejection, tricks
Jul 25
Back in good-old Indiana. We walked in from the airport at 3:45 am yesterday morning. It would have been nice to make a triumphant return – a ticker-tape parade and perhaps a few “Hail Caesar’s”, but sadly it was much … [read more]
in collaborators, communications, planning
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tags: anna, conference room, confusion, Cory, executive, isaac, jason, lot, panic, Pitch, story, studio, work, Yale
Okay, so that title didn’t really pan out like I’d hoped it would. Just doesn’t quite have the ring I was looking for. Oh well.
Anyway, I’m exhausted. It’s currently 3:20 am LA time and I thought I’d write up … [read more]
in collaborators, communications, life, planning
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tags: caughee, coffee, exhausted, junior executive, koffee, no sleep, pich, Pitch, pytch, studio executive, talk, transcript of events
Jul 14
…A foreboding little phrase…
It is with considerable sadness that I write this post to announce Patrick’s departure from the “Myst: The Book of Ti’ana” film project. I realize that this will come as quite a surprise to our readers, … [read more]
Jul 02
…Okay, so we’re still winding up. But things are progressing nicely and we’ve been hard at work building the content for our PITCH THIS MONTH.
Many documents floating back and forth between LA and here as we work with our … [read more]
in collaborators, planning, website
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tags: Cory, partners, PITCH THIS MONTH, sizzle reel, website
Jun 02
So, I wrote an internal memo today in response to Prince of Persia’s performance in the box office. When a video game movie fails to perform as it was expected while we’re trying to sell a movie based on a … [read more]