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Nelson and I shot a commercial this weekend in Vermont. This man stopped by the shoot out on the sidewalk in downtown Burlington, and Nelson filmed him for about 6 minutes. This is unedited except for color correction.

Michel Gondry and Robert Stickgold discuss dreams, filmmaking and the scientific method:

I met the producer of this video, Jacob Klein, last night at the Big Screen Little Screen meetup at For Your Imagination, a great meetup where local online video producers showcase some of their work and then answer questions from the audience and discuss the piece. The discussion focuses almost exclusively on content, instead of the technical side of online video that so many meetups I’ve attended seem to lean towards.

Jacob mentioned that he had interviewed Michel Gondry, and I played it cool, but I gotta admit I was jealous and anxious to watch the interview. Gondry is one of my favorite all-time filmmakers, and this interview is amazing.

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Another Lumiere video.

The rules:

• 60 seconds max
• Fixed camera
• No audio
• No zoom
• No edit
• No effects

My friend Jay Dedman (momentshowing.net) has posted some of his photos from Africa. Amazing stuff.

We are running hot; our gears greased and free.

Our first two auctions (one, two) were legitimate successes.

Then something happened. Either some negative nancy reported us to eBay out of malice, or they just were offended by our obviously sarcastic remark about terrorist blogs on auction two. Either way, they booted us.

So now, we’ve taken matters into our own dirty hands. Learn about it:

Due to a recent incident involving certain by-products of our current political environment, an unnamed online auction site has banned Wreck & Salvage from use of its services. At times like these True Patriots must stand tall. We will not cower to corporate terrorism that attempts to stifle the free enterprise system of the good ol’ USA.

Thus, effective immediately we will host independent auctions through our own site (link)

Show these carpetbaggers, these usurpers of blue-collared red-blooded America, who really greases the gears and stokes the furnaces of Our Homeland.

Our auctions run on the honor system, and our word is 350 maraging steel (in layman’s terms, it’s damned solid).

RULES TO FOLLOW

1. All bids are contracts, reneging on bids will result in a swift kick to the shins.

2. The auction begins after the first bid is placed, and ends on the date noted in the weekly post.

3. This is the honor system.

That’s it. Good luck.

Here are our previous eBay auctions: Weeks One & Two

Bid with confidence, and without Fear.

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On that note, I leave you with these two important links:

1. Our auction for week three

2. This Thomas Jefferson VS. Hunter S. Thompson video helps to explain our feelings on the situation.

THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR SUPPORT.