12,000 Views? Really?

So after about six months of kind of forgetting that we had a blog, I came back to check on it to find that the page counter said that we have almost 12,000 hits.

I personally feel like this is some kind of internet glitch, or some computer somewhere is stuck on this page while perpetually refreshing.

Nonetheless, I've decided to make a concerted effort to start actually updating the blog frequently.

To begin.

This summer was a bit crazy, both in personal life and movie-making wise. I spent three weeks in July at a screenwriting school in Seattle, which I had won a scholarship to at NFFTY. It was a really good course, the teachers were great, and I learned a lot. Most importantly I gained new inspiration and motivation to keep pursuing filmmaking and to always be learning as much as I can.

I returned from Seattle just in time for Jourdan Lance's wedding! She is now in fact Jourdan Strain, but for movie-related things we'll continue to refer to her as Jourdan Lance. I got to be the "man of honor" and the wedding was fantastic and beautiful and I am indescribably happy for Jourdan and Wyatt.

Somewhere in there, I became obsessed with the band Silversun Pickups and we made two music videos to their songs. One was a test for-fun video, and the second we actually put some time into. And so I end this first of hopefully many new blog posts with our latest video production: The Royal We by Silversun Pickups.

~Michael