PT Anderson's "THE MASTER" teaser

Paul Thomas Anderson edited the trailer himself, which follows suit with trailers for his previous releases. The background music appears to be part of Radiohead member Jonny Greenwood’s score. Greenwood also composed the music for There Will Be Blood.

Watch the teaser trailer above for the first look at The Master, which is scheduled for release October 12, 2012.

If I ran a Major Hollywood Studio...

A few years ago my wife recommended that I read Nathaniel Philbrick's non-fiction book, "In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex". Its an amazing read and tells the harrowing true story that inspired Hermen Melville's, "Moby Dick". If I ran a major Hollywood Studio I'd greenlight this movie in a heartbeat and would try to get Ridley Scott, Philip Kaufmann or Peter Weir to take on the project.

The PBS program "American Experience" aired some incredible television this week with their telling of the history of American whaling.  

Click on the image to watch the episode online.

Keith Edmier at the Walker Arts Center

My friend and artist Keith Edmier talks about rebuilding his childhood home. I got to shoot video documentation of Keith's retrospective show at Bard College back in 2007 where the entire house sat in the middle of the exhibtion. The kitchen has been recreated for its current incarnation at the Walker in Minneapolis.

 

KEITH EDMIER

My good friend Keith Edmier has a new website. Click on the image below to check out Keith's work:

Beverly Edmier, 1967

When he was four years old, Edmier and his parents moved to Tinley Park, Illinois, a southwest suburb of Chicago. They bought a home in the Bremen Towne Estates subdivision, which was a small village within a village, having its own shopping mall, theater and churches. He had an early interest in sculpting, making masks much like those used for special effects in films. In order to learn how to create vampire fangs, he got an after-school job with a dental lab, where he learned how to use acrylics and molding techniques.

While still a student at Victor J. Andrew High School, he managed to strike up a correspondence with Hollywood makeup artist Dick Smith. After an early graduation from high school, Edmier set off for Hollywood, where he began learning more by working on movies such as The Fly. Edmier also attended the California Institute of the Arts for a brief period. It was here that he decided to make a career change from working in film to becoming an artist, moving to New York to pursue that goal in 1990. He became an assistant to Matthew Barney, who advised him to concentrate on creating works which have personal meaning to him.

Many of Edmier's works have very close personal connections to his life. He embarked on the creation of the exhibit "Bremen Towne", where he recreated in exact detail, his childhood home and the family's rooms in it. While his parents had sold the home and were now living in nearby Orland Park, Illinois, they contacted the present owner, who agreed to grant Edmier access to the home where he grew up. The construction of the life-size rooms took the artist over a year. It was shown by Petzel Galleries in 2008.

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