Home of filmmaker, improviser, and decent dude Geoff Ross.

I was riveting by Team USA‘s performance in the World Cup.  Much like everyone else I was disappointed in our loss to Ghana and thus our early exit.  Soccer has me hooked.  It has moved up to my third favorite sport.  I’m supporting our bid for the 2018 or 2022 World Cup and you should too.  But that’s not enough.  In order to prove we should host the World Cup again we have prove that we support soccer.  Well, it was time to put my money where my mouth is.

Plus, I needed to give myself a birthday present.

I went to the game between the LA Galaxy and Seattle Sounders FC to see Landon Donovan and Edson Buddle return from their time in Africa.  It was fun.

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I missed the Boston Marathon because I was shooting my scene for directing class.  But I didn’t miss this.

Whoa!  Go, Street Sweeper, Go!

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My film came back from Fotokem and I’ve been editing ever since.  I’ve been trying a few things that are new (to me): Cutting on Avid and starting the edit with the ending sequence and working my way to the front.  Being a Final Cut Pro kind of guy cutting on Avid is somewhat of a pain.  Starting with the end and moving back to the front seems to be working in my favor.  The photo below is from that ending sequence a couple days ago.  I’ve made significant progress since then.  This excites you.

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It got up to 70 degrees in Boston today. Also there was a man in a gorilla suit wearing a Michael Jordan Chicago Bulls jersey doing arm curls on the roof of Newbury Comics on Newbury street. I’m sure this is normal.

These few stills from my shoot on March 9th were themselves shot by Julie Reizes.

My improv team Casual Sex Offenders performed at Cagematch at the UCB Theatre on February 25th.

Last week BU had a snow day.  This week the snow actually showed up.

This is a fantastic visual effects video of a destroyed space shuttle orbiting Earth.  Apparently it was only made with some still images, photoshop and after effects.  Very impressive.  This guy should market himself to special effects houses.

I am out of green tea.  Alert the authorities.

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I loved Avatar.  Not like I love my girlfriend, but more like how I love nachos.  And I LOVE nachos!  For those who don’t know Avatar is about a parapalegic former marine who gets to go to the forest moon of Endor Pandora thanks to the untimely death of his twin brother and walk around the lush environment pretending to be a 10-foot-tall Blue Cat Person that the film insists on calling the Na’vi.  ”Isn’t this FernGully?” you ask.  Well, no, it’s more like Dances With Wolves, but that’s beside the point.  It’s entertaining.

Like pornography.

My Xbox 360 Avatar. Sadly not in the movie Avatar

In fact it was better than pornography, sort of, because not only was it nice to look at, but it had a story worth following.  Although there wasn’t a money shot (Not yet) Avatar did have the odd distinction of getting me and the rest of the audience to root AGAINST humans and FOR some Blue Cat People that were, in reality, made in a computer.  That’s impressive.  What James Cameron and his crew of, I’m guessing here, trillions accomplished was a spectacle.  For that he and the film should be commended.

It wasn’t a perfect movie.  As hinted above it treads on themes that have been walked on before even by James Cameron himself (corporate greed = bad, science = good.  See other Cameron films: The Abyss, Terminator 2, Aliens), the movie runs a half-hour longer than it needs to and, honestly, the 3D presentation was OK not mind-blowing.  But I was entertained, I left the movie theater smiling and, frankly, I can’t ask for anything more.

Except a sequel.

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My improv group, Casual Sex Offenders, came to Boston on December 12th.  We did one of those shows we do.  You know, the ones with the laughs?  Allegedly.  Well, here’s the video evidence.

It’s December so, of course, I have Thanksgiving photos for you.

Movie school stops for no man.  Or goose.

My New York improv group Casual Sex Offenders do shows all the time.  Often multiple shows a week.  I’m rarely there due to the fact that I live in Boston.  Makes it tough to participate, you know?  However, every now and then I make the trip south to New York get onstage and do the funny.  This past Sunday was one of those times.

Well, the TV is sort of new.  I got it when I moved to Boston in September.

The Shake Shack in Madison Square Park has the best burger I’ve ever eaten in my life.  Hat tip to Shake Shack.

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