I’d be remiss if I didn’t encourage everyone to come to the Pacific Pinball Expo this weekend. If you’re within a hundred-mile radius of the Marin Civic Center in San Rafael, California, you owe it to yourself to be there. And frankly, even if you’re further away than that, you should still mull a visit [...]
TILT will be showing at the wonderful California Extreme video game and pinball expo this Saturday, June July 19 in downtown San Jose, California. Showtime is tentatively set for 7pm, though that could change…keep watching this board for updates. Please come by, check out what will certainly be an amazing show, watch the film, and come say hello! (I’ll [...]
If you’re in the San Francisco Bay Area and would like to catch a public showing of TILT, please stop by the Palo Alto office of design firm IDEO at 5pm this Thursday, June 12. Given IDEO’s illustrious history, I’m hoping for lots of great product design-related discussion during the Q&A with me before and [...]
…happened this past week, on April 8, 2008. If you like pinball–or even if you don’t, but are the kind of person who enjoys learning about how things get built–please go check out the film’s official web site. And now at the low price of $20, this thing is priced to move. Pick up your [...]
I was lucky enough to be interviewed yesterday for the PRI program Fair Game about my documentary, TILT. (Download the podcast here.) The show’s host, Faith Salie, earned my admiration for 1) actually watching my film, and 2) conducting a serious, thoughtful interview about it. (Something, I admit, I barely deserve as pretty much an [...]
Big documentary-related news this past week:
The Future of Pinball has a new title. I’d grown pretty attached to the old one, but time after time it was proven to me that 1) it appealed most to die-hard pinball fans, and I was hoping for a bigger audience; 2) the irony of the title was completely [...]
Some updates with regards to The Future of Pinball:
Music: During pre-production I had scored the film with a lush exotica soundtrack by ’50s bandleader Les Baxter. Unfortunately, licensing that music turned out to be prohibitively expensive and I had to drop it. A savior did come along, however: noted L.A. jazz musician Skip Heller–who in [...]
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