Independent Filmmaker in Los Angeles and Atlanta. Editor. Director. Occasional photographer and helicopter pilot.
Los Angeles, CA
Joined November 2009
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So the power is out here and we are off grid for a while. Did not notice at first because the house battery kicked in. However, since we were using it overnight, there’s not much charge left. So, we have to be judicious in our power usage. But that will get us around eight hours.
Fortunately, lots of things out here that don’t need electricity!
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Claude is also excellent for researching and translating non-English language content. It opens up a whole new world of information.
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I may be a convert to AI after using Claude as a research assistant for a documentary. It’s very good at finding source material, even obscure source material. It will also fact check and cross reference the material being searched.
This saves enormous amounts of my time, and I can keep working on something else while it does the searches. It will also download and organize the source material.
Claude is a bit like an inexperienced assistant on their first day. Eager but needs a lot of direction and correction. A big timesaver though.
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The short I edited for Frank Crim is in the Burbank International Film Festival on August 3rd!
"Mr. Fleischmann" starring Walter Koenig (Mr. Chekov from Star Trek).
burbankinternationalfilmfest…
A great project to work on that came to me almost by accident. Walter is awesome.
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"Star Trek" Legend Walter Koenig Named Indie Short Fest's Best Actor of June-July 2026 indieshortfest.com/2026/07/1…
Congrats to Walter! (Edited by me.)
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California bill AB 2319 would add postproduction tax incentives separate from production incentives to support the industry here.
I just wrote a @MPEG700 letter: Keep Post Alive! Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/ke…
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Helicopters were the future of LA in the 1960s!
Scheduled service from LAX to Disneyland.
youtube.com/watch?v=_Lq32T9j…
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The official Instagram for Mr. Fleischmann, the Walter Koenig film I’ve been working on.
instagram.com/mrfleischmannf…
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Magical LA night flight in NBC News helicopter TV 4 with George Marciniw and Eliana Moreno. An awesome evening on 1/27. Thanks, George!
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Trying out the new X article tool... Seems handy for formatting and good way to organize long form posts.
teapawt.net/craigFF/status/2021395…
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Storytelling Side Note:
We’re in a period of cultural transition that nobody understands yet. It’s a story, a whole world of stories, that nobody has told yet.
We might be on the cusp of an explosion of creativity and something completely new.
I’ve been reading Hunter S. Thompson and Philip K. Dick books to see how they handled it.
We’re waiting for whoever will be first to tell the story of what’s coming next…
C.
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