I interviewed Atlanta-based editor Mae Manning on her less typical path into the industry on Creative COW. We talk a lot about things like “accessible tools” and the “democratization of video production” — what has this meant for the emerging talent whose creative development has taken place largely, or even entirely, within this democratized landscape? […]
Our final panel of Blue Collar Post Collective’s 2016 summer series was about ageism in post production — what does it mean to be “too young” and “too old”, and how can we fight those assumptions? Getting relevant and staying relevant in the industry is difficult on both ends of the spectrum. Young people find […]
This summer, I launched the west coast chapter of the Blue Collar Post Collective, a grassroots nonprofit organization that seeks to support each other and emerging talent in post production. We have regular social meet-ups in Hollywood, and our first educational series has been about the human side of post production. Our first panel on […]
Each year, the American Cinema Editors holds a student editing competition in which students are provided the same set of video dailies they must edit into a short. The submissions are judged by a panel of professional film editors, with three finalists invited to the formal and fancy ACE Eddie Awards held in LA in […]
When I moved to Los Angeles, “show my art in a gallery” was as much of a realistic goal as publishing an autobiography or being including in Forbes’ “30 under 30” list (there’s still time!). So when I saw the Art of Post event featuring art created by post production professionals in Los Angeles and New York, […]
Do you hang out under a tree during a lightning storm? Do you perform a checksum every time you copy important files from one place to another? If you don’t have an equally strong opinion about both these questions, it’s time to learn about checksums: how they work, how much you can trust them, and […]
(Note: this blog post ended up connecting me with a young woman doing an X-Files documentary who interviewed me in New York.) I could safely fit three episodes of The X-Files on one VHS tape in Long Play mode. And I did. In the late 90s and early aughts, I collected and categorized episodes in […]
It was quite a year for me, so I thought it would best be represented in a few pictures. To recap: I began work for Bling Digital in Atlanta as a technician on The Originals in January In February, I curled for the first time. In April, I was a part of an NAB panel […]
I answered some questions about gender equality in post at Art of the Guillotine. Go check it out.
I’m going to vainly accumulate all the coverage that I was involved with at NAB 2015. Indiewire: Tips on Tackling the Post-Production Gender Gap #WallyCam #NABShow 2015 | Talking Gender Gap with Kylee Wall All Things Adobe at NAB 2015 Kylee Wall talks about Adobe CSnext on Creative Cow