Nov Recap

Posted by mikehedge on November 26, 2010
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November so far has been an interesting month. Lots of projects being finished. A bunch of neat projects from friends being finished, announced, or launched. My friend Tom Lowe has been out shooting a great film all over the southwest. He recently launched the teaser for the film: My friend LYNX, has launched her new […]

September and October Recap

Posted by mikehedge on October 31, 2010
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I arrived back in Los Angeles, after a crazy couple weeks filming at Burning Man 2010, for a great documentary project, then I flew to Toronto, to help shoot some pick-up scenes for a feature called Skeleton Lake. While there I attended the Toronto International Film Festival, and saw a great indie film directed by Charlotte Sachs Bostrup called Karla and […]

Burning Man 2010

Posted by mikehedge on September 17, 2010
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This year’s Burning Man was absolutely beautiful. Thank you for everyone making it such a great year! This year I joined a film team to work on an ambitious multiple-year documentary. Shooting on RED998 MX was such a pleasure. The footage from this year is like nothing anyone has ever captured at any Burning Man […]

Tesla Tech Conference 2010

Posted by mikehedge on August 15, 2010
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I was not able to attend the Tesla Tech Conference last year, so I really wanted to go this year. The event being all the way in Albuquerque, NM was a bit far, but several days before the conference, I got a call from Marko Rodin about joining the team to document the week. I […]

April May June Recap

Posted by mikehedge on July 15, 2010
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After many many weeks on the road for my epic Jumping Book tour, I returned to LA and continued rockin’ life. I met up with Peggy and Ondi Timoner at a great IDA Mixer. Always great seeing them. I saw Andrew Strugnell as he passed through Los Angeles on his whirlwind world travels. I met up with Rob […]

March/April/Jumping Book Tour

Posted by mikehedge on April 25, 2010
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This adventure I’m on never seems to die down. Couldn’t be more grateful. A short film I produced named UYUNI played a few more film festivals in places like Columbia and Iceland (totally wish I could have gone!) My friend Nirvan got his awesome new website for The 1 Second Film launched! My friend Ondi launched her new documentary We Live […]

SXSW

Posted by mikehedge on March 25, 2010
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I decided very last minute to head to Austin, Texas for SXSW, because a couple friends were premiering their films there. I also wanted to visit with my grandma and family in Texas after the festival. I decided to make a huge roadtrip out of it, and I actually headed out to the east coast […]

Feb

Posted by mikehedge on February 28, 2010
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Right after I returned from the epic Park City trip, I launched a huge crowdfunding fundraiser to get the final VFX shots finished for Zac&Mac’s genius shortfilm SIMILO. It was a huge effort. Together with the large indie film community, all the fans of the original short, and a bunch of my closest friends and […]

Sundance/Slamdance 2010

Posted by mikehedge on February 10, 2010
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Back from Sundance 2010! It was a truly amazing experience. This year, I decided last minute to drive out to Park City for Slamdance and Sundance. The drive out was a pretty rough experience. At times it was 10mph through thick snow storms. I ended up making it without driving off the road and without […]

December/January Split

Posted by mikehedge on January 25, 2010
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December was an intense month. Remembering that every problem is actually an opportunity, I was gifted several great opportunities for ATDS. The ATDS soundtrack project continues to be created. So many great bands! Dec 11th I got to go to the annual Warren Miller screening! It was great seeing another film. Loved it. On Dec14th, I got to […]

1127 2009 BLOG

Posted by mikehedge on November 27, 2009
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It’s difficult enough trying to put into words some of my experiences, but cramming an entire year into one post, especially this year has been quite an ordeal… Welcome to 1127 2009! Hope this year has been outstanding and successful for everyone. This is my 7th year sending out these 1127 emails. Each year I […]

Invitation

Posted by mikehedge on November 25, 2009
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During the months of October and November I shared a ton of things on my facebook wall. I shared links to things that inspired me, I asked questions and got feedback, I also shared some things that people should be aware of. I have not been very vocal with all the information I have. Maybe […]

Oct/Nov Split

Posted by mikehedge on November 24, 2009
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Without a moment to relax, my adventures continued. After getting back from the epic CA road trip, I got busy doing taxes and eating pizza… DejaVu? I joined Arin Crumley at the FIND Filmmaker Forum after party. He was part of a disscusion with Lizzie Gillett, one of the producers of The Age of Stupid, […]

Truth About Our History

Posted by mikehedge on November 12, 2009

My friends over at Panacea have put together probably one of the most important collections ever. Free energy technology is real and has been real for a very long time. I have been doing extensive research in this field ever since I read Atlas Shrugged. There are countless people who have developed all sorts of […]

Oct Shooting/Road Trip

Posted by mikehedge on October 10, 2009
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Right after I returned all the gear from Ruairi’s shoot, Ozan flew in from Vancouver. A few days later, Macgregor, Ozan, RED998, and I took off for a crazy road trip adventure! Neither Macgregor or Ozan had seen the sites of California. And even though I had just been on a crazy neat trip up to Yosemite, I couldn’t […]

Short Film with Ruairi

Posted by mikehedge on September 25, 2009
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Right after arriving back from Burning Man, I got to be part of a really great short film directed by Ruairi Robinson (Academy Award nominee in 2002). Ruairi has been a huge a inspiration of mine for many years. He has done many successful short films and commercials. I saw The Silent City, and I said, wow. […]

KOR3

Posted by mikehedge on September 15, 2009

Macgregor finished the FX for this short teaser for the crazy epic short we plan on shooting hopefully in 2010. This footage we shot on RED998 while in China in December 2008.

Burning Man

Posted by mikehedge on September 13, 2009
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Well…. do you publicly blog about things? or keep them private? Who cares? I tend to always speak positively about other people publicly. Anyways. With a huge epic participatory documentary not yet complete, I headed back to Burning Man for my second time. Last year was crazy epic in every way possible. It was my first […]

July/August/Sausalito/Fires

Posted by mikehedge on August 28, 2009
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How does one take a moment to reflect? How does one put into words the experiences of life? Here’s a quick update. My friend Robert Hogg and his company, Toy Kite Software launched a crazy genius iphone game called iSamurai. If you have an iphone, it’s a pretty genius app. One of my major inspirations is a […]

DIYDAYS Philly

Posted by mikehedge on August 1, 2009
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I got to be part of the DIYDAYS events in 2008 in LA and San Francisco. This year, I couldn’t join the DIYDAYS in Philly, so I made a video. Arin Crumley and Zak Forsman, among others are doing a neat panel called: Changes in Creative Collaboration. Here is the video I made which is […]

Halves!!!!

Posted by mikehedge on July 23, 2009
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Halves!!!! Awhile back, I started a collaboration project called Halves. The idea is that each person picks 5 things to shoot and we both shoot all 10. I finished two of the Halves projects!!!!! One with Meghan Plowman, here’s the set: Link And another one with Tracey Mellinger. Here’s the set: Link Each of these […]

wake up

Posted by mikehedge on July 20, 2009

Anyone still missing what is happening? Well lots of things are happening. Lots of things have happened… Bill Ryan and Kerry Cassidy have been working on a truly beautiful project that I hope everyone knows about. It’s called Project Camelot Take an active part in making our future better by taking some time to find […]

Griffith Park

Posted by mikehedge on June 20, 2009
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Griffith Park!!!!!! I have wanted to do the tour of Griffith Observatory for many years. Back in 2002 they closed the doors and started a $93 million renovation and expansion project. In November 2006, they reopened with several new exhibits! It was super fun getting to enjoy the new exhibits. At night we even got […]

Yosemite and Sequoia

Posted by mikehedge on June 11, 2009
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Immediately after returning from the epic 50 States in 14 Days journey all over the US, I jumped in my car, and headed to Yosemite to join Tiff and Todd and their family for a couple days up in Yosemite and the Sequoias. Seeing Half Dome again was so awesome! It’s been a while since […]

50 States in 14 Days – the picturevideo (48 states)

Posted by mikehedge on June 7, 2009
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Quiznos teamed up with independent filmmakers, Hunter Weeks (10 MPH/10 Yards/Ride the Divide) and Mike Dion to produce a series of videos that capture the Quiznos Torpedo phenomenon and aim to inspire anyone to create videos of their own for the “Where’s Your Torpedo” $10,000 Video Challenge. I joined the team and did the lower […]

April-May Split

Posted by mikehedge on May 20, 2009
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The last couple weeks of April and first couple weeks of May were kinda a blur. Things were fast. Here’s a recap. April 15th, I went the DVD Party for the film The Art of Travel which Chris Masterson starred in. The film was directed by Thomas Whelan and produced by my filmmaking friend  Brian […]

PCH and Film Fests

Posted by mikehedge on April 18, 2009
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At the end of March, Nathan Garofalos flew in to LA to shoot a quick scene with Nathan Reid and I. It was really fun and the product looks great. We then drove to Orange County to visit the RED HQ, which Nathan had never been to. It was neat hanging out with Kelly at […]

me today

Posted by mikehedge on March 28, 2009
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Sometimes it upsets me when I’m being lied to. But whatever, life continues, no time for emotion when one needs to save the world.

Codes In The Clouds

Posted by mikehedge on March 26, 2009

My good friend Robert Raths and his label Erased Tapes have a genius band called Code In The Clouds. They have a great EP which is out. While I was out in the UK shooting with them, Macgregor and I shot this teaser for their new album which releases June 1st!!!! Macgregor also finished the […]

Back in LA

Posted by mikehedge on March 18, 2009
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Back in LA? how weird. It has been months and months since I was last in LA. I left in October and continued traveling. I ended up going to 12 countries and ended up as far east as Shanghai, China. But now I am back on the west coast finally. Here’s a shot of the […]