Category: Creative Journal

• 23

  MAY

  2019

  Tunnel Shoot

  • Creative Journal
  • by Dugan Lunday

  We finished up shooting at Tamagawa Daishi. The abbot gave us some dorayaki and senbei. The snacks tasted religious. The dorayaki were even stamped with bonji, the Siddham script seed syllables.   The most impressive part of shooting at the temple was definitely being able to film in the tunnel, to really be able to…

• 01

  MAY

  2019

  Demo Reel

  • Creative Journal
  • by Dugan Lunday

  I’ve been doing a little research to stimulate some ideas on how to format our demo reel. I’d like to put together something that’s less cookie cutter than the typical reel – just stringing together our best shot footage. I think the super sleek black/silver look of so many production companies is rather attractive, but…

• 02

  APR

  2019

  Photons

  • Creative Journal
  • by Dugan Lunday

  Not to pull an “Oh! The golden days!”, but as part of the generation that doesn’t fully remember life pre-internet, I feel like there are some important practices that I missed out on. Not necessarily know-how. Again, that’s what the internet’s for. I can find whatever I want to as long as I know I’m…

• 30

  MAR

  2019

  Religious LEDs

  • Creative Journal
  • by Dugan Lunday

  Here’s an update in dialogue with the post on Tamagawa Daishi:   The nooks in the ceiling at Tamagawa Daishi are so layered with soot that they eat light the same way lacquerware does. It’s like staring into a dusty black hole. The tunnel underneath the temple is damp and primordial. Overall, it achieves its…

• 19

  MAR

  2019

  Tunnel Temple

  • Creative Journal
  • by Dugan Lunday

  I have a temple obsession. They’re really like dictionaries of symbols. There’s a Shingon (Vajrayana Buddhist sect) temple near the office that interests me in particular and I’d like to make a mini-doc on it. The main hall itself is the same as every other temple, maybe even a bit dingier. The real point of…