The End of this Blog

This blog has not exactly moved, so much as departed.

I'm still doing much of this type of thing, but at other locations:

• Annandovid.blogspot.com
• eatplaybe.blogspot.com
• classycigar.com
• noveleventually.blogspot.com
• and of course ClevelandCreativeOutlet.com

Farewell!

The Demise of An Innocent Woman

This is a movie I made a while back, in the Spring of 2012, but I've only just finished it recently. Enjoy!

It's quite different from most projects I work on - almost no comedy at all.
Music is all my own, it is not the original score. That's what was taking me a while.

Short Film: How To See At Sea

Caution: Lo Res

A 5 min. 30 sec. video I helped to produce for a friend of mine (BioMed Engineer) for a class he's taking. It's all about the process by which images are processed by the eye and sent via the optic nerve to the visual cortex in the brain.

Fresh Scent

I'm not sure why I didn't post this earlier, but I made this awesome short 30 second spot for a class of mine I'm taking, Short Commercial Form. Enjoy!

Making Apple Muffins

On Sunday we began the process, juicing 6 apples an a chunk of ginger root, making some delicious fresh juice, which we drank. The cellulose waste that is created by the apple juice (and ginger) was actually a great opportunity. We looked up a recipe, and turned that waste into some delicious opportunity.

SternItUpdate #003

I went for a 7 mile walk on Sunday. Alright, I didn't manage to finish the walk, but that's primarily because I tend to have a lot on my plate at one time, and this Sunday was even more than typical. Way more than typical. The previous night I had run nearly five miles (see my account of the run by clicking here), and later that day I was set to learn with my friend Levi in Crown Heights. So I had to cheat a little and take the subway back to the Village and grab lunch before heading out to Crown Heights. In addition to that, I also stayed up studying for my final in Classical Mythology on Tuesday (I did pretty darn well, if I do say so myself, though the proof will be in the scores, and I won't know for a couple weeks yet).

Anyway, you've let me go on for far too long. Without any more ado, please enjoy Stern It Update #003.

Short Film: A Vegetable Horror Movie

The second movie I made for my Short Commercial Form class in my Junior year at NYU.

In this project, the aim was to make the audience feel sympathy for an inanimate object. Now, I cheated a little bit by animating the character, but I think I did just fine.

In the movie, a cook (my girlfriend, Anna) is making soup. She cuts up various vegetables, one by one, and then drops them into the pot of boiling water. The last in line is the dill, who is quite literally quivering with fear.

Enjoy!

Short Film: Eating S!?#

My first short film for my Short Commercial Form class in my Junior Year at NYU.

The purpose of the project is to create a video that could potentially convince someone that the contents of the video are, in fact, factual. Rest assured, I did not eat poop at any time, from any animal. The poop is a mixture of chocolate and rice crispies. Actually it was quite tasty, which is ironic.

Anyway, the story in the video is

Short Film: War

This is my third short film I made for Sight and Sound: Film in my sophomore year of college. It was filmed on the Arriflex camera using 16mm black and white film. No sound.

Sporatic, energetic, exciting! War begins with a challenge to a game of cards that quickly escalates. Stay tuned to the very end to see the twist!

Short Film: Drawing Love

This is my second short film I made for Sight and Sound: Film in my sophomore year of college. It was filmed on the Arriflex camera using 16mm black and white film. No sound.

In this poignant short film, a hopelessly romantic girl annoys her chauvinistic boyfriend with her girlish ways. He leaves her, and she is left alone and heartbroken for some time. Eventually, she manages to bring herself to leave her own lonely embrace long enough to go to a party. While everyone else is enjoying themselves and happy, she feels separate and uncomfortably alone. At this party, she notices a man who, she discovers, is also a hopeless romantic.

Enjoy!

Short Film: Cig

This is my first short film I made for Sight and Sound: Film in my sophomore year of college.
It was filmed on the Arriflex camera using 16mm black and white film. No sound.

The story is of a man who comes to the park and just wants a cigarette. To his horror, he realizes he has none on him. He rummages around in his pockets to find materials to build himself a cigarette, and proceeds to do so. Upon finishing the process, he then realizes he has nothing with which to light this ridiculous cigarette.

Enjoy!

SternItUpdate #002

In this update, I went to my Generation Citizen Friday class, taught a great session, and then came back and cooked up some deli roll for lunch tomorrow.

SternItUpdate #001

THIS POST IS ONE WEEK LATE. IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN POSTED LAST WEEK (February 15, 2013).

Also, the aspect ratio got thrown out of whack. Please pardon my error.

The Projects I Work On

Today is a fast day in the Jewish calendar. This particular one is known as Tzom Gedaliah. Today I can not eat or drink anything at all. Because of this, I have neither the presence of mind nor the energy to really make a quality video. I decided therefore, that this is a good opportunity to tell y'all about all the different projects I'm working on.

Four Lives in Four Minutes

This video is a project that was completed for my class Sight and Sound: Documentary, which is in the NYU Undergraduate Film School.

In the class, we were split up into crews of four. Each crew works together for the whole semester. This project required that

Postponed...

I have the video made. It's pretty cool, and it's a collaborative effort between me and three others of my classmates. Unfortunately, I don't have it at the moment, but I'll get it. Please be patient and wait a day or two to get it. Thank you.

My Crazy Schedule!

So I have a nuts schedule this semester. Every day I get up at 6:15 AM, take a bunch of classes and partake in my many hobbies and extra-curricular activities, only to get to bed at 11 PM every night.

I'm taking 6 classes. One of them (Sight and Sound: Documentary) is on Tuesdays and Thursdays, from 9AM to 6PM. You read that right. And there are projects besides. One of the classes I'm auditing. It's extremely intense.

I also started a new workout regimen, which is working very well for me. The only way that I've been able to keep myself sane is to schedule and plan every minute of every day. I always know exactly where/when I'm supposed to be. This year my iPhone has come in even more handy than it has previously.


Wish me luck on my crazy schedule!

Oh, and if you want any of the materials relating to my workout regimen (I keep very close track of my progress by way of a complex spreadsheet and graphing, and I made a different workout playlist on my iPod for every day of the week), please contact me at starfilmsentertainment@gmail.com.

The Great Carlyle Fire of 2011!

The day started out hectic enough. I made an apple pie for a massive lunch my room mates and I were planning for Saturday afternoon. We invited roughly 30 people to this lunch. It was truly epic. I did get the apple pie made in the end, but later on in the day, as the kitchen continued to be continually hectic and overly crowded, our fire alarm started going off. We contacted the front desk, but they told us it was not a problem. Go figure. I began making my video for the week, and just as I was saying that I didn't know what else to put into the video, the main fire alarm in the building went off.

As we all filed out of the building, we shared one thought. Was it our fault?

It took forever for the staff to let us back into the room, and with the impending approach of Shabbos, tensions began to rise. We found out that the alarm was actually sounded because a girl in our tower had put her hangers on a sprinkler on the 6th floor. Some rooms in the floors below her were flooded knee deep in water. Luckily, our room was saved and completely dry.

Guest starring my lifelong friend, Sholom B.!

The New Room

As you may or may not know, I have recently moved into my new dorm room located on Union Square West. I'm pretty excited about it. My three room mates and I are all good friends, and we are planning on taking full advantage of the kitchen our room comes equipped with.

Well, although I have described my room and the furnishings I'm living with to everyone in great and eloquent detail, they still badger me for pictures. I figured I could do one better. Please enjoy The New Room.

Back To Civilization

Here it is. Later than I had hoped to put it up, but here nonetheless. In this video, I made the trip from the beautiful Adirondack Mountains, where I spent a good chunk of my summer - about 6 weeks or so - back to the hustle bustle of New York City.

I hitched a ride with my brother, and my girlfriend also shared the trip. My brother and I took turns driving, and arrived in the Bronx, which is where my girlfriend and I got out and caught a 1 train heading downtown. That was the hardest part of the trip. The station in the bronx had no elevator, so lugging all of our luggage (I had one huuuge suitcase, my violin, camera [which I actually didn't end up using all summer because I just used my iPhone], messenger bag, and another small bag besides. Plus both of my tefillin [phelactories] Oy.), we slowly ascended the two long flights of stairs. Once we were on the train, utterly exhausted, we both collapsed into four empty seats, with ample room for all of our stuff. At 42nd Street, we found an elevator and switched to the NQR, taking elevators wherever possible.

At Union Square, we got out again, headed to an elevator to take us up to the main level, and then went about finding another elevator. We didn't find one because, as a woman who shared the first elevator told us, "There isn't an elevator to the street at Union Square." Well, as I found out a couple days later, that isn't entirely true, but Union Square station is sprawled out underground, and the elevator isn't anywhere near Union Square West, where we wanted to get out. It's all the way at the Easternmost entrance to the station. But it's there. Anyway...

Once we lugged all of our stuff into our rooms in our respective dorm rooms, I headed to the apartment where I resided at the beginning of the summer and proceeded to move all of my other stuff (with the help of my illustrious room mate) to my dorm.

I am now settled in and comfortable. Life is good. I may do an extra video soon about my new dorm. Keep watching!