Inspired by many of the long-form pieces created over the past thirty-five years or so, I seized upon an opportunity to return to a format I hadn’t touched in ages (the music video) and stretched it as far as I could; having been asked to write and direct a single music video for San Francisco-based singer-songwriter Vivian Cook, I said, “Instead of that, why don’t we shoot three music videos plus a story wraparound in the same amount of time for the same amount of money?” In truth, the experience truly did transport me back to my youth; working fast, a tiny crew, no money, questionable permits, just burning through a pile of ideas in two days of shooting.

In the late ‘90’s/early 2000’s, the Los Angeles Times sponsored a series of shorts which played theatrically before feature films in the LA area. Each purported to tell the viewer what a person like a “Best Boy” or a “Gaffer” actually did for a living on the set of a motion picture. A couple of friends wrote a parody of the form and asked me to direct it. We shot on 35mm film, and actually got the thing up on a few screens around town. Nobody who saw it realized it was a parody. Nobody.

Having first met the brilliant improvisationalist and impressionist Jim Meskimen ages ago in NYC when I was working for Swatch, it has always been my pleasure to work with him whenever possible. Some years ago I had an idea for a web series about a wannabe Michael Moore who just isn’t smart enough to get out of his own way, despite an honest (if self-aggrandizing) desire to help people by making short documentaries about their problems. Here are the first three episodes.