Author: Bri

About a month ago, Quinn and I were having dinner with a friend who was discussing a personal situation that had gone sour fast. He was explaining the story and the various causes for the souring, including the personalities and quirks of each person, and gestured to me saying “you know what I mean, Bri. You also don’t have a lot of empathy.”

Continue reading “Relearning (Or Not) Outward Displays of Empathy” →

That’s right, long time readers, it’s a SEAN STORY! 

I know I’ve talked about this before. The day I revealed this tale, with a deep shame, to my parents was also the day I talked about it on my old collab channel TheseFolk. But I’ve never really gone into detail about the dumbest single thing I’ve ever done, which is also incidentally one of my best stories. Continue reading “That time I secretly met up with a boy from the internet” →

A few weeks ago on Twitter, I was having a conversation about branding and public personas with some fellow filmmakers, and one of them (a fantastic Canadian director named Brianne Nord-Stewart) made a joke that “my personal online presence is regulated by the notions of “am I okay with this living on forever?” & “do I care if my grandpa sees this?”” And it struck me how considerably less family friendly my online presence has become over the past few years. Continue reading “Public Displays of Profanity” →

Been thinking a lot about branding recently. It’s a topic that comes up a lot in indie filmmaking, because it’s important that all of your projects’ assets follow similar themes, colors, etc so that people can easily tell what accounts and posts are yours. It’s also something pretty integral to my ambitions in the media and entertainment world, because online, personal brand is everything. Continue reading “Fame, Branding, and Chubby Women” →

In an attempt to make the laziest possible February vlog due to the circumstances I laid out in my last blog, I asked Twitter for questions I could answer. Hopefully by the time THIS blog goes up, that video will already be live…. HERE. Continue reading “I don’t have hobbies” →

Once more, I’ve waited until the absolute last minute to post this month. In my defense, there were extenuating circumstances which include but are not limited to the fact that I’m moving in four days rather unexpectedly and the fact that this very website was down for almost a week with me.

The website being down was likely a result of my having a new blog window open for over a week which at some point stopped responding to the rest of the website because I was logged in and out and closed and opened my computer and browser so often, which then caused an internal error that spread as I failed to deal with the initial issue. Big props to my dad for fixing in fifteen minutes what plagued me and the 24 hour Hostgator support for over a week. Anyways- the site’s back up and that procrastination excuse is gone.

The moving rather unexpectedly is still a thing I’m contending with. I haven’t even been at my current apartment for a year but they informed us we wouldn’t be able to renew our lease because the building wants to renovate. So back on the moving grind, where thankfully we found a place within two blocks of where we are now after a few weeks of searching and panicking. Fortunately, it’s bigger and in theory a better place to live. Unfortunately, we have to move in the middle of a work week. So if anyone in the NYC area is free next Thursday…. I’ll buy you beer and pizza if you help! You only have to take boxes/minimal furniture DOWN stairs, as my new place is on the first floor.

In spite of my already having a creative project in the can in 2018, it’s been a frustrating start to my year. I had savings goals and creative goals and personal goals and all of them have basically been put on hold because of the move and will be put on hold for an indeterminate amount of time. I hate not planning for big changes like this, and I HATE moving in the city. Makes me wistful for the days of moving around in Oregon, where everyone had a car and a nearly guaranteed parking spot and elevators or at least less stories to houses and apartments.

I also tried to record a vlog two days ago, since I’m late on that as well, but it was out of focus and the audio randomly cut out halfway through so now I have to find time to do that AGAIN. How’s my 2018?? Frustrating.

This is enough writing for a blog for now. See you in a day or two for the next one because I’m running out of time and like hell am I conceding a NYR this early in the year.

Toodles!

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In November 2016, after a conversation I can’t fully recall, my friend Colin and I decided to write a horror short film together. He’d just finished a stint as Carl in season 2 of Brains and as Kevin in Ace and Anxious and we knew we enjoyed working together and that we were both writers. He was a big fan of horror and I’d been wanting to try my own hand at it, so it was decided: a short film in the horror genre with an idea of our production restrictions in mind as we developed the script. We knew we wanted to keep the cast small, the location singular, and the horror psychological, and within a month we’d written the first draft of what would become Buy In, following a charming young salesman and a strange, lonely traveler who find themselves locked in a struggle for control over their own destinies. Continue reading “Buy In: a reflection over a year in the making” →