Four + One Blog

Where the search for a well-rounded existence can stretch its legs.

If you’re new to the blog, here are a few things to get you started. The game behind the name tells the tale of where the name 4+1 originated. Some of the early posts will give you an idea of what I'm into, my latest posts have tended to showcase the projects I'm working on. Enjoy.

Fenway Park: The Real Deal (Game 2)

It’s Boston Week on the Four + One Blog! Read Fenway Park: The Real Deal (Game 1) for my breakdown of Thursday night’s game vs. the Blue Jays. Stay tuned for more Boston-related comment coming at you all week.
Since I covered all the great things about Fenway Park in yesterday’s post, I’m going to go [...]

Fenway Park: The Real Deal (game 1)

It’s Boston Week on the Four + One Blog! Check back all week to get the full scoop on ‘What Three Guys Think’ Boston baseball weekend trip.

Niel and Yoon from our ‘What three guys think’ series joined me for our annual baseball weekend trip. This year we did Boston. And as you’ll see it ranks [...]

18 movie experiences that changed me, part III

Read part I and part II of this series to read about movies from my adolescence and the early film school years.
Self-directed Pseudo Study Abroad (Paris for three weeks)
In the 2003-2004 school year a few of my fellow film students and I felt like we weren’t getting as much out of the available screenwriting [...]

18 movie experiences that changed me, part II

In Part I of this series I covered my adolescence (1993-1998) and movies 1-6 that changed me. Now on to my post-adolescence, covering approximately 2001-2004.
Movie Store Clerk/Film Student
In 2001 I went to college. I packed my bags into my old VW bug and hit the road. My school experience covered 5 years, and to be [...]

18 movie experiences that changed me, part I

I direct TV commercials for a living. I studied film in college, my short film played at several festivals. I’ve written feature-length screenplays (“I wrote a hit play!”). Movies have played a big role in my life. This is a list of movie experiences that impacted me at pivotal moments, in big ways. It’s not [...]

Reaction to a stomach punch

They said it would end. The naysayers in Boston said the honeymoon would end. The ‘clubhouse cancer’ would show up, destroy the team and ruin everything. They didn’t say anything about failing a drug test. They didn’t say a 50 game suspension was part of the deal.
I had just gotten into work, I was logging [...]

A welcomed helping hand

It was tax day and I had procrastinated. Sometimes that doesn’t happen. Sometimes we get it all done and sent in early, but this year we hadn’t. Because of a mistake with accounting, we owed some state taxes. Now it’s the morning taxes are due and the plan is simple: pay them online.
So I hop [...]

A roundabout introduction to 1001 rules for my unborn son

Evie is now a little over two years old. She’s spunky, she’s stubborn, she’s opinionated. Basically, she’s a lot of fun to have around. One of my favorite things to do with her is watch the Dodgers. She’s big enough to follow the action, and can tell when something great happens. She calls Manny Maddie [...]

Handcrafted: Beckel Canvas Products

Simple, unadorned, quality. That is how I would describe most everything Beckel Canvas Products makes.
I made my visit to the Portland company yesterday, after getting tipped off by Michael Williams over at A Continuous Lean earlier this week. The first thing you notice when arriving at their space is that it’s not that noticeable. The [...]

It’s not *this* economy, it’s the NEW economy… but that doesn’t make it easy

The first part of the headline is a tag line for a self-promotional series of PSA’s I’m developing from an idea that came from Mercedes Rose. ‘It’s not this economy, it’s the new economy. Get creative.’ The tag encompasses the upbeat and optimistic outlook that keeps me going. Make it happen. Move, shake. Meet, greet. [...]

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