The Official Website of Amanda Theiler

The amount of amazing work that I’ve seen in the past two weeks while trying to find a job is truly incredible. It’s the kind of work that’s so good it that it both inspires you, and makes you want to quit in defeat. I’ve never had the chance to try stop motion before, but I found this music video for “Oh Mandy” by The Spinto Band directed by Sean Donnelly, and I thought it was pretty great. It reminded me of some of the work done in Michel Gondry’s film “Science of Sleep”. Check it out HERE.

If there are two things in the world that make me happy, they are skateboarding and video editing. Which means that when the two are put together, I’m basically in heaven. I’ll admit that I really know nothing about skateboarding other than that I know that I really, really love it. I don’t know how to do it, and I really don’t understand what they’re doing, but it’s the most entertaining thing I’ve ever seen. So while I was going through my morning ritual of reading the Lat34 Action Sports Blog and noticed that there is a Skateboard Film Festival this summer in Seattle, I began to wonder if I could go to this and write it off as a business expense. According to their website, the festival will include “Workshops and informational discussions on editing and filmmaking”, as well as the chance to meet other film makers. If this isn’t a reasonable excuse to fly to Seattle to watch skate videos all day and then write it off as business, I don’t know what is.