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Caught in a Trapcode
We’ve been working hard on concepts for the graphics treatment in Dying to do Letterman. There’s a magic set of plugins we wished for, to create cloud effects, glows, and other graphic goodness, famously known as the Trapcode Suite. Well, today, Red Giant Software generously donated a copy the entire Trapcode Suite to Dying to … Read more
A Monster Tweetup for Dying to do Letterman
When Paris Hilton tweets about you, it’s time to say, “Thanks!”
IJL Designs is Dying to Build Our Website
Okay, so clearly this post won’t go up for a bit, but we’re excited to announce that Linda…yes THE Linda of IJL Designs (short for “It’s Just Linda”) has offered her time and expertise to help us put together this very website. As you can imagine, after working six years on this documentary, that last thing … Read more
Editing Begins on Dying to do Letterman
If you’re hanging around this blog, you already know Dying to do Letterman is a self-funded, passion project documentary we’ve been shooting for nearly five years. It follows comedian Steve Mazan who, after learning he has liver cancer, dedicates his life to living his dream: performing on the David Letterman show. Almost Five Years and … Read more
Recurring Dream Part Deux
Ok, so my dream to get on Letterman is complete. All the details of my journey are going to be in a documentary entitled cleverly enough “Dying To Do Letterman” with the help of my filmmaker friends Joke and Biagio (jokeandbigio.com or jokeproductions.com). So now what? Well, as many of you know, the tumors on … Read more
Dying to do Letterman Makes Yahoo Front Page!
The noise about Steve’s quest to perform on The Late Show with David Letterman is really picking up, from the generous stream of Twitter love, to great stories like this one on Punchline Magazine and this story…which was the lead story on Yahoo this morning. We are so honored to be making this feature-length documentary … Read more
Dream Complete
Call the Dream Police and tell them that they can take the day off. Tonght, my appearance on “The Late Show w/David Letterman” airs. I taped it Monday August 31st. Dave and the gang take Fridays off, so they tape two shows on Monday, and show the second one on Fridays. I don’t want to … Read more
Recurring Dream
OK. Over two years have passed and I haven’t done Letterman. I’ve even gone to revision 2.0 of this website. In the first year of this project I got much closer to Letterman than I was prior to the project. Looking back I don’t know if doing it within a year was even possible. IN … Read more