The blog for aspiring & established filmmakers of independent films. by ted hope.

Bored? How about lacing your shoes differently?

There’s a saying, mostly used for art — but applicable to everything if you ask me — “make strange”. Sometimes we can’t see how things really are, because we are all doing exactly the same thing.

If you “make strange” you get to see things in a new way; maybe as they really are. Regardless, it makes for some fun, so why not.

How about starting with your shoe laces? Maybe lacing them in a different way would be cool. Crooked Brains found 33 Different Ways To Lace Your Shoes. Check it out.

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Hope offers his unique perspective on how to make movies while keeping your integrity intact and how to create a sustainable business enterprise out of that art while staying true to yourself.

Meet Ted

Ted Hope is a “holistic film producer”: he aims to be there from the beginning and then forever after, involved in every aspect of a film’s life cycle and ecosystem, as committed to engineering serendipity as preventing problems, as obsessed with lifting the good into the great, as he is…

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