Jason F Maurer

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A really great day trip from Savannah can be found on Jekyll Island’s Driftwood beach. It is one of the hidden gems of Georgia’s coast and no more than 2 hours south of Savannah. Once you get to Jekyll there is a five dollar admission fee to get in and there is absolutely no gas stations on the island – so be warned. There are a few restaurants and shops – but its best to come prepared with your sunscreen and a picnic lunch. Driftwood is on the northern end of the island and locating the specific spot to park can be a bit tricky. You’ll notice a small, like 6 cars, parking area on the left with widely marked trail head on the right about 5 minutes down after the turn north(left) after the t-junction from the islands entrance. This is the best place to park if you can get a spot.

A quiet, mysterious beach area that stretches almost a good mile -driftwood offers a great place for family and the romantics alike. If you walk northward towards the very tale end of the beach it is very quiet and isolated – perfect for that summer picnic with your loved one, while near the beginning is perfect for the kids. While either playing in the surf or climbing on the huge trees both offer plenty of exercise and magical memories for the all.

Here are some of the photos from the day -

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I had the rare joy of recently watching a performance of “One flew over the cuckoo’s nest” by Dale Wassserman adapted from the novel by Ken Kesey. It was a local play performance here in savannah at the Indigo arts station.

Directed by Christopher Soucy and produced by Sheila Lynne Bolda this play was mind blowingly entertaining and a very harsh reminder of the realities of life. The Drama Bums(that’s the actor’s production company) put on one helluva show – notable performances for the night were put on by Allan Lander playing Dr. Spivey, Peter Griffin playing R.P. McMurphy and lastly Sheila Lynne Bolda playing Nurse Ratched.

Ms. Bolda’s performance of Nurse Ratched really stole the show. Her constant tense, rigid demeanor along with her curt direct delivery of lines set a air of harshness and forced order across the stage. Mr. Griffins performance of R.P. McMurphy gave life to the fly by the wire, care free radicalness of his character. Together they brought on stage the clash between order and chaos, between freedom and imprisonment -two sides of the cage of life. The battle between the two characters in the play was well supported by the remaining cast all of whom pushed and pulled and lifted the two actors higher than they could have achieved by themselves.

With almost no budget they were able to transform the stage into that mental ward that Jack Nickolson made so famous all those years ago. With little more than colored tape, a second hand couch and a beat up card table the ward was alive. You could feel the moonlight drifting through the window as Chief and McMurphy watched the geese flying south. You felt the emptiness of the ward as McMurphy was wheeled in for the last time, as the Chief escaped.

All in all a wonderful production and I would encourage those of you in Savannah to go and see the final shows tonight and tomorrow -well worth the entry price of 10 dollars. You won’t be disappointed.

here is some video from the performance – grabbed it via iPhone so audio is a bit low.

Snippet video of performance- 22 megs

Second Snippet video of performance – 20 megs

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Five Guys Coffee Spoof commercial from Jason Maurer on Vimeo.

Put this together as a class assignment. Wanted to re learn how to match to live action again with new software tools. I’m pretty happy with the second shot, but the track on the first shot is definitely off.

Sound is waaaaay scratch. The actor is Jim Reed and the DP was Arnold Lee.

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It all started with Jeremy saying – hey let’s take the convertible up to Sandro’s wedding in Atlanta. Thumping toons, wind in your hair and great company. Two dudes on the road off on a crazy weekend adventure… little did I know…

Baam! Clunk! rattle rattle rattle…. smoke…

Exit 111 claims another victim. Jeremy’s car had stopped dead… lucky for us exit 111 on I16 has a truck stop. Grady’s truck stop to be specific and it had a garage. So in 95 degree heat, Jeremy and I push his car the 1/2 mile or so down the highway shoulder. Good thing I hadn’t run yet today, cuz after that push I felt like I just ran a 10K! So I sat down, had a smoke and chill-laxed.

Upon arriving at Grady’s we find out that the garage only works on semi’s… and after some calling around there isn’t a garage that will take the car. So Jeremy quickly calls his road side assistance and gets us a tow truck to take it back to savannah. With only 4 hours left to go before the wedding starts it was looking grim, but the sign in the mens room was like a prophetic bolt from the blue…

We quickly used the power of the iPhone and found an Enterprise rental car agency in Statesboro and in 40 minutes, and an unusual car trip with a ragged old man we were back on the road in our brand new white PT cruiser. We made it to Atlanta with no further issues, ended up missing he ceremony but made the reception.

It was a sophisticated wedding and as always I was underdressed, but hey I can have fun at a funeral so I shook off the clothing blues, grabbed a glass a wine and proceeded to spread joy across the room. Post reception, a Scottish bar, a  couple of car bombs and some very bizarre people later I managed to make it to my hotel room and pass out.

Slightly hung over and ready for the trip home Jeremy and I headed out, loaded up on coffee and a biscuit I was ready for anything.

We stopped at a gas station and as my previous post mentions – Yellow root tea – we ran into one of the GA locals with a raspy high pitched voice selling his snake oil. It was priceless.

Now our plan was to stop in Macon to get pizza, but after relating a story about a small cafe in Juliette GA – the whistle stop cafe, which was in Fried Green Tomatoes – I was like lets have lunch there man. So we detoured and holy mother of god was it worth it. A wonderful little cafe in the middle of the deepest southest part of Georgia I’ve ever been. It was literally something out of a movie.

Here’s a shot of my lunch – country fried steak, potato salad, squash and onions, fried green tomatoes and sweet tea all from heaven’s kitchen.

We step out after lunch and the weather is hot, the sky is beautiful.

The town is so small and they have a few shops so we decide to look around. After exiting the creepy shop that had its own special racist corner – with Uncle remas’s tales and song of the south videos (no kidding!) –  we came upon another shop that had these amazingly creepy glove puppets…

As we were leaving, I noticed an old RC cola sign and had to shoot these last two pictures as I’m a sucker for texture like this…

We made it home safely, and while we both spent more on the trip than we wanted. It was a great adventure, and a wonderful way to start off my summer!

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For all that ails you… Jeremy had to buy it. we are wondering if it’s the guys piss.

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