I'm Joe Miller (I know... I'm working on a stage name) I'm a filmmaker, web designer/developer, entrepreneur and actor, in no particular order, from Wisconsin, a la San Francisco. I've built Drupal sites for grand institutions like UC-Berkeley, Stanford, UCSF and the Bay Bridge. I'm co-founder of Energy-Models.com, a place for engineers to learn energy modeling. During my acting career I was in a scene directed by George Lucas (name drop, boom goes the dynamite!) and a lot of other random stuff I don't want to talk about. Right now I'm stepping behind the camera and developing a few film projects that will see the light of day in the next year.
In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
I always wanted to be an actor. During high school I had an unfortunate running problem and spent most of my time training for cross country or track, so I never got a chance to appear on stage with the drama club. After graduating from UW I decided to stick around Madison, WI for a bit and work as a production assistant on a feature film, which ended up being a very weird/enlightening experience. It involved the first ABC Bachelortette contestant and a lot of blood, I'll try to do a blog about it sometime if that peaks your interest. I enjoyed the production side, but it still left me with the desire to actually get in front of the camera or on stage. So after I moved to San Francisco I took a few classes and just started going to auditions and was able to rack up a sizable list of random performances which is now my resume. I haven't done much lately, but hope to move behind the camera on a project I'm developing this fall.
I've been living in San Francisco four long years now. It's kind of scary how fast time races by. I took these pictures in Potrero Hill looking north toward downtown during a crisp and clear spring evening. I'll post the rest of the series when I stop working so damn much. Take with my baby, the Canon 7D.
I was going into my last year of college at good ole UW-Madison and thought, "How the hell can I go through college and not study abroad". So I threw up the hail mary and ended up in Freiburg, Deutschland. Seriously, when else was I ever going to use my 8 years of German language study.... (For any aspiring linguists out there, I HIGHLY recommend Spanish or Mandarin.) While I was there I witnessed a pretty awesome sunset. Basically the perfect convergance of a summer thunderstorm releasing itself from the horizon just as the sun started to descend. This was the result. Taken with a point and shoot Sony, proves you don't need a bad ass camera to get a bad ass shot.
Hey, I thought I should finally get my blog going. I envision it to be a place where I ramble on about my various interests. Therefore it will probably be heavy on the technology, film making, photography, and some random kiteboarding stuff.
