Yikes, it appears I haven't posted here in about 8 years or thereabouts! In fact, I didn't even realize this blog still existed until today. And now that I've accidentally come across it, it seems the least I can do is point you to my newish personal website: DougBlock.com.
It won't fill you in on these past years as I no longer keep a blog. I'm way too lazy. Besides, no one reads blogs anymore. But if you're really interested you can peruse my Facebook page, scroll down and go through a rabbit hole back... and back... and back in time.
You can also see periodic bursts of musings over the years on my Twitter page. I used to keep at it pretty perkily. In fact, back in the day IndieWire named me one of 25 Documentary Filmmakers to Follow on Twitter. Ha. Now I'm so lazy I can barely be moved to retweet the posts of those with genuine wit or political wisdom.
I also post photos on my Instagram page, although in all honesty I prefer to post them on Facebook. Everyone posts their photos on Instagram. Boring. No one does it on Facebook. Genius. (Actually, just lazy. I got used to doing it there.)
Ok, since you're clearly dying to know what I've been up to, I made a feature doc called 112 Weddings based on my work shooting weddings for many years to support my documentary habit. In the film I revisit 9 of my favorite wedding couples to see how their marriages are faring. I produced Jordan Melamed's terrific personal documentary Futures Past. I'm in the middle of making a new doc called Betty & Henri, where I attempt to solve the mystery behind a 20-year old, anonymous love letter that fell from the pages of a used travel book my wife and I took with us to Paris a few years ago. And I'm still a host of The D-Word, the online community for documentary filmmakers worldwide that I founded almost 21 years ago (woohoo, drinking age!). You can read all about these (and more) on that handy dandy website with the unforgettable name: DougBlock.com
This blog used to have that same unforgettable name. Now you can only access it via its completely forgettable url: https://dbblock.typepad.com If I weren't so lazy I'd link to it on my unforgettable website. But why bother when it'll probably be another 8 years before my next blog post.
That said, now that you're here, if you're curious to look at some of the back blog posts, I recommend you start with my Ten Rules of Personal Documentary Filmmaking. I'm making a new personal doc and, gotta say, the rules hold up.