Josh Carlson

Josh Carlson

Premiere of Manifest.AR, a film about the Augmented Reality installation in downtown Modesto. Thursday, March 21, 2013. Produced by the Building Imagination Center’s resident filmmaker Josh Carlson.

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For as long as I can remember I enjoyed movies, Star Wars was the all time greatest to me. But I didn’t know at the time you could make money from that. So I always wanted to different things. I liked Magic and I saw David Copperfield on a t.v. special. I thought I bet he makes good money. So I was into all sorts of little tricks and illusions, I still am but that’s another story. Then I remember when I saw Raiders of the Lost Ark, I wanted study archeology. I was there for a while. Then Jurassic Park came out and I switched my focus to Paleontology. Actually, these overlapped, I wanted to be an archeologist/paleontologist. The same thing happened when Apollo 13 came out: astronaut.

In 2007, I was diagnosed with brain cancer and the reality set in for us. If we’re going to do this, we better start now. So we started Second Star Productions together with only $2,700. In 2010, we released our first feature length movie. I’m primarily working in the world of short films now however as that is how various video streaming websites like YouTube work. I suppose I can be summed up like this.

My goal is to simply entertain.
 
My medium is film.

If you learn something or I am successful in my job, terrific!

If I am ever able to make a living at this, even better!