Really short update

For now, this is going to be the page my domain name links to. I have yet to set up web-hosting and the free-webs thing just isn't working the way I want/need it to. I really like the layout, I just have no way to link to my photos and videos aside from in individual posts. If I can figure out a way to set them as links on the left that don't interact with individual posts, then I'm set.

Aside from that random bit of news...I'm in NYC. PJU isn't done yet. Neither is the Dr. Moorehead thing, but that is much closer to being done. I may be able to finish that up while I'm here if I have a few minutes every now and then. I will hopefully be wandering over to B&H while I'm here and picking up a small HD video camera...like handheld flip-cam tiny. That way I will be able to work on other projects up here too. I'm thinking of doing a sketchbook type thing. I've talked about it for a while, but being up here is pushing me to actually do it. Basically, I'd make a bunch of little short films. Nothing huge or requiring a ton of time, but just enough to work my creative muscles and get some more practice in....like an artist's sketchbook...If you want to know more about the trip, click on the link to my other blog. I've gone into detail there.

This is why you shoot with a script

I'm still editing Poetically Just Us. I need to finish it before I leave for NYC & before I lose my mind. I see the connections between the different things we shot, but I'm having trouble connecting the pieces in the film. And at this point, I'm just sick of it. I want to be spending this time on other projects. Projects where I'm not working alone, and projects that still seem relevant. I'll have another cut finished tonight & dropped off at Expo in the morning. I can't wait to see the end of this film...it's been unfinished for entirely too long.

still editing

It's coming along. I still have a lot of work to do, but I'm happy with where it's going. I got some good feedback from a friend tonight (Lily, you're awesome), and if all goes according to plan (which it rarely does), I'll be test screening the film at Natura Coffee & Tea on Monday along with a few other short films. If that doesn't work out, I'm going to screen it at home for a few people. My class has been great giving me advice along the way, but I'd like to get feedback from people who aren't familiar with all of the incarnations of this film.

If you'd like to see what I have so far, here's a REALLY compressed version of cut #5 (still really rough) on vimeo. You can leave your comments either on vimeo or here.

Also, I'm changing the title. A while back I realized the Nike reference, and I don't like the current title anymore. I may post a poll & let people vote later.

update on Poetically Just Us: Following the Dustracks: It's going well. We're way behind schedule, but I feel like it's actually going somewhere now. I'm not the only one putting in time and effort on this project anymore. I'm loving it. I've got a meeting tomorrow afternoon at Expo to show the two people who taught the class/directed/produced the film the progress we've made. Which considering the film should have been done months ago, isn't much. But I should have a rough cut by the time we meet tomorrow. I'm excited. This film is finally coming together. And I've recently become completely nocturnal, so the fact that it's midnight & I've got a ton of work to do is fine. My "normal" sleeping hours are now between the hours of 5am and noon/1pm.

Poetically Just Us

The past week or so, I've been lacking the motivation to really work on anything. I've been doing what I have to in order to get things done, but there's been no real passion behind any of it. Most of the time it was like pulling teeth. Monday, I was able to work on editing this documentary that was shot as part of a class I took this summer. It's called Poetically Just Us. It was rejuvenating. Life just makes sense in the cutting room. All the pieces are there, and I've just got to make something out of them. Taking those 4 hours to work on something else helped give me the energy I need to gather the rest of the pieces of this film together. I still feel like I'm a long way off, which is irritating because I'm impatient, and I had scheduled to have a rough cut done by February 19th. It's now the 24th, and I've still got quite a bit left to shoot. I should have the first draft of the ending assembled within the next few days though.

Next film, I'm getting a partner. Film is meant to be collaborative.