Research

So I just finished watching a documentary about Danny Trejo. What an amazing man. I now have some inspiration for some of the character backgrounds. Things are looking up. I am watching a documentary now about mind over money on Nova. Good old research. Then off to look at some "blue collard" blogs. I really dislike that term or label, so distancing from people, "working class", what a horrible way to group people.

KCSOB

Had another wonderful night with the KCSOB. I love those performers. They have become a second family to me and I appreciate each and everyone of them dearly. I think that when I graduate I am going to miss them a lot.A year and a half with them now as their sound engineer. If I could figure out how to include them in my studio art, I so would.

Research

So I found some federally run blogs on blue collard workers and what the social climate is for them, as well as independent blue collar class blogs. Going to research these over the next week reading their history to see what...discrepancies...there are between the two types. So I also watched Maxed Out, Wonderful World, and Capitalism: A Love Story. Going to think about these as I sleep and how I can work with these issues in my script for the new thesis topic. More news to come in a few days.

Echoes

Finishing touches on a sequence I have been working on for the last couple of weeks are rendering right now. This piece is looking very promising. Now to outline a time with my acting couple to shoot the other two scenes for this short and get it packaged for submissions. It is titled Echoes as listed on this post. It's about a man waking the day after a car crash and remembering his lover who's memory follows him around.

the now

Today I questioned why it is that I do what I do, learned how to conjugation construction in Japanese, and studied more Zen Buddhism. Really good stuff. I now know why most other western ways of thought have been so hard for me to relate too. My thesis project is giving me some ire. Since my ideas have to shift from my plan b to plan a, and my plan a to plan b. I have had to re-access what it is that I am looking forward to in the piece. I have my ideas on how I wish it to flow. As long as I enjoy doing what I do, and I am passionate about it, I will keep on making my small time indie films.

Senior thesis

So Frank and I completed our thesis treatment last night. Woot woot! I got a new book about Film Noir that I get to start reading on top of the 6 other novels that I have to read. yay!

Tours

So this has been a very productive and interesting visit to Cali. I went and toured U.S.C. and A.F.I. They are both amazing schools that make me think and work harder on what I am doing. It's nice to see what is being done on the graduate level for what I want to do and to figure out what it is that I need to do to get to that point in my own work. Plus I now have the option of going back to Denver if things don't pan out with college and falling in with all of my old friends and pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps and all of us venturing into making an independent company developed by us for all in the realm of total artistic film, animation, and music. Great times. It is great to find myself back in the places that I know and have been away from for so long and reattach myself to myself. Hello me meet the real me. lol. Already got ideas to work on while working on my senior thesis. I don't think that I am going to get any real rest this semester. But now that I have a gauge for my portfolio, I can work towards it all and be a stronger and more firm of a Director. Till next time. Keep dreaming and keep working towards realizing those dreams.