On the war path to raise money for a film (not my favourite part) right now, so I need all the inspiration I can get.
I heard this at a film festival a few days ago and it was weaponized inspiration (ha). In surround sound, this is soooooooooooooo GOOD!
Exactly what you want your soundtrack to do – stick with the audience long after credits even roll.
They’re called “April Snow” and are my secret north star. Shhhh.
I got written up at my job today.
In a situation where my take, perspective, voice, wasn’t considered even for a moment.
I usually acquiesce, taking it on the chin when I disagree with a thing. The goal to be coachable and listen to my coach on the wrong turns. But today it was – hers. Really hers.
Still, she was insistent she was correct then low key called me a liar. This kinda thing makes you and your team member feel like adversaries.
I left feeling like a left foot who can do nothing right. Angry. Demoralized. Dismissed.
It’s a little depressing to work this way.
But, God is a fixer.
I later opened up my email to notice I have a note from the editor working on my films. He’d sent me a video clip (shortened here) for our composer search.
I watched. And as I did, the effects of my day faded.
Everything will be okay.
Happiness.
Reason number 5000: https://youtu.be/DLVf3bj3OCo
…I love it SO much. This is art. The argument for how extraordinary dance can be.
Right?
…sometimes it is necessary
to reteach a thing
its loveliness…
~ Galway Kinnell
As an artist who lives in a culture dissimilar from the one in which I was raised, I am hyper-aware that much I was oriented on and knew as valuable growing up, is absent from my present environment. In the US, and in New York.
As a young woman my parents afforded me the chance to travel to the US for high school and to stay on for college. My parents didn’t agree with my every choice as a young woman, but they allowed me power over my own destiny, after a certain age.
However living in a culture with little indigenous influence, is a shift that takes a lifetime of adjustment. And I’ve honestly – not – very well.
Instead I remain hungry and attuned to any expression of it which happens along.
And in this choreographer, I recognized the reference to the ancient, ritual, and indigenous immediately. So I’ve looked him up, for more reconnection to what was revived in my spirit.
And been watching ever since, settling in.
Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I don’t log onto Facebook very often, I kind of don’t like it anymore.
It feels like ‘everyday-man-as-celebrity’ Olympics.
Everyone seems like they are trying to create a show of how “great” their life is, instead of using it to connect in a deeper way (which social media can be used for). Instead of using it to peer into the moments of others we may not be able to keep up with in life, and engage about their progress?
We gaze upon ourselves and invite the gaze of others over to our universe of fabulosity.
Is it me?
Anyway feels alienating and doesn’t seem to create the bridges, the way Facebook intended. Least not for me. It is a thin connective tissue linking us to one another, giving the illusion, you’re connected. Leaves me a bit empty personally.
However, every once in a while, the page produces a spark. Something that stirs up something else in you.
This was that today:
“The things that we run from…we’re running from the truth… we’re running from the truth man…so the only way I became successful…was going toward the truth… as painful and brutal as it is… it changed me… “
How did it make you feel?
This is the next thing I will be applying for to further my filmmaking abilities.
Everyone has ‘tastes’ and ‘opinions’ so I have no idea if I have a true ‘chance?’ But – what else am I doing? My mother is deceased, my father still alive, but the remnant of the friendship I’d forged with them is barely in existence now due to his own illness.
So I’ve been trying to tackle all my mother thought would serve the daughter she raised. She wanted me to have some fashion of relationship, a career, lifestyle that wasn’t so much of a hustle.
I was frozen for some time after her death, but grief counseling helped me remember that I didn’t die with her. So in the last couple of months I’ve picked up my tools again.
I took an animation class so I could get a head start on a newer project, paid off another directing intensive which starts next month, signed up for a fundraising webinar and online class, and now will apply for the above, which could take me to the city I recently decided to explore for putting up my feature.
So, off to the application.
(Wish me luck.)
The entire video is great. But the last dancer in it… is *very* special.
Going to begin compiling a wishlist here of Choreographers whose work I like.
So, if I can raise the money to get out to LA. I can meet with them, pitch them “Glo,” hire the one I gel with best.
Anyway, this is JoJo Gomez. I like her choreography because she’s really innovative, incorporates alot of interpretive emotion (both of which are great on film), and seems to compose for camera framing fantastically.
So my only concerns would be making a meeting happen, and seeing if we communicate well (talk and listen with respect in a conversation).
To close, I was sold on the first set of dancers in this video.
And I got there, from here…
Archaic Sugar 
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