This is my *very first* interview as a writer-director, and 😮💨😮💨😮💨….
I really like the writer whose podcast this is, so when she asked me for an interview I jumped to do it. But then, I thought ‘Wait a minute… do I know how to do an interview?”
Well, it’s done now. In the end it was like just talking with a young friend.
Still, maybe I shoulda been more formal.
When my mother was on her earthly journey, she’d watch cooking shows back to back.
I was always a bit annoyed when I visited, wanting to change the channel from these toxically chipper people having nothing but fun cooking, not a hint of real life foibles in sight.
Well through out life, I’ve been taxed with taking care of myself. And being a bit of a foodie myself, the making of a dish would capture my attention from time to time.
These days I liken myself a very tasty cook, and it’s the chore I spend the most amount of time on.
So now, I willingly give cooking instruction videos in my feed a chance.
Which is how I found “Kay.”
Kay…. prepares the most exquisite meals… and characteristically does so through a darker lens than the vast majority of chefs you may encounter on social media. She is the Edgar Allen of bunch.
And most times seems genuinely taken with her process, not you.
Important because I want to think my own thoughts, and have my own experiences with what I’m watching. I don’t want to feel pressured to feel like the chef is a chum.
Her process is enough.
It’s already the best and highest bar for what it is.
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.
I simply love this artist.
This is an older work of hers but have a listen:
And another:
Titling a piece of artwork can be a challenging and rewarding part of the creative process. The question is, how to title your art (and why)? So you …
So you want to title your art: Why and how?
Listening to this video right now, and what perfect timing…
Now watching the next…
PT II. https://youtu.be/zceM1aLWdk0
If they invite you in
Clear a space
Threaten to
Interweave your life with theirs
Bring a little love and magic
To their lawn
“Never doubt that what you do has an impact. No matter what your job happens to be.” A blogger I just found (Victo Dolore) wrote that, and I’m beginning with it, because it frames what I have to say today, really well.
Alot of people don’t know how to take art of the kind you see in galleries. And I can’t say I always know how to take it either?
(Rirkrit Tiravanija)
BUT…
I love that it exists, and by “it” I mean the kind I don’t know how to take.
Because art, like people, places, or occurrences you don’t know how to take – give you the opportunity to travel to the unknown, which always re-casts who you know yourself to be in the moment, providing a fresh return to life.
You discover, instead of “know,” as you try to figure out what you’re looking at or what it means.
(Rachel Rose)
And in that practice, life is made pliable, first in your head, then in your heart, last in your environment.
(Rirkrit Tiravanija)
And from that, a kind of “freedom” emerges.
You become a discoverer, not tied to the posts which defines all corners of life.
Free in the midst of constraints, obligations, requirements and responsibility.
(Rachel Rose)
Free in the chains.
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*Pictures are from two Gavin Brown Enterprises exhibitions on September 24th, 2017. The video installations are by artist Rachel Rose, and the photos of pieces made by Rirkrit Tiravanija.
How every single trailer, and movie should play.
Create an emotional landscape as pathways off the screen into the heads and hearts of audience, to the point we can’t believe the characters aren’t here.
Somewhere.
(Damn. My turn. Lol…)
Archaic Sugar 
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