9:48pm
well its been a long time hasn't it. oops... uh. sorry. to the two of you (and 154 burner IPs of mine) that read this page, it's been an interesting year so far for me. for the first time in awhile i quit my job, which is a strange, cathartic and scary thing to do most of the time. this has encouraged me to get off my ass and get something done. i began to really dig into my own personal experience, and on may 2 had this crazy burst of inspiration. i stayed up until about 5 in the AM writing a first draft of this story, and i ended up with something really, really out there when i took a look the next day. i don't really want to make any promises, or say what it's about yet, but if i stick with it (and i'd really, genuinely like to) i'm aiming to get it out there by the end of next may. if we're lucky it may even play @ festivals. long shot, but i retain hope as always. almost as well as i retain water. this is kind of a scary undertaking when you don't have much money.......i was going to fill out a silver lining to that but i couldn't come up with anything. we continue on!
~tom
1:20am
in between writing this thing i have been reading a lot and especially reading brakhage said, an unconfirmed account of stan brakhage's musings during a colorado lecture. i hope he said these things because i like them a lot. here are a few interesting ones:
“The brain does not think through in full story fragments.”
“It is not enough to take a picture of something and present it as evidence so that one doesn’t need to reflect on where this came from.”
“The strength of documentary is to tell the facts in an artistic way.”
he also apparently had some choice words for truffaut,
“I think Fahrenheit 451 is one of his best films because so much of the rest was a bunch of French bullshit.”
and said this too apparently:
“…the male penis…is there any other?”
which i hope is true
1:34am
hi i didn't really do anything today, but i did recently see the 400 blows and i thought the camerawork was pretty nifty. my friend told my other friend that he only ever has bad ideas and it is quite upsetting. okay bye
tom
hello from the pointed hour of 3:29am. i have come back from my art desk finishing two held shots for this little thing that aren't very exciting on their own but will hopefully be fun in context. i try to slog through these kinds of shots because they're not as fun to animate as the peppy ones. just as important though! after pencil testing everything stuff looks okay though. that's three shots down for this film out of... who knows how many, becuase i haven't even finished writing it yet. don't you just love me?
i don't think i actually had anything substantial to say. ummm... happy new year! oh dear i'm late. uhhh sorry i'm sorry
tom
i dont really know how but i poured out a draft of the entire first act of the thing yesterday. a new draft. there's a fair amount of emotion in it... PLEASE CRY AT MY MOVIE. no but i'm staring at it now dissecting what's wrong with it, and hoping that today i suddenly get the idea to polish off the accompanying acts, or at least get to the third..
i just bought the by brakhage criterion and am practically quivering with excitement. please tell me you've heard of him before. a beautiful, artsy mind.. i think every picture of his is a drug. the first one i'd ever seen was a shitty 480p youtube video of stellar, and i remember both falling in love with it and realizing that i need to see this film in hi-def. if you've not heard of him before, maybe go watch dog star man. to do this satisfactorily i think you have to temporarily forget a lot about what you know about movies. trust me!
~tom