in between nuance and cliche

so after watching many of Chris Nolan's and David Simon's work, I've noticed they definitely make or write these amazing sayings or values, if you will.  ex: follow the drugs-all you find is drug dealers, why do we fall, master Bruce?, you either die a hero..., etc.  I absolutely love that within these great movies, they instill some of these wonderful little catch phrases that then show up again at key points in the story.

So, among many other uses for this blog, I am going to use it as storage for my own little sayings whenever I can think of them.

and.. . wow.. .  writer's block allofasudden!

he who dies with the least toys, probably had the most imagination . . .(needs to be refined)

failure is arbitrary: a man who fails out of law school to become a Father.. is not a failure

once you light that cigarette, it don't need you anymore, it can consume itself

9/16/2012

there is no such thing as love without drama

will add more

movie editing

kinda weird...  I am expecting my movie, that I just funded/filmed/acted in/produced/wrote/directed, to be edited by some nice peeps,.. and I can't help but be super criticizing of the last few cuts.. maybe because I'm just being hard on myself.  One thing I believe that will always be true for me is:  when I/you have a vision, and it is given to other people to be handled, your vision just keeps getting more and more filtered and most of the time looks unrecognizable.  I just shot something as a very 15 second small side project that took 30 minutes: of shooting on my iPhone and editing on my computer with Windows Movie Maker...

It took me 30 minutes and I enjoyed watching and re-watching it 10 times more than watching the recent cuts of my film that I spent 2000 dollars on.  Of course the film is totally undeserving of this comparison, but it's just screwed up!!  I think I shall buy an editing program now to help next time with the process... I actually like editing ... I enjoyed it before when I used to make video projects for nursing school, and I enjoyed it today.

For those of you that don't know.. I was in nursing school 2 different times.  I believe I am pretty intelligent, honestly, but when it came right down to it.. I failed at nursing/NCLEX type questions.   "choice A is 20percent right, B is 5percent right, C is 90percent right and D is 100percent right"..  that shit killed me.  But also... my heart wasn't in it.  When it came to projects in nursing school, it always had to be a video project and it was always written and directed and edited by me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxRB-2sLy2w&feature=plcp

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpUzSbM4klg&feature=plcp


anywhooo... I'm ready already Hollywood!!!