It's all relative
I've kind of stopped believing even myself when I say I'm done shooting for this movie. I know, if you read the press months ago we supposedly finished "principle" photography sometime in November but I guess there's a lot more to "subordinate" photography than I had hoped.
Last night Ken came up from the 'Burg to give some much needed perspective on each scene since they are over the time budget by 4-8 minutes each. Haik joined us after a few hours and we hashed out much of the film, leaving a lot on the cutting room floor. Such is the bittersweet process of editing. It was another late work night and Ken camped out at Casa Berry to help me film Chris's final interview up in Baltimore today since what I shot last week not only was plagued by a burnt out pixel on one of our HD cameras - UUUGGGGHHHH - but according to Ken (and I had to agree), the shot setting was poor. I'm all for making it better so that's what we did.
Luckily we had the warmest day in weeks which allowed us to drag Chris outdoors and shoot him (always sounds funny) near the Patapsco River - basically his front yard.
Ken and Chris decend to river level for one last interview. No, really. That's it.
The shoot went well but it was a mad dash to get home before traffic got too bad. I scored a quick (?) hour on the trainer, shower, dinner, washed dishes and checked e-mail before getting back to work...
Amidst all the baby stuff, my sister decided to hop on the train and popped out Elijah Cooper Ryder back on February 7th. She sent this recent photo of EJ on my Mom's lap - sporting the jumper I got for him...
After wolfing down a salad with recovery drink I was feeling very overwhelmed by all the new footage I had to import, new clips I had to send Haik and new directions for the animator doing the titles. There's so much going on and time is running out- then the phone rang.
Deep breath...
My life-long buddy, Dave Jewett was rushed to the hospital yesterday for kidney failure. He's got really bad headaches, his blood is full of protiens and his blood pressure was through the roof. It absolutely stunned me. Bad.
Dave is one of the closest people in the world to me. Has been for over 30 years. The doctors have been running all sorts of tests but they still don't know what is wrong with him. He's getting a biopsy done tomorrow since all the blood tests, cat scans, X-rays and ultra-sounds have provided no clue or explanation for his barely working kidneys. Talk about a large dose of "my problems ain't so bad..."
Dave and I 24 years ago, wannabe surfers.
I'm not much for organized religion but I'm a fairly spiritual person and I believe in the power of positive energy, so if you have a spare minute please do me a favor and send some good thoughts up to Rochester, NY for my buddy Dave.
Thank you-
Last night Ken came up from the 'Burg to give some much needed perspective on each scene since they are over the time budget by 4-8 minutes each. Haik joined us after a few hours and we hashed out much of the film, leaving a lot on the cutting room floor. Such is the bittersweet process of editing. It was another late work night and Ken camped out at Casa Berry to help me film Chris's final interview up in Baltimore today since what I shot last week not only was plagued by a burnt out pixel on one of our HD cameras - UUUGGGGHHHH - but according to Ken (and I had to agree), the shot setting was poor. I'm all for making it better so that's what we did.
Luckily we had the warmest day in weeks which allowed us to drag Chris outdoors and shoot him (always sounds funny) near the Patapsco River - basically his front yard.
Ken and Chris decend to river level for one last interview. No, really. That's it.
The shoot went well but it was a mad dash to get home before traffic got too bad. I scored a quick (?) hour on the trainer, shower, dinner, washed dishes and checked e-mail before getting back to work...
Amidst all the baby stuff, my sister decided to hop on the train and popped out Elijah Cooper Ryder back on February 7th. She sent this recent photo of EJ on my Mom's lap - sporting the jumper I got for him...
After wolfing down a salad with recovery drink I was feeling very overwhelmed by all the new footage I had to import, new clips I had to send Haik and new directions for the animator doing the titles. There's so much going on and time is running out- then the phone rang.
Deep breath...
My life-long buddy, Dave Jewett was rushed to the hospital yesterday for kidney failure. He's got really bad headaches, his blood is full of protiens and his blood pressure was through the roof. It absolutely stunned me. Bad.
Dave is one of the closest people in the world to me. Has been for over 30 years. The doctors have been running all sorts of tests but they still don't know what is wrong with him. He's getting a biopsy done tomorrow since all the blood tests, cat scans, X-rays and ultra-sounds have provided no clue or explanation for his barely working kidneys. Talk about a large dose of "my problems ain't so bad..."
Dave and I 24 years ago, wannabe surfers.
I'm not much for organized religion but I'm a fairly spiritual person and I believe in the power of positive energy, so if you have a spare minute please do me a favor and send some good thoughts up to Rochester, NY for my buddy Dave.
Thank you-
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