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Hodgepodge
Sep. 20th, 2010 01:12 amAfter a second three-day-weekend dedicated to 10-hour workdays, I'm almost through logging the more than 600 individual shots and takes and noting how I'd like them generally edited together. And I shoot very conservatively, with many, many fewer takes and setups than most directors. This is why I don't make documentaries. When someone tells me they plan to shoot a documentary, I say "that's exactly right, you will shoot it" because they will probably give up when they realize they have to watch and make notes about all the things they shot and decide which bits to put in which order. Good god.
This is not prompted by anything specific, but I'm real tired of guys having opinions on abortions, even when they agree with me. If guys get to decide about abortions even halfway, then I get to decide whether they get treated for STDs. That's the deal. I mean, they chose to have sex, and maybe the consequences aren't up to them.
Went to the DMA on Friday to prepare for a workshop I'm conducting on Saturday. It's kind of nice when you walk into an art museum and the staff recognizes you and assumes you're there to display something rather than to browse. That's the most famous I get, but it's pretty flattering.
Friday also saw Rex (and logged footage) and Saturday joined Merlin to watch a Korean comedy-horror movie (which I didn't really watch because I was behind a laptop, logging footage.) Sunday logged footage and took a break to go grocery shopping.
Back in 2001 or so, Val and I decided we ought to have a customary toast, so we spent a few months thinking about what qualities are worth toasting to, and we settled on wisdom, valor, and compassion. As I get older, I start to think that wisdom and compassion are a little redundant -- not identical, but they overlap. You start to think about marriage in terms of marriages you've known, so you have more compassion for people who go through divorces, which are real things, because marriage is real and not an abstract ideal. You understand a little better why some people are poor, or worried about racism, or might have complicated attitudes toward medicine.
That can push you more liberal or more conservative, depending whether it makes you want to protect your people or help everyone when they do get hurt, but it seems to me you get either wisdom and compassion from it or neither.
Maybe I'd switch it to attention, valor, and compassion, or data, valor, compassion, or maybe I can combine for engagement and compassion, in which the third is probably hope. I really mean faith, but you say "faith" and people add "in God" and forget the alternatives. Or maybe the third is joy, which I have always struggled with more than the others and probably need to keep in the foreground for that reason.
Did some pushups yesterday -- the eternal quest for arm strength when I have none to start with. 13! Arms still hurt and are basically useless.
This is not prompted by anything specific, but I'm real tired of guys having opinions on abortions, even when they agree with me. If guys get to decide about abortions even halfway, then I get to decide whether they get treated for STDs. That's the deal. I mean, they chose to have sex, and maybe the consequences aren't up to them.
Went to the DMA on Friday to prepare for a workshop I'm conducting on Saturday. It's kind of nice when you walk into an art museum and the staff recognizes you and assumes you're there to display something rather than to browse. That's the most famous I get, but it's pretty flattering.
Friday also saw Rex (and logged footage) and Saturday joined Merlin to watch a Korean comedy-horror movie (which I didn't really watch because I was behind a laptop, logging footage.) Sunday logged footage and took a break to go grocery shopping.
Back in 2001 or so, Val and I decided we ought to have a customary toast, so we spent a few months thinking about what qualities are worth toasting to, and we settled on wisdom, valor, and compassion. As I get older, I start to think that wisdom and compassion are a little redundant -- not identical, but they overlap. You start to think about marriage in terms of marriages you've known, so you have more compassion for people who go through divorces, which are real things, because marriage is real and not an abstract ideal. You understand a little better why some people are poor, or worried about racism, or might have complicated attitudes toward medicine.
That can push you more liberal or more conservative, depending whether it makes you want to protect your people or help everyone when they do get hurt, but it seems to me you get either wisdom and compassion from it or neither.
Maybe I'd switch it to attention, valor, and compassion, or data, valor, compassion, or maybe I can combine for engagement and compassion, in which the third is probably hope. I really mean faith, but you say "faith" and people add "in God" and forget the alternatives. Or maybe the third is joy, which I have always struggled with more than the others and probably need to keep in the foreground for that reason.
Did some pushups yesterday -- the eternal quest for arm strength when I have none to start with. 13! Arms still hurt and are basically useless.
