With the risk of being totally repetetive, I have a new post up on The Nervous Breakdown:
in which I try not to melt down on the thought of the impending inaugural TNB: Live! Reading Series.
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Also - a few updates:
Much to my chagrin, I'm now on Twitter: @kmwss2c
But it's for a good cause. I'm going to be part of the
140 Film Project - which will involve 140 filmmakers from around the world as we shoot 140 consecutive seconds of footage at precisely the same moment, and the "go" is going to be called on Twitter.
So feel free follow me, or don't, because chances are high that I'll cancel or at least disappear from the site as soon as the shoot date is over. I kind of hate it.
But be my friend on Facebook. (link is in the sidebar) I love it over there!
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And we've hit picture lock on the new "Songs for Unusual Creatures, The Robot Show" mini-documentary! This is the first film I've done entirely on my own: shot, wrote, cut and finished! I'm really proud of it! I'll be excited to figure out what we're going to do with it when it's done.
Here's the initial blurb:
"Songs for Unusual Creatures: The Robot Show" is a mini-documentary about a unique musical project in Brooklyn, NY. Lit-rock composer Michael Hearst (www.michaelhearst.com) has written a new album of songs for little-known animals using even lesser-known musical robots, designed and built by LEMUR: the League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots (www.lemurbots.org). Interviews include Michael Hearst, Claudia Gonson (The Magnetic Fields), the LEMUR founders/designers and Kristin Marting, Artistic Director of HERE Arts Center, SoHo, NYC. Running time: 8:00.
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ALSO... I've found a English-to-Yiddish translator for the new feature film! It's a mother/daughter team, which really warms my cockles. And in less than 24 hours, they've already turned around a first draft!
Having that underway is so encouraging!
This week I've got to pump out an entirely new shooting schedule and budget, so I can have effective meetings with some interesting people who are looming in the future and merely by having this teeniest piece of the puzzle in place is going to help me move forward by leaps and bounds!
(Aside: How any person can work all by themselves and keep their encouragement to keep going in a proverbial vacuum is so totally beyond me. I LOVE working with other people to make things happen. It fuels my fire.)
So another match has been struck. Look out!
