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[Feb. 18th, 2009|07:22 pm] |
I don't know if that really exists, but it should and this should be it.
Shit's been going down in bucketfuls and I'm beyond handling it right now.
It's like the walls are caving in right now, and all I want to do is let them.
I could start listing things, making the case for why I should have the right to be in an utterly depressed state. All in all it's a pile of things on an already existing pile and I'm almost more depressed about being depressed then any individual thing.
This blog entry in itself makes me want to vomit.
I was hoping by writing I might come to some conclusion but apparently I'm not ready to really talk about things in a public forum yet. Awesome.
So now that you've read all this, ignore it, move on. Don't comment.
I'm going to start taking a look at my various projects that I work on daily/weekly/whenever and pick 5 to concentrate on - number 1 being The Documentary.
I'm going to sit down and import all the footage I've shot so far (6 days worth) and put up some behind the scenes clips and pictures as I go.
I'll also be putting up blog entries up on http://proofalist.blogspot.com/ so please follow that blog.
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And on that note I'm going to go work on things for the Doc.
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| Today I woke up and I was a Director and Executive Producer |
[Nov. 2nd, 2008|10:26 pm] |
I'm making a feature length documentary film.
Since day one of making my videos on youtube I've wanted to do a feature length film. The thoughts have rolled about and reformed here and there, been encouraged from different jobs or friends and now it's come to fruition.
Many of you already known the subject of the doc I want to shoot.
It has occurred to me over the years that trying to sell a feature length film (say an epic sci if zombie fest) is really hard. You'll never get a financier to sit down and read it, so you have to make a trailer - which requires crew, lights, actors, other shit.
A documentary requires a camera, a man holding a camera and something to point the camera at.
It seemed a logical choice that organizing a documentary would be a thousand times easier than normal feature film.
 So today I met with Los Angeles based artist Luis Sanchez.
Luis has been a good friend of mine for several years now, 5 or so. He's an amazing artist.
His style is something I've nearly really seen any other do, let alone pull off as breath takingly as he does. He's pieces are weathered beaten relics from a time decades and decades ago. He has perfected a process of creative destruction like no other artst.
Luis is also suffering from Chronic Kidney Disease . It keeps him constaintly in dialasys for multiple sessions during the week. He's already
had one kidney transplant. translplanted kidneys last somewhere from 6 to 10 years and then you need a new transplant. This experience has made Luis extremely driven and where other people might cower and curse, he lives and celebrates.
I met with Luis earlier this evening to talk about the project, to ask each other questions, learn about what we were getting in to and just soak in the concept of what I was doing.
Through the course of the evening it came up that he was shipping off some paintings very soon and that tomorrow he'd be getting them ready and we both thought it would make a nice start. Day one sending off finished paintings to a gallery in Florida on a LA roof top.
I ran home to try and find a camera man, and or camera. (that's right everything I shot of myself is done from my macbook's iSight). It's time to get myself a real camera, I need to do some research I want something Hi-Def for around $2000. Then I want $2000 ;) - anyway as fate would have it I'm in Hollywood and my friend Clint who has a day job just lent me his camera.
So tomorrow I shoot. I already made a production call sheet with a crew list of 1. Yay.
This is by far one of the best days I've had in a long time. My friend Marie said she noticed recently that I was actually happy.
To those of you who just know the online person of SamProof - I am not that person. I am often withdrawn, introspective, shy, maudline and depressed. But I try very hard not to show it. My shit's my shit, your shit is your shit and never the twine shall meet.
But it's true, I'm really happy these days. I just hope I can find a way to fund this so I don't have to get another "real job" when my savings run out.
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| In to the great wide open. |
[Oct. 27th, 2008|03:47 pm] |
Friday is my last day at GND, and honestly if I can help it my last day shilling for a living.
I'm ready to figure out at all costs how to keep myself afloat through my own creative means.
I've got some savings, I've got some time to figure this whole thing out.
November is going to be intense, busy and all about art. It's Nanowrimo and I'm taking up the challenge to write a novel in 30 days.
I'm picking up my camera and scheduling photoshoots left and right.
and I'm doing something I've had in my head for almost 2 years now.
I've been wanting desperately to do something longer than a youtube video. I've been dying to make something substantial and of real merit.
A long while ago, probably after I created my first real sketch comedy video I decided I wanted to do something feature length. Then in the months of analyzing just what was within my means I decided that a documentary would be the easiest thing to achieve budget wise. In my head I could fund a documentary on $10K at least for a few months, maybe a year.
It doesn't take much, one or two crew members including myself. No crazy sets to be built, no props to be bought, and with my years of work in the reality TV industry I get how to pull a story out of a pile of random footage. So it just comes down to subject matter, and this Sunday I'll be finalizing that.
 Luis Sanchez is an amazing artist, and also a good friend. Originally from Mexico City and surrounded by a family of artisans, dancers and bullfighters. Luis is also suffering from Chronic kidney disease and years of dialysis. His artwork is like stepping in to another world and finding a 100 year old fresco. The works combine fanciful human forms, nature, typography and a very unique decay. He literally at times chips away at the paintings, cracks it, and uses some other magic to make it appear as though it's been around for years and it's seen better days. So this is my new project. I meet with Luis this Sunday, he seems eager to get this started as much as I am. Come November the world is opening up to me, and it's time for me to grab a big hunk of something. Gotta show it what I can really do. |
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