Friday, September 7, 2012

Starving in Hollywood

Finally got a long overdue project off the ground. Months of slow planning and the excellent efforts of a large group of awesome individuals came together in a recent 4-day shoot (with a handful more planned for the near future) – a massive jumpstart for the shooting of the first season of a new webseries  Rebecca and I have been working on over the last few months with actor/writer/director/producer John J Byford – as well as some old friends like editor/animator/artist Jason K Lind, and very talented new friends like Jakub Kasztalski, who has contributed his mad skills as Director of Photography  in addition to an amazing cast. The project accomplishes a number of goals at once – perhaps most importantly, it has been a chance to do some good work again with a group of genuinely excellent, talented, and hard working people. Both the people and the project have been a real gift to our lives.

For a while now, Rebecca and I have been working on what have amounted to series of short piecemeal projects. While they have all been very worthwhile and while we've added positively to our bodies of work, it nonetheless feels really gratifying to finally be engaging a large and longer-term project again. 

In other news, the long long overdue recording of The Way Out we started back in November is in the very final stages of post-production  and it sounds pretty awesome, if I don't mind saying. Also finished a large and personally very significant music work somewhat recently, but more about both in future posts. 

Until then, keep living the dream my friends. Keep living the dream.