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This Myst short film idea has been quite the distraction. Something to do as I wait for the little guy to pop out of Christine, and everything changes (or my life ends) — whatever may come first. I’m not entirely looking forward to this whole being a father thing. I’m not sure that I’m qualified or entirely welcoming. I liked our privacy. I hear that’s over now. I’m sure I’ll be okay once it all actually happens. I guess we’ll have to see.
I’m not so sure if Adrian is so sure of how non-seriously I’m taking this Passage to K’veer thing. It’s lingering on that edge just before kind of becoming a joke to me. Sure, it’s fun to play in Excel and come up with sample budgets, and it’s neat to breakdown the idea and figure out how many shooting days we need. And the geek in me definitely likes having to research for equipment that might work, regardless of the fact that we have not a dime to throw at it. But, seriously, this is really not going to happen. Besides, I can’t see past this month, too much will be changing to be pipe-dreaming my time away.
I have serious reservations about shooting a short this specific anyway. Let’s say we do it, and Cyan hates it and they just say Guys, you gotta be kidding me. What then? We have a much too specific dumb little short about two guys in a little boat floating across an underground lake to have dinner in some mansion. Is it really going to get us anywhere other than having the opportunity to watch the dumbfounded faces on random old guys after they ask to look at our reel? Oh, it’s fan film for a video game? Guys, you got to be kidding me.
And I really want the fish to link. I think it’d be funny. It’s the Myst geek coming out, so shoot me. If we’re gonna waste our time putting this little shindig together to end up going nowhere in the end, you could at least let me have the fish link in the script. And why does Adrian have to argue about it even further like it’s something to take so seriously? I know, what stops the water from linking if they can link things like grain? I don’t have the answers to these questions man, I just play the games and read the books — I don’t have a reason to have the answers to these questions. Oh, but we’re making a movie and we need to be able to explain things. *sigh*
Whatever. A year from now when nothing has happened and this little idea is a year away with dust on it, you can tell me how concerned you still are.
11:03 am
Mar 09 2008
Reading that gives me a strange image. Say someone drops their linking book into an ocean filled with microscopic and not so microscopic organisms and sinks to the bottom, linking panel up. What would the link in spot for the world it goes to look like?! It’d probably be wet for one thing. Maybe it would look like just some spot of slimy algae? Would it attract barnacles? fish? a whale?!
Linking books left out in the open could be dangerous too. What if one was left out here on earth, say in some subtropic or tropic clime? We’d have a health crisis on the other end if mosquitoes landed on the panel! We have a hard enough time fighting off those diseases in places where there is a natural immunity!