Archive for August 2009

Aug 30

Watch the Guild

A little over a year ago, Adrian came to me one evening to show me something he had heard about on NPR’s Fresh Air earlier that day.  It was something that I was very skeptical about when he first told …  [read more]

Posted at 4:28 pm by Patrick in life · 50 Comments »
Aug 24

Growing

Today, my little boy had his first day of kindergarten.  For a parent (give or take) this is a moment of realizing how much your child as grown, and how much he’s now on his own in the world.  For …  [read more]

Posted at 11:31 pm by Patrick in life · 35 Comments » · tags:
Aug 22

Cue the Brachiosaur

I’ve been living in a perpetual state of anxiety for the last several days.  The pattern of my life has been reduced to (or enhanced to, I’m not entirely sure) waking after limited hours of sleep, going to work, coming …  [read more]

Posted at 6:48 pm by Patrick in collaborators, life, script · 17 Comments »
Aug 18

Keep on Keep’n on

Things are good.  It’s been an intense week and a half.  Cutting the script has been trying, stressful, difficult, rewarding and enlightening.

We’ve all been hard at work.  Yale and I collaborated on a few passes and made some  pretty …  [read more]

Posted at 4:10 pm by Adrian in collaborators, script · 36 Comments » · tags: , , ,
Aug 09

Hack Chop Slice Trim Butcher Butcher

Hey, look everyone, an update!  We’ve been away so much recently.  We’ve had lots we wish we could share with all of you, but there’s this whole “professional discretion” thing we have to exercise and respect.

Things have been insanely …  [read more]

Posted at 3:18 pm by Adrian in collaborators, communications, life, script · 52 Comments » · tags: , , , , , ,
Aug 05

Rand on Tape

Well, we had another long night of hard work at Patrick’s.  We’re doing all kinds of secret neat things right now.  All of them designed to help bring the Myst movie to a theater near you.

During a brief break, …  [read more]

Posted at 3:32 am by Adrian in Uncategorized · 46 Comments » · tags: , , ,