We’re reviewing cuts, but I’m a thousand miles away. Someplace where the kitchen looks like a pumpkin and my mother’s more present than hers. In my head, Aimee Mann is playing non stop and regardless of the tumbleweed in the parking ... [read more]

12:50 am

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Everything is packed up and now in Adrian’s trunk. We left a few cables, my little crap monitor and a spattering of movie making paraphernalia laying on the floor, but the green screen is gone, the equipment is missing and the lights are no long ... [read more]

1:46 am

Posted in communications, life, planning · 1 Comment » ·  tags: dreams, girlfriend, greenscreen, mom, myst, myst miniseries, presentation, studio

I just put myself in debt. It’s been fun and I don’t care. After putting countless hours into boarding over the past several weeks, Chris has been getting pretty frustrated that I haven’t been around to be with her and Micam in the  ... [read more]

5:50 pm

Posted in life · 1 Comment » ·  tags: chris, micam, mom, shopping, the hours

I went to bed late/early this morning - Adrian and I had been working on some script elements and doing some research on Carlin, the matte painter that just got ahold of us that we most lik ... [read more]

4:10 pm

Posted in life · 4 Comments » ·  tags: carlin, chris, dad, dinner, micam, mom, passage

I’m keeping it together - but it’s been a rough ride. Tony not working out was a big disappointment for all of us - but we can’t put the obstacle of time in front of us when we have so much to get done. We have to have this animatic ... [read more]

11:59 pm

Posted in life · 5 Comments » ·  tags: adrian, aitrus, birthday, chris, images, micam, mom, sarah, storyboarding, Tony, veovis

The real world is a lot to get back to, especially just the next day.  Adrian asked me yesterday outside of the mausoleum:  Are you sure you still want to do that tomorrow?  Ryan, Tony - everyone will be totally understanding.  Yes ... [read more]

7:52 pm

Posted in collaborators, life, planning · 2 Comments » ·  tags: chris, fiddler's, mom, storyboarding, Tony

10 years ago, for a few days, Mom and I were reverse-door-to-door salesmen and we scoured the South Bend area looking for a place to bury the dead. I was 14, the deceased was Mom’s father, and  ... [read more]

10:19 pm

Posted in life · 2 Comments » ·  tags: chris, mausoleum, mom, old rugged cross

Today, I found myself sitting on my hands rocking in the middle of a half-empty parking lot on a street corner downtown outside of a funeral home. It was one of those moments where I wasn’t entirely inside of myself. I could see my head, my bod ... [read more]

6:31 pm

Posted in life · 3 Comments » ·  tags: chris, funeral, home, micam, mom

I stood there staring at cold linoleum and quietly thanking God for her way out. He kneeled in the doorway, hunched over in physical manifestation, paying particular attention to remain defined as one without our name. She lay staring at Heaven, her  ... [read more]

8:12 pm

Posted in life, puzzles · 1 Comment » ·  tags: mom, veovis