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Day 131: Love What You Hate
Day 131. As I polish off scene number 41—my second for the day—this pops into my head: Love what you hate. I pause and think, “Where did I read that?” As I copy and transfer all of the raw footage and my string outs into Dan the Amazing Editor Man’s scene bin, I remember. The book’s title is Change Anything—The New Science of Personal Success. How could I not buy a title like that? Before you call for another intervention, stand down. Although this book was indeed purchased from Amazon, it was bought back in 2011 pre-book buying ban. I bring it up now because—even though I don’t really remember that much from the book—the concept of loving what you hate...
Read MoreDay 39: 10X
Day 39. It was a documentary day. I’m almost done with scene 10. Yes, you read that right. I’m almost done with scene 10. I know, I know. Scene 10 was supposed to be checked off shortly after my “breakthrough” five days ago. Yeah, not so much. I’m still “breaking it up” into smaller sections but it’s ultimately going to be a montage and I’m trying to get every possible tidbit we might want in said montage in the string out. It’s simply a tremendous amount of time consuming work. Tomorrow. Tomorrow. Tomorrow. Please editing Gods, let me finish it tomorrow! Why is it that everything always takes so much more time, effort and work than I think it will?...
Read MoreDay 15: Fear: Friend or Foe?
Day 15: I realize this experiment is being born out of the one place every artist or self-help guru or new age life coach tells you to let go of because it impedes the creative process: fear. According to dictionary.com fear is a noun defined as “a distressing emotion aroused by impending danger, evil, pain, etc., whether the threat is real or imagined; the feeling or condition of being afraid.” Real or imagined—how annoying. Death is real. My fear that the next-door neighbor is plotting my premature demise by purposely putting his trashcans right in front of my truck every Monday morning on garbage day blocking my path to the road is probably imaginary. Or is...
Read MoreDay 14: The Time Paradox
Day 14. I’m not exactly sure how it’s already two weeks into the New Year. Being busy definitely aids time to fly. I have a feeling I’m going to blink and find myself typing “365” after the word “day” any minute now. In sharp contrast, I’ve been slogging my way through the book “The Time Paradox” for the last three months and I can’t seem to get to the end. The book was written by two Ph.D. smarty-pants types, Philip Zimbardo and John Boyd and it is all about, well, the paradox of time. I hate jigsaw puzzles but I dig paradoxes—the more absurd and contradictory the better. A time or two (or twenty) I have been labeled a walking contradiction by my main...
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