It used to be so easy.
But there will be days to come.
I know winter’s almost over, but this is just something I need to to get out of my brain.
Peer Pressure by Jon Brion
I guess this one represents more of a feeling and mood, rather than an idea or anything specific.
| Find Me In A Better Place | Ink, Water Color | March 10th, 2013 |
What I would give to see this again.
Thank God for winter, but I’d be lying if I said that I’m not excited as pho for spring and summer. It’s so much easier to think and be creative when you can smell fresh air through your bed room window. But then again, conditions won’t always be like that so for now, have to just keep chugging along.
I Look From Above dir. John Karlos
This is a new documentary that I made with my friend Francisco Benavides. After attending elementary and middle school together, our lives took different and separate paths. Francisco’s took him to places far and wide, where he pursued his love for the arts in both formal and informal settings. After almost a decade, our paths crossed again by chance and shortly afterwards, we created this film.
The entire process was one that I can only describe as organic, due to the nature of our discussions prior to shooting. The narrative formed slowly, driven entirely by his answers to my sometimes long-winded questions. The script was loose and malleable, the post process long and enlightening.
More often than not, I willingly wore the shoes of the viewer, and sat in his or her chair. Though most of the techniques I used are conventional in documentary film, I kept trying to find different ways of telling the viewer one thing:
“These thoughts, these ideas… they are one man’s perspective. But they can be yours too, if you want them to be.”
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This is me sometimes.
Weakness is something that’s
Difficult to decipher.
We easily regret it and
Readily give it up
Because weakness is for shallow beings
Those who have out lived the rest of the world.
But weakness is human.
It doesn’t last forever. It just feels like it when you’re feeling it.
And that goes for all things.
| Solitary Tree | Feb. 12th, 2013 |
