My First Night in the Apartment
Mood:  bright
Now Playing: Salma Hayek's "Siente Mi Amor"
finished the big move -- mostly. there's still a few things that need to make the move over into the apartment, but i have everything i need to live off of (TV, DVD's, XBox, clothes).

the air conditioner is being very reluctant to cool down the place, so last night i slept naked under the fan in the living room, as it was 84 degrees when i went to bed and 80 when i woke up this morning for work. i don't know if it got cooler sometime during the night, but i didn't get cold.

time to dive head-long into preproduction. we've decided to tackle the ten commandments. we're going to do one short film for each of the commandments, sending each one out to film festivals. then, maybe when they're all done, we'll slap them on a DVD. we'll see. i have two written that i'm very fond of (commandments 1 & 7) and a couple i'm not so fond of. but it's time to get started -- at least on the two we have.

Ripple Productions has recently purchased an eight-foot jib and a Panasonic DVX (and it only took me a year of whining!).

the first one we'll begin is the First Commandment, one i've entitled "Respect." it's the story of an eager young gymnast who is trying to complete her floor routine, but there's a particular move at the climax of her piece that she simply can't pull off, but her stubbornness and her pride won't let her listen to her coach and find out how to fix the problem. i had approached Ruthie Gulley about the part, but she informed me she's not a tumbler, so she put me in touch with a fellow gymnast named Morgan, who's going to be absolultely brilliant. we're going to be getting together and figuring out what her character's routine is. i'll video it, then Brian Young (my faithful DP) and i will figure out how we're going to shoot it, and then we'll shoot it. it should be a pretty straight-forward shoot. the only thing i'm worried about is Morgan having to do the stunts over and over and over and over again . . . especially the part where she has to fall over and over and over again. we just have to be careful.

-whew!- long blog!

peace out homies, i gotta get some work done.