ADAM'S BLOG
CHAPTER#3:
"New Year"
(2008 and that...)
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL!
2008 has me more excited about a year than ever.
Last year was really the first year to get excited about (apart from '04 perhaps). But in retrospect I wasn't excited in the least about it. I was absolutedly shitting myself scared pretty much all year. I did a mental amount of work, but for the first time it was ALL forwarding my filmmaking career. It was the first time I've been employed by the same people and the beginning AND end of the same year (I'm on about 16 months now woohoo), and moslty due to the fact that it's at last something I voluntarily want to do, and work with people I love, so there was more resting on it I guess. But I succeeded. That is to say, I'm still alive. Which is good.
So, 2008.
Well, in a week's time I am heading off to America (travel expenses paid no less) with the company I work for, going to the Sundance and Slamdance film festivals (which, by coincidence or design, happen in the same city at the same time), and it's going to be nuts-cool! Sundance is the American equivalent of Cannes and Slamdance is a guerilla film-maker's dream. It's going to be ten days of watching films, talking about films, meeting filmmakers, meeting producers, film networking, classic hollywood buzz, underground cult buzz, press talks, events, eating film, drinking film, sleeping film. I'm going to be in my element!
Has anyone been to America? Or to a film festival? Adivce?
When we get back, I'll be hitting the film cut edit of our feature film, and then looking forward to our next one which promises to be bigger and better than anything we've attempted so far. Plus I'm going to be directing a music video for a funk band of a friend of mine's - they're called 'Swervin Merv', check them out on myspace.com/swervinmervmusic. They're fucking amazing, so it should be great.
I'm planning to be more social this year as well; less all-nighters at work and more all-night drunken benders. And I want to fall in love, I miss it, and Winter is reminding me.
New Year's resolutions: work smarter, not harder; live for the moment; form some kind of casual band as an outlet for guitar playing frustration; finish my film script; somehow meet one of my heroes. I'm up for it.
What's everyone else's year looking like?
=)
xxxx
Chapter 3 film recommendation: 'The Science of Sleep' - new Michel Gondry film, absolutely beautiful.
Chapter 3 music recommendation: 'Nine Cats (acoustic)' by Porcupine Tree (must be listened to by everyone at all cost, please), and pretty much anything by Led Zeppelin (I'm just getting into them, long overdue!)
Chapter 3 book recommendation: 'King of Cannes' by Stephen Walker - diaries of a BBC documentary filmmaker as he plunges into the depths of the Cannes Film Festival - been putting me in the mood for the States, and very funny!
CHAPTER#3:
"New Year"
(2008 and that...)
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL!
2008 has me more excited about a year than ever.
Last year was really the first year to get excited about (apart from '04 perhaps). But in retrospect I wasn't excited in the least about it. I was absolutedly shitting myself scared pretty much all year. I did a mental amount of work, but for the first time it was ALL forwarding my filmmaking career. It was the first time I've been employed by the same people and the beginning AND end of the same year (I'm on about 16 months now woohoo), and moslty due to the fact that it's at last something I voluntarily want to do, and work with people I love, so there was more resting on it I guess. But I succeeded. That is to say, I'm still alive. Which is good.
So, 2008.
Well, in a week's time I am heading off to America (travel expenses paid no less) with the company I work for, going to the Sundance and Slamdance film festivals (which, by coincidence or design, happen in the same city at the same time), and it's going to be nuts-cool! Sundance is the American equivalent of Cannes and Slamdance is a guerilla film-maker's dream. It's going to be ten days of watching films, talking about films, meeting filmmakers, meeting producers, film networking, classic hollywood buzz, underground cult buzz, press talks, events, eating film, drinking film, sleeping film. I'm going to be in my element!
Has anyone been to America? Or to a film festival? Adivce?
When we get back, I'll be hitting the film cut edit of our feature film, and then looking forward to our next one which promises to be bigger and better than anything we've attempted so far. Plus I'm going to be directing a music video for a funk band of a friend of mine's - they're called 'Swervin Merv', check them out on myspace.com/swervinmervmusic. They're fucking amazing, so it should be great.
I'm planning to be more social this year as well; less all-nighters at work and more all-night drunken benders. And I want to fall in love, I miss it, and Winter is reminding me.
New Year's resolutions: work smarter, not harder; live for the moment; form some kind of casual band as an outlet for guitar playing frustration; finish my film script; somehow meet one of my heroes. I'm up for it.
What's everyone else's year looking like?
=)
xxxx
Chapter 3 film recommendation: 'The Science of Sleep' - new Michel Gondry film, absolutely beautiful.
Chapter 3 music recommendation: 'Nine Cats (acoustic)' by Porcupine Tree (must be listened to by everyone at all cost, please), and pretty much anything by Led Zeppelin (I'm just getting into them, long overdue!)
Chapter 3 book recommendation: 'King of Cannes' by Stephen Walker - diaries of a BBC documentary filmmaker as he plunges into the depths of the Cannes Film Festival - been putting me in the mood for the States, and very funny!
OOO get you going to films festivals and stuff. That's awesome news, hope you have a wicked time. I really want to go to America.