Today is my first day back to Portland from my trip to Dayton, Ohio to see family and old friends. Work starts up for me any minute. I'm currently stationed at an advertising agency specializing in direct marketing video production. They make national TV spots and infomercials. Tomorrow, production starts up for a product called the "
WorkSharp" which sharpens tools in seconds!
...how exciting. ...well, I'll be easy on the sarcasm, it could be worse. At least I am working around all of the same equipment I want to be around. They've got a
DVX 100B just sitting around in the studio. Its just one small piece of the production puzzle sitting in there.
If nothing else this job is interesting because as an intern I'll occasionally hand-model the products. Then, a few years from now I'll be watching late night TV and see my hands. Crazy.
The Dayton trip went well, and in terms of moving Out of Line Productions forward it was good as well. My old friends are forming bands and albums much more productively than anyone I know out here. One buddy just got signed, and others are rumored to be signed soon. This means good music which I could possibly use for cheap or free on future projects, or even Kahlua and Coffee, which I may still sail into festival territory. Also, a good conversation with an actor friend which may have inspired a new project. I'm thinking about working with him in the way that the band The Postal Service did, doing each part from their own homes across the country.
Now that I'm back I'll be working and reading and editing, editing, editing.
P.S. - I'll also be watching a lot of Cassavetes. My parents bought me his 5 Films Criterion Collection for my birthday. :)
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