these days
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I totally skimped on both Torontoist, and my dear old blog this week.
But it was my first week at art school!
I am a little bit worried because I already have my first project (due in a week) and it is already driving me crazy.
It’s mostly a self-inflicted crazy though.
I just have decided to do it the hard way, rather than the easy way my Professor recommended. And I have these grandiose plans for it.
Granted, If I had done it the easy way it would have only taken me an hour or two, and would have felt like busy work, rather than a learning experience - and since I’m a bit older and wiser than a lot of my fellow students It’s tougher for me to get the learning experience out of the thing.
I just want the first thing I complete to be blow you away great, setting a high standard for things to come.
Meanwhile, Liam’s been doing yet more PA (production assistant) days and writing yet more treatments - Yesterday was a night shoot. He got home at 6 in the morning, poor kid, and is still asleep now.
But let me say, how nice it is for him to be finally making money from a job in the field he actually wants to work in some day.
Plus it’s giving us all kinds of cool insight into how these ‘Hollywood’ people are.
Like that actors aren’t (especially on these small scale projects) that hard to deal with. And that, actually, it’s the Directors you gotta watch out for. They’re the REAL ‘talent.’ In more ways than one…