i wish

do you ever just sit down in front of your computer - and open up a doc or a blog and look at that blank page and wish that you could say something amazing? something that will inspire people to take action? something that will make people care a little more? give a little more?

i do.

a plan

i hope i'm back on track with the film. i actually have a plan in mind now. here it is.

mornings at caribou to work on the jarka texting animations (or the occasional blog :) about 7.5 hours per week.

lunch hour will be spent on all my other obligations:

chazonAfrica.org
melonAfrica.org
somaliapeace.org
bravaNutra

that's 5 hours per week

evenings editing the film and creating the art for the feature animations - i need to stay up later. this is the toughest challenge - i'm up at 4 am everyday. but i'm going to commit to 4 hours per evening - 20 hours per week.

weekends: 10 hrs of building renovation there's two hours of driving in there. leave by 7 am - home by 5pm - - 20 hrs per weekend.
2 hours of editing in the morning 5 when i get home.
6 hours of sleep per night

NO FREE TIME:

41.5 hours of film work per week
5 hours of outside web/project work per week
20 hours of building restoration per week
48 hours of mayo clinic work
42 hours of sleep

that's 156.5 hours per week - hmm... there are 168 hours per week - may have to rethink the plan, but for now this is it :)

it's been a great two weeks

i took off some time from work to get some editing done on the film and also (in theory) to close on a building i'm buying. it needs a ton of work but it'll be fun :)

i was suppose to close on the building on aug 1st - the first day of my vacation and that didn't work out. it's a good thing though as i really needed to get the film editing under way... and i have had solid full days of editing which have really put me back in africa. and it's a great place to be and the film is coming out quite well - i have plenty of b-roll and the comments from folks are amazing. how to make it into a story "the story" of "IVing" is the challenge.

i'm taking this morning off from the editing as i need to do a final walk thru of the property at 12:30 - then the closing is at 2:00 - then i'm going straight to the property to build a couple of temp. walls. the plan is for the building to serve as a film / photo / art studio. it's perfect for that with some work... i just didn't feel comfortable sitting at home - i'm at panera and will work on the annimation sequences for the typed correspondance between myself and one particular volunteer :) since we didn't meet in africa her entire role in the film is going to be animated.

my goal is to have the film completed by dec 15th - it's looking unrealistic but this vacation time has helped - i still need to do a lot of filming even on top of the annimation work (i will now need to do that by myself :( also - the filming of the "farewll circuit" or at least a few of the bands members/family. incredible story there - and speaking of the farewell circuit i got a bunch of new music from them and it's so awesome - music is such a huge part of the success of any film, and this music is top notch! well enough blogging time to jump into annimating jarks and my letters!