Keep it Short
Argh! What a day. And it’s 11:33 and I just got in from doing a mutual work-in-progress review with my fellow doc maker and co-worker/boss at City College, Lidia. And I gotta get up at 6ish, so I am really going to try to keep this short.
But before I recount the marvel and oddness of this day, I want to thank Lidia for 1-giving me insightful, smart and loving feedback on my documentary project. Today was a whole day of generous and loving feedback. I am overwhelmed and humbled. But before I go off, I also want to thank Lidia for 2- a fairly spectacular little feast of sweet potato squash soup spiced with cayenne pepper and tons of ginger, with fresh gorgonzola and walnut mixed salad and CRAB! Just a little something she threw together…we all know these people who make lovely look simple. Well that’s you Lidia, thank you.
And I should mention that Lidia and her collaborator Lexi, another friend and co-worker/teacher/boss, are tacking an amazing and very complicated topic in their feature doc; the history of gay marriage and the current struggle to over turn Prop 8 here in California. What I have learned that this struggle sits firmly in the American legacy of the Civil Rights movements that I have grown up with. Moving stuff. I feel proud and honored to be involved in helping to shape this important and moving film.
My god, what a heady day.
It started this morning with nailing down logistics for the big old BETA TEST Kiyo and I conducted at the de Young museum for the iPhone app, tour of the museum I am designing with Kiyo’s software company, Spotlight Mobile.
Yes, Lise Swenson, grubby street activist and big mouth creating an iPhone app, or perhaps and iPad app, (doesn’t it sound like a feminine hygiene product?) for a world class, fancy smancy museum. Honestly, while my friends and coworkers at the museum were testing the app on site today, commanding high fives from me, excitedly writing and giving verbal feedback I was sort of numb. I realized my fear of it being totally dumb, non-intuitive and all together stupid was in fact the opposite. I got great and divergent feedback, and even the harshest critics were pretty much wildly enthusiastic. Admittedly I did get a few shivers of excitement, joy and relief. But mostly I felt tired and weird.
And then I dove into tonight’s deeply reflective and creative and brain bending session with Lidia.
And I can still smell the crab on my hands.
OK-that’s it. Here are some pictures of our triumph at the de Young today-many thanks to everyone who participated.
Will sort out all of it in the coming days, months, years. And this posting wasn’t short enough.
