Fuck It I'm 50

I am the walking wounded. I started scripting at the desk at 8:30 and just got in now at 10:15. I had to work at City today that is so inconsequential that’s all I have to say about it, a job I am so thankful for, but wish I didn’t have this week, but once again I am sooo thankful for.

There is something logical and comforting about 1-making sure people from all walks of life can continue their educations and find their passion, and 2- I can charge camera batteries, book and test equipment, have fun with the staff and students and go in to my performative self, which I do, now that I think about it, in those kinds of settings.

But almost everything is secondary to the big secret project. The big project, which I think if you are reading this you have likely worked out has something to do with the iPhone app I am producing for the de Young. The story gets less secret, murkier and less sexy by the minute, but I hope I can wallop a zinger and story round up sometime next week.

Anyway back to the de Young iApp and my hands and wrists. And my body and my mind and my sense of reality. My hands are all tore up-sprained middle finger on right hand since December swollen again, and carpal tunnel on the right wrist persistent. And then, when I was trying to balance the stedicam I decided to use for some of the shoot, and of course I have never used before, took a little painful chunk out of my left thumb and nail.

And then I had to use the damn stedicam and it is heavy, and wasn’t correctly balanced and I was trying to operate, and narrate the tour and walk in the right direction all at the same time. OK, I’m good at doing many things at once, but this might have been too much, especially since the weight of the equipment, being held in my right hand and held steady primarily through my fingers and wrist were screaming at me.

So I asked the ever patient and wonderful Kathleen to take over the stedaicam operation while I walked beside her and narrated the journey, much, much smarter.

But how does any of it look?

So now I have to go and view and dump the footage either tonight or first thing tomorrow morning and make an evaluation and shoot plan from there. I love these on the fly experiments when the stakes are really high.

The best news of the day-Kathleen’s film that I worked on “ Why Isn’t Chris Von Snidern Famous?” just got programmed into a high profile public television series called “Truly California” Whoopee! She found out just as I was pulling up to her place to go the de Young shoot-there is kismet in the air and we carried it with us to the de Young.

And since Kathleen also just turned 50, I am going to say that we will carry this all the way through our 50^th year!

Far Fucking Out, I’m 50!