All done working on the Gondry movie. I wish I could blog more about it, but that's the way it goes. Again, it's hard to construct a blog on a regular almost daily basis without involving your personal / professional life and the way it goes when you do work like this is to keep it quiet. Understandably. There's a lot you can read about the movie online, including a New York Times article that's terrific. Director-File a great site on some of the best music video directors has more.

Likewise, I hadn't worked on a feature in quiet awhile and I'd forgotten how completely involving and overriding the process is in you life. I was commuting two hours each way into at least 14 hour days. Those were the good ones. I often like to check reality and consider that doctors - now they work hard. But I forgot that for crew who work on movies it's always been tough, the pay isn't the greatest, the hours are tremendous, and families don't see you as often. It is brutally hard work just by sheer number of hours and intensity. It's easy to shoulder that when you're a director - you're monomaniacally obsessed.

Oh and for the record, I was shooting material for the DVD, etc.

Here's the kind of stuff I should blog. Back in the 80s when Kubrick was prepping Full Metal Jacket, so the story goes, he requested a worldwide casting call (or someone working for him did) inviting actors to submit videotape auditions. I feel guilty for laughing at someone else's dream, but this purported tape from that request that's been going around for years makes me laugh just like the cameraman does around 2:14.



Other than that, catching up on sleep, reading books, obsessing over the new dual obsessions in the apartment - Nintendo DSes, one white, one pink. Nintendo's philosophy I'm starting to love more and more - give people good games that are accessible, instead of trying to blow them away with production values.