Time for another exciting installment of Galaxy Sailor Productions blogroll. Well, I get excited about it.
First off, I am the luckiest dingleberry in the fruit stand. Seriously. So, a little over a month ago I got to see Marian Call perform here in Portland with opening act
Oh, but it gets better. I got to meet up with Angela Webber of The Doubleclicks. A plan was hatched in which they are contributing to the film “Part of the ship, Part of the crew” and I couldn’t be happier about the combined scheme of it all. It will be glorious.
Anyway, my meeting with Angela was an amazing one, and I couldn’t help but feel really…accomplished. When it was over, she had talked about how it sounded like my life was a cool journey. Telling her how I got to here even sounded like a pretty good story to me when I was telling it. At the heart of it all, however was the fact that I was feeling really blessed to be at this moment, right here, with a musician doing something unique and amazing. It’s like I am getting a chance to see her before The Doubleclicks explode into nerd glory. It’s only a matter of time before they are on The Guild and doing tours with Paul and Storm. To be honest, I think these two are about to have the nerd world by the balls. To be in such company is beyond coolness.
It is all very weird to me. What is the measure of success, especially in this day and age? With a recession in place, jobs at a loss, a political spectrum with hardly a middle ground, and an unstable world ready to implode, it seems a little off to be thinking about insecurities as a person. Or as an artist. Or filmmaker. If you don’t know it by now, I am a very insecure person. Very insecure. I battle it all the time. I worry at exceptionally high levels. It has led me to act “strange” at times when I have been around people I idolize or look up to (yes, Bobby R., that would be you).
I suppose the measure wouldn’t matter as much if the world wasn’t in turmoil, I wasn’t 40 years old, and I was prepared to make a plan B. Well, this is plan C, and I am making it up as I go, because plan A and B where thought out and didn’t amount to a hill of beans for me. Coupled with the fact of my insecurity is the fact that I have entered into a realm in which I create things to be judged. Good call. This must be the moment where the man with the butterfly net circles around the guy with the white coat with long, strapping sleeves.
For whatever reason, though, the last few weeks, I have felt more accomplished and more professional and more accepted then any other moment in my life. PDX Yar, the pirates of Portland made me a part of the ship (part of the crew) for my time doing the documentary about them. Aaron Duran, of
Anyway…I will be putting together and doing a Kickstarter campaign soon to help pay for the pirate documentary. I need to fund this baby, and I don’t the coins. Damn pirates took them. Well, you know…pirates.
It’s Friday. I gotta go.
Hey there folks and friends. Huzzah to you all. It has been a glorious few weeks, and I am here to tell you all about it.
To begin with, the post production of the documentary Part of the Ship, Part of the Crew: the making of El Tiburon has begun. Months of footage, as you would expect, are now being watched again by me, as well as scripting for the voice over. I still have some filming to do, which consists of interviews with primary ship builders, but all of the story, as it unfolded, has been completed. For those of you that don’t know, El Turbon is a land based pirate ship build being performed by PDXYar as a demonstration/performance piece/shwag center. They won a Kickstarter campaign and I have followed them ever since.
The film was originally thought to be a short, and chronicling the activities as the ship was in the yards being built. As it turns out, there is more to the story than just the ship and its construction (which was not a simple task). Many things happened along the way, most all of which are positive in the utmost beautiful manner. As much as a ship being built, a person was being constructed as well, with some really great things learned along the way. You’ll have to watch the movie to know what I am talking about!
There is currently a page on my site as well as a Facebook Page that you can follow for details.
Speaking of jibs (A jib is a triangular staysail set ahead of the foremast of a sailing vessel. Its tack is fixed to the bowsprit, to the bow, or to the deck between the bowsprit and the foremost mast. Jibs and spinnakers are the two main types of headsails on a modern boat) I have had the fortune of doing a little jib construction and assembly lately. And by little, I mean a 40 footer. And by 40 footer, I mean it’s not little at all. Bob Palota with Cameras Eye and Earth2World has been sporting his jib around and needed a jib assistant. It just so happens I made myself available and the next thing you know…I’m on the set of Portlandia shaking hands with Edward James Olmos, James Callas, and Roger D. Moore. These people are, to the unknowing: Admiral Adama, Gaius Baltar, and head writer, all of the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica. I had a giant nerd moment, but kept it contained. I didn’t want to, but I did.
Speaking of spitballs, I have had the fortune of working with Spitball Media as of late, and being really loving the fact. Joe Lesher and Joel Jackson are a couple of great guys, with a tight ship (I keep bringing it) and coupled with Andrew Smith, one of the most awesome dudes I have met in a long time, these folks bring together an awesome set of sweet video lovin’. I hope I get to do more in the future with them.
I think for a change of pace, I am not going to rant, though I have many things that I could yell about that would solve the ills of the world. I’ll hold out this time!