We ate spaghetti with tomato sauce and eggplant.
In a response to the project via the blog, Bowman said, "is there any joy left in this project? i hope so." Do you detect a lack of joy on the blog? I am more tired out each day by shooting, so staying up till dawn afterwards to post on the blog has become a chore -- but still, one I think is necessary so we have an account of our process later. Also, I think we've come to an impasse, as far as what is possible given our personalities: about what we can do and how to do it. This is not a bad thing but removes some of the mystery with which we started. Our work is steady but less experimental; unexpected but in ways we are now used to. AND the blog is getting more rote. In this light, the discussion about editing is invigorating because there is still a new part of the process to invent after the end of the month. However we decide to edit and whatever we make of the footage, I hope we will continue to have a presence online in one form or another to share and hear from people like Bowman who care but can't be with us. That people are out there reading and thinking about the project brings me joy.
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i love the idea of a bunch of people editing/talking about editing in your little movie room, george (if that's what the small room ends up being anyway).
There is only one way I will edit: over the shoulder of everyone.
Also, we should continue to use the web to share fragments, versions and parts as we edit, to blog about what we're eating and how we feel, to include as many (and even more) people as is possible. One virtual space that acts as laboratory and theater instead of the one insular RL space that we had for February and was necessary for shooting (just looked up insular, means "of, relating to, or constituting an island" -- in our interviews yesterday, as our characters, Jacob and I both said we lived on islands before coming to the apartment, a window onto life after the end of the world as we know it).
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