The title of this blog entry is indeed a play on words of a song by former Chicago hit-maker and Bauhaus fan Peter Cetera, which is pseudo-appropriate as I currently examine my own inspirations while becoming more and more actively involved in chasing the skirt of my personal creative muse. While I extend my creativity across multiple mediums such as music, film, and photography, there are definitely common themes spread across these various outlets. Or something like that (feel free to insert your own thesis here)…
If this blog were interesting enough for anyone to actually bother reading it, they would notice that updates have been nonexistent for approximately the past two months. Since the previous entry, I have begun another year of college, and I’ve even directed my second short film. Thanks to the miracle of online core classes, I also completed my entire technical mathematics class by mid-term (and with an A, to boot), because I’m just that good.
Currently, I am putting the finishing touches upon the two short films I have directed this year, and I am getting ready to star in a short film which may be ready to shoot as soon as this week. While I made a Hitchcockian cameo appearance in one of the aforementioned directorial efforts, this will be the first time I will be tackling a speaking role on camera in approximately six years. To be honest, I feel completely relaxed about the entire thing, as I know my character, and the director seems to have fully accepted my approach to the role. Given that the character is straight out of left field, this gig admittedly not much of a stretch for me. In any event, it’s been fun to both get in front of the camera again, and to once again observe another film director in action.
While on the subject of filmmaking, I am continuing to define (and refine) my areas of expertise in the medium, which are clearly rooted in the above-the-line roles of producer and director, as well as my escapades into writing and acting. There are a couple of below-the-line positions for which I have a knack (namely: editing and audio), but I’m not exactly touting those skills as they exist more out of necessity as opposed to passion. It all makes perfect sense, as my all-around talents in general have always been rooted in areas of leadership, strategy, and organization; to those into MBTI, I am the prototypical ENTJ.
Beyond filmmaking, I am now finally ramping up practice of my long-standing interest in still photography, having recently purchased a new DSLR camera. In conjunction with this development, this blog will soon begin to contain a significant amount of entries related to my photography exploits, which will most certainly be more interesting than reading my disjointed ramblings about this and that…
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