Hey all on internet-land. Another month has passed and it's journal time. I've since moved into a new apartment and I'm still making sense of my belongings. I had lived in my previous apartment for about 3 years, the longest I've ever spent in one place since I moved out for college. I found all sorts of stuff squirreled away, things that I didn't even remember owning, much less stashing in oblique corners of my dwelling. I wonder if maybe there was some other creature living there, gathering things like a bird for its nest; in my mind he's something like Gollum. How else to explain the roll of toilet paper I found in the deepest corner of my closet, or the two (yes, two) working fire extinguishers, neither of which I remember buying.

Anyway, this weekend I'm working on a film crew as set photographer for a 48-hour film festival. Basically, you get your genre and some things you have to include in the plot, then you have 48 hours to write, cast, shoot, and edit a short film. It should be a blast, but I have a feeling I will be getting zero sleep.

I'm super excited about this though. Doing set photography is actually what got me into photography so deep in the first place. As a young film student, I took my very first digital SLR on set where I was a grip. In between setups, I would bust it out and get behind-the-scenes stuff, and I was in love. I'm a little rusty on it, but the old instincts came back during the test shoot, so I think it'll be grand. I want to see how I do with it, now that I've had time to improve my chops.

I'd best wrap up. They're meeting up to go to Dallas to pick up the prompts in an hour or so.

I think I'll be around DeviantArt more now; this past month was incredibly transitional. Now I'm off to sweat my lifeforce away. Thank you summertime.


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