Busy Be

Beauty by the Sea
Originally uploaded by beatmania.

I've neglected to post on this blog because I'm getting busy, professionally and personally. I got hooked up with a new online video company that's putting out some medical videos. It's not taxing creatively but it's technically challenging stuff. More over, I'm finally earning good money to be financially stable, although I still got big student loan and credit card debt to pay.

Secondly, I'm helping out a film student friend of mine to make his thesis short film this winter. I'm writing the script, assisting the production, and editing the film. Since it will be shot in Super 16, I'm excited about the potential to work in film instead of usual digital HD stuff.

Finally, now that I've been struggling in NYC indie scene for couple of years, I'm getting some nice referrals from my previous works and contacts. I'm considering a feature project that I may have to hire an assistant editor(!) to help me out. It's been just a year since I started this path down the post-production/editing path from my production gigs. (Unless you are trying to be a camera man and become a DP, don't go production path, no matter how much you want to be a director.) I learned that there's a career, and there's a trade, which you make your living. Your trade and your career may not converge for a while unless you steer your trade and works to your desired career path.

So the oil price is coming down, the economy seems to be more or less stable, the mess in Iraq is nowhere near the end, and our mis-guided President still got two years left in his term. So I'm still a survivor, marching to my own beats.

Good night and good luck.