I dreamed in cell shaded comic book imagery last night. I’m sure it had something to do with all the Batman comics I’ve been reading, and the discussions John and I have been having about our comic book ideas. I never really read comic books growing up, but now as an “adult” I’ve found myself pretty fascinated by them. One of the things that drew me into film was this idea of visual storytelling, and comic books are exactly that. Pretty much any and every story you could imagine could be told through a comic without the need for highly paid actors, or expensive and time consuming visual effects. This is the reason we’ve decided to try and tell one of our stories – which would require James Cameron sized visual effects to tell through film – via the lost art of comic books.

This weekend we’re going to Independent Media Expo called “STAPLE!” hoping to meet up with some local talent and printers. We’ll see how that goes. I’ll post more on this project I’m sure.

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I’m listening to the Oscar winning score from the Social Network this morning. Pretty amazing music, and seemingly a pretty different style than what has won in the past. It’s incredibly diverse in style, pensive, yet energetic. It’s good. It’s different, and that’s probably why it won.

Danny Baranowsky could have done this easily, and I hope to one day give him that chance. The man is Oscar worthy no doubt.

It’s funny how when life seems uninteresting, or when you have nothing to do, you find a way to make yourself seem busy and exciting in your digital social circles. You’re tweets are extra creative or deep, and your blog posts and generously well thought out and written.

It’s when you actually have things going on, and so many genuinely interesting things to share that you can scarcely find the time to to write/tweet/post about them! I find this to be true for myself at least.

I suppose that means right now I don’t have much going on – that’s not entirely true. I am, however,finding myself at the end of a long string of chaotic happenings, and I suppose that why now I’m able to sit and write.

I won’t make in promises on the frequency of my posts, but I have decided to do a regular “AM Post” which will simply be my first thoughts for the day. Perhaps a few will be significant, but most will probably just be short and random.

I do have more things I’d like to share, but I am genuinely a little to busy to wrap my brain around them just yet.

More later.