Sally Cloninger

Thank you to all who gave me such thorough and insightful feedback today.  Many, many good ideas were offered; I certainly will follow through on many of them.  These include:  sound levels in v/o; reshooting my on-camera monologue (in film? not sure about this), reconsidering how much I use the count-down, considering more layering in the section called, Time, shooting a dawn to dusk time lapse in film, continuing the musical direction I have taken (no, nothing was done in Garage Band yet!), not appropriating any Hollywood film material (the confusion over the “cowgirls” was significant in that I do not want the viewer to assume they reference another film), leading the v/o before revealing my face, and completely reworking Immortality (last section) once I have other sections closer to completion.

“…though several experiments were successful, it was almost impossible to repeat them.”  P.D. Ouspensky

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is a good time to get some work done.

I finally nailed down my treatment for Living in the Medium and will share it with M.A.S. next Wednesday along some visual tests, a bit of music, text, and other ideas.

Years ago I did a short web piece entitled, Keep In Touch. Dual screen, experimental.  A friend of mine, Lisa Farnham* said at the time, that looks like the opening for a much longer film.  It took me 8 years to realize what she meant. Time.

Here is a still

from the original.  I am currently reworking this  into a single channel component for LITM.

*Lisa was one of the co-producers (with Peter and I) on the Shared Site project that you all saw in the fall.

My current film project is partly about staying in the present.

What am I doing today, however?  1. Trying to select books for Ready Camera One and begin planning that program (2009-10). It’s all about TV, performance, writing, visual humor, media criticism, and directing. 2. Beginning to write program copy for Journey, a new program for 2010-11 involving visual art, visual anthropology, digital media, and travel to far flung places. 3. Worrying about my meeting with the campus web team to try to consolidate ideas for the on-line collection of the Evergreen Visual History Archive. 4. Meeting with the second half of all of M.A.S. to talk about progress on projects.

I am not whining. Really. I know I am lucky to have these interesting classes ahead but Evergreen does challenge us all to keep many plates spinning, all up in the air at the same time.

Tomorrow is March 1.  You know, time does fly when you are having fun.  But I still am struggling with how much I want to write about my intent and structure and how much I want to just improvise.  “Do as I say, not as I do” is the operable phrase here. I continue to be very interested in what Bennett has to say about creativity.  I realize how much I have depended upon words/text in some of my work.  For context.  Will I go that route again?  I have sketched out two beginnings, very rough and incomplete.  I really should be working on that other project (EVHA).  I am much more interested in Living in the Medium (literally).  I am not near my editing suite so all my work has to be in my imagination.  I did say (I think to the Animography group) that I could call this a metaphysical travelogue.  Let’s get moving.