As the new year approaches it’s a time when I get a bit energized about getting some things started in my life. This usually passes as the cold dark Winter Months continue on and school and influenza chip away at my resolve and reduce me to my former unglory. I’m one of those “lost” people who was following a path of someone else’s desire for long enough to make him quite tired of life in general. The things I do enjoy the quirks and the “stuff” that makes me excited and puts a smile on my face come from making and talking about “mostly the latter at this point” pictures and videos. Writing stories and such is what I want to do developing an idea through the multiple facets available to one working on film. Music, light, acting, design, etc. You build a great team of people who know their field and let them loose guiding only enough to get a roughly definable concept then you mould that concept and you can make something that can be awesome. This is my inspiration.
Sort of on this same note I’ve recently been listening to archived internet radio broadcasts that feature MC Chris of [adult swim] fame. I read this guys bio and found it to be a haphazard one that seems to be making him happy at this point. He studied art and theatre at two of the best schools in the nation, ultimately getting a degree in screenwriting which he admits was not a good idea. Now after working with what can only be a crazy and fun group of people there in Atlanta he is embarking on pursuing his career as one of the most innovative rappers out there. His DJ John (gotta love the Utilitarianism there) mixes tracks from Aphex Twin and Blink 182, onto Pro-Tools, to make beats that Chris makes the funniest and also some of the most lyrical raps I’ve heard. The point is that this fellow is funny and cool he’s pursued a few avenues of interest that are similar to mine and is just now starting to make it “big.”
I guess that is some kind of inspiration to me since I have began to learn the technical stuff and have the screenwriting part taken care of (with a degree in Biology to boot). Now it just falls to me to have enough drive to make stuff that I think is fun and get past my fatalistic perfectionism that ultimately yields “good enough” crap to make some cool stuff and then get it out there in some ways that people will be able to see it and maybe there will be a place for me somewhere cool like [adult swim] or somewhere where it seems that innovation in commercial marketing and programming has the potential to be quite exciting.
Here’s the link to the archived radio program it’s Plug and Play with OCDJ (Chris brings up a possible reference to a popular FOX program in the name in his Dec 10th interview).