04 04 10 Update

I've pretty much finished the preparations for Friday's preliminary meeting at Stiffel, including a sheet that each person will take home to hang on the refrigerator to remind them what to bring on April 16.

Since we finally had a decent Monday, the day I keep free to work on Journeys South, I was able to hit the neighborhood and do some videotaping. I want to have a lot of clips I pull from.

I always forget how static cities really are. Apart from cars and humans, not a lot moves. The 7th street area is ever more still. I focused primarily on architecture and spaces doing pans over cornices and house-fronts. I'm always fascinated by remnants and reminders of things that somehow stick around despite progress's best efforts to obliterate them.

The photos are video stills that I extracted.

03/22/10 Update

Not the most exciting day, but productive none-the-less. Worked on getting together the nearly twenty addresses I've lived at since 1975 so I could send in the PA Child Abuse form. I cast into words the specifications for the kinetoscope kiosk and re-did the budget, but cannot finalize until I hear back from Frank Siciliano, the craftsman.

I then spent the remainder of the day working on the presentation I'm to give at Stiffel on the 9th. I have a DVD well underway. Anyone have a video projector? Unfortunately a lot of time was "eaten" struggling with software issues which seem to now be straightened out. I'm also at work at putting my PC (using a Mac right now) back into service (new hard-drive and total rebuild) so I can video edit with the full suite that will also drive a full-sized TV monitor via a very nice converter box.

Tom Carroll has arranged for a tour and meeting with the Southeast Asian constituency for Friday, April 2. We may also go to the Wat Khmer this Sunday.