What I'm up to, or just random nonsense on my mind.

This past Saturday, Director of Photography Jessica Fisher and I spent about half an hour shooting a few missing shots for the final act of my film, Trash and Progress. To avoid having to take the usual actress away from her busy schedule for such a tiny shoot, I somehow managed to convince Producer Susan Ali (pictured above) to act as a stand in. It was worth it just to see her in a wig. Though the edit is 95% locked, on a project of this size one finds that significant portions of the story simply don’t come together without the addition of tiny, seemingly minute details. For Trash, this has typically required going down to the basement (or “studio”) and setting up a quick closeup of someone’s hand grabbing a clock, pages in a book turning, or something equally rudimentary. In this case, however, the character Darla Dixie needed a little bit more closure in the film, and this necessitated heading out on location to Point Isabella in Richmond, California, where the tall grass is still dry and there are long paths leading out toward the horizon.