I dyed my hair back to dark dark brown <3

So every single morning latley I've been forcing myself to go to Metro Coffee House. This makes me get out of bed eralier than I normally would and start workin on the stuff I usually put off until it gets dark. It's really helped me get more done during the day. I like this morning routine... it's also cool when I don't have too much work to bring with me because I can ride my bicycle the two miles there. Cycling in Savannah at 10am is really nice an peacefull. I tend to see a lot of people I know and the morning air is really refreshing. Note to self: to start the day off right- get out of the house early, bicycle, fresh air, nice weather, a cup-o-joe and a nice chat with my friend Adam, the Metro morning barista.

Adam and me at Metro

Oh yeah, I dyed my hair back to natural. The bleaching had finally damaged it way too much. Time to start anew!! (rawr!)


We could be closer than you know,
Chelsea

School and Veritaz video project update...

I am defiantly a learn-by-doing it type of person, although it's much easier on my nerves to be verbally taught and visibly shown before I take my own type of crash-course-learning-extravaganza lessons. haha.

Anyway, what does that statement have to do with anything? It has everything to do with what I've been up to lately at school.

I've also learned that I *can be* super afraid of confrontation and certain types of communication in general. note: This doesn't mean that I avoid it or can't follow through with these *types* of communication, it just means that it's surprising to me how freaked out I can get before I force myself to follow though.
(always gotta get the job done!)

so...

I'm working on the post production FIVE significant video projects right now- 3 for school and 2 for Veritaz Productions, my independent production company. I am not involved in ANY preproduction or production work this quarter. ONLY post-production work. How appropriate of me to be finishing projects during my last quarter of undergrad. haha.Seems like a lot but it's really not so bad. The projects are as follows:

Savannah College of Art and Design Projects:
1. The Unsinkable Jenny Brown
2.The Making of Baby Blues and...
3.Stillmore (*new*)

Veritaz Production Projects:
4. Pedaling For Change, A Documentary About Rally Across America
5. A live music video from Cornerstone 2006 for Showbread

Here is a little outline of each project, my roll, and where each is at in it's post-production process.


The Unsinkable Jenny Brown
(My senior thesis project at Savannah College of Art and Design.)
I am currently almost finished with my final editing cut of my documentary on Jenny Brown. I haven't had any major complications with the project aside from the typical "whoops I still have to shoot an interview" here and there. Overall, the post production process has been very easy going and has taught me a lot. This might be due to the fact that I decided to be unorthodox (go figure) and edit the project myself instead of getting another student to edit it for me. There were a few reasons for this decision, the most important one being that I knew that I would learn more if I did it myself. I also wanted to use this quarter to the best that I can when it comes to learning editing techniques and mastering different programs. Editing this project on my own gave me the option to be working on a Final Cut project for school along side the project that I'm doing for my advanced post class in Avid Symphony Nitris. The Unsinkable Jenny Brown will be handed over to my sound designer later this week for sound adjustments. The press kit, dvd case, and poster should be done by Thursday.


The Making of Baby Blues
This is a project that I directed that has been carried over from last quarter (summer quarter). Due to it's size and my unavailability because of other class obligations, the post supervisor and I decided to "hire" another student as the editor and allow them to use it for class credit. Well, whatdayaknow, this year SCAD implemented an official editing track for the senior thesis program. This means that if a student knows that they want to be an editor, they can go through the senior I, II, and III classes editing projects instead of pre-producing, producing, and post producing their own project as a director, producer, or whatever else they end up doing. This works great for us because our friend Heather decided to take on the project as part of her senior thesis collection of edited films. This means that she has been collecting the footage, capturing it into the system, and putting together coherent sequences for our story-line. Thank God for Heather. Hopefully this project will be complete by the end of the quarter...


Stillmore
This project is a documentary about an event that took place in early September in a town near Savannah called Stillmore. To make a long story short, many illegal immigrants have been working and living in Stillmore as an important part of the community for years and years. In early September, Immigration came in and deported like 400 people over night. The rest of the illegals in the town just plain fled... they disappeared into the woods. This documentary is about the community and how it has been effected, the people who left, and the people who were forced to leave. It explores immigration laws and the recent explosion of media interest politically when it comes to our "unsafe borders", what it means to be "American", and questions the validity of the use of violence and force when it comes to enforcing immigration laws. I am new to this project and have signed on as the editor. I am super excited about it though and I think that the director, Mitchell, and the director of photography, my friend Hawk, have great hearts for film and art. I'm super honored to be such a significant part of their project, especially a project like this. Now all I have to do is get this HDV into avid and get some of these tapes translated from Spanish to English. You wouldn't believe some of these people's stories.....

Pedaling For Change
Since I wrote about PFC last in the Veritaz Blog, Nick and I had just finished up shooting the segment that we wanted to do on Alexa. Between then and now I have super revised the press packet and have been applying for grants, etc. I am not going to really start to full post production process on this doc until I am finished with school this winter and know FOR SURE that we have the funding to properly complete it. This break isn't a bad thing, it is just me deciding that I shouldn't give the project only HALF of my attention (which is what I'd be doing if I was working on it now while I'm in school.) I have met a few cool people who want to edit it and have yet to make my final decision but, overall, all is well with Pedaling For Change. I'm excited to revisit it again this winter and make it my full time job! If things go according to plan (which you never know...) I'd like to have PFC done before June. Depending on money, though, we'll see about that. haha

Showbread Life Music Video:: Cornerstone 2006
I absolutly love shooting live music videos. I love it so much that I think that I"ll be doing only that almost all of next summer with Veritaz! This video I shot this summer with an awesome guy named Dillan that I met at cornerstone. Showbread had asked me to film and so I was planning on going into it with just my camera but then I met Dillan and he hooked up the second unit. I cut together the ENTIRE 40 minute show for them and it looks amazing. Not evey band can boast a 1080i live duel unit cornerstone video can they? muahahahha. Anyway It's been a learning experience for me (as the Showbread videos have been over and over haha) and go me, I gave them the video at the wrong bit-rate right before they went on tour so now I have to figure out a way to get this awesome video to the for them to see while they are on tour. I think I'll just put it online at the Veritaz web site. We'll see. Anywhichway (as Hawk would say), I'll post a clip here. It's super finished... and super amazing. haha

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Ok well thats it with the VIDEO side of school and play. I'm taking a business class to but I'll write about that excitement in a later post. haha.
Right now I have to get back to these Spanish Stillmore tapes and try to make some sense out of them. THANK GOD for latino friends who will translate for free.

We could be closer than you know,
Chelsea

Metal Ministry Update 02

Metal Ministry 02

So for the last few weeks I have been meeting with a friend of mine discussing matters of Christian faith. I wrote to many of you (whomever I had an email address for) asking for prayers for him and me during these ministry times (Usually Wednesday or Sunday nights). In that email I said that I'd keep ya updated on the status of your prayers for him. Here's that update fore the past few weeks.

God has been working in many many ways in this ministry. It seriously blows my mind how he can turn my fumbling half understandable ramblin' run on sentences into anything that my friend can take and understand. hahaha. Ok seriously everyone knows I like to talk, too much most would probably say, but when it comes to saying the right things I am never confident. Who is? Anyway God has shown me over and over again that if I have faith that he will use my willingness to share my faith in his own ways and make sure that I don't fail. It's amazing, miracuelous even. haha. Like, sometimes I'll try to explain something to this friend and to me what I said to him would sound like crap and not make any sense but THEN, after patiently listening to my redicuelous acronyms, metaphores, and examples, he will say something like "so you're saying that ______________" and I'd be like uhhh yea that's amazing that you just got that much out of what I just said. He'd then be like "wow that's awesome!" and end up super excited to learn more on his own. All the while I sit there dumbfounded that what I just said actually worked. Yay God.

Lets follow up with that "God uses the willing" thing. Ok so I'm super willing to help my friend open up to the Lord and the posibilities that come with a life lived for Christ but had no idea how to do it and God is pushing me along full force. The thing is, though, that if I had no clue on how to go about ministering to someone,my FRIEND definetly had no clue about how to receive that ministry and really "meet" God.

How do you pray?
How do you hear God?
Does God really communicate with us?
What is faith?
How are you sure that is faith?
How can you tell it's faith?
Free will?
Miracles?
What is an Angel?
etc etc etc etc...

This kid is so willing to learn about God that it seems like no matter what I say, the Lord makes him understand. I keep learning day and day again how quickly God can fill that absence in a non-believer's life when the person is willing. What a miracle: watching your friend be filled with the holy spirit... and man, the spirit is strong with this one. haha... ok yes I know enough with the star wars jokes. For some reason I can't avoid then when talking about faith issues. I think I've said "Only Sith's deal in absolutes" about once per meeting that we've had. haha.

My friend is so filled with the holy spirit. In only a week he was asking me to take him to church! We attended a non-denominational service catered a little more toward the college crowd here and then had dinner afterwards and talked about a lot of the things brought up at the service. It was sweet because he and I both knew a lot of people there. He brought the journal I bought him and took notes so we could discuss things later after the service. It's funny because the whole time before that service I was thinking to myself "man he's going to get a lot out of this"... and then while we were sitting there listening to the lessons being taught I was like "MAN I'm getting a lot out of this!" Funny how those things work, eh? The lesson was about relationships and about how if you put Christ first, the others will fall into place. Relationships: what a perfect thing to tie into our ministry meetings. That is what we've been touching on since the start you know? A personal relationship with God. I love how this is all working together!

That was three weeks ago. We took 2 weeks off because of midterms and tons of work to do but still met on our Wednesdays. We are planning on going to the service again this week.

He is so excited. That's the best part. He is excited about prayer and is starting to acknowledge answered prayers (be it positive or negative answers) and is making visible changes and decisions in his life because of this new faith. I don't even know if he understands that it's because of the grace being given to him that he's making some of the decisions he's been making- I'm not quite sure if he even knows that it's him starting to live his faith. It's so beautiful that it makes me want to cry hahahahaha It's so great though!

Anyway, that's all for now, please keep praying for him and for me in the ministry. Email me if you aren't on my email prayer list and want to be. I'd appreciate as many people as possible, we're building the Kingdom here, you know? Hit me up.

We could be closer than you know,
Chelsea

Utah 02 Oh my gawsh.

Utah Update 02

So, again, I spent a long weekend away from school in Salt Lake City! I wanted to really check out Park City and Salt Lake and the surrounding areas because I am planning on moving there in early December. This trip made me so excited...

Throughout the trip, my goals were to meet a bunch of people and get their contact information so I will have people to hang out with when I move there this winter, decide weather or not I should live with my aunt or on my own out there, and to relax a little. It's strange thinking about leaving Savannah, I've been meeting so many people i Georgia as of late... I had someone I just met yesterday be like "what? How are we going to be friends when you are leaving in a few weeks!?"
What a horrible realization and a strange concept.

So on Saturday out in Salt Lake City I had dinner with some of my family and cousins who live there. It was so awesome to see my Uncle Joe and his side of the family. I love my Utah cousins soooo much, from the punk rockers to the scholars to the rodeo stars. After dinner, my cousin Joejoe and I set out for downtown SLC to hit up a snowboarding rail competition that was going on at the Galiven Center. Met James, a friend of my good friend Abigail down here in Savvy. She talks about him a lot and how he moved to SLC to go to college and ski. How awesome to have such a cool friend of a friend already there to meet and chill with!

James was great! He showed me around a little and we talked about church, snowboarding, and our mutual friend. We met a ton of people, rode the train, and got coffee! Hanging out with him was awesome. He's super outgoing and really easy to talk to! We're tottally going to hang out when I get back out there and he's going to introduce me to a bunch of his friends. Knowing someone already in Utah really makes me feel more comfortable and more at home.

SAVING LIVES
So on the way back to my aunt's house in Midvale from downtown I was sitting on the train that the locals call "the trax" (that stops only like 3 blocks from her neighborhood!) and just minding my own business riding home. Her stop is one of the last stops on the tracks so I had to go through a ton of stops before I could finally get off. At one of the stops this old man gets on the train and sits RIGHT across from me. The guy could have sat anywhere but he sits RIGHT across from me. I was kind of startled by him, he was dressed kind of like a bum, smelled bad, and just seemed a little out of it. He didn't look at me much, just once or twice, and just sat there very sad looking. I felt right away that something was wrong but didn't know what to do... I prayed for the guy and just waited to see what should be done. A few stops later, this man pulls out his cell phone, makes a call, and starts talking to someone on the other line. I was on the phone with my brother and told him that I had to go and hung up because for some reason I really wanted to hear what this guy was saying on the phone.

His conversation consisted of him asking whoever was on the other line to take him to the hospital because he wasn't feeling well... he started trying to tell the person where he was but he was having a lot of difficulty. I was really confused... I knew, though, what I had to do. I put my hand on his knee and asked him if he needed any help talking to the person on the other line and telling them where we were. To my surprise (kinda) he said yes and just handed me the phone. As it turns out he had called 911 on himself because he was feeling terribly depressed and very sick. The man had cancer 9 months ago that left him with only one kidney and, at the time of the call, was drunk and feeling so depressed he spoke of walking in front of the train. He told me he was an alcoholic and that he shouldn't be drinking because of his surgery a few months ago, that he was alone because the brother he was living with does a lot of drugs and that scares him, and that the only other family he had did drugs as well. He was so upset, lost, and alone. I talked to the guy on the line from 911 and took care of everything. I took the man, Robert, off the train and walked him slowly to a place where we could sit down and wait for the paramedics at the train station.

The whole time, he talked to be about many things. It was terribly sad. When the paramedics finally got there I held his hand while they took care of him. As they rolled him into the ambulance I stood for a bit with the lead guy and told him about Robert's family and what he told me. The man shook my hand and told me that he would do his best to be personable and take care of Robert. I felt so bad... They were like, are you from Utah and I was like nope but I'm moving here. The one man said "and you are already taking care of our citizens..." to which I replied "just another day in the life..."

So yea, poor Robert. I hope he's ok. It sucks that there are laws that keep me from ever figuring out how he ended up.. I can not look in on him unless I"m family or something like that. I pray he's ok and that the people who got to him after I had to let go took care of him with dignity and friendship. What a sad world we live in, and a glorious one as well. It's amazing how God works sometimes, you know? Amazing.

Anyway so I jumped back on the train and got off at the stop I needed to get off at. I talked to this friendly guy a bit and had him walk me home. All was well.

SUNDAY

On sunday morning I got a chance to go to church. The day I had planned was one that consisted of doing some video work for Pedaling For Change what I had been meaning to do all weekend, going up to Snowbird, and chilling that night with James at this worship service at the University of Utah.

My aunt was gracious enough to let me take her car up to Snowbird and Alta, the two closest resorts to her home in Midvale. I drove up there and really got a taste of the reason that I made the decision to move out there when I visited so long ago in the first place. The road to Snowbird is nothing short of Sublime. I found myslef driving through some of the United State's largest mountains on my way to one of the US's best ski and snowboard resorts: Snowbird. I had to stop and take a ton of pictures.. I basically just drove until the mountain road became a narrow dirt road and then, eventually ended at a walking path that would have taken me to the top. Holy crap, the air out there is so thin and clear, the people smile, and everybody seems to be at home. I love it so much. That drive was so rejuvinating... it was just me, the mountains, and David Bowie playing on the radio. Here are some pix... they don't even come close to doing it justice.

(pix of snowbird to be here soon)

After I returned, Ali and I went out and got some thai food and other noodle food from this place called Noodles or something. It was awesome. I basically just worked on stuff form then on. I never ended up going to University of Utah for the worship thing because James and I didn't connect till too late and I had a ton of stuff to finish up anyway. It took me forever to get the video stuff done though so it didn't really matter because I wouldn't have been able to go anyway.

In the end, everything that needed to get done GOT done. I even got 2 hours of sleep before the hectic day of flying that was my Monday.

Man I love Utah and the country out there. I decided I should probably still live in Park City and not the valley but all the same I can't wait to move out there regardless of where I rest my head. The time has almost come... I can't think of a better place to build my company and my future... not that we won't be all over the USA but come ON, a place where you can ski home? awesome.

Oh the things I have seen, the places I've been, the people i've met and the dreams i have dreamed... haha

There is so much more to say but heck, you'll just have to come out and party with me this winter... and when I say party i mean PARTY because this winter will be the best time of my life. No doubt. MAN i'm so pumped. It sure doesn't help that I've been blasting pop punk all day and night since I got out there... woo!

We could be closer than you know,
Chelsea

PS. I miss you, all of you.

Utah 01

Today I woke up and drove my aunt's car to Park City. I bummed around there all day meeting as many people as possible and looking for a place to live. Word on the street is that it's next to impossible to find housing right now and through the winter... all the more reason to actually do it and live up there instead of in Salt Lake City during these winter months. Everyone is mad friendly here and I didn't get hit on ONCE the entire day... unlike Savannah where people try to pick you up every day. I looked at a few houses and picked up a few job applications and then headed back down the hill to SLC.

Can I just say real quick that I LOVE Park City and Salt Lake City and every single thing out here oh my gosh.


at the enterence of the mountin-top city, Park City


this lift goes right to the center of downtown


On the drive back...

I decided, about half way back, to take a detour through Emigration Canyon to look at one last place on my list of possible housing.. the minute I got out there was like "nope" but I thought I'd drive around and explore a little anyway...so like 20 mins later I'm way off the beaten path and in this itty bitttty mountain village. There are huge white tailed deer like chillin eating the grass in people's front yards and funy back country stores... it would have taken me 20 mins to get back to the express way so I just pointed the wheels west and hoped that the road would lead to Salt Lake... next thing I know I see a vally of lights and a giant white temple. Welcome back to SLC. hahaha

Tonight I got a chance to hang out with my 17 year old cousin Joe. Last night I hung out with my other cousins who I am staying with, Ali and Zeek and they showed me some of where they live but tonight I got a chance to go with Joe to downtown SLC. He showed me all the hang outs and activist chill spots. It was mad cool... almost cooler than Gallery Espresso! (Imagine that! haha lol) There were punk kids and hard core kids everywhere! Way fun. I met this other guy named Joe who was working at the coffee house we went to and it turns out he just moved to Utah from New York. It was cool talking to him. Man! I met so many awesome people today. I got so many phone numbers! hahaha... This just makes me even more excited to move out here! Joe's super punk rawk... it's funny how diverse my family is. I love them.

Joe tells me that the hard core scene has all but died out here because of the lack of positivity. The venues shut down because of the sxe wars and underage drinking. Sad thing... he explained to me about a lot of the straight edge problems that they have and about how when the sxe kids run the shows they always get shut down. Being someone who could be considered Straight Edge because I don't drink, smoke, do any drugs, etc... it's sad to see the whole "hate edge" thing. Maybe I'll be able to bring a little more fun back to the scene... It will be mad different if I'm out in Park City instead of SLC but really it's only a 40 min drive. Not a big deal.

Anyway, sleep time for me now. I'm exhausted and having trouble getting used to this altitude thing. hahahaha. Tomorrow I have some more exploring to do, an Invitational Rail Jam to attend, and a job interview with a documentary being made here that needs editing help.

For the fun of it, here is my aunt's house... I just couldn't handle it- you can see the mountains in her back yard. wtf.



this is what it's like to drive around Salt Lake City

We could be closer than you know,
Chelsea

Flying to Utah

Well I'm already about half way done with my last quarter of college... Only 6 weeks left to go! This should translate to the fact that I am right in the middle of my midterms at Savannah College of Art and Design. Things have been manageable though and I think I've done pretty well so far this quarter. Sooo I didn't have class this thursday because my professor decided to atteand an Avid Editing teaching conference at the Sundance Film Institute in Sundance, Utah. After he told us we'd have the day off I decided that this would be a PERFECT weekend to get out to Utah myself and check it all out one last time before I move there after I graduate in late November or early December. I have been there a few times but never with the mentality of "I will be living here in a few weeks". I need to find possible employment, how to get into the bordercross circuit, and where everything will be in relation to where I'll be living right when I get out there.

Right now the plan is for me to move in with my aunt LeahAnn in Midvale for a bit until I find out where I really want to be.

Man, I just looked outside of the airplane and I can see the mountains, they are so captivating.. such a presence.. SNOW capped... I can't stop watching them as we float by, through clouds, snow, and air.

I know this is going to be a good trip.
I know this is going to be a good decision.

The Life of Shadows!

Thank God for people who have fun with life and make art out of a bad situation...
Thank God for people who can be excited and enthuistiac with the small things...
Tyler sent me the link to this short 6 min. clip about a New York Artist named Ellis Gee.

(image provided by New York Times)
Before you click his name and check out his myspace page, watch the video about him below on Current.tv.com

The short 6min video, LIFE OF A SHADOW can be found here.

Here, also, is a link to the director, John Carluccio's, blog.

The video takes a bit to load. It's TOTTALLY WORTH it so please spend the time to watch it. Holr at the director and the aritst! Let them know what you think!

We could be closer than you know,
Chelsea

ps> my fav part is his copyright. word up!

October is wonderful in Savannah, Georgia

Everything about today has been pleasent. October in Savannah, Georgia, is by far my favorite month. The whole month is usually 70 degrees and slightly windy. Perfect... seriously. (Maybe I think it's perfect because October weather in Savannah is most like the general summer weather in Michigan haha).

Anyway, today I woke up earlier than usual to help my friend Zach with a project. He needed footage digitized from a minidv tape into quicktime files so he can make some sort of 4D project. I captured the footage for him last night and had it ready for him to pick up in the morning...which he did.

After I gave him the digitized footage and his tape back, I decided to stay up and finish my homework for my 2pm class. That only took me about 20 minutes, so, after that I worked on a live music video I've been editing for the band Showbread that I shot earlier this summer at Cornerstone Festival. The video is almost done and is looking awesome. I LOVE EDITING LIVE MUSIC VIDEOS.

Eventually, I got around to doing the dishes that needed to be done at the apartment and I cleaned my room a little. I decided I should do some work on the press kit for Pedaling For Change so I packed up my computer and biked over to the Sentient Bean to get some lunch and work on these documents. I don't usually go to the Sentient Bean but I wanted to be close to the park and sit outside so it was my best choice at the moment. Not to mention it's about halfway between my apartment and where I have class at 2pm. I got a salad there and hung out a little while trying to figure out this press kit. I didn't get much done:)

I left about 20 minutes before I had to be at my business class a mile away and enjoyed the bicycle ride. It's funny, I always see these kids riding their bicycles around Savannah and I never really consider myself one of "them"... you know, the kids who prefer to save gas and ride their bikes instead- those known for riding everywhere. I'm tottally one of them though. I don't even have my jeep right now because it's been in the shop. If I was in Michigan that would tottally phase me but honestly, I forgot it was in the shop yesterday when I was supposed to pick it up because I usually just ride my bicycle anyway. I can't wait to get my new GOOD bike. It will make commuting even easier.

It's totally an empowering feeling knowing that I can get around to everything that everyone else gets around to but for much less because I'm on my bike. I probably average about 6-10 miles a day in just commuting. Not that much if you really think about it. Plus, riding during these wonderful autumn months in Savannah is awesome. I always see people I know and have time to stop and chat! I saw my friend Tyler today wit his kick butt fixed gear and got a chance to make sure we were still meeting up later tonight like we planned.

It's been easygoing today and very comfortable. Just an overall good day so far. After class I'll ride the 2 miles to the car shop and put my bike in the back of the jeep, pay a ridiculous amount of money for the repairs, and drive it to the gas station to get it cleaned out. Might as well do a full job- repairs AND cleaning. Then I'll drop it off at home, get changed, and bike to the gym or maybe go for a run. After that: Dinner with Tyler, homework, and catching up on some emails. I think I'll crash early tonight, or just talk on the phone all night. haha.

Am I re-discovering Carefree Timelesness... I wish.

ps> Apartments in Salt Lake City are CHEAP. Apartments in Park City are EXPENSIVE. I think I'll most likely stay in Salt lake so I can commute more during the year with the bicycle and then take the busses up the mountain to Sundance. I apply for another Sundance job tonight or tomorrow. Pray that they like me! I'm thinking of going to Utah not this weekend but next to check it all out. hmm...

We could be closer than you know,
Chelsea

Bicycle, Bicycle!

I ordered my bicycle today! I decided on this bike:

I test rode a bunch of different brands and what not but this one kept coming out as the one I should buy. I'm really excited! I've never owned a road bike before... I was mad against it for a while because I wanted to be able to ride trails and hop curbs and be crazy but now, after learning so much about cycling in the past few months, I want to start using it as a work out as well as a commuter. With this bicycle, I'll be able to keep up with friends who go on "leasure" 30 mile rides every sunday morning. wooOO! It should get here early next week. I can't wait!

It was awesome ordering it because the owner of the bicycle shop downtown (through which I ordered it) knows me. It's way easier to deal with someone you know when you are forking over your life savings for a bicycle then with someone you don't. He's a cool guy. Way to go Bicycle Link!

We could be closer than you know,
Chelsea

I've bought my first piece of fine-artwork...

About a week ago, I bought the first piece of artwork that I have ever bought. It was a screen print made by my friend Thomas. I can't wait to get it matted and framed... If you want one, you can contact him via the link I attached to his name (his blog).



A perfect bathroom piece! Squids are so amazing....

it's the small things....

I'm at the Gallery Espresso preparing to write the narration for my documentary about the social worker, Jenny. I decided to drive because I felt kind of under the weather this morning but I couldn't find parking so I parked at O-house, a little bit of a walk from the coffee house. So I walk over and start to order my typical bagel and late when I realize that I left my wallet in the car. I holr to the barista to stop because I can't pay for it because my cash is in my car. She says "ummm ok" and as I'm turning around to walk to my car and figure out what to do, the man in line (40-something) says "Hey, I got it, what did you want?"

I nixed the bagel and just got the late. How cool is that? A random stranger totally paid for my breakfast! Now I'm sitting at Gallery listening to Frank Sinatra play softly over the speakers "We'll meet again... don't know where..... don't know whennnnn" looking at the beautiful late that I'm about to drink while I work on the narration for my film about Jenny. How relaxing and refreshing to know that SOMEONE in this sad small city has my back.



Artwork


Thanks, man!