The Voids

All of our actions, the cause and effect of our daily lives, can be traced to loss. An endless series of voids that we attempt to fill in vain--because nothing, that we cling to in this reality, is permanent. Nothing is absolute. We react to the inevitable loss of these impermanent attachments by seeking others to fill the voids left in their wake. The voids can be filled only temporarily, before we experience loss yet again and must seek out new attachments to take their place. Everything that we cling to as human beings--material objects, places, people, ideas--are placeholders. For those of the past and those yet to come. The pursuit of these placeholders is what defines us. Our actions, our choices.

No one of us dwells for too long in the voids, because there is where we find the death of ourselves.

Land of Confusion update

Well, it's finished. Draft 1, that is. And what a draft indeed, at a whopping 173 pages. Nearly a 3-hour movie. Whoops. Which means in order to prepare it for the Written Image contest at the end of this year (which I plan on entering), I have to trim 43 pages. [Insert expletive here]! Not sure how that's gonna happen, but at the moment I don't really give a hoot. The .pdf is saved, tucked away in a safe folder for anybody out of their right mind who wants to take a look, but I'm just going to leave it there, in a digital drawer, for the next month or so while I get to work on my next project.

Which brings me to my next order of business. I'm about to start work on a comic/graphic novel with a friend of mine from the Animation world, Jake Hollander. The idea is something I've been flirting with off-and-on for the last couple years or so, so let's hope I can bring it down off the pedestal like the jar of cookies that it is, cause I'm hungry. Long story short, it's kind of a neo-noir, a dash of cyberpunk to taste, about a detective investigating his own murder. That's about all I care to get into right now, but give me a few days and I'll start to expand on that as I develop the general storyline and the script for the first issue.

Here goes nothing...

"Experience," Part 2

It's been awhile, hasn't it? I've been busy with that "Land of Confusion" script, the first draft of which should be complete any day now. This charcoal portrait's been staring at me from a dejected corner of my room the entire time, and it was only until a couple days ago that I gave in and decided to bust some more of it out. The eyes were really bothering me, as you can see. Fixed them, and started adding white charcoal. I was getting frustrated at first because I haven't worked with it in forever, but then out of nowhere I had a breakthrough and it really started coming together. I'm really pleased with this one, which is definitely saying something for me. Hopefully I'll be posting the finished product soon.