Categories on why.movie

By dan from why.movie | May 4, 2019

05-04-18 As today is an organization day, I was inspired to start by simplify categories for why.movie. There hasn’t been a whole lot of functionality there because there were way too many and I was confusing categories with tags. Fortunately (thank joy) there was a lovely utility built in to WP to convert categories to…

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The long road home

By dan from why.movie | October 4, 2014 |

It’s October 2014. A little over 9 years ago, I wrote the first draft of the script for Daughter of God at the Palm Springs short festival. The year before, I had stopped filing tax returns as an act of defiance of the military consumption imperial complex. I know this was silly, as I was still…

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Protocols defined

By dan from why.movie | April 26, 2014 |

How the project is organized and maintained, including this document. Establish and maintain a definitive DOG reference to aggregate related content, enhancing access, specifically to do prop design [04-25-14]. Ultimately, this both facilitates completion and ends the obsessive, repetitious writing that results from not being able to find legacy content. locate legacy content, post with…

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from outreach and distribution

By dan from why.movie | April 26, 2014 |

Enter asian film festivals and send Eshan and Richa as reps. Same goes for Japan (maho) western canada (steve) Europe (Carmen) etc. complete credits remind us who can help. Generate a how to help DOG get out there document, social media, regional groups, localize for everyone who helped. eshan and blushing bride to dogthemovie interns…

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Coming together

By dan from why.movie | April 22, 2014 |

Just over 1 week ago, on April 13, I had a breakthrough. I figured out how to install WordPress locally using MAMP, which hadn’t worked the last time I tried to build the definitive DOG reference. I had to settle for outlines in Inspiration, which was fine for compiling but not for aggregating related content.…

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Local WordPress as essential writing support

By dan from why.movie | April 20, 2014 |

What better tool for an epic writing project than a database? That’s today’s theme. Ideas about a story are collected, marked up with categories and tags, and linked. Iterations of an idea are more easily found, no longer that uneasy feeling that I’m rediscovering / reinventing past epiphanies. One of the objectives of launching the…

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Christina Changing

By dan from why.movie | April 16, 2014 |

Just opening Richa’s latest pss on Christina changing. Looking at the boxes and clothing on the bed. Before I check RIcha and Eshan’s work, I’m just flashing on what comes next – masking out the clothing and box flaps, box labels in all their glory, speed ramps corresponding to her time scale, color correction. Later…

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legacy – how this document works

By dan from why.movie | April 13, 2014 |

current approach – how this document works The objective of this document is to aggregate docs and writing about DOG. There are links to document and document fragments and excerpts from journal / lab entries. Actual content and working files are currently referenced by the spreadsheet “inventory”. spreadsheet inventory SS 18 references MOMMA / —…

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