The long road home

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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Alexander analogy

Thinking of the Alexander analogy, when is an army big enough? When it’s big enough to win. I don’t need an ever expanding budget, just enough to make the movies I want to make. To accomplish the projects that seem worthy to me. The Mycenaens trekked 20k miles conquering the whole way. A crazy assed…

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07-08-13 Lies

07-08-13 Want to know where I stand. How much is done , how much is left to do ? How much more time? Can we really know when we’ll be done, assuming we can divert enough funds to complete. The rest of the summer? Longer ? How much more money? Can we assign a price…

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DOG Planning 5

[04-27-14] This probably needs to be broken down into manageable sections, or at least mined for the most relevant material. Amazing the record herein contained of persistence, mistakes, bravado and competency. visionary babble, interesting story tangents, notes on process 1/4/07-2/22-07, map of sound Daughter of God – Planning and Logistics 1. key 1.1. * in…

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03-26-08

core / life master / 2008 / march / 03/26/08 notes on producing fundamentals (03/26/08) producing fundamentals cover letter captures the spirit of the project, exciting. not dry capture the readers eyeballs make sure the funder knows you’ve done your homework summary – credits – who i am

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10-26-2007 Big List

Resources 1 introduction 1.1 rambling 1.1.1 the massive life file 1.1.1.1 this is a place where i keep everything – development notes, thoughts, passwords, drafts of letters… every so often i would back it up, but then there would only be this one thing to keep track of. i like the outline features of inspiration,…

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05-23-07 Big List 2

Resources 1 introduction 1.1 rambling 1.1.1 the massive life file 1.1.1.1 this is a place where i keep everything – development notes, thoughts, passwords, drafts of letters… every so often i would back it up, but then there would only be this one thing to keep track of. i like the outline features of inspiration,…

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03-21-06 DOG initial email contractors

emails initiating work with all contractors 1. BCCed to members of DOG mailing list, Carmen Althaus Michael (Melonie) Callaghan Dan Kelly Ann Loeding Maho Mizutani Sone Laynea Roberts Eiji Sumi Steven Zilliax 2. From: Dan Kelly <nomad@artisthouse.com> Date: March 21, 2006 10:27:30 AM EST To: Dan Kelly <nomad@artisthouse.com> Cc: Dan Kelly <nomad@artisthouse.com> Subject: contracts and…

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08-31-05

core / life master / 2005 / 08 / End of August 2005 (08-31-05) pre palm springs film festival so if i am going to palm springs, what is my strategy? my strategy is to create a killer project reel, to not even include michael’s work on it, and to finesse this whole trip for…

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