OFS

[jeremiah jones]

Hey, that video I made for the theatre of cruelty assignment was accepted to the OFS film fest!  did anyone else submit?  My mediaworks project is going to play at some gallery in argentina.  Submit your work to festivals!

~jeremiah

[Morgan Dusatko]

I have slacked so hard on submitting stuff to festivals and really it might be (one of the) biggest shames of my career as a filmmaker.  Nobody has seen anything that I have done!  I overhead this guy at a coffee shop once saying "If you are an artist and nobody sees your work, then really, you are just making a really cool diary."
 
Morgan

[ylime]

I overhead this guy at a coffee shop once saying "If you are an artist and nobody sees your work, then really, you are just making a really cool diary."

which is better I suppose than making things you dont really care about.  So for like the last few weeks I have been working on this really stupid work-out video for middle schoolers.  Even though I am working for an awesome non-profit I find that I really dont care about the work that I do.  Is the fact that it is "industry job" where I get to edit video really make it any different from other jobs.  Afterall, I am just taking orders and using a computer.  I could do that anywhere.  Would  I be happier if I just had a crappy job that didn't require as much personal investment, thus giving me more energy to devote to things I do care about?  Like making my own movies and submitting them to festivals? 

but in other news, minneapolis is pretty darn cool.
i dont know how i'll feel once it starts snowing though.

On 9/26/07, Morgan Dusatko <morgan...@gmail.com> wrote:

I have slacked so hard on submitting stuff to festivals and really it might be (one of the) biggest shames of my career as a filmmaker.  Nobody has seen anything that I have done! 

 
Morgan

[jeremiah jones]

I think that we dont really have to worry about the decisions we make as artists.  The main concern is really to make the art, the fact that i spent time doing promotional stuff and sending my work to small festivals isnt really making me "an artist" it feels good to know that someone somewhere is looking at it, but really its fulfilling the same role as having an "industry job."  Its a line on a CV. 

I'm at le' voyeur.  (the art is so bad and I bet the "artist" says coffee shop quotes like the one you said)

I wandered around aimlessly through Olympia this morning

The art we make isnt necessarily very good.  I sometimes think i'm making an embarrasing box that my kids will find someday, thats worse than a diary.  I've done more interesting things than make videos. 

oh no!

but i want making videos to be the greatest thing.  I want it to work as a fantastic form of expression.  i think for that we will have to stick together.  thats all of us, sticking together. 

keep making art.

submit it to things for kicks not for success.

cheers

I'll forward y'all the latest netEX in minute