Back online

All summer long, my computer was in the shop. It's great not being able to work and having to use a PS3 in order to use the internet. But it's great to get back to work. Being the end of August, I need to start looking to freelance gigs to, well, live.

To sum up April/May at School of Visual Arts, I graduated. I managed to get my thesis done just enough, to present on the big screen. I didn't sleep all night, because I was nervous and I also developed a cold. At the theaters, I did squirm in my seat, by seeing the tiny mistakes or how there was still so much more I wanted to add to my film. However, the audience seemed to love it. My instructors and students shook my hand and congratulated me on my movie. I think the greatest feeling was when people of Asian decent shook my hand and mentioned how happy they were that I wanted to teach the history of the Japanese Evacuation.

As much as I want to show my thesis online, I still want to tweak my piece and add to it. It's still not done and I don't feel comfortable presenting something unfinished. So while working to get money, I'm going to be working on my movie some more.

I was always told never to fall in love with your thesis. If you grow too attached, you'll being miserable for not being able to finish. Personally, I can't do that. This movie is what I have left of my grandmother. I heard Leonardo DaVinci worked on the Mona Lisa over the course of many years, touching up on it from time to time. This is my Mona Lisa. It's just something I'll be adding to, for the rest of my life.

Tender moment aside, over the course of the next few days, I'll be posting both pics of my backgrounds and screen shots of the movie itself.