20:39 saturday night

Robert Smith from the Cure, live in hamburg one evening. Why? Cuz I'm a big big fan, their music is of the most interesting & musical (duh) of the 80's and later. And because I'm listening to them right now (A Forest), and often play their stuff on the bass.
I thought I'd update my blog a bit, it's been a few days.
So, first of all, about me lately:
I was taken on to follow a worskshop about writing interactive narrative content in Stuttgart in an Institue begin of May, and also got a scholarship for it; they liked my project enough thankfully. I'm very glad as you can imagine. This also gives me a boost concerning the project itself for interactive film; basically the story is about a young woman, in her early thirties, successfull and brilliant, head of a museum, who just vanishes. Her mother, sister, boyfriend and a colleague of hers all try to find her and find out what has happened. It actually turns out that she just decided to push off and ecape her life and society at large. When the film begins, none of them is aware of this. Eventually in the course of events they get to know this truth. The viewer, after a short introduction, is invited to follow the story through the perspective of one of the 4 characters. At certain crossing points, he/she can switch to another character's perspective if she/he wishes to. Each perspective is a reality in itself, the reality of that character, but not the overall objective reality. By only giving to the viewer a perspective on things, and by comparing various perspectives, one can relativate and start thinking about his/her own subjectivity, choices, and outlooks on life and on others. Still, it will take some work and time to skillfully structure the whole film so that I don't give it all away to the viewer.

To Dana: in my life I have often given things up when I felt I was getting stuck, constantly aware of the fact that it was a pity to do so; on this one, I'm terribly and totally determined to complete the job and move on from there. I know that some days I have more inspiration and so on. The days I don't, I now know that it's normal, it's in waves, just like biorythms; we all have strong days and weaker days; it's like that, and that's the way it is, to quote Run DMC. In these days of weakness, I remember that better days will come, so I don't put down my weapons. The next day proves right, as a solution to a certain problem pops itself up in my mind graciously. And then I relax, and remember that it's not about me, it's just going through me, and the ego is at rest.
Hope this was clear…. and helpful.

That's that. For now, I'm going to play some bass; on the Cure.

Love to all