Entries Tagged as 'Inspiration'

Monday, June 30th, 2008

Music Luv!

Mangal Maharjan of EMW Records (left), with Siddhartha, Rashil and Gurun of Kutumba
Music is huge, right? I won’t wait for you to answer; it just is. Until now, in our little films we have relied mostly on some pretty good royalty free music we found on the internet. It works, but, it’s not quite all [...]

Friday, June 27th, 2008

The Art of the Interview

There was a lot of build-up to the interviewing of our three girls and mothers (and in one case, brother). Scott and I had decided (with help from our filmmaking and all around super creative buddy, Chris Boulton, via Skype) how we were going to go about conducting them based on the following:

We want the girls/mothers to [...]

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

Yesterday’s Optimism

Today’s work has fulfilled yesterday’s optimism. The looming cloud of scribble remains unformed, still fleeting around as loose vapors. More about today, tomorrow. But as to yesterday….
The thing that give us this blithe ability to be happy when stuff’s going pear shaped all around us is simply this: The Gift of Time.
Our work, to do [...]

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

Team LSF v Nepal Semifinals: 0-0 Tie Game. Overtime Rained Out.

Man, we worked SO hard to make today go. We woke up bound and determined to get at least two of the four interviews that didn’t happen Saturday due to the strikes. The transportation strike is still on, and that meant that there were no taxis or private cars moving through the city (and of [...]

Friday, June 20th, 2008

The Sticks

Koruna is from the sticks. The thing is, the sticks isn’t so far away, like maybe as the crow flies– 6 miles from our hotel. Landscape-tually and culturally, driving there was like leaving the big city and entering Little House on the Prairie-ville.
ROADS: Since we’ve been here, I have thought a lot about the effect [...]