Went to the village today to find our third girl. If it sounds like ‘how on earth is it that they’re 9 days from leaving and they’ve yet to cast this thing?’… well, you’re right. It was freaking us out as well.
But doing this kind of work in unfamiliar settings, across language and cultural divides, [...]
Okay, so, yeah… not “hell” exactly. But definitely Heck. I’m in computer heck.
I’ve spent the last hour and a half on the phone–or more accurately, talking to my laptop’s screen–Skyping with various people in various offices at Apple Computers, trying to get one of them to explain to me how to make Quicktime Pro for [...]
The first time we went to Pragya’s with Nutan to introduce ourselves and to tell them about our project, Pragya pointed to a cozy little bed with carefully placed stuffed animals on top of it and told me, “This is our bed.”
The three of them, mom, Pragya and her eight year old little sister, Praynena, all sleep together. I remember how I used to LOVE [...]
Scott filming Shanta’s walk home from school.
This is my dream job, to make documentary film. It is my dream to be doing what we are doing right now–going into people’s houses and hanging out with them with the camera on. So, in NO WAY is this a complaint. However, I just want to address that [...]
Yesterday morning we got up at 5:00 to meet Nutan downstairs. We made our way to Gokarna via taxi. Gokarna is not all that far away. It lies on the edge of the Kathmandu Valley and I bet is only about 10 miles from here, but took almost 25 minutes due to bad roads. Crummy [...]
