Been So Long

So I haven’t written to you in oh, so long not for lack of want, but for lack of time. Since I started the one year program, I was wanting to write once a week, but that isn’t going to happen, look at my last post as Exhibit A.  Either way, we have done so much work in the past six weeks and the next 2-3 months is hectic.  We are starting a collaboration with the video production people today.  We were all given parts to play in the scenes that they had written. I received five short films to do today, only 3 of which I have a script for.  So far, and things will probably change, from the looks of things, of the three, I am a prisoner in one (getting beat up really badly), an executioner in one, Happy Death Day (I get to kill a friend of mine named Cyrus), and I am a prisoner in another that I haven’t had time to read yet, I am one of the three wise men in a Christmas story Two Wise Men. Needless to say, My hands are now full, and I get more scripts tomorrow, FUN!!! I’m going to have a fantastic week when we shoot!  I’m not sure yet, but if I have the opportunity to put these videos on my YouTube and I’m proud of how they turn out, then you will get to see them!

I finally have some pictures of my new class mates doing what we do when we’re not in class, being a little weird, but we are in acting school, we are expected to be just a tad weird, if not a lot weird. Below is a picture of Kyle Kol, rolled up in a yoga mat, I hope no teachers see this, not that they would care.

 

In the picture above you will see from the left and then the bottom up, Josh, MJ, Arik, Jo-Leigh, Danika, and Laurence.  Our class is great.  I cannot say that my AC49 class is the best because ACE30 was so good, all I can say is that they are different, very different, but I love both groups.

On Wednesday, we have our Science Fiction Presentation, and I love the things that we are going to be able to do for that, We have a whole power point presentation that we are planning on doing and we have a story to go with our presentation.  This is going to be awesome!  I’m just a little excited about school projects coming up.

I know that I don’t have a lot written, but other then school there isn’t much to write about. So until we meet again my fabled readers, please take care of yourselves.

Essentially A Sad Goodbye

So I have to say Goodbye to my wonderful class ACE 30 at Vancouver Film School.  Orientation Day came and left four months ago, Presentation Day has come and gone.  We have seen each other at our best and our worst, both in acting and in life.  We have been pissed at each other, and we have celebrated each other.  The fact is that in the last four months the ups and downs have brought me closer to this group than any other group at any other time in my life.  These people became family, and that is one of the great things about the program in VFS.

I had a class of eighteen people to start out with, we lost two people that I wish I had a chance to get to know through the rest of the course, but alas, the time we have together cannot be extended.  So we move on, we move to all sorts of destinations, Some of us move along to the one-year Acting for Film and Television Program, some of us move back home to wherever home is for us. Some of us Boston, Tennessee, Edmonton, and many other places. We move home, we move back, we move forward, we move on.  , This is my committing friendship, this is my I miss you, this is my love, my hate, my annoyance, and my final goodbye to some people that I love dearly.

To Ben, Rayn, Natasha, Suvini, Sidartha, Emily, Heajee, Arik, Stephanie, Michael, Jeff, Jesse, Gyu Hee, and Alex, I will miss you all and I hope to work with you into the future wherever you may be working.

Although I am sad to be done Acting Essentials, I am very glad to be moving forward to the one-year Acting for Film and Television Program.  I missed orientation day to be home for the holiday between programs.  I have been in Saskatchewan for the last few days, happy to be home.  It is really an odd feeling though, I have made a decision to make Vancouver my home, but Prince Albert still feels like home. It really does, but that doesn’t make Vancouver feel any less then like home.  They say that home is where the heart is, and that is something that I really believe, and I love Prince Albert, yet I love the work in Vancouver, and I love the people in both places.  It is an odd feeling, and I have come to the conclusion that right now, I have two homes.

I spent a weekend at Greenwater National Park with my family, here are a few pictures for my friends to see:

This is the picture of my Niece, Zoe Kinley, she is one of the cutest children ever, and she is awesome…, I’m beginning to think that I’m a face on an ipod screen, it is kind of annoying, but I love her a lot.  I didn’t get a picture of me with my amazing Nephew, dubbed ninja baby, I will get one soon and I will post it…, eventually. And here it is, the promised picture of ninja-baby in the flesh…, well photographic flesh anyways.

I love how freaked out he looks…, like, who is this guy holding me, and where do I recognize him from?

    

I was going to upload more pictures of my brother in law, Dwight wake boarding, but I want to go to sleep tonight, so I will keep writing to finish.

So at 30,000-ish feet in the air I took a picture of the wing, so I ask you, what why would you be stepping on that area anyways…, and for all you people that are going to make say how stupid this comment is…. IT WAS A JOKE! jus sayin….

and how can you not do blue steel in a smurfs cut-out, like it was like so totally the thing to do.

I came home and I have a great opportunity to play with my home church band and give Jody a day or two off. It was so much fun. I love being able to play, I haven’t picked up my bass since I first arrived in BC in April. I love playing with the band.  Sometimes, I think about the people in my Essentials class and I get a tad sad and I miss them, but I know that they will move on to what they really want to do with their lives.  I really hope to work with them later.

Last but not least, I want to thank my fabled readers for letting me know that they were actually reading this blog, because I would have stopped a long time ago otherwise, just for the simple reason that I have a really short attention span.  It is so short that I