...by marysol
The deadline was last night, 9:00PM Hawaii Time and we finished around 7-8. It always feels GREAT when finishing with a good cushion before deadline.
We were both gushing at how proud we were of it and that it's better than the first one. Eric did an amazing job... his video compositions were so much more than I could have envisioned. It's moving art! He was gushing at how I flushed out the narrative- interviewing him on camera to get just the right dialogue, cutting it up and matching it with the visual. He went back in and added the rest of the sound effects and I'm really proud of this piece. I am speechless at how to describe our collaborative relationship makes me feel. I'm doing things I would only wish I could do- but I'm actually DOING IT. I... I think I'm a film maker. It's only 2 short films right now but the feeling- the rush of finishing a creative piece and feeling like its the best work I've ever done... I mean... wow! What a feeling that I don't know how to describe! I don't even know if I ever felt like this in architecture school. I think I'm addicted to this feeling and look forward to continuing this collaboration for as long as I can manage it. Oh- but wow- things got really intense.
A one day with Eric working on this project felt like 3 days just because it's been so intense and epic. We'll work, then somehow get into some really deep personal conversations and then somehow shake it off to get back to work because we're both THAT dedicated to project. We've only been together 2 months and every time we see each other we're doing multiple epic things in as short a period of time as 1 day. For instance, one day we had this cute amazing breakfast, went to the beach, I saw him bodysurf for the first time, then we hung out on the sand then all of a sudden we start talking about long term "track" relationships... hi, hello, I'm not ready to talk about THAT but it just came up! Then we leave the beach only to get T-boned by some douche motorcyclist who decided he owned , my car gets f**ked... then to calm my nerves we get dinner at the place we went to on our first date, get googly eyed and cheesy, then get back to work on a project we're collaborating on. So that's just 1 example of 1 day we spent together. We have some pretty epic days like that. Never a dull moment. I am hoping that someday soon we actually will have a dull moment because wow, for someone like me who has this much energy, is going to want a little relaxing time.