Every so often, when you're interviewing people, the tables get turned on you. While we were interviewing Mike Seay, the mastermind behind the Fresno-based blog empire Dorktown, for our upcoming Fresno documentary, Mike suddenly whipped out his voice recorder and asked if he could interview Jaguar for the Dorktown Podcast.
You can check out the result here: http://www.mikeseay.blogspot.com/
Saturday, September 22, 2007
Meadows
We have officially begun editing. It’s akin to walking into meadow after being in the forest for a long time; your eyes adjust to the light and the new scenery, the new smells, the open sky with no limits. We can see farther than before. We can go anywhere without giant impediments. Everything here is new.
With well over 40 hours of footage, this is no small task. It would be easy to turn this into an endless miniseries about Fresno, and keep filming more interviews with the innumerable interesting folks here, and address the important issues we were unable to touch upon. But, alas, someone must yell “Cut”, probably the creature named Budget called it out the loudest! Did you hear it? He’s got a piercing cry which makes you stop dead in your tracks.
But, as I said before, everything looks new from here. We see the footage differently with so many impressions upon us which have broadened our views. I never thought I could have seen so many labyrinthine corridors as in City Hall or listened to such diverse voices, or visited as many places in Fresno most people never have the honor of seeing.
Without Cindy Wathen and Paul Worthington this production would never have gotten off the ground! Thank you for your amazing contribution of patience and equipment.
I am so proud to have experienced all this with Jaguar and our fantastic core crew: Jeremy Owen, Teresa Flores and Ron Blackwell, who were at nearly every single hour of taping! We also had lots of help from Robin Bodey and Shana Kaspian enters the picture (no pun intended) with post-production. Jeremy and Teresa continue into this phase as well. A special thanks for help from Jo Anne Yada, Brad Polzin and Brian James Walker, and others who shall remain nameless (for now, upon request!).
Now, you must be jealous – but I’ll share all of this with you! Just give us some time. We’ll try to satisfy your curiosity with a few little clips here and there. But join us in the Spring of 2008 to premier the yet untitled Fresno – The Documentary with us.
Here’s still an opportunity to help: we are looking to complete our soundtrack of Fresno – we need local acts with local music! If you’re interested, please contact us here!Thanks for your support for the last nearly six months! Dang, has it been that long?! We’ll keep you posted…
With well over 40 hours of footage, this is no small task. It would be easy to turn this into an endless miniseries about Fresno, and keep filming more interviews with the innumerable interesting folks here, and address the important issues we were unable to touch upon. But, alas, someone must yell “Cut”, probably the creature named Budget called it out the loudest! Did you hear it? He’s got a piercing cry which makes you stop dead in your tracks.
But, as I said before, everything looks new from here. We see the footage differently with so many impressions upon us which have broadened our views. I never thought I could have seen so many labyrinthine corridors as in City Hall or listened to such diverse voices, or visited as many places in Fresno most people never have the honor of seeing.
Without Cindy Wathen and Paul Worthington this production would never have gotten off the ground! Thank you for your amazing contribution of patience and equipment.
I am so proud to have experienced all this with Jaguar and our fantastic core crew: Jeremy Owen, Teresa Flores and Ron Blackwell, who were at nearly every single hour of taping! We also had lots of help from Robin Bodey and Shana Kaspian enters the picture (no pun intended) with post-production. Jeremy and Teresa continue into this phase as well. A special thanks for help from Jo Anne Yada, Brad Polzin and Brian James Walker, and others who shall remain nameless (for now, upon request!).
Now, you must be jealous – but I’ll share all of this with you! Just give us some time. We’ll try to satisfy your curiosity with a few little clips here and there. But join us in the Spring of 2008 to premier the yet untitled Fresno – The Documentary with us.
Here’s still an opportunity to help: we are looking to complete our soundtrack of Fresno – we need local acts with local music! If you’re interested, please contact us here!Thanks for your support for the last nearly six months! Dang, has it been that long?! We’ll keep you posted…
Sunday, September 2, 2007
LICKING GOATS
A big thank you for those who were able to make it to the Wrap Party last night! There was enough food to feed the neighborhood and enough wine to drunken, well, the neighborhood, or at least a large group of friends. Mitch’s BBQ was awesome, the desserts delectable, the company unrivaled, the blancria was quite tasty, and the kids enjoyed the water play! Let’s do it again soon!
We showed some dailies but didn’t get to do half of the stuff we planned. Somehow, William Shatner in “Incubus” – in Jaguar’s favorite language of Esperanto – got a showing on the main screen, perhaps the first one in 20 years! But the commentary from the audience made the torture well worthwhile. I’ll only say this: licking goats! (Cynthia, I hope you’ve recovered.)
We have some great titles to play with, folks. One of them hit us hard (the “brick”) and one of them snuck up on us (the “Why?”), but we’re still playing with them. Thanks for participating. The winner gets… well, good question!
Who left their sunglasses?
So, here’s the boring stuff: thank you for the support! There’s a lot of talk about funding artistic endeavors, which I won’t touch here (I heard the clapping just now), but it is the support in spirit that helps us the most. Somehow, that bolsters all else. So, we thank you again for your support and your participation, because it makes this all possible! Viva Fresno Arts!
We hope to see those who couldn’t make it soon, we’ll see you at the next one! Thank you again for your encouragement and support!
C
We showed some dailies but didn’t get to do half of the stuff we planned. Somehow, William Shatner in “Incubus” – in Jaguar’s favorite language of Esperanto – got a showing on the main screen, perhaps the first one in 20 years! But the commentary from the audience made the torture well worthwhile. I’ll only say this: licking goats! (Cynthia, I hope you’ve recovered.)
We have some great titles to play with, folks. One of them hit us hard (the “brick”) and one of them snuck up on us (the “Why?”), but we’re still playing with them. Thanks for participating. The winner gets… well, good question!
Who left their sunglasses?
So, here’s the boring stuff: thank you for the support! There’s a lot of talk about funding artistic endeavors, which I won’t touch here (I heard the clapping just now), but it is the support in spirit that helps us the most. Somehow, that bolsters all else. So, we thank you again for your support and your participation, because it makes this all possible! Viva Fresno Arts!
We hope to see those who couldn’t make it soon, we’ll see you at the next one! Thank you again for your encouragement and support!
C
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