Twelve Steps of Enlightenment

Hello Crystal Tips.

Here are a dozen things that have become apparent this week:

1. I could work from anywhere in the world and no-one would know any different.
   
2. Going to the gym makes me happy, and keeps me focused for the rest of the day.
   
3. Narrow roads, trees, X5s and wing mirrors mix like oil and water.
   
4. I  just realised how organised, and how pretty good at organising I am.
   
5. 'No' is not an definitive answer.
   
6. I lost a very beautiful friend a month or so ago, and I really miss him & his dreadful sardonic wit more than I thought I would.
   
7. I'm not too bad a business person.
   
8. Edit suites suck life force out of you and then re-inject it, just when you didn't expect it.
   
9. Tapas and Rioja in Spain taste better than at home.
   
10. The Pet Shop Boys track, "Vulnerable" (from "Yes") sounds perfect with the word 'insomnia' replacing 'vulnerable', when you can't sleep at 3am. Again.
    
11. Airports are both expensive and tedious at the same time. I fear this is somewhat a raw deal.
    
12. There is never a dull moment if you walk around with a torch.

Now, I am sure you are all behaving out there, but play nice for the rest of the week, please. I am checking/polishing off the #twitstunt edits tomorrow - uh-huh, there are two versions - and then apparently there is yet another Bank Holiday on Monday. Sweet Jesus, how dull. How schedule-interfering. How bloody...Monday-ish.  

Oh, well, whatever you are planning - dancing around a maypole with bells on, that kind of thing - do enjoy and have an 'arf'.

Ever onwards, little ones, ever onwards.

Shooting from the Twit

Here are a few photos taken by the lovely Ben Ottewell at the #twitstunt section of "Project Mute" filming last week. 

There are loads more stills which will be here, there and everywhere soon, but here is a little selection that sums up the evening of the shoot for me. Hopefully these will give you feel of what was, in effect, a night of total and utter virtual insanity.

The Tenacious Training schedule is going very well, although I haven't had two secs to update the blog, it is making me leave my desk/phone/Mac for at least an hour and a half every day which really is a blessing in disguise. I totally need a little time to 'sort my brain/prioritize' and running/the gym etc does that for me. However, the blog update will need to wait as today's  - actually, this weeks' - to do list has become immensely long. 

And there goes my lunch break - one day I'll learn to eat instead of faff with photos or video clips. 

Today is 'madly prepping for edit day' as well as trying to fire out a load of proposals for new work coming in, so, on that note, I am going to love you and leave you, andwill be back before you know it.

Play safe.

Onwards, kiddies. Always onwards.

Shoots, Logs & Turning Cogs

It certainly has been a nutty week. Busy? Pah! I stare 'Busy' in the face, slap it and shout, "Boo! Betchya can't catch me!". Ahem, maybe not those exact words.

Right from Mega Meeting Monday through Wacky Weirded Wednesday to Forgoodnesssake Friday it's been marvellous, and I am very glad to report an extremely - nay - intensely successful week, all the same.

Wednesday, of course, saw the first day's shoot of many to come, on a small but beautifully formed part of "Project Mute". The day and night went swimmingly and I can quite honestly say I had a blast. The location and it's staff were brilliant, and all the peeps who took part in #twitstunt were fantastic. Realistically, an evening spent with Charles Batho, Dan Rebellato, Elinor, Stevyn Colgan, David Turner was never going to be very dull. Like me, I sincerely hope they enjoyed the whole [if slightly surreal] experience and I do apologise, on behalf of the tipsy or less dextrous Tweeters, to those of you who perhaps accidentally received the odd (actually, very odd) Tweet... ;)  

I am going to take this opportunity to say a huge big thank you to my amazing Cameramen, Neil Oseman and Andy Alderslade who gave me the gorgeous footage I asked for plus more; Cameron Price and Sophie Foster for their expert running skills - and also for Sophie's unfazed response when I decided to chuck her in the deep end by asking her to sit in on the experiment filming; Ben Ottewell for clicking away like a mad man, covering every angle possible for stills, and Glen Cobby for rigging, running, jumping, bowing and crawling at my every demand and then taking the responsibility for the all-important footage data! Every one of you guys really rocked my night. Anyone who followed the evening on Twitter will no doubt have had a few good giggles - as the beer flowed it was indeed interesting to see how loose people's fingers, if not tongues, became. T'was certainly a night I will never forget!  

So, all the beautiful looking HD footage is now logged, imported and awaits the edit which starts in ernest, along with the voiceover recording and graphics work, next week. I am really looking forward to seeing this baby come together now as it officially marks the beginning of a pretty long term commitment for me. Very exciting indeed.

And then, just to top off the Week That Was, yesterday morning, whilst discussing the virtues of organic cakes and some of the footage shot on Wednesday (yeah, honestly), I had one of those really odd 'meant to happen' conversations. This has now led to the very likely possibility of me Producing and Directing a live broadcast/interactive event within the next month or so, which is a totally excellent prospect.

Rock and roll, man. Effing rocking and rolling.

Onwards.

Sound of Two Cameras Twittering

*Grins Wide*

What a great night's shoot. 

More on it later - after a little sleepy time, methinks.

Footage looks a-m-a-z-i-n-g. 

HD, crew, cast: I loves you, I do.

Night.

:)

(Not drunk. Just very happy.)

Three...two...one...

***Update, 13:33***

If you want to follow the 'conversation' that will be filmed as part of "Project Mute", then you'll need to be signed up to  Twitter and click #twitstunt in some of my tweets - here I am @laragreenway - or, sign into Twitter as normal, and then click here. 

We will be running live from 20:30 BST - anything before that will merely be link testing from location.

Ithunkyoo.