Beyond The Specs

Today is day two of shooting here In Guatemala. I am working on a project for Casa Guatemala which is an orphanage and school for about 250 kids in the Rio Dulce community in Guatemala. It’s been an amazing project thus far. We have been shooting on the Epic, quad battery module, and the Red 18-85MM which is a beast. The camera and gear weigh about 50lbs so it’s a physical shoot to say the least.

These trips always enable a great deal of perspective and reflection. But it’s not the typical, paternalistic pity. Nor the awe of happiness in poverty. But rather the simple question of “what”. The simple wonder of “what do I want to do today?” and the resulting sensation of endless opportunity and capability. So today I guess I am going to keep making a documentary, tomorrow?

So I have decided that while I love my detailed and extensive posts, it makes posting time consuming and prohibitive in some ways. That leaves my blog with big gaps and less useful. So I am going to introduce a new format. Small, simple, spontaneous, posts.

Right now I am in Haiti working with Filmmaker For A Cause on documentary projects in Haiti. It’s been intense but amazing. This country truly has such great potential but has received very little true development support.

We walked through the collapsed cathedral and it really is unreal. It feels like some of the rumble has been cleared but no real effort to put it back together.

More later