Work work work. It is still hot (because we are in the desert)  and we are still working none stop for our opening tonight. Confessional is ready so I’ll keep my death threats for Jonny for the booth. Yesterday was productive completed a RAD arcade game with Jonny painted… etc. Lee is pestering me I have to go!

Bye-

Hello,

My jobs today:

1. paint podiums for entrance way. colors- Grizzle grey, white, and Frosted Pomegranate

2. Paint confessional

3. Build Arcades with twigs, stolen broken pallet wood, rusty nails, saliva, and seasoned to taste.

4. My favorite Job- Kill Jonney!

I’m in SF to pick up the ceiling and a slew of gear.
Jonny flies in today. Monday, he and Skye and I will pick up a Budget truck.
Then all over the Bay Area picking up items:

Douglas and Sturgess to get 4″ pink foam to use installing the ceiling
Carson’s studio to pick up the ceiling panels and Carson’s tools and Elise’s hotdog machine
Adi’s to pick up a popcorn maker
Kathryn’s to pick up the usher outfits
Skye’s to pick up some of his possessions (we’re helping him move South)
Terry’s to pick up the hoodies and concession stand and menu light boxes
Alex’s to pick up a ton of production gear.

We’re convoying down in Skye’s truck, Alex’s car and the Budget truck.
If you’re on I-5 and see a little green Ford truck driven by a bald guy with a handlebar mustache following close behind a 26′ Budget truck, that’s us, so honk and show us some love.

Today Elise and I looked at rough cuts.
I AM SO FRAKKING HAPPY!
Yeah, the crew on this project are blowing my mind.

Last week I hung out with my friends Chuck and Barbara. They both work in the film industry in Hollywood. Chuck’s a producer and while we talked he mentioned that it’s a given that you always make three films on your way to release:
1) the film on paper - the script
2) the film you shoot - that is, the footage that ends up getting shot and which inevitably differs from the script
3) the film you release - that is, the film that is made from the footag in post-production and which differs from both the script and the film the director, cast and crew were making.
I liked this idea, and the idea that it is a truism in Hollywood, because I feel it is one of the points Disembody is designed to bring to light about art.

It’s been an incredibly busy week, but I hope you’ll all forgive me if I haven’t documented it as well as I should have here. We’re getting really close and I’m finding it harder to frame and organise what’s happening in a legible manner for the blog.

I can tell you we are all incredibly excited. And everyone is working around the clock at this point to get this thing ready to start. Which is pretty amazing.
Incredibly excited and incredibly nervous.
Skye and Alex have both taken up smoking cigarettes again, due to nerves they tell me.
I hear other stories of sinful regression, as well. As we approach the opening and then kick off of the project, exhaustion and nerves are taking a high toll.
I couldn’t be happier.
For my part, the vice I’ve returned to is listening to Gary Numan and Franco Battiato pretty much around the clock.

The candy boxes are going to be started today. Erin sent me this pic of samples they did last night. This is not the final look of the boxes, but various tests. It gives an idea of how beautiful these are going to be when completed, though.

I am so excited.
To get all the candy, Jonny drove to four Wal-Marts in the Omaha area. LOL.

As well, Keturah sent me her coming soon ad for the calendar and it is fabulous. I’m not posting it here because it should be a wonderful surprise.

The other ads will roll in later today. We’ll go to print tomorrow.

I spoke with Hanif last night, and his catalogue essay is coming along. It is really exciting to see it develop.

I installed the teasers in Fringe’s windows today. They look amazing.

Carol-Anne and Keturah are, from what I hear, now working around the clock. Day jobs 8am-6pm, studio making ceiling panels 6pm-2am.

Ote sent me a rough of the Japanese distro poster yesterday. And today a new version, both are below. They are really coming along.

Nobu and I spent an hour or more yesterday trying to work out the film title in Japanese. In the end we’re using the kanji, Ketsu Nikku Ghe Datsu.

Again, I can’t even begin to express how amazing the folks at 23E Studios are. It really blows my mind how hard we’re working.