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Alright. I'm attempting to breathe some new life into the blog.

Hi.

Hands down the second year working and living in Syracuse trumps the first year experience. I'm into the first semester much more assured of where I want to go with my ideas and my morale has boosted because of that confidence.

Lately I've been directing actors from the drama department. For this class we toil with one particular film scene every three weeks then switch to a new scene. We film, edit, and critique each week. I really enjoy it. It's an empowering feeling, but also incredibly demanding not only to guide the performance, but to devise a strong visual strategy as well. It helps me communicate my thoughts a lot more specifically and so it's good for me to reinforce those skills. I only wish we had more classes like this.

Outside of school I've decided to welcome the fall season with open arms. The weather has shifted quite a bit to all sorts of heavy and light rains. I like that it's gray out more consistently now. People are already moaning and complaining about it, but it's my jam.

Before I touch base again here are some really encouraging words that I read a few weeks ago from Ira Glass on the frustrating early stages of a creative career. It's been on my mind ever since because I think it is absolutely true:

Via Alex of ISO50

Ira Glass on the creative process:

The first couple years that you’re making stuff, what you’re making isn’t so good — it’s not that great. It’s trying to be good, it has ambition to be good, but it’s not quite that good. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, your taste is still killer and your taste is good enough that you can tell that what you’re making is kind of a disappointment to you. A lot of people never get past that phase and a lot of people at that point quit.

And the thing I would just like to say to you with all my heart is that most everybody I know who does interesting creative work, they went through a phase of years where they had really good taste and they could tell what they were making wasn’t as good as they wanted it to be. We knew that it didn’t have the special thing that we wanted it to have and the thing to do is — everybody goes through that. And for you to go through it, if you’re going through it right now, if you’re just getting out of that phase or if you’re just starting off and you’re entering into that phase, you’ve got to know it’s totally normal and the most important possible thing you can do is do a lot of work. Do a huge volume of work.