From: Dinorah de Jesús Rodriguez (email suppressed)
Date: Tue Feb 17 2009 - 20:57:59 PST
amen. take the leap and go after what you want. no effort is ever
wasted, so just make the effort. and as steve points out, you may
get a lot more inspiration and fuel for your own work from other
sources that are not (seemingly) film-related. be thankful every time
you discover something that helps you further refine your goals and
dreams in life, then move on.
enjoy today...
Dinorah de Jesús Rodríguez
Film/Video Artist and Freelance Writer
www.solislandmediaworks.com
www.artcinematic.blogspot.com
http://cinesthesia.blip.tv
On Feb 17, 2009, at 11:30 PM, Steve Polta wrote:
> Assuming the internship does not pay your bills, my sincere advice
> would be to bail on the internship and find something else to do
> with your time. Make film. Watch film. Read about film. Think about
> film. Take walks. Read about subjects other than film. Look at the
> rain. Watch the sun rise/set/go behind a cloud. Talk to people on
> the bus. Write letters to friends. Write stories. Seriously.
> Anything. Surf the internet or bake brownies. If the internship is
> a school thing, it's so early in the semester that you'll be going
> nuts over the next eleven or so weeks. You've paid for it; you'll
> get an incompletebblet it happen. What's the worst that could
> happen? Maybe you could intern/volunteer somewhere where the folks
> you'd be hanging out with dig film like you do. Or an art org. A
> political org. A library. Community radio. Etc. Something fun and
> inspiring.
>
> Your internship experience sounds horrible. I wouldn't know from
> first hand experience, but I've been told that, in that environment
> (studio production) it can be very difficult to manage side work
> such as you seem to desire, due to such issues as negative peer
> pressure and lack of supportive community, the big suck the deal
> has on creative energy, perhaps even general life negativity and
> jadedness from co-workers. Find people who get it and try out hang
> out with them in some way. I have a feeling that they are not in
> the studio production world. Is this internship a "career" thing?
> Is this seriously the world you want to live/work in? If it doesn't
> inspire you, seriously, what's the point? Don't let the bastards
> grind you down. Rise above. blah blah blah.
>
> bbbbsteve polta
>
>
>
> --- On Tue, 2/17/09, Mr. Jason Andrew Forsyth
> <email suppressed> wrote:
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>> From: Mr. Jason Andrew Forsyth <email suppressed>
>> Subject: HELP!
>> To: email suppressed
>> Date: Tuesday, February 17, 2009, 6:29 PM
>> I thought this would be a great question for everyone on the
>> frameworks
>> platform. Does anyone have so advise, motivation for
>> someone who is
>> passionate about Experimental Film but is trapped as a
>> studio
>> production intern. It's to the point I hate waking up
>> to goto "work." I
>> do shoot my own stuff on the side but it suffers because I
>> have become
>> so aggravated with the internship. Does anyone have any
>> advice I can
>> keep in mind will finishing up.
>> Best,
>> Jay
>>
>>
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