Losing Touch
What gives me the right to think everything's going to work out
What is my role in all this
Why does everything have to be so difficult
Am I going to keep being a whiney little Bitch
What if everything's all for nothing
One minute I know/feel like I am doing the right thing. The next minute, maybe because I'm so damn impatient, I feel like my degree/and/or myself, are worth nothing. I moved to Southern California for what?
Then I remember that not even a year ago I was sleeping on my best friend's couch in Minneapolis trying to finish my 4-year degree in like 3....
Which I almost did, having switched from the Animation program to the Visual Effects & Motion Graphics program.
Anyway, I am a woman who likes change. So here I am. There was such a limited amount of work in Minneapolis, at least I've increased my getting work chances out here, where the Industry lies. Not to mention, I really can't complain about the weather. Back in Mpls, MN it's so cold right now.
I've been at Rhythm & Hues Studios. I've been @ KromA Visual Effects. Now I am nowhere again. I'd like to think there's a reason or a purpose to why things happen the way they do. Then I remember as Human Beings, we are given this default thing called HOPE. Or at least I still have it, not sure why.....
So, I have a job interview tomorrow as a Video Editor. It's not my dream, but it's something and it's in the Industry (somewhat) and it's not an interview @ Crack in the Box, so would I just shut the fuck up right about now??
What gives me the right to think everything's going to work out
What is my role in all this
Why does everything have to be so difficult
Am I going to keep being a whiney little Bitch
What if everything's all for nothing
One minute I know/feel like I am doing the right thing. The next minute, maybe because I'm so damn impatient, I feel like my degree/and/or myself, are worth nothing. I moved to Southern California for what?
Then I remember that not even a year ago I was sleeping on my best friend's couch in Minneapolis trying to finish my 4-year degree in like 3....
Which I almost did, having switched from the Animation program to the Visual Effects & Motion Graphics program.
Anyway, I am a woman who likes change. So here I am. There was such a limited amount of work in Minneapolis, at least I've increased my getting work chances out here, where the Industry lies. Not to mention, I really can't complain about the weather. Back in Mpls, MN it's so cold right now.
I've been at Rhythm & Hues Studios. I've been @ KromA Visual Effects. Now I am nowhere again. I'd like to think there's a reason or a purpose to why things happen the way they do. Then I remember as Human Beings, we are given this default thing called HOPE. Or at least I still have it, not sure why.....
So, I have a job interview tomorrow as a Video Editor. It's not my dream, but it's something and it's in the Industry (somewhat) and it's not an interview @ Crack in the Box, so would I just shut the fuck up right about now??
you totally kick ass.
you know it
i know it
the american people know it
NOW...
WTF are you doing tonight!!??!!
Come Bar hopin' with me!!
PS You know how i know you're gay?
You've been having so much sex with a grrl , you for get to call me
Turn that frown... upside down.
I don't know if it helps at all, but I was once in pretty much the same place as you three years ago.
When I moved out in 2002, it was a serioius ghost-town, and no one had heard of my school yet, it seemed. Guess I was one of the first to really attack LA.
But between the economic conditions of our industry at the time and my complete lack of connections, I was scrambling like crazy to get work. One job lead to another, I built up my reel, and before I knew it, I was raising my rate every few months to pace the demand for my mad skillz. (j/k)
What I'm saying is, it really seems to be all about the momentum. Keep yourself busy, bounce around, meet people in the biz. You'll eventually prove yourself to enough people that you'll keep getting phone. I don't know anyone that I work with that doesn't turn down a job every two weeks.
Do you have any interest in helping out on some music vids I'm working on? I hesitate to ask, only cuz there's so little money in them. But they're for Sean Lennon, and they might be pretty cool. I'm in charge of the VizFX for all 10 or so of em and I'm trying to find people to help. But don't feel bad saying no, cuz like I said, the money sucks. I'm doing them cuz I know them, they could be pretty cool, and they're making a feature that I want to get all the FX on.
Let me know.
And seriously, buck up, things will go your way. Give it some time.