Lego Your Troubles

Our Christmas present this year was all hella Legos!!! We even bought a few crazy expert level builds because… we’re insane!? But, it was so much fun. I forgot how much Legos are completely meditative. I hadn’t really played with them since my little brother’s amazing collection. I remember playing with him for hours, building dumb things that we could use as props for He-Man or Hot Wheels. I have so many great memories of him as a kid. I guess it’s because we actually just spent a ton of time adventuring and doing things together. That’s how bonds are built.

We’re working on a new lego build now and this one’s gonna be hilarious. Hold onto your blocks!

We have lots of new excitement headed this way!
Stay tuned…

(—or please don’t if you’re a cyberbully. Seek help.)

stop motion, some thoughts...

I’ve been working on an insanely difficult project in my real job. It’s a huge undertaking that I’ve made even more difficult by adding in stop motion elements. I LOOOOOVE stop motion. To me it’s one of the really magical things of cinema. I love the problem solving, the designing, the building with real materials, the focus on details and the absolute tediousness of the work. One mistake and you’re starting that whooooole scene all over again. Period.

It makes me hold my breath, crawl around on the floor, lift heavy objects, get glue and paint on all of my clothes, sweat under lights for hours—for a few seconds of footage. But to see something that I made, come to life is incredible. I love it.

Having said all of that, I need to save it for my own projects because it’s incredibly time consuming. No one in their right mind can really fully grasp the time it takes unless they too are insane enough to do it!!!

Our very 1st film project was a silly little stop motion in 2005-ish. Mariela and I are a team with stop motion. Together we can do anything. A couple that has been together for 17+ years, that can bicker about the dumbest things, are calm and collected for 4 hours animating a 10 second sequence together. It’s like our zen place. Each piece moved in rhythm, we sweat, we barely breathed and we finished. No bickering. No arguing. It was pretty beautiful. We should do it more often…