My Top Ten Favorite Things of the Last 100 Days #1 – Jesse Wieman

2011 – Last 100 Days

Prodigal Altar Boy Countdown

ZERO Days and Counting

31 December 2011

Goal:  1 hour per day working on the film

Details: 

Read articles from “Documentary” magazine

Total time:  30 minutes

Goal:  30 minutes per day music practice

Details:

Sunday Set List Work:

I Will Bless The Lord At All Times

I Am A Friend of God

Open The Eyes of My Heart

Holy Is The Lord

I Lift Up My Hands

Rig check and patch selection

Pat Metheny Etudes – exercise #1 bars 1-4 5X

Pat Metheny Etudes – Exercise #1 bars 5-8 10X

Total time:  2 hours

Goal:  15 minutes exercise per day

Active rest. 

Total time:

Goal:  15 minutes per day working on the score for the movie

 A Dorian (intervallic) riff work with Adrenalinn III

Amin – D7 chord work to support A Dorian intervallic work

Total time:  15 minutes

ZERO Day – It’s The Final Countdown

My Top Ten Favorite Things of the Last 100 Days

#1 – Jesse Wieman

Jesse Wieman is the man.  I saw some of his work, and he knocked me out with his stencil work.  So far, I’ve commissioned three works based on photographs related to the movie.  The “TQ as Superman” and “TQ with Chalice” have been shown off and on in the blog during the past 100 days.  The two latest pieces “Going His Way” and “Nat Turner Liturgy” make their first appearance in the blog on the final post of 2011.  “Going His Way,” licensed from the Virginian-Pilot, was a photo accompanying and article on TQ during his early days in Poquoson.  Jesse took that portrait and loaded it with context and implied backstory.  I cannot wait to edit this into the assembly cut I am working on. 

The second picture is from a photograph of Dr. Philip Lucas, who played Nat Turner during the Easter mass in Southampton, where Nat Turner led his slave revolt and was sentenced to death.  While at St. Mary’s (now a minor basilica) in Norfolk, TQ based the Easter liturgy around the Confessions of Nat Turner. 

When I picked up these two paintings, Jesse gave me a Christmas gift.  The tag read, “To my biggest fan.”  It was a small portrait of Boris Karloff.  That is why I am his biggest fan.

It was one hundred days of learning and I will unpack that during the opening moments of 2012, where I have 365 days ahead of me (God willing)…

Stay Tuned

Top Ten Favorite Things of the Last 100 Days #2 – Kimberly Mayer

2011 – Last 100 Days

Prodigal Altar Boy Countdown

T-1 Days and Counting

30 December 2011

Goal:  1 hour per day working on the film

Details: 

Watched Karen Everett Week 7 video module  “Crafting Your Film’s Opening Act”

Total time:  30 minutes

Goal:  30 minutes per day music practice

Details:

Warm up on the MojoCaster

Pat Metheny Etudes – exercise #1 bars 1-4 25X

Downloaded and printed chord charts for New Year’s Day Service at Grace City.

Total time:  30 minutes

Goal:  15 minutes exercise per day

Active rest.  Final walk around New York.

Total time: 15 minutes

Goal:  15 minutes per day working on the score for the movie

 “Dies Irae” – 25X on the MojoCaster

Total time:  15 minutes

One Day – It’s The Final Countdown

My Top Ten Favorite Things of the Last 100 Days

#2 – Kimberly Mayer

Kimberly Mayer is a young artist who did a painting of the photograph of TQ as “The Blue Angel.” 

Her painting is the largest piece I’ve commissioned for the movie and by far has the greatest raw impact.  When my mother saw it, she said, “Wow! She really captured his features in that painting.”  Kimberly worked long and hard on this painting and her efforts really paid off.

My Top Ten Favorite Things of the Last 100 Days: #3 – The Last 100 Days

2011 – Last 100 Days

Prodigal Altar Boy Countdown

T-2 Days and Counting

29 December 2011

Goal:  1 hour per day working on the film

Details: 

Read Karen Everett’s blog on editing.

Total time:  30 minutes

Goal:  30 minutes per day music practice

New York City getaway.  Almost went to Manny’s, but spent time at the Chelsea Market, which was inspiring. 

Goal:  15 minutes exercise per day

Escalating Density Training (EDT)

Smith Squat  (A1) 105 pounds

5 sets of 8 reps

3 sets of 6 reps

Bulgarian Split Squat (A2) Two 25 pound dumbbells

5 sets of 8 reps (per side)

3 sets of 6 reps (per side)

15 minutes

Calf raises on Smith Machine

4 sets of 25 reps 105 pounds

Treadmill work

20 minutes

1.39 miles

Total time:  44 minutes

Goal:  15 minutes per day working on the score for the movie

 New York City vacation

Total time: 

Two Days – It’s The Final Countdown

My Top Ten Favorite Things of the Last 100 Days

#3 – The Last 100 Days

It is amazing these 100 days are nearly at an end.  Like many new things, I had some initial trepidation about this experiment.  I was very enthusiastic in the beginning, but once the enormity of the task hit me, I had second thoughts.  I am glad I stuck with it.  Many of the posts, especially when I was travelling or during the holidays, were hard to get out and I had to stretch my technology improvisation skills.  Still, it was worth it.  Putting out one post after another, getting my rhythm as well as refining the format and content of the blog along the way made was the key to getting this done.