I suppose what I mean to say when
stripping poetics from intentions is that we all made our own
bed...didn't we?
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| Chris looking dapper |
Chris isn't dead yet. A few days ago
they drugged him up and flew he and his mother back to South Africa
where they can get some degree of medical insurance coverage to help
him. All of you who managed to contribute to the cause have my
thanks in triplicate. Between the efforts of his friends, some
strangers and former employers and former former employers ie the
students and teachers of Triam Udom government school we managed to
raise 27,000 USD. His expenses as of leaving as best I can tell were
somewhere in the neighborhood of 38,000 but the exact number is
difficult to calculate. Thankfully his former boss and a good friend
of all of ours managed to cover the disparity in funds. His death
was narrowly avoided a couple of times and now thanks to all of us
he's back home getting more treatment. Chris is an example to all of
us that being a good person bears greater dividends than we may at
first think. No one that I know of who knew Chris so much as
flinched at the thought of helping him despite their own financial
difficulties, he was just that kind of guy. I have little doubt that
had he been a lesser person he would be dead already and it would
have been none too pleasant a departure. Many thanks to all of you.
Survival Games went off without a
hitch. All in all we got about twelve hundred people to see it and
as far as I can tell according to every rubric except for one it was
B-Floor's most successful show. What Survival Games lacked was
exacting execution. What it did not lack was originality and so to
my eyes Survival Games was a smashing success. I'll speak no more
about it and I'll let the forthcoming full length movie and my little
video representation from photo shoots and rehearsals do the rest of the talking.
Regarding Binumi it's difficult to hide
my enthusiasm for my work. It's going really well. My co-workers
are sterling individuals with their own quirks and neurosis to be
sure but ultimately we all realize we're a part of something that
could very quickly be something truly great. As Anthony (the boss)
has said, “the website has been launching next month for the last
year.” Still, we're coming up on exciting times and the evolution
of the website is nothing short of miraculous and the possibilities
are nearly limitless.
On a slightly different note I've
noticed that I'm famous now. If you search google images for “this
cute little cat has ringworm” the picture from my very first blog
entry “Soi Cowboy” comes up. There are a myriad number of other
searches you can do to find that cat (or any other picture from my
blog) but for some reason people in Holland keep clicking on that cat
and getting directed to that blog entry. Also I got 28 page views
from Russia last week...WTF? I don't know anyone in Russia.
The next time you see what was once
called a “moving picture” think of me because I'm seeing moving
pictures all the time.
-Adam
