White buffalo

Short non-con interlude here. I was at an art show today and stopped for awhile at a booth featuring the work of Arthur Short Bull (http://www.dawnhawk.org/). I walked in and gave a nod to the woman at the sales table and Mr. Short Bull who was sitting in the back, watching the shoppers, but not really engaging them in conversation. I was particularly drawn to a large painting of the white buffalo.

The American buffalo or bison was significant for all the native people of the great prairie. This animal provided food, fiber, fur, fuel - every part of the animal was used to sustain life and they were highly revered and respected. White buffalo are extremely rare and are regarded as sacred Having grown up in Kansas, I always had a fascination with the buffalo and their importance to the ecology of the prairie and the life of the tribes.

So was looked at the other paintings and was drawn back to this one. I asked if there were prints available of it and the woman replied that they don't make prints or note card until after the original painting has sold. I nodded my understanding and proceeded to pick out a couple of cards. During all of this I was forgot about the artists sitting quietly in the back. When I finished paying for my purchase he walked up and handed me a piece of paper saying, "Here, I guess this can be your white buffalo."

It was a signed pen and ink drawing he had made on the spot and torn from his sketch book. I was very moved and very grateful. Very nice way to start the morning!

Vegas part 2

FRIDAY

So Now That You’ve Found Sanctuary After 10,000 Days (Peter)
Peter’s first session gave him a chance to get us up to date on what he’s been working on lately and it also gave us a chance to ask questions. The interaction between GOH and fans was really great during all the panels during the weekend. There were a lot of new things to talk about and we were ready to find out more.

Peter talked about the challenges of working with green screen – not so different when interacting with other actors, kind of bizarre when reacting to creatures that were to CGI’d later. He also talked about how the atmosphere in Hollywood lately was a bit strained – the writer’s strike last year, the failure of to reach an agreement on the SAG contract and the downturn in the overall economy have created an environment in which fewer movies projects are moving forward. Instead of just expecting roles to come to them, established actors are actually auditioning for parts and actors like Harvey Keitel are actually doing series television. He also mentioned the exciting possibilities of new media such as web series; the problem remains how to make these undertakings profitible.

Sanctuary – the series started on the web before it was picked up by Sci Fi. The apparent goal is to make it profitable enough to take it back to the web. His episodes will be the last 2 of the season and his character will be a very old man, a friend of Dr. Magnus’s father who is played by Jim Byrnes.

10,000 Days – Peter and the other actors were only reimbursed for their mileage for driving out to the shooting location. This is a speculative venture by all involved, shot on a shoe string in the hopes of raising enough money to finish it. Only a minute of it will be finished with all the editing and CGI backgrounds and that small portion will be used to try and find money to do more. We saw a short piece about the series and it sounds like every associated with it is interested in breaking new ground with this innovated project.

War of the Worlds – his character is the hero and the lead and not the kind of character he usually plays at all. In fact, he told David that he would feel comfortable playing just about any other character and David replied that’s why he wrote it for him. I’ll write more on this for the session on Sunday on the film.


Controversial Sources (Peter and David)
David started by asking us to tell him where we thought The Source went wrong but before anyone could ask a question he laid out all of the problems in far more detail than we ever could have done. After that he proceeded to describe his script, the one that Bill Panzer tossed out, that had very strong allusions to the Madonna and Child and to The One as asaviour. When Sharon Lowachee came up to mic to ask questions, she proceeded to take him apart, not just for movie as it was made but for the heavy-handed use of religious allegory in his proposed script. In doing so she introduced us all to the most fun word of the weekend – anvilicious. There were a lot of other questions and a few answers, but it was impressive that Peter and David trusted us enough to be involved in this very heated give and take.


Newbie Meeting
Bonita and I had prepared newbie gift bags with little booklets and candy and granola bars and Project Edan magnets. The location suggested by the hotel to have this meeting didn’t look promising at first (a long narrow bar in the middle of the casino) but it turned out to be a great spot. We mixed and mingled, had a bit to drink and made new friends and answered some questions. I know I enjoyed it and I hope the newbies did, too.

Meet and Greet and Carnival
The meet and greet was fantastic, perhaps the only disappointment was that Jim had to leave before he made it to our table. My table consisted entirely of newbies, except for me. Peter seemed to love that fact and when he found out Resh was from Hawaii, he talked to at length about the Hawaiian language and culture. This is one thing I do love about Peter – the fact that he is so fascinated by us, where we are from and what we do.

Peter kicked off the carnival by giving each of the tossing and throwing games a try. He was cute flicking those frogs! I meant to move around from game to game but ended up playing game after game of bingo. Didn’t win at all but had a good time trying.




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