Sleep vs Shoot
Shooting with Christi Smith from PFF Entertainment
Last night I shot a couple of interviews for the next edition of SheStory.tv – the theme being passionate persistence. Christi Smith, from PFF Entertainment, lives, works and partners with her passions. She started her business around a board game she created, PervArtistry, a charades/pictionary type game, with a delightfully naughty twist. She and her fiance/business partner, Ted Scofield, have expanded to t-shirts, events and a book is in the works! We also shot with Carla Hall, an incredible singer, who has found an outlet for her work surprisingly during her day job in banking.
I also watched Alan Berliner’s documentary, Wide Awake, about insomnia and the artist. It was masterfully done, well edited, showing with the flurries of images, sounds and thought loops the chaos that plagues the artist’s mind. So much of it echoed my own experiences with sleep and work. The late night hours, the racing mind, the intense focus the later it gets, the siesta…all things I wrestle with. Thomas Edison, Teddy Roosevelt, Marlene Dietrich, Franz Kafka, Margaret Thatcher, Van Gogh, Marilyn Monroe, Winston Churchill, Charles Dickens, Catherine the Great…all insomniacs. It was interesting how having a child changed his perspective on sleep, but overall, didn’t change much. Perhaps a sequel, following the clock resetting? Ah, but then, Alan might be sleeping when he’d otherwise be editing!
Peace,
Melissa
