THE DAY BEFORE BEING SHOT…
TODAY is the famous “day of rest” before cast and crew of the STATIC movie (https://kspllc.media/the-static-movie) appear on set to film the “bar” scene. While the crew is frantically gathering all the necessary materials, cameras, sound booms, lights, I’m relaxing at the famous Northshore of Oahu island. No whales. They’ve gone north for the summer to feed and party. Just warm sun, cool, frangipani-scented trade winds and magnificent mother ocean gently stroking the course of the sandy beaches. Soporific. In total contrast to tomorrow.
As an author, I can’t recall moments like this preceding the actual release of a book. Yeah, there were times of struggle when a story seems stuck for the moment, and periods of elation when the story flowed like a mountain stream down a grassy slope. But nothing like the day before a shoot, where lines float freely in the mind, mixed with concern that I’ll remember them and remember them correctly, as well as be able to project the emotions behind the words in voice and deed. There isn’t anything quiet like the day before a shoot.
Back in our condo in Honolulu, comfort food is definitely on the menu: today, seafood ramen. Being actors as well as dancers (and authors), we’re always aware that the camera isn’t very forgiving in regard to weight, so we basically keep to one Asian-American meal a day at ten o’clock, with tea and snack at 4 in the afternoon. One meal a day. No evening dinner.
This afternoon is our time to tend our lanai garden with it’s three Japanese cucumber, one South American miniature cantaloupe, bush tomato, green pepper and Japanese onion plants. It’s always good to rehearse lines with the plants, which seem to me to enjoy it, and our seven tropical orchids, which seem much more demanding in terms of inflection and emotional charge. Pass the orchid-critics, and we’re ready for live acting tomorrow!
Add to the above, say, two or three hours on social media and answering emails relating to my latest science fiction “futuring” novel, THE EDGE OF MADNESS (Aignos 2020) by Raymond Gaynor (https://www.amazon.com/dp/0999693859), and Setsuko’s non-fiction book, IN SEARCH OF SOMATIC THERAPY (Savant 2017) by Setsuko Tsuchiya (https://www.amazon.com/dp/0997247231). Then a quiet hour for each of us to write, me on my sequel, tentatively called “Prophecy,” and Setsuko on a new work tentatively entitled “The Power of Dance.”
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As an author, I can’t recall moments like this preceding the actual release of a book. Yeah, there were times of struggle when a story seems stuck for the moment, and periods of elation when the story flowed like a mountain stream down a grassy slope. But nothing like the day before a shoot, where lines float freely in the mind, mixed with concern that I’ll remember them and remember them correctly, as well as be able to project the emotions behind the words in voice and deed. There isn’t anything quiet like the day before a shoot.
Back in our condo in Honolulu, comfort food is definitely on the menu: today, seafood ramen. Being actors as well as dancers (and authors), we’re always aware that the camera isn’t very forgiving in regard to weight, so we basically keep to one Asian-American meal a day at ten o’clock, with tea and snack at 4 in the afternoon. One meal a day. No evening dinner.
This afternoon is our time to tend our lanai garden with it’s three Japanese cucumber, one South American miniature cantaloupe, bush tomato, green pepper and Japanese onion plants. It’s always good to rehearse lines with the plants, which seem to me to enjoy it, and our seven tropical orchids, which seem much more demanding in terms of inflection and emotional charge. Pass the orchid-critics, and we’re ready for live acting tomorrow!
Add to the above, say, two or three hours on social media and answering emails relating to my latest science fiction “futuring” novel, THE EDGE OF MADNESS (Aignos 2020) by Raymond Gaynor (https://www.amazon.com/dp/0999693859), and Setsuko’s non-fiction book, IN SEARCH OF SOMATIC THERAPY (Savant 2017) by Setsuko Tsuchiya (https://www.amazon.com/dp/0997247231). Then a quiet hour for each of us to write, me on my sequel, tentatively called “Prophecy,” and Setsuko on a new work tentatively entitled “The Power of Dance.”
https://i.postimg.cc/brxtYpzw/Dan-Set...
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