Archive for December, 2008
Happy Holidays!
| December 24, 2008
From all of us at Arkeofilms – Margie, Monster, Joel, Tracy, Popo, Mildred, Rose, Vives and Jillian:
May the Holidays bring good cheer and the New Year a wealth of new blessings!
Happy Holidays!
Route Recalculation
| December 20, 2008
(PORTLAND, OREGON) Jennifer is the name of the beloved little lady patiently anchored to the dashboard of our rented car as we traveled 1,500 miles to go around the absolutely beautiful countryside of Oregon in nine days. The GPS my cousin borrowed from a friend for us became so indispensable and in fact absolutely necessary that we gave her a name. Before this trip to Oregon, I have never been to North America, and the idea of going around towns so small that the building where Arkeo’s former office was had more people living in it, was a little daunting.
I’m in Oregon to shoot a documentary and find people who don’t want to be found and locate obscure places. When I was able to track down one address, all I had to do was type it into Jennifer, and voila! I feel a little guilty because it’s so easy. In fact, if we made a wrong turn (usually when we were too engrossed listening to our cinematographer’s playlist and thus missing Jenny’s instructions) Jennifer would be prompt with a solution: “route recalculation,” she’d say. And then she starts talking about the new exit we have to take. There’s no blaming, no cursing, no stopping to ask the rare highway walker.
(The author just recently came back from Oredon, USA after filming portions of her first full-length documentary, Kano: An American and his women. Entry taken from the blog of Monster Jimenez )
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