hunkering down!

finally settled on a uniting thread/subject/theme I can really fully get behind, and this makes me rather excited. The format remains the same - video sketches (ditching the word 'haiku', it was kind of tainting everything I did) with subtitles I can read poetry / play recorded poetry over.

I'm writing about facets of my personality that control my life, by portraying them as superhuman abilities. In each sketch I will have a different ability. okay so time out There will be no masks or capes or special effects of any kind in the videos; the videos will be based not on the poems themselves but on the facets of my personality each poem describes. Okay so a quick rundown of the abilities I'm starting to settle on:

• my power is to freeze myself at will for extended durations of time; I use it to make as small an impact on the world as superhumanly possible
• i am a weeping, sorry sack of shit existing in a quantum superposition across the fifth dimension. at every choice or fork in my timeline I diverge and physically take both paths. therefore I live in the company of innumerable doppelgangers, many of whom are living happier, more successful lives.
• my power is to speak faster than the speed of sound; I gesture with passion, but am rarely understood

I'm trying to settle on a fourth, between characters I am currently calling Captain Exercise and No Dick Man.

sooo
SCHEDULE

4/14

• shot/edited one sketch. quality be damned.
• draft of poem for the same sketch. if I have a final copy done I buy myself a steak.
  

4/21

• shot/edited another sketch. again, quality can and will bite it.
• finalized poem from 4/14.
  
• test recordings of finalized poem.
• super rough drafts of two new poems.
  

4/28 - Midterm Critique

• shot/edited another sketch.
• polished my favorite of the previous sketches.
• PRESENT: All three current sketches, subtitled, with poetry performed live.

5/5

• polish all existing work.
• depending on time outlook/necessity: shoot/edit another sketch, draft a poem.
  

5/12

• everything is done
  

5/19 - Final Critique

• PRESENT: Three/four polished sketches, subtitled, with poetry performed live.
  
• get drunk

5/26

• doubt everything I have already done, get ulcers

6/1 - Exhibition Opening

• there had better be an open bar
• i'm serious