Through the looking glass

I've met soo many new people since I've arrived here in this first week. I'm still missing the green open space of the country but I'm so happy to finally be around so many peers with like minded lifestyles and ideas as my own. New York, and Brooklyn in particular is a haven for artists. Already I have met many film makers, photographers, animators, writers, and media people to help ease me into this transitions. The people who arrive here come here to DO something, and that is what I am here or to do too.

Already I've been hanging out with the crew at Wicked Delicate Films, where Sharon works as an animator and editor. Meeting at the studio for lunch we ate homemade wild rice and okra stew i made from the night before with bakery bread picked up along the way. Not a bad way to make friends and network with science film makers. Ian, one of the founders of Wicked Delicate, has much in common with me and a hilarious sense of humor. We hit all hit it off pretty quick and I'm hoping to see them a lot more.

After lunch I stuck around to learn all about film editing with Freddy and hopefully I can find time to come back here on a weekly basis kind of like interning. Good vibes all around learning new things. In a few short weeks on the cusp of October Sharon's film and one of Wicked Delicate's new films on the night sky is being shown at the Cambden Film Fest up in coastal Maine. Sharon's hoping to find room for me in the van. In the meantime, one step and one day at a time.

The studio is in a part of Brooklyn by the old docks called Redhook. Nearby the Gowanus canal slices through the blocks in a sort of DMZ zone where nice homes give way to a few blocks of decaying industrial wasteland. This is the shunned perimeter of the notoriously polluted canals, otherwise known as a superfund site. Even here though, beauty can still find a way to peek through the ruins from time to time...