Update May 11, in brief

Erik Hammen, Riley Neldam, Ahren Buhmann on set
(photo by David Thomas)

I made good progress on the cut despite a very difficult week and more of the same to come.

I'm about 2/3 of the way through the final cut, working on the scenes like the one in downtown Ballard, out on the water, and outside Surf Ballard with Maya and Sarah.

Digging up buried treasure everywhere. Who buried it? Me.

Today's photo is from the scene we shot at Lect's Soup Stop. (Lect's is actually not featured in this photo. )

Our window of time to work at that location was very small, and it started shrinking the minute we started to shoot. If I recall correctly, I had to "drive solutions with proactive detail-oriented problem-solving." Put that phrase on your resume, it'll double your take home pay. Just kidding.

Anyway, I love that scene now. I worked it last week, and it came out great.

In other news, I had lunch with Steven Sterne on Friday, it was great to catch up. He's been very busy acting these days.

Last summer, my kids were extras in a non-beach movie, called "My Year of the Nuns", and it's playing at the Seattle Int'l Film Fest this month.  I'm pretty sure this is not a "Nunsploitation" flick, but the director is Bret Fetzer, who also wrote the play "Lollyville" that Sarah is currently in, and the writer is this guy Matt Smith, who I saw acting in another movie once, and he was pretty funny. So I've got high hopes for it.