Off the Filmpool Board

Last night I resigned from the Filmpool Board. After 17 (non-consecutive) years serving the Board, this will certainly be my last. This makes me sad as I still have a lot of ideas and energy to contribute, but I've been in a downward spiral with commutating  lately. My significant and growing anxiety associated with zoom calls has not only lost me much sleep, but is creating turmoil in my home life. This has spilled over into my making further poor communication decisions. Ultimately, I need to pull back to only face-to-face conversations. I went from such a high yesterday, talking about creativity and story with Victoria and Logan in Saskatoon, to such depths after I opened by email when I arrived back home. I have always tried to be cautious when choosing my battles, but it seems that retirement has divorced me from many of the battles I would usually juggle while simultaneously giving me more time to actually get into fights. Ultimately, the Filmpool was only going to be hurt if I stayed, so I saved everyone that trouble. 

Recording in Saskatoon

 

Willam and I were in Saskatoon all day. Recorded with Victoria, capturing the Millicent role for the first 10 episodes. We then had a coffee with Logan and planned out his role. The whole day was really positive and fun, making us all feel really engaged and happy. I can't wait to dive into more of this later in the week. 

Comic convention

William had a table at the comic convention at the RPL today. I think he had a lot of great conversations, but it seems that sales overall were lower than previous years (tables were free though). The keynote speaker, Lis Xu, was pretty cool, mostly in attitude about her approach to creativity and moving around in a variety or related art/drawing/design paths. The film: "Virus Tropical" with recorded introduction by overseas artist Power Paola, creator of the sourse graphic novel. The film/animation approach was very graphic, with so much going on on the screen that one finds themself glued to it every second. 

Book binding

 William created a new bird book, this one collecting 44 strips related to soldiers and war. It will be available at his vendor table at the Regina Comic Arts Festival 4 at the RPL tomorrow. 

Painted mini Viewmaster

 I brought a camera and this keychain viewmaster today. Caroline suggested I do this one but that I must do the tag as well. 

Flu and covid shots

 All three of us got our shots on a walk in at London Drugs this evening. 

Broke my chair

 My chair finally gave out. Cannot lean back anymore - or perhaps that is all you can do since there is nothing really stopping you. Went shopping for a new one but the only acceptable chair was not in stock.