Daughter of Godcast 147 – Apparently Insurmountable

Toy Story 4 released on 6/21 Solstice

HS, belated

beard, old guy reminiscing schtick

• Starting in the mid 80s, I attended a bunch of Siggraphs (ACM Special...)
• Pixar's shorts were often my favs at the Film and Video show
• 1993 TS1 was the first computer animated feature

if i were a parent

• not sure I would let my young kids see TS3
• super nightmarish climactic sequence of toys on the conveyor belt headed towards the shredding machine
• very effective cinema, I felt not a little terror
• escape shredding machine only to get thrown into the fiery volcanic pit - like freaking mount doom with lava and shit - to do them in, they're sliding down to their demise to be melted down and
• it’s pretty freaking over-the-top
• don't kids get nightmares anymore?

the formulaic cinematic finish

• typical
• the big climactic scary inevitable catastrophe that is somehow avoided just in the nick of time.
• always got to be some kind of obstacle formidable if not insurmountable obstacle the characters face towards the end of a movie.
• that’s how you know it’s the end

the end is near

• my first feature film my first podcast must be almost done...
• the cosmos has dropped an apparently insurmountable obstacle in the path of progress
• tada - I broke my arm!

how

• last week wrapping up the big financial project
• appointment with my CPA in the afternoon
• car battery was dead
• borrowed my mom's car, jump started and left my car running in the driveway for a couple of hours to charge up
• 15 minutes before my appointment, my car's battery was dead again
• ride the mystery dohickey from Episode 145 Fly Float Gloat, only 5 miles
• more practice for the scene i am planning
• had a great meeting, started home
• less than 100 yards from my house, glitch.
• catastrophic dohickey failure at 17 mph
• I hit the pavement
  • gory details...
    • why go into the gory details?
    • what else is there to do on a podcast but details?
    • celebrate the gift of drama
• some neighbors helped
  • put me in an ambulance
  • spent $5k and 5 hours in the ER in Traverse City, mostly waiting.

finish a movie one handed - impossible!

• idk...
• barring mishap, 6 - 8 weeks of sling
  • camera work
  • acting
  • writing - word processor
  • back to hunt and peck on the laptop
  • and forget about keyboard shortcuts, modifier keys
• innovation
  • dishes
  • secret kriyas
  • hygiene
• never imagined the possibility that X could be done with one hand, found a way
• the way finds us

might seem finishing a feature film single handed is an impossible dream, but we humans are dreamers, the more impossible the better. The dohickey affair has moved this podcast beyond theory to the starkly pragmatic. All the spiritual shit we've been shoveling - imagination, presence, choosing joy - is either going start to really stink or be transformed into rich compost, packed with everything plants need. Breaking one's arm in two places as a means for triumphantly finishing a feature film.

Let's begin by listing positive aspects