Is this week 6 or week 7? Don't know...it's all a blur. I have been reworking the storyboards and animatic for REQUIEM. In the process I have let go of some of the expectations of this quarter. If I can get a great animatic with "good cinema" as Dori says...then I will be satisfied. When I first boarded REQUIEM I gutted the story in order to make it fit into a two minute format. Now that it is no longer necessary to fit into two minutes I'm putting story elements back in that will help tell a better tale. I hope.
Short blog this week. My life is in a whirl and it feels like I lost a week somewhere.
D_
Friday, May 18, 2007
Tuesday, May 8, 2007
58,256
Is the new number of names engraved in the black granite panels of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Three more were added this month. Approximately 1200 of the names memorialized are listed as missing - as in MIA's, POW's, and others.
58,256.
One of the new names added, Army Sgt. Richard M. Pruett, died in 2005 as a result of the lingering effects of wounds he received during the war.
In his case, as in others, soldiers die of their wounds. Some die immediately...some decades later. The deaths are physical as well as emotional and spiritual in some cases. A testament to the resilience of the human spirit, is that while he lived with the effects of his wounds and ultimately succumbed to them, he also lived a full life, raised a family, ran a business.
It was interesting to read the news articles related to the inclusion of the new names. The ones I read didn't include the new number - 58,256 - although they did recount the bureaucracy and politics of who is included in the rollcall of the dead. Our society loves to point out the failings of the government machine that we have created...without a solution suggested.
58,256.
There will be more added in the years to come...as this generation of warriors passes.
I hope we will remember all of them.
D_
58,256.
One of the new names added, Army Sgt. Richard M. Pruett, died in 2005 as a result of the lingering effects of wounds he received during the war.
In his case, as in others, soldiers die of their wounds. Some die immediately...some decades later. The deaths are physical as well as emotional and spiritual in some cases. A testament to the resilience of the human spirit, is that while he lived with the effects of his wounds and ultimately succumbed to them, he also lived a full life, raised a family, ran a business.
It was interesting to read the news articles related to the inclusion of the new names. The ones I read didn't include the new number - 58,256 - although they did recount the bureaucracy and politics of who is included in the rollcall of the dead. Our society loves to point out the failings of the government machine that we have created...without a solution suggested.
58,256.
There will be more added in the years to come...as this generation of warriors passes.
I hope we will remember all of them.
D_
