Aaron Vega is back from New York and editing here in the edit bay. Damon is coming in this week to assemble his clips for the childhood segment and Mike is beginning to capture clips for his segment on the Georgia days. Kai has turned in his paper edit and is now somewhere in Nevada at Burning Man. It feels very early in the project still, there's so much to do, but it seems to be progressing.
Discovered new music from Georgia. The song "Sitting by the Road" is part of this new batch of tunes, apparently recorded in a studio judging by the slight reverb on Blaze's voice and the separation of guitar and vocal on each stereo track. Very nice work, probably recorded pre-1980.
Hello! The Internet is cool -- I've installed this weblog onto my server located in Austin, Texas from my cousin's house in British Columbia, Canada. Awesome!
So this is the first entry for the new documentary diary. You can view the old diary here: http://www.abraxasproductions.com/misc/diary.html.
I'm looking forward to getting back and seeing progress on Blaze.
I'm in Canada doing some location scouting for a coming-of-age film that's in development. I hope to begin working on this film within the next five years. I'm also getting some needed R&R -- although I've also managed to work on a segment of the documentary at the same time. But this is more like creative work than the detailed work happening back in Austin.
Damon has finished his paper edit for the family segment of the documentary. Mike is working on the Georgia segment and by the time I get back, one of the Georgia folks will be in Austin for a week to assist Mike and visit. Kai is working on Blaze's songwriting career, Lisa is working on the Houston music scene and the women in Blaze's life, and Aaron will be back to work on his segment.