finally, getting rid of excess Domain names and getting myself into a simpler state of mind so i can manage my diminishing functions 
I am now down to www.kiwicafe.com and www.pakehaandpearl.com, whew, out go all the rest. WordPress is it, no more Google.
Simplify,Simplify,Simplify
In Uncategorized on May 5, 2012 at 2:24 amYEEHA!
In American West on January 29, 2012 at 3:03 amThere is an old saying, where it comes from? I have no idea . . . .
“it’s been a long time between drinks”
Books, I have a library of books, photographic, philosophical, literature and then there is my collection of Zane Grey Westerns. I guess the latter category is where I began to discover my love of both Zane Grey and the American West. Before returning to Aotearoa NZ in 2006, I spent 16 years living in the American West.
California mainly and then the last 3 years were spent truly and passionately exploring the West as portrayed by Grey, searching for his America. The America I read about as a child in the Public Library of New Zealand. Now I have my own Library in my own Studio looking West toward the local mountain range. The Tararuas.
29 January 2012
4.00pm
My collection of Grey novels is close to complete, I also have some of his, many of his fishing tales and to top it all I have A Photographic Odyssey – Loren Grey. Zane Grey’s son Loren died a couple of years ago but I spent time talking and lunching with him in California back in 2004. Like his father, quite a character, to say the least. So that book sits amongst my photographic collection and continues to inspire me to get on with my Documentary, Searching for Zane Grey’s America aka Zane Grey & Me aka Pakeha & Pearl.
This past week I have been inspired to get back into my editing mode and work away at my hours and hours of material. I managed to post a short sequence up on You Tube . . .
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BY5P7y1P_5k&list=UUHpunYk53idq5QtUActqYpg&index=1&feature=plcp<
Follow that link and feel free to comment, please, the more feedback, both positive and negative I receive, the more motivated I become seriously. Communication is the key. So, January is over, the holidays are over, muy lovely lover is back teaching, my part of the bargain is to get on with my editing and get this film to a stage where I can sell it. Follow me . . . .
Starting?
In Uncategorized on December 2, 2011 at 10:56 pmMy words are not always going to be positive, my moods not always up and I also know I don’t need to Blog everything I write.
Yesterday was good, glorious spring weather, managed to create a schedule for my day to day endeavors, it’s not hard and fast but an outline of what I would like to achieve. I wish I had come to that realization some 40 years ago, then I simply powered forward, working hard, playing hard, relaxing hard. Today, aaaah, mellow, I watch the clouds from my chair on the deck, I walk round the garden, I even mow the lawn, photograph flowers and stuff and write while looking longingly at my film editing studio. I am afraid to venture there for fear that I will come up against my physical limitations, but hey, it will either happen or not. The film, Pakeha & Pearl, aka Searching for Zane Grey’s America is shot, that is the good news, I have it selected down from 220 hours to 17. That could be the stage for another editor to come in and take on the project. But how to fund? Is it an interesting idea? Is there a market? I cannot answer any of these questions alone, I need another pair of eyes, hands, another intuitive soul to take it where it needs to go. I guess that is all I need to say right now, trust in the universe. Amazing what happens when I sit to write, my whole demeanor changes, I can go from down to up in a nanno second. I guess I love to write, that’s it. It does come naturally, I hardly ever need to think of what will come next, all I need to do is . . . Start
