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Because I apparently like it when all my social media accounts are linked...you'll see wordpress & youtube posts from those accounts I update more regularly-ish. Generally speaking though, I tend to phase in and out of things, so here's what to expect (at the very least outside of auto-posting something from wordpress or youtube): Orphan Black, Doctor Who, abandoned porn, cute animals, photo & gif sets, miscellaneous cosplay, and lots and lots of other random reblogs! Oh, and the occasional-not-so-occasional spam of things. So... Think of this as a caution for those who want me on their dash... a spamming (and extra spamming) of the aforementioned things may occur.

[rawien]

ConJuncture Web Series Teaser So as you may or may not have already known, I have a release date for my web series: January 2017!

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And that's a wrap!

And that’s a wrap!

Yes , you heard right! After all this, filming has wrapped up. (Today specifically, actually.) And now I cannot wait to start editing! I probably won’t start until after Thanksgiving, but I’m not going to bring everyone up and knock everyone down with disappointments if I set deadlines. Don’t worry though, it willget done. Let’s say January 2017 as the first episode to be aired… so that’s…

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Web Series New Status

Web Series New Status

It’s been over a month and my web series has a new status I’d like to share! It’s a goodbye on the “hiatus” and hello to the [almost] “accomplished!” Now, there have been some struggles along the way, but what production doesn’t have struggles? I pushed through and now I’m getting super excited. There are only 2 more days worth of scheduled filming to do and countless hours of editing coming up,…

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[rawien]

Web Series Interruption

I refuse to use the word “hiatus” because it makes me feel like I’m going back to my old state (about a year ago) where I couldn’t even fathom completing my web series…so I’m not calling it a hiatus. More of an interruption… Or an intermission. A pause. A break. I don’t know… Pick a verb…you know where I’m going with this.

Look at me now though – I have roughly 90% of the series completed. The…

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More Web Series Shooting Progress

More Web Series Shooting Progress

So I’m slowly creeping along on this October deadline that I have set for myself…though it’s almost September, so I’m losing time to keep this deadline. As a “one-woman-show” I really only have the weekends to film, so that becomes slightly problematic. Regardless, I feel good about where I’m at with filming and was told a while ago (so whether or not it’s still true is up for debate) that I’m…

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Web Series Shooting Progress

Web Series Shooting Progress

For the past couple weeks I’ve been filming. It has been pretty successful if I do say so myself. I have 3 full episodes filmed, 2 partially filmed and 7 not yet filmed. Not too bad with only using weekends and working around various schedules. My high hopes of shooting every single weekend in July failed miserably, but good news is that my cast is totally fine with this adjustment. I’m on a…

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[rawien]

Web Series Is Happening I'm so excited, I just can't even put into written words how I feel about this so here's a video instead...

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Web Series & Missing Buffalo

Web Series & Missing Buffalo

Auditions? Check. Final cast? Check. Locations? Well… about that…

I did a few read throughs this weekend and it was actually very successful. My leads all like each other and are getting along, which makes my life super easy! I had asked them about locations and one of them mentioned I could look into using Airbnb for all the scenes I need (living room, bedroom/s, kitchen, etc.), and well, as…

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[rawien]

Cast Successfully Acquired

As the title says, the cast for my co-written web series has been acquired. I am so excited! Now that that part is out of the way, I have to figure out locations to correspond with the settings in the script. Without knowing the area all that well still (even after living here for 1 year) I lack the knowledge of some places to shoot. I don’t terribly mind using my own apartment for some of the…

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Web Series Casting Updates

Web Series Casting Updates

I am one step closer to making my co-written web series a thing that I can nearly taste it! I have a good portion of my cast all set… I just lack a definite lead male and need to acquire a lead female (go figure that this would be so difficult to do). I have also mentioned on Twitter as well as in a YouTube update that I just posted (see below) that I don’t fit the bill as the lead female even if…

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Casting Updates

My third-ish set of auditions were actually pretty successful. That is… Aside from working around the lack of parking where I held auditions, hoping the noise from a public event that was happening at the same time of my auditions wouldn’t get picked up in the recordings, and standing in the sun in between auditions – it was good. Heh. It’s my own fault though. I didn’t check the schedule of…

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We decided it was finally time to include you on the most important decision of every album cycle…

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Casting Problems

Who would have thought after all of this that I would continue to have problems. No, not quite in the problem category in that my actors are rioting against me, but that I have no females auditioning! Every actor who has inquired from my Craigslist posts (yes, I have more than one) are all male. I had one female would probably would have been perfect, but she flaked out; I have another of whom I…

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[rawien]

New Photo Challenge

So aside from working on my web series (so much progress, woo!), I’m also keeping up with my photography…but more in the sense of staying active on uploading it. On my Facebook page, J.P.Eckel Photography, I’ve put together an album which will showcase my favorite pictures of all time. My intent is not to post duplicates (though if it happens, perhaps there’s a reason why I like the photo so…

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Working on the Web Series like whoa

Working on the Web Series like whoa

So the web series has been successfully transferred to Celtx from Google docs. Now I just need to comb through it for specific shots per scene so then when I finally get around to shooting it (end of summer into fall at the very earliest) it ill be so much easier to do so in theory. I’d rather not be a chicken with my head cut off if I don’t have to be…though let’s be honest here, this will still…

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Eat Sleep & Breath Web Series

Eat Sleep & Breath Web Series

So. Web series. Big surprise, right? I don’t even have anything done of it yet (aka nothing past working on script final edits), but I’m already more excited about pursuing this than previously…which is weird, because I have a feeling that this “high” I’m on right now, will have me shooting back to Earth at an alarming speed where I hit the dirt face first and then crumble into dust. Poetic,…

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Positive Update

Have I mentioned that “forcing myself to be creative” wasn’t working out as I planned? Well, it hasn’t been working out as I planned. Guess you really can’t force creativity/inspiration/etc. Some of the older works I’ve written though, I’m thinking dry-readings might work out better, so if you follow me on YouTube, expect to see more of this what I’ve done with “Lunacy Love.” I’ve also been…

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