this week i

circumnavigated libya (i assume).  nyerere (airport road) hindu crematorium, house porters head-carried 23kg suitcases four winding flights (of stairs)

i am amazed there are zero nonstops btw mombasa and arusha, are you amazed?

 take the bus you monster

what have i become

a monster, i was clear on that

stone town playground guard

sleeps sound on trampoline but

what bounds in his dream

could have just as easily called it our anxious system.  meteor formed chesapeake.  discovered 10 years earlier, tiffany's would've named it tanganite

attended #27, midnight van by carol coach odongo my fave.  how to pitch documentary idea: sound is 50% of your film // a teaser is not a trailer

 

attended masterclass by victoria nillson on stanislavsky's system & the actors studio method.  we discussed the importance of embodying emotions with a reading of "the audition" scene (starring chekov at the mic) in neil simon's the good doctor.  maybe james just pictured him wearing maga hat

sincerity took center stage

false, pretending laughter is offensive

public solitude

for three pages, she has the urn in front of her, wailing, moaning

the ability to react to imaginary stimuli

silence is better than applause 

 

attended a claymation workshop by sarah brown & greg smith.  my hand unsmushing red frosty, an icicle on a hot day is the perfect murder weapon

 classic animation speed is 12 fps, half of film speed

i literally glue gun the camera stand to the floor

wear black, wash your hands

last time i did this, it was a baobab

we always take two pictures of each shot, sometimes we have flies

with characters, we create a skeleton with wire

put styrofoam balls in the head so it's not so heavy

can we have a few more shots that are, like, awkward silence?

 

walked atop saltwater forest (leaves also salty) tho below aerial roots with nassor.  at the dhow regatta, i had a nice view but appear to be sexting

 

concluded with zanzibari snorkel safari.  who do i petition for a seahorse emoji?  medieval marine punishment, + (land-based) quartering (drawn out):

 

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what fresh fruit are in season?

octopus

you can't eat anything smarter than you

read notes on a last-minute safari by david sedaris

an african safari, the sort where you carry a camera rather than a gun

"what is it you would like to see?" .. "a panda"

couples with camera lenses the size of the hubble telescope

"the most killingest" - was the hippo .. "all they want is to get into our swimming pool..and if that happens, we will never get them out"

i'd told him from the get-go that photography was not my thing.."not even if we come upon a rhino?".."not even if we see one fighting a mother grizzly"

if i were to manufacture a perfume, it would smell the way that grass being ripped from the ground by elephants sounds

the income gap between the people who stayed at the resort and the people who actually lived on the island was so wide you couldn't really see anything else

 

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