What’s a Heart Chakra? BIG TID UPDATE

Greetings Internet Community,

Again we have arrived at that time of the month where I visit the good people of Dharma Studio Yoga for a yoga/chakra workshop lead by the wonderful Veronica Vidal. After hearing about the chakra workshops from myself and our resident green freak, Becca, our dear friend and TID art dept. PA Chelsy Barwick was seduced down to Miami for the weekend to experience the workshop firsthand.

Another lovely surprise for the course this month was the beautiful art on display at the Dharma Studio. Playing host to some beautiful Tibetan Thangka Art by Karma Phuntsok, there was amazing, colorful depictions of Buddha surrounding the studio just waiting for us to sit amongst them.

So before we get into this month’s focus on the Heart Chakra…. the Solar Plexus Chakra.

This is how TID looks lately - with a giant glowing ball focused at our Solar Plexus Chakra! Just kidding! That'd be ridiculous - everybody knows that's the Heart Chakra!

If the Solar Plexus Chakra is about focusing on what it is that you want, and going out and accomplishing it, then Theodore is Dying and Moving Picture would look like this as of recently…

Anyways as you may gather from my brash statement and picture of Ironman, we have been making some tremendous progress as of late.

Ryan and I will be meeting up in Syracuse, NY next weekend to watch and make notes on a full pass of the film by our fantastic editor Dan Brown (not the novelist!). He has been our secret weapon for the past couple months, silently slaving away through the footage, cutting away at scenes and working with Ryan to try make the movie. Dan’s been great, finding things in the footage that we have not been able to see and most importantly having the skill, motivation, and time to do the job well.

For those inquiring minds that want to know, Dan was a co-worker of Ryan at the Florida Branch of New York Film Academy (NYFA), and lives out in Indiana. He also is a scorpio and enjoys the smell of fresh cut grass and tunes by Burt Bacharach. (Disclaimer: I only know the first sentence to be true.)

Additionally as we near picture-lock, we are working closely with composer Jason Kupfer. Some of you may be familiar with Jason’s work with the indie rock band The Pauses. Jason is an accomplished filmmaker in his own right with a highly successful short film The Sleuth Incident that has played at dozens of film festivals around the world. We are grateful and excited to have Jason onboard.

(L) Dan Brown, EDITOR (R) Jason Kupfer, COMPOSER

So, TID has been chugging along recently in very positive directions, we are hoping to have picture lock by the my birthday at the end of January. Oh, what a wonderful birthday gift it shall be!

So we have indeed been working hard to accomplish what we want, I think to great success. So to bring this back around – we have had a very positive Solar Plexus Chakra experience this month. Accomplishing goals, burning candles and incense, working on our inner fulfillment – good stuff.

And FINALLY we move on to our Heart Chakra experience. Our Heart Chakra is of course centered over our heart and is characterized by universal love and as it is the mid-way point of our chakras, helps transition between the lower more earth-based chakras to our upper spiritual chakras. Working on the Heart Chakra helps to make us feel more compassionate and benefits our relationships with others.

The workshop of the class was much like the others, but this time to a smaller group which made for a more intimate class which was good for when she shared a video with us about gratitude.

The class was again a really nice lesson that I will not attempt to simplify or cheapen but a nice lesson for the holidays that is very fitting to where I am at in my Theodore is Dying progress.

Ryan will post in the next couple days with another update for the Theodore is Dying cuts. So be on the lookout for screen caps. As well as a blog from Becca this week about GREEN 101 news.

Becca Kenyon and Allie Kenyon will be visiting the Center of Cinematography in Miami tomorrow Wednesday, December 14th to talk about green filmmaking practices with students. Thanks to Corinna Moebius for making this happen! We look forward to sharing some of our green knowledge with other filmmakers.

Namaste.

Allie

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