Off to Minnesota...

Scared, anxious, excited, anticipation, lack of patience, confused, happy, adventure, emotion, imagination, restlessness, priority, over packed, driving, listen, expense, family, needs, wants, give, take, full, empty, love.

here i come.

More Video Etc...

So another reason why I keep this blog is to keep track of ideas, feelings and neat things that I find along the way. Being a film student, I get connected with some of the most talented people and I see a lot of really neat stuff. This happens to be one such "stuff" that I love.

Come on, feel the Groningen! from MUZIEKTELEVISIE.NL on Vimeo.

Jobs in a jobless market...

So I started looking for another job today. I work part time at Central Utah Gardens which is sweet and for the past couple months I have been also working on projects for school (school=free work for BYU). I have gained some very valuable experience however. The senior project and the multiple short docs that I have worked on for KBYU are valuable experience. While working at the gardens we were approached by Comcast advertising to do a commercial. They gave us a great rate and we obliged and then they gave us the script. It was terrible. Really bad. I knew that I could do better and so I did. I directed, produced, shot and edited these two spots for free pretty much because I just wanted to do better than Comcast. The result was that Comcast liked what I did and was impressed and today when I sent the final version of the commercial to the production manager I called him and asked for part-time work as well. He didn't answer and so I left a message which he immediately called me back. Corporate has made HUGE cutbacks and so the department has left the clients who spend less than $2000 a month with not great scripts and short shooting schedules. Because of this cutback, small commercials have been but way back. There is a huge pool of them that are not getting the attention they deserve. This is where I step in. Comcast would hire me as a freelance and send me to this pool (conveniently enough most of them live in Utah Valley) and I would give them the attention that they need. I get a nice slice of the pie and Comcast gets that pool again. This also gives me a chance to work in film for the rest of the summer, at least a bit. Nothing is certain, but they were quite excited to have me help out. I will give it a try and if it can pay enough and be frequent enough without too much stress, I could end up working like this for a bit. Today I am also talking to Ch 5 and Ch 2 about what work they have and am going to talk to BYUB and KBYU about work there. Despite the cutbacks and the supposed "jobless economy" I see work in my field, though unstable right now, proliferating. Neat, huh?

Gardens Drawing...

So I got a call this morning from Megan at the gardens asking if I was available to come in early to work. I, wanting more hours, of course said yes and went in. I thought that I was going to be hauling bark around, which we did do all evening, but I was wrong. My assignment for the afternoon was to draw a picture for a coloring contest of the gardens. So in 3 hours I conceptualized, sketched, resketched, drew and finalized this picture that hundreds of kids are going to draw. The neat thing about being the artist is that you can put things into the drawing that nobody else will realize. One of these things is that the two "kids" in the drawing are actually Becky and myself (stylized of course). I always knew that I could work being an artist but I actually don't like drawing that much. I like it, but not enough to do it everyday in and out. Anyways, just a little thing I did.

Bruce Lee...

Iron Man vs Bruce Lee from Patrick Boivin on Vimeo.

I love this stuff. So funny. Go back to the Shire.

Isn't she wonderful...

This is Becky.
She is in Virginia.
I miss her.
This is how we communicate.
She made me a sweet tie.
I will see her soon up in Minnesota.
I can't wait.

Weather or not...

I love the weather. It is always changing but yet it has patterns. It can be so peaceful and also so violent. I love it when the weather is violent. Ripping apart the landscape and changing everything. Sometimes it is really sad what happens to people because of the weather, but though that is tragic, there is a part of me that admires the strength of such weather.
I find a strong connection with the weather and my emotions sometimes. I am usually a very predictable person who is stable and constant. But sometimes I feel these torrents inside that tear apart everything that I feel leaving me to painfully reconstruct what has been left behind. These are painful moments and usually significant realizations because I have to reconstruct what I knew and what I felt and that changes every time I put it back together. This helps me move on and deal with change in my life outside of myself. Exactly the opposite of what weather actually causes most people to do. The outside is torn and that forces inward change. Most of the time in my case the inside is torn and the outside changes. Today was a bad weather day and I am left to pick up what was left behind and put it back together again.