Living life in ten-minute increments...

So this is the building that houses our new studio.  You're looking at the corner of Richards and Smithe in downtown Vancouver.  The neighborhood we're in is called 'Yaletown' and is considered one of the best urban neighborhoods anywhere.  The location is totally central to everything and will be a five minute bike ride downhill from our new house.  Pretty neat.

As is always the case, however, nothing is ever easy and our space required a lot of work (that's still ongoing) to get it ready to shoot.  The above shot has our contractor (Stephen--the man--Goldman on the left) arguing with our director (Karl--THE KARL--Richter on the right) while I (in the background) field one of the hundred phone calls I got that day, putting out some fire, working some magic, doing whatever it takes to keep things rolling so that we'd have somewhere to shoot.

Then the crew arrived and we began working to set up for the first round of shooting.  The white wall on your left was one of seven walls that had to be removed.  The black walls are the white walls you see in the second shot. Since the contractor wasn't going to be able to remove them until Thursday morning, we just had to find a way to shoot around them on Wednesday.

And here's the end result.  Me, on-set, having just wrapped the first day.  I'll try to post a little web video for you here so you can see what the real 'end result' looks like.

The thing to realize in all this is the crazy level of madness that we're living through right now. My Executive Producer called me this morning to ask how it was going and my response was, "Well, it's varying degrees of mass mayhem and planet-wide panic..."  Then he freaked out a bit 'cause for me to say it that way means it must be really bad.  I told him to calm down 'cause though it's certainly crazy here, it's a controlled crazy.  Like running a military campaign.

I like that analogy.  If you don't keep moving forward you die.

And that's relevant for you.  

If you don't keep moving forward you die.

So no matter how hard it gets for you today, try to do your best to just keep moving from moment to moment.  I've seriously been living in ten-minute increments this week.  From one ten-minute segment to the next.  Not thinking too far ahead, just focusing on the immediate task at hand, doing what it takes to survive long enough to get to the next ten minutes.

If you do that, almost no matter how hectic the scenario, you'll probably end up being alright.

Take it from me, I'm livin' through it right now.

T