You might have noticed that I’m a little late on my blog post for this week. While I normally try and post every Monday sometimes that is not always possible. This week was an eventful week, and it left me with no time to write a post until now.
On Monday I spent most of the day with a bookkeeper going over my company’s Quickbooks database. I wanted to make sure the books were in order, and check that I was doing everything correctly. This is one of those little things that in the back of your mind you worry about wondering if you are doing something wrong that will destroy the company. Luckily besides a few minor things everything was in great shape, and I got to let go of the stress of worrying about it.
Tuesday I finally got to meet an ex-coworker face-to-face. I know that sounds odd that I had a coworker that I never met in person, but that is the truth. We both worked at DreamWorks Animation, and met while we were working on Monsters vs Aliens. I was at the Glendale campus, and she worked at the Northern PDI campus in the bay area. We have kept in touch, and a few years ago she moved down here to SoCal. She is currently working at Disney Junior, and we finally got the chance to meet for lunch.
After our lunch I spent the rest of the day working on my presentation that I will give to Disney Junior at the end of May.
On Wednesday I had a great phone conversation with Everett Downing, the director/creator of The Book of Mojo. He is currently working on getting his animated short funded on Indiegogo. It sounds like a really fun project, and we hope to meet and discuss how we might be able to work together on his project. He already has a talented group of artists that are already on board to help with the project who are working at studios like Pixar, DreamWorks, Disney, Paramount, and others.
The campaign still has a way to go to reach its goal, and time is running out. Check it out, and if you are interested in contributing feel free to donate. The Book of Mojo
That brings us to Thursday, which is when I finally have a chance to catch up with my blog. Once I finish this I have to go over my schedule for the next few weeks. I have a list of people I need to meet with, but I’m running out of time in the week to have meetings. I have been trying to keep my lunch meetings to no more then one a week, but lately I have been doing 2 or 3 a week. On the days I have lunch meetings I don’t get as much work done, so I try and not over schedule them.
Tonight I’m going to the ASIFA general membership meeting. I have been a member of ASIFA since 2007, and this will be the first time I have made on of the meetings. I normally only go to the free movie screenings that they have.
ASIFA (Association Internationale du Film D’ Animation) was founded in 1957 in France, and chartered under UNESCO in 1960 as a membership organization devoted to the encouragement and dissemination of film animation as an art and communication form.
I thought that it would be a great opportunity to meet the other members, and do some networking.
Last week I met with the founders of Boom Box Post. I have been looking for different companies to collaborate with on projects to help with the things I don’t know much about. Boom Box Post is a boutique post-production sound studio, and is co-owned by two really great people, Kate Finan and Jeff Shiffman. It is scary the similarities we have in our situation. We each have moved out to California around 10 years ago, and I started my company in July, and they started in August. They are working with some really great clients, and I look forward to working together on some future projects.
Hopefully this momentum continues.
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