Numbing the digits

So my brain is spinning and I’m in that ‘my body and mind are cement’ mood that happens when too many things are going on at once, no one event more pressing than the other, so they all smush into a ball of goo and muddle your brain so all you can do is sit and arrange pencils or watch tv – which I love doing so it’s not that painful. We have many songs to start building visual universes around. The site is meant to be a series of snap on modules, each song having it’s own visual identity as well as palette of associated games, activities and diaries of how that song was created, how the video evolved, etc. That all sounds easy after the trauma of figuring out our first prototype, the Woman Thangs chunk you’re in now. But everything needs to be designed and all at once. Not to mention writing the actual song/s, conceiving the actual video/s, and figuring out how to constantly up the ante on the website. Yesterday we designed business cards, postcards, appeared on Hunnypot Radio, filled store orders – one for LA Eyeworks, which will carry Bubbles & Cheesecake products for Christmas – started the I Confess and Song We Have No Title For Yet But Are Actively Searching For chunks. The latter means writing the song, recording the song, storyboarding the video, starting to build the video sets, figuring out the web component, all at the same time as trying to figure out how to move the merchandise in the store, how to publicize ourselves, how to redefine the record business… we’re totally indie so the challenge is immense. Horrifying at times and at other times incredibly liberating. Yesterday we just numbed our digits attempting to figure this all out.

I see Holly posted photos of our storyboard meeting on Sunday with Prudence on I Confess. Here’s what it looked like from my perspective:

November 6th, 2007