Twirly Boy Always Gets The Girls

Here's how Twirly Boy does it!

Charm, Flirting, Chocolate

Quang Khoi with Liz Langston, the co-founder and executive producer of the 48 Hour Film Project!

Charm
/tʃɑrm/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[chahrm] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation

–noun
v. intr.

1.	a power of pleasing or attracting, as through personality or beauty: charm of manner; the charm of a mountain lake.

2.	a trait or feature imparting this power.

3.	charms, attractiveness.

Daphna Shyevitch & Quang Khoi

Flirt
v. flirt·ed, flirt·ing, flirts

1. To make playfully romantic or sexual overtures.
2. To deal playfully, triflingly, or superficially with: flirt with danger.

Quang Khoi & Chewbakka

Chocolate
/ˈtʃɔkəlɪt, ˈtʃɒkə-, ˈtʃɔklɪt, ˈtʃɒk-/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[chaw-kuh-lit, chok-uh-, chawk-lit, chok-]

7.	made, flavored, or covered with chocolate: chocolate cake; chocolate ice cream.

In this case: "Ho Ho's!

Quang Khoi, Daphna, & Colleen at Screening in San Jose's Camera 12 Cinemas

Quang Khoi co-stars with (a blast from the past) LynnRuth Miller in Urgent Care - our first San Francisco 48 hour film - 2007

In this case...nothing? Oh, I know...wait a minute...is it the uniform? Women do love a man in uniform!

Gotta admit it, he's pretty darn cute and adorable! Females just love him and remember him... dogs included.

What Just Happened? IDOM Rocks It...One Mo Gin

ONE MO GIN... (translation...one more time)
pronounce like IN with the G in front - not GIN, the alcholic drink

Well, we pulled it off again. How we did it? What Just Happened?!? Beats heck out of me. It just did. Wrapping up our brainstorm at 2:30 am Saturday morning with a deadline of 7:30 pm Sunday. A bunch of ideas and no script. (what's that?!?!?) We started out Friday night sipping champagne, and later eating doughnuts (my choice was chocolate on chocolate cake doughnuts) and joking around like we were at some kinda party, with only a few hours to nap. I was so up I had to put on my leopard print sleep mask and make myself close my eyes and go to sleep. (for a little while anyway) This was my experience during the making of Twirly Boy.

Up early, Saturday with costume and make-up ideas on the brain, leaving room for the unknown. In algebraic terms, we call this: solving for n. In my case, n = audio, x= production assistant, y = etc., etc., etc... Our shoot eventually happened (from late morning into the wee hours of the night or early am) a lot of the story was developed along the way. Testosterone was running high and I was the only girl on the scene until the girlfriend of one of the guys made a few appearances and Signe showed up on Sunday afternoon. Sisters...let me tell you...not always easy being a girl with a bunch of guys! (that's a whole other story!!!)

I felt my testosterone kicking. It had to, my survival depended on it. Kicking off at 8:30 Sunday morning and wrapping up the shoot a few hours later, leaving us just the afternoon to finish the edit. Once again we rocked it. And a Twirly Boy was born!

Genre:
Road Movie

Character:
Chris or Christy Doyle, drummer

Prop:
Pin

Line of Dialogue:
“What just happened?”

And 48 hours to do it!

Another Grand Slam

SOUNDS GOOD TO ME!










It’s like when the bases are loaded and you hit a grand slam. How can you plan to hit a grand slam? You don’t know until you get there. The thing I do know for sure is that you don't always HAVE to know where you're going in order to get to where you need to be!

It is a movement of the creative process following a course all of its own. It grows in the unknown, and it has a life of its own. You never know where it will take you, you just go with the creative flow. One thing I do know is: It is for greater creative expression. It is beyond the imagination and never planned. It just keeps on going to the next destination on the journey.

Zimbabwe "Revisited"

I'm still waiting to hear from my direct sources in Zimbabwe. It's been four months now and I have not heard a word. My prayer is that they are still alive. This piece pays tribute to my loved ones there and Zimbabweans everywhere.

Be sure and check out July 5, 2008 archives (to the right) for Episodes 1 - 6

"Planetary Liberation" & "Zimbabwe on the West Coast"



The song is entitled Lukono. Lukono means heritage.

HARARE, Zimbabwe (CNN) -- A power-sharing deal between Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai is just "one or two sticking points" away, sources close to the negotiations said Saturday.


South African President Thabo Mbeki was scheduled to arrive in Zimbabwe's capital, Harare, on Saturday to mediate another round of face-to-face talks between the two bitter political rivals, the sources said.


The sources did not elaborate on the nature of the issues still separating the sides.
The region has been engulfed in politically motivated violence since the disputed March presidential elections.


All About Zimbabwe • Robert Mugabe • Morgan Tsvangirai

The STICK & POUND AGENDA

By birth, I am the direct beneficiary of the will and determination of my ancestors and of ancient african women of wisdom--a woman of power, of passion and compassion. As the uniqueness of my birthplace gave me a lifelong fascination with the origins and development of different peoples, cultures, customs, and varied spiritual beliefs of humanity. I have a deep respect for people's desire to be understood in their own terms.

My purposes as an artist is to serve humanity as a cultural ambassador. Stick & Pound bridges experience and knowledge with the psychology of learning as it explores the collective memories of many African cultures that are so very different and yet so much alike. It bridges cultures by integrating the traditional and the nontraditional with new ways of looking at life through multidimensional means of viewing, discovering and creating stories.

Melanie DeMore, Master Stick Pounder
San Francisco, CA - March 7, 2008

Whether its, San Francisco, Toronto http://documentarychallenge.org/, The Moari's New Zealand or Prizren, Kosovo's Dokufest, http://dokufest.com/ Stick & Pound is on a role and a journey without a destination. The sky is the limit. It's been on the road since it's inception March 6, 2008 in San Francisco. Stick & Pound screens this week August 4-10, 2008 in Kosovo. I wish I could be there in the physical, but I'm definitely there in spirit. I know my ancestors are smiling down on me. But don't worry, you may still have your chance to see it here in the U.S. There will be a screening of Stick & Pound, Doggie Style, and Tail at the Avalon Micro Film Festival Series in Sunnyvale, CA (August 30, 2008) Oakland, CA (October 18, 2008) and East Hampton, NY (TBA December, 2008). For details check out http://www.avalonstudios.org/whats_new.html
or for constant updates visit the the team's website at: http://itdonnedonme.com/

First stop, Toronto's Hot Docs Screening where it received international award winning acclaim.

ONE MO GIN... (translation...one more time)

It's making leaps and bounds as other cultures embrace it. The world finally may be ready to listen to indigenous people. Where Stick & Pounds goes, history is constantly being made.

A Taste of Jazz

This year I made my first jazz video. It was taped at a live jam session in Berkeley in honor of and featuring Jazz Trumpeter, Rasul Siddik, an African American Brother who has lived in Paris, France for over a decade. He made a rare bay area appearance last fall (2007). Several of the bay area's best musicians came out to play and MacDIVA was definitely in the House. This a small piece of the video featuring piano man, Rudi Mwongozi.




PARIS ON THE WEST COAST