Times Of Crisis

These days, when a season is ending and another is about to begin in the middle of chaos and economic crisis all over the planet, things are getting tougher, casting a shadow on everything we’re doing and planning.

But even in times of crisis, the exciting, excited and stressed Red Feline Team met last week to eat cake, in celebration of Dani’s birthday, and to discuss the up and coming projects.

Dani showed up as if she had be thrown from a mountain. Jac made that comment when he saw her arrive.

She had been in a photoshoot for some campaign of which I have no details. According to her, she played a dead woman inside of a suitcase, half naked and bruised up. She didn’t have time to clean up before going to the meeting, she was in a hurry to make it in time, so the people in charge drove her directly to Jac’s house.

Jac took some pictures of her because he wanted to preserve the moment, it’s not always that you celebrate your birthday all beat up.

He also thought that the make-up person in charge did a pretty good job and he might want to meet her.

The meeting went well, they ate half of the tasty cake, drunk some juice, no one was in the mood for rum, as a matter of fact it’s been a while since they had rum during their meetings.

They will have some intense rehearsals for 69 and they will record a few comments from them all for the promotion of the campaign for Seditiosa. Not necessarily for the pitch, but he might use some of it.

As Amy did for the script 69, when she told Jac to explode it, she did the same for the pitch, she pointed to its flaws and suggested Jac put more work into it, that it would be worthy. So, as the good boy that he is, he’s following her suggestions.

So Jac decided to start the pitch video with the premise, as an introduction to the pitch:

WHAT IF JESUS HAD BEEN A WOMAN?

It will be a title and a voice over with some intriguing image.

He also decided to get physical again, all weekend, to finish fixing the house, it’s a mess. Working on moving the furniture and everything on it will help him think and to have the place ready for the rehearsals and all the planned work next week.

He also had a party, Saturday night, at a club where his son performed with his band… and celebrated his birthday. He joined the party at the club to celebrate the night, long time ago, when he sat at St Vincent Hospital in NY, in the same room where Edgar Alan Poe died, to have his newly born child hold his finger. A truly touching and scary moment in Jac’s young life.

https://fb.watch/f174sFACvZ/

Both, Erix and Dani are Leos. I think we celebrate all of our birthdays in doubles. Erix and Dani, Bea and Mila, Jac and I, Amy and Mireya… Simonne and Jac’s Dad.

The team met again this week, to go over the script for 69 and work on a couple of scenes to establish the characters and all that jazz. All of them have three characters to play, different characters, with extremely opposite personalities. Big task for the actors.

As they were going through all the work to prepare for the production of 69 Année Érotique and the fundraising for Seditiosa, things were not going well in general. A drop in the average monthly sales, that has become a critical issue, added to a perceived lack of real interest in what can be considered our fan base for the new Female Christ project, and a general indifference to my posts is making us consider some drastic changes that could affect how we operate.

I’m a pragmatic person, not leaning to emotional outbursts, in other words, I’m not a cry baby. From a strictly pragmatic position I look at the circumstances surrounding us and I see some clear points.

No comments to my posts at GIMP, one a year, maybe, which makes me loose interest in visiting and posting and making any efforts there. That’s a pragmatic point of view, maybe there’s no interest in what I have to say, period.
Very little reaction to our plans to produce the first ever big production values feature film about a Female Christ. So I think to myself, why bother?
A three month steady drop on our average sales all over, including Vimeo, Amazon and so on, which makes me think that the economy is really bad so people are not eager to get their movies like before. Not even if we put a big sale, so maybe the time to make movies about kitties is at hand. Jac puts a picture of one of his cats in FB and people go nuts. I put a picture of a beautiful naked woman on a cross and not even a wink.

All the above points can me debated, of course, it is possible that I was in a bad mood when I decided to look, objectively, at the issues I’m discussing. But it is also possible that the time is coming to think outside the neat little box we are in.

One example. I spend a good amount of time, every day, checking all the registrations at the GIMP forum to select the legit from the bots, hackers, spammers and so on. Out of 200 registrations I get, one is legit. So, why bother? I waste precious time. If I stop checking, they will just pile up but they wont waste my time and there won’t be any new registrations approved, ever, unless they contact me directly to get approved.

It’s nice to have a place where you can go share your proclivities… but it ain’t free for those maintaining it. There’s money and labor involved in running it and a little appreciation can go a long way… and it should bring in some benefits, I think.

Another example. I put a lot of good time writing my posts and I get one or two beautiful responses… and that’s it. And that’s in ONE forum, in the other not even the time of the day. Why bother?

I think I would get the same response if I post a picture and a couple of lines like.. hey… get our movies… or I simple put a picture with that message in it.

This might be the last extensive post that I’ll share outside of our site. If you want to know about how we’re doing, what we’re doing, how we’re doing it … come over and visit. And any discussions concerning the new productions will be with people who are supporting the work. I’ll announce the progress from time to time in forums and the like, and you are free to ignore it completely.

It’s very tiring to organize a party for no one to show up. What’s worse, the time I spend keeping a site up and running, I could use to write poetry, that no one will read, like my posts, just for my pleasure, or water the plants, or go feed some pigeons. At least the pigeons will be grateful and the plants won’t die.

Right. The time to put the effort where there are positive results is here. I might be sharing a link to our movies about cats new site soon.

One sure way of knowing the impact of my screaming post is to get a reaction to it… that is if anyone cares to read it.

One comment might help me change my mind. Two comments will go a long way to keep me going, no comments will mark the end of an era.