People

Dealing with people does not come easy to me. I have learned through many unpleasant experience that I have trouble acting unintimidated and people do read that. This was a big reason why I did not choose to go into the creative field earlier in my life was. However, I am constantly working on what I perceive as a shortcoming and I'm glad I have the opportunity, ability to grow.

This video entails some of my efforts.

Set Back

It was the classic mistake. Somehow, I lost my 5 hours work of edits on Doritos.
It happened despite the fact that I was very careful and made backups. Sigh.
It could have been worse, a lot worse, so I should be thankful that I was able to redo all the work in good time. It still took 8 hours.

Trust

One reason that I think I'm on the right career path is because this path really makes me want to trust myself more. Self trust seems to be the single answer to doing creative work.

The shoot

So I feel like I passed a mile stone: The filming of my most ambitious project yet. 21 cast and crew.

PHOTO: This is a picture of the cast/ crew pushing the car. I like this picture because its documentary like quality is so opposite of what is expected from a Doritos ad. Indeed the mood our commercial will be nothing like the picture.

Doritos

I got the 20 bags of chips at Walmart. Our shoot is coming up in two days.

For those who don't know what this is about: Norman and I are making a Doritos commercial

to submit to the Doritos Crash the Superbowl Contest. Six winning ads play during the Superbowl. Submissions are due by Nov. 15th, so I'm suspecting that this Saturday hundreds of Doritos ads will be shot all over the U.S.

If I win it will change my life. If I don't, then, life goes on. As for now, Doritos is consuming my life.

Inspiration

Hillman Curtis inspires me in many ways. He thinks visually. He is honest. He started late.

I bought two of his books in 2007 when I was frustrated with continuing my path of being an administrator. Since then, every time I work on a project, I turn to these two books for inspiration.

Recently, it came to my attention that his company Hillman Curtis Inc. created the Bobbi Brown Cosmetics Pretty Powerful Campaign where my video was selected as a semi finalist.

It was weird to think that Hillman might have actually seen my work. One day, I want to inspire others with my work like Hillman did for me.

Kindness

A vital part of our Doritos commercial is the heap. Where in the world would I find this junker for our no-budget ad?

Luckily, after a few phone calls, I got to find out that Leann's dad, Arnold-- I know Leann from St. John's church--had this beauty in Morton, TX where he lives. Leann and her husband David drove me up to Morton, a two hour round tirp. Not only that, Arnold kindly volunteered to mount the car on his truck and haul it down to our location in Lubbock. I can't tell you how thankful I am to these folks. I think God is helping in ways like this.