The Girl with Kaleidoscope Eyes

This is a test. This is a test of will, patience, and on-the-spot creativity. This is only a test.

The pair of 3-D glasses is a relic from the summer. It was an air-conditioned matinee screening of Coraline. Definitely one of the top five movies I saw in 2009. (The list would also have to include, Ponyo, Star Trek, and Up.) Mm. Maybe the glasses came from Up.

I punch out the thin plastic lenses from the frame and I use a pen to trace the shape on a sheet of green screen paper. Use small scissors to cut out the shapes and use Scotch tape to stick them on.

Zip zip. Wear this! :) I'll somehow try to turn this into Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds...in Post. Tammy laughs.

It's only a test.

The idea is to sync up the audio at the tail...so it would enable the camera to wander around a bit BEFORE revealing the source.

I don't know what's happening to the music as I'm puttering about in the kitchen. I'm just hoping for the best. I'm trying out this flash. This whim, this dream. I can't think of anything else to do. And this is something we have to do in the next hour. All that daytime was eaten up by making and testing the glasses.

Only to get to that moment, when the camera gets to Tammy... And realize, a lot of power is gone because I can't see her eyes!

And there's a kind of Stevie Wonder swagger there. Not quite what I had in mind. It's an exercise. It's a "make something right now" moment. It guess it's less of a test and more like a pop quiz.



wrap around
by Tammy Lin Foreman

work like dogs
until we die
complicated knots to tie
need more fingers
so that I
can wrap around my
wrap around my wrap around my
thoughts sometimes
in such a mess
only when I second guess
feels better when I confess
it is so endless is so endless is so endless...
waves wash over me
watered down words we
catch-phrase
catch myself confused
should have refused
should have refused
the temptation to
tie my tongue
hang-over from being young
do what you're told
and you'll get some where
it's just not fair, it's not fair...
that we work like dogs
until we die
complicated knots to tie
need more fingers so that I can
wrap around my wrap around my wrap around my...