update: new video in progress (with script preview!) (Patreon)

hey folks! i am writing to you now from the sovereign nation of texas with a quick update on Circumstances and Events. first off, no, god no, i have not moved to texas. this sojourn from the pnw is utterly temporary, my gf and i are just staying at a friend's house for a while to recover and decompress after three months in perpetual anxiety. we still have not found a place, but we're working on it.

in the meantime, i've started work on an experimental video tentatively titled STATIC CRISIS, which will bear more than a passing emotional resemblance to my vid from last year titled Prison Of Your Own Loneliness. however, rather than looking to make any particular argument, STATIC CRISIS is going to be a gestalt of thoughts and ideas and experiences i've had over the last three months. the thing with this one is, my laptop is not beefy enough to handle a lot of the really wild editing i'm normally inclined towards with stuff like this, so i've designed it conceptually to be, uh... well, you'll see.

i've so far recorded about two hours of audio, mostly me rambling at various hours of the day, and maybe about 30 minutes of video? i have a feeling that's about half what i'll end up needing.

it's hard to estimate how long this one will take. my HOPE is to have it out pretty quick? but i'm only starting the edit today, and this one's largely unscripted so i can't really know until i get a complete picture of what i'm doing and where i'm going.

this is gonna be a video about feeling powerless in the face of complete collapse. it's about the summer i've had, and that we as a society have had, and that we are all going to continue to have for the rest of our lives (in a MOSTLY symbolic sense) unless something changes. attached to this post is the half-written script i've got so far, which may or may not be used in the video it's a script for. i'm of two minds about it as i don't want to give the viewer any easy outs; that is, i don't want the reaction to be "wow sarah, it sounds like you've had a rough time." i don't want to make another video that's just about me, you know? we'll see how it shapes up though. gonna find this one in the edit and report back to you when i know more.

one thing i will say, i've got some really cool shots for this one. visually speaking, this is a video about light. it's gonna be abstract, to say the least:

on the subject of the genderpunk podcast, it's still in active development. we're trying to hammer down exactly what we want this show to be, though i think we've got a good idea for the first episode at the very least. we'll see what happens! hopefully we'll start releasing those sometime this month.

one last note: my gf just posted a really great article deconstructing the film Jennifer's Body in the context of the post-9/11 Bush era. this is a painfully underexplored dimension of what is already an underexplored film, and i think she does a good job expanding the scope of her discussion to something much more broadly culturally relevant. it's also, i think, a good preview of the tone a lot of my stuff is gonna take, just as soon as shit calms down for like a second.

i want to thank everyone who pledged or increased their pledges since i posted the Bo Burnham piece. for as bad as things have been lately, they would be immeasurably worse if i couldn't rely on y'all's support. i do not know how i got so lucky that so many of you have stuck around through so much non-activity on my part, so thank you. i'm hopeful that your patience will be rewarded at last in the very near future.

take care of yourselves.