Attn Chitown: the late-April 2007 Version Art Festival is to be entitled “We’re Rollin’, They’re Hatin’” and according to the esteemed FLOG!, is set to examine “the role of Dungeons and Dragons, Escapism and Fantasy in contemporary art and culture.” Apparently the organizers fee that “Notable installations include a castle, a cave (which doubles as the entrance to the basement dungeon), a catapult and a dragons nest.”
Sprung
It is 70 degrees out without a cloud in the sky.
Noted
After a fair amount of painful searching through the rubble of relisting software sites I finally found TextPad, which is ninble and does grep just fine. I needed to do a bunch of string replacing on a pretty big file, over a meg, and the normal apps, including word, were choking on the replacement big-time. TextPad whacked it out in a total of ten seconds of user-time. Right on.
Casting
We held casting auditions for the film today at the Shoreline Historical Society, and thanks to the hard work of Greg and Joey, saw the impressive talents of about forty actors. We had a wealth of talented and attractive performers for the female lead, but much fewer for the male roles. Happily, two of the guys that gave it a shot were nothing short of electrifying. We have one more day full of ac-TING to get through, but by the time the sun sets on Sunday the film should be fully cast.
It was interesting to see the sides from a script I’ve read at least five times in various stages read by people with the chops to actually bring Greg’s characters to life. It was even more interesting to realize that the jokes in the script are still funny to me. I sure hope that means the script has the legs we hope it does.