TWEET REVOLUTION

I have been up the past couple of nights watching in fascination, horror and amazement as #iranelection scrolled by on my Twhirl and Twitter screens, as avatars slowly became a column of green — my Tweetdeck background is green so that’s really fun. And I am amazed that the invention/discovery/engine changing the world isn’t a hydrogen engine, affordable solar power, a way to zap waste, cure AIDs or the discovery of the Babel Fish, it’s Twitter — a simple service that connects people any way they want to connect to it…amazing, awe inspiring and a little scary. I bet governments are having meetings concerning what if #iranelection happened here and Great Britain has appointed a “Twitter czar” (I hate the use of the word czar in government positions; it’s lazy and inappropriate.)

Back to #iranelection, Twitter is a game changer. People are using it to make friends, plug products, exchange ideas, share links, support, learn, laugh, inspire, lead…Tweetdeck will translate tweets for you (I have done that for Hebrew, Japanese, German and Spanish) — it’s not a perfect translation, but a huge wall now has a window into the culture you want to connect with.

I have been trying to fit Twitter with a metaphor that works for my experience– and the one I came up with was college campus, with friends in various quadrants/classes that you can talk to when you’re in the sort of a mood you talk to that person in, or when you call up your movie going friend or your drinking or book buddy. There are friendships and flirtships and coteries. You meet people, you connect, you break up, you drift, you wonder, you roam, you howl at the moon, you learn the etiquette, you cheer for your team, you wake up the next morning and think what did I say, you create new patterns, you talk on a digital front porch, you smile, you LOL or LMAO, you frown, you : \ or ; ). And it’s voluntary — your Twitter quilt is what you make it.

And you stay up all night watching the world in a mix of green and flames and wonder…Twitter, campus or country? If the end of the world comes, I want my iPod Touch (with de Blob, darts and the complete works of Shakespeare), my cellphone and my Twitter peeps on my team. I’ll be the one with the twinkling green eyes, quoting Henry V’s St. Crispin Day speech…

“we tweeps, we happy tweeps”

Good night…that’s what too much Twitter + Shakespeare will get you.

JABBERWOCKY

hath been declared done; friends and family preview link coming soon. Yee Haw.

Now to find a film festival.

JABBERWOCKY MONSTER TEST

And the Jabberwocky monster no longer seems impossible: here’s a flaming foundation for effects.

CHEETAH GRUMP

Well, Cheetah Girls: One World not only gave me a curry craving, but it pushed we care about music videos and equal screentime past we care about script.  Was like the highlight reel for three different movies — I think the Sabrina Bryan branch had the most potential — interesting pauses for mixing in philosophies, plus physical comedy, a lonelypond staple and something that comforts me, personally, at moments like this when I’m starting to come down with something.  Maybe I can convince Gayle to break out Season 1 of Get Smart instead of more NBC chooses my Olympics events.  Oh yeah, plus the Cheetahs were missing that Kenny Ortega snap sizzle — be interesting to see what he does on the big screen with High School Musical 3.

 

Gullible and Twitchy after a hot afternoon shooting

INSOMNIA

URG…sounds like a caveman name or a Tim Taylor micro mini grunt — up too late.  Have been Twittering like a fiend — fun, fun — 140 characters or less is an interesting challenge.  Have not been sleeping; Pongo had to go to the vet and stay so bit stressful.  Is it mid- July already?  I miss Shakespeare a little, but not rehearsals.  Not sure what to do this weekend, but I’m behind on summer movies — Dark Knight, Mamma Mia or Kung Fu Panda at the $2 theatre…also should see Music Man — seems loud right now; the 76 trombones just went off in my ear.  Since WP does pictures, I’ll load one from this afternoon’s Gullible and Twitchy potential Tropfest sunflower animation session.  Cheers.