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Okay, documentarians, we’re back:
LOOK DIFFERENT: Episode 03: THEME: Reimagine
WHAT: A Quarterly Meetup for Triangle Documentary Filmmakers 
🗓  April 01, 7:30 PM
📍 Shadowbox Studio (): 2200 Dominion St, Durham, NC 27704
🎤 Guest Host Brandon Marsh ( , also the creator of the surreal Durham image above 📸🎨)

SKED:
🎬 Screenings - mini-fragments of docs that reimagine things…
And then…Spend some time socializing with other documentary filmmakers.

First Time? Please RSVP: .https://forms.gle/9o29VQptUhn5zKUZA (link in some of our bios)

Questions? DM us!

Series Programming by:
Saleem Reshamwala ( ) & D.L. Anderson ( )
Sponsored by Southern Documentary Fund ( )

a very small morning thought

Out here as part of the AudioFlux 2024 cohort presenting a new 3-minute piece today at at VCU!
1) the cohort!
2) conference kickoff and slide showing that they pressed an AudioFlux best-of to vinyl 🤯 (daaaang that would be amazing to be pressed on vinyl, maybe someday 🤞)
3) notes from a talk on the physicality of sound by Ellen Horne (‘Sound is touch over distance’…Will be thinking on that line for awhile)

1) shoutout to Moto Studio Harare, Zimbabwe for inviting me to do a filmmaking workshop, we talked creative process, pitching, and ways to make films that break the standard non-profit templates
2) temporary edit bay setup here at the Zimbabwe College of Music 👋 Grateful to everyone who’s helped make this happen

🇿🇼Doing some workshops at Moto Studio, Harare!

To prep for our interview with happiness researcher Ilona Suojanen, I thought about what little things make a day happy for me, and made this odd little checklist in slide 1, a five question quiz for myself to see if I've done some things I know make me feel good.

Laughing, eating, seeing birds, moving, eating with people...I was honestly surprised at how simple the list is. I know that being able to do even these simple things is a privilege (For example, I am safe at home and the news is full of people who are being forced to leave their homes).

Ilona also had me take photos of things that made me happy at a few moments throughout the day.

-I sit on my back porch some mornings and this flower blooms there, and sometimes a hummingbird visits it right in front of me, like I was...i dunno a weird Disney princess or something.

-Friends sitting on that same porch. Just sitting.

-A kid showing me a drawing

-A tiny drum machine behind my desk

We talked about how happiness is measured, when and how that works and when it's complicated, and whether we can be happy knowing those around us aren't.

I want to think more about all these things. I want to know what things you'd list today.