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The second issue is going to be released sometime soon in CD form and I think this little feature might just help me get the word across about the magazine.
The CD will include lots of awesome short films, original music by the featured musicians, and the PDF file of the magazine. If you are interested in contributing, just e-mail me at youshall AT witnessouryouth DOT com.
- For writers, you might be interested in submitting to our Ten-Minute Stories project. Write a fiction or non-fiction story in, well, ten minutes and send it to us complete with the date, time, and location.
- For photographers and artists, since the theme is Strangers for issue two, submit a photo or artwork of a stranger or strangers you have encountered anywhere in the world. You may also include a short description.
- For filmmakers, if you have any short film that deals with strange people, strange places, strange things, please email us about it. We’d love to include it in our CD.
- For everyone else, if you have an idea that you would like to share with us for a possible inclusion in issue two, don’t hesitate to let us know.
There will be another launch event for issue two with awesome bands and a meet and greet with the featured artists. More information soon!
Sebastian from Zet Diaz on Vimeo.
You can now watch my final film for the New York Film Academy on Vimeo. This is the result of three weeks’ worth of work and a looot of love. This would not have been possible if it weren’t for the help of my lovely friends and our awesome directing teacher, Omar Samad.
Well, it took a whole night of Tumblr downtime just for me to get back here. Which I understand is quite sad and a bit telling of how my focus tends to shift from one thing to another. I once so unbelievably believed that I could maintain both this WordPress blog for longer, more elaborate entries and my Tumblr for the shorter, more mundane thoughts. I ended up dumping everything in there and on Twitter, too. Internet, you complicate my life.
Anyway. Big things are about to happen. First, my online magazine (Witness Our Youth) is about to officially launch on August 14. And if you think about it, August 14 is not that far away. I honestly haven’t finished the whole magazine layout because I have been juggling it along with other things I have to do such as my real, paying work and my documents for film school. My paycheck will go straight to the WOY launch anyway so what the heck. I have so many things to lament about.
The launch planning and magazine completion of WOY aren’t going as smoothly as I would like them to. The reason is because I am doing both on my own. I’ve tried begging for help via SMS, but I’ve been ignored. Le sigh. The little help I’ve gotten so far came from friends who were just plain concerned and nice — Carina, Mikki, Adi, Toby, my mom— and I’m really glad they’re there for me when I’m feeling a little too down. Perhaps, I was meant to experience this kind of difficulty to realize what I’m capable of and what I’m not. The WOY launch is my first event ever and if it goes well, maybe there’ll be a second? If it fails, then.. I don’t even want to think about it. But a really huge part of me thinks it will succeed because of my good friends who never fail to support. And now I refuse to get anymore melodramatic.
Second, I’m leaving in a few months for film school and I’m feeling quite uneasy/nervous. I don’t want to end up spending a crazy amount of money for nothing so I’m really trying to prepare for it as much as I can. I’ve been writing short scripts and taking down notes whenever ideas strike and it’s really good practice. I think I’m going to keep doing this even after film school.
Not that interesting, right?
These are the latest things in my life right now that I’m trying to deal with. I hope I come out of these gracefully and with no regrets.
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