I’m sure I’m not the only one feeling this way but wouldn’t it be great if there were more hours in the day? I would love to be able to do more and blog and vlog more but there’s always something that needs attention.

Anyway, we decided to take a one-day weekday breather from our serious projects to have a little fun and make a short. Being a typical fool, the day I chose was 1 April (2005). The day was not as spring-ish as it could have been, rain clouds threatened most of the day and the damp was felt through to the bone.

A day or two before I called a few friends and the plan was to shoot a short film on 1 April at Union Square Park. We met for breakfast at Coffee Shop to sort the details for the shoot since there was no other prep, we buttoned down the plan over pancakes and coffee. I did remember the to contact the NYC mayor’s film office and get a permit as we’d be shooting in one spot for most of the day.

We kinda knew what we’d be shooting, the only thing we were now missing was the talent. This was not a problem though as Union Square Park is filled with people coming and going and we would simply recruit on the spot. Our goal was to make a mini documentary, one showing how cool people from New York are about spontaneously collaborating on a project.

Surprisingly some people already knew their lines. This was particularly serendipitous for us as well as them as they did not know they were going to be in a film and we didn’t pre-announce our plan. And for peeps who did not come ready with their lines we had crib cards. We all had a great time, it’s fun making a film with random NY’ers.

Anyway, here’s how it went: Jabberwocky (quicktime .mov faststart)

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