You know what's a really dumb idea? Thinking that less than three weeks before the start of the Tribeca Film Festival that I would have time to properly do a week of Gothamist Interviews. Even dumber? To think that I can accomplish this while my trusted partner (and more importantly, big time editor) is off galavanting in Greece covering the 7th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival for indieWIRE.
Oh, we're in some trouble now, I dare say. I mean look: it was only a week ago when I said how I was going to try really hard to at least come here and spit out some sort of content on a regular basis, and suddenly, here we are a whole week later already.
Well, the fact is that aside from the fact that my brilliant fifth interview subject (a real coup, in fact) seems to have fallen through (so I will be scrambling for someone interesting), we actually have a great week of interviews for you starting today with photographer Vincent Skeltis. I actually had less-than-normal to do with this one; Lily had the contact and went to see his exhibition in Williamsburg a few weeks ago. But wow! What a fascinating guy with some -- shall we say gripping? -- experiences, and an interesting perspective on life, the world around him, and his own experiences. It would be easy to dismiss Vincent as one with the stereotypical story of the tortured, tragic artist, but there's something about him that comes out in his responses which to me seems, for lack of a better term, very real, and again, to me, it's a reality with which I'm quite unfamiliar, but certainly curious.
This week, I actually will be here every day providing the links to the interviews. Hopefully, I'll get them all done. Hopefully, I'll do so while also getting some sleep. Hopefully, this week will move at a slightly slower pace than the last two.
See, that's an example of not being "very real." That was being full of hope. Really ... oh, am I in trouble!
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