Best. Show. Ever.

I just finished watching the final episode of the fifth and final season and the whole thing is amazing. I'm not exaggerating here when I say it's the best thing I've seen on T.V. It's just brilliant storytelling. It's so layered and rich and realistic - granted I've never worked for the police, in the drug trade, down at docks, in inner city schools, as a politician or at a newspaper (although I did have a paper route when I was eleven), so maybe I don't know if they actually got those things right. But I do know that it's like nothing else I've seen and it feels realistic, and I'm not talking about the camera work here. The stories, the characters, the frustration, the day to day, it all feels...familiar. I really can't say enough about it. Seriously, I feel like if you watched this series and then told me you didn't like it, I'd honestly have to re-consider our friendship.

You can read more about the series in this New Yorker article (among other places I'm sure), but I'm warning you, if you haven't watched the full series yet there are some plot points given away - I read this article before I finished season three and was not pleased to be told the fate of some characters. So on second thought, forget the articles and just go buy, borrow or steal this series.

It's worth it.

Editing is hard

A little while ago I filmed my first real short film, it's got the working title La Mano Des Dios. The filming went great, all the actors were wonderful, the location was perfectly, the weather held and we got it done in a day. Since then I've been huddled over my mac editing the thing together and it's a lot harder then I expected. Granted I made some errors in the filming - too much coverage on this scene, not enough on that one, etc. - but I completely underestimated the difficulty of editing. I'm enjoying it though, even if the learning curve (for me) is a bit steep.

Here's a couple of images from the set.

I'm really excited about this little piece and hopefully I can make it look on the screen like it does in my head.

The Ministry Establishes Itself

Here I am becoming a citizen of, the very populated, blogland. As usual I'm late - that's a lie, I'm usually very punctual but for this I am late. Very late.

I could go into what this blog will be about but really I don't fully know yet. In the description I've given myself the very specific parameters of film, theatre, fashion and thoughts. Which pretty much sums up my major interests - except for thoughts, I really have no interest in those...that.

My only pledge is to not have this blog join the others in the vast "I've started a blog" purgatory that takes up much of the blogosphere. I visited many a blog with only one post that was created and abandoned in 2002. I will try my damnedest to avoid that being the fate for The Ministry of.

Here's an image of what I've joined, and, if you're reading this, what you're likely apart of...



I'm pretty sure that this blog is the big white spot in the centre right next to the number 1. Pretty damn sure.

Illustration of blogosphere by Matthew Hurst