Don JuanDemantis

Just a little post to stay in the habit, and to get out of writing anything scriptwise.

Working on a goofy short with friends to get the juices flowing. It's called:

DonJuan DeMantis

The greatest lover mantisdom has ever seen. The greatest thing I've learned with it so far is how to rationalize spending money making styrophome mantises for a film project. Get your kids involved. My daughter's making the jewelery for the lady mantises, and we'll all make mantises tonight after dinner. My little girl is the sweetest. She's stringing beads for the necklaces and she turns and asks me, "Daddy, is this a very important movie." Of course I said yes, and explained how this is something we're all trying to learn. And I can see her brain going. Asking me questions like, "How is the mantis going to talk?" "How will it look like he's talking?" We walked around Walmart for an hour and a half and she helped me get things to make mantises. Initially we're looking for these plastic crap mantises and they only had one. It looked shitty, and the project would have been a waste of time. But we headed over to the craft section and she starts throwing ideas out--GOOD IDEAS. Not to sound condescending, but I was so amazed to see her actually working the problems out. How to make it work. She could see it. And we ended up coming up with a better project and something we all could work on. So short story long, spent a hundred bucks on mantis making materials, but turned it into a family project. Got a feeling that hundred bucks will pay off.

Anyway, DonJuan is the only mantis who doesn't get eaten by his lover. The rest is a secret.

Ps...anyone know how to put video on this thing?