After some rest, we visited our friend Mohsin whose eye was injured a while back.

Qurbani is an annual thing here, and a lot of the meat is distributed to those in need as well as relatives. It is a huge spectacle here because it is done out in the open like this.

It was raining this morning. Kristeen stayed home. I grabbed the umbrella and head out after breakfast. As usual, I crossed the street and waited to flag down a passing Qing-Qi

Digitizing tapes, but here's a bazar

13 tapes need to be patched and 10 need to be digitized completely. Well, that’s a start.

I went back and digitized some more tapes on Saturday. This is my life until I finish this step.

The process is, walking from shop to shop, asking about the items I am looking for and usually spending a while to explain what those things are, followed by a quick shake of the head ‘no’ or being directed to some other shop.

I spent the day digitizing dv tapes. 2 or 3 digitized fine, but the rest have dropped frames which means when you play them back there are clearly spots missing.

So, it turned out that the “client” was not the client. There were at least 3 levels of approvals, with no direction or connection in between. The pressure came off.

The client came in to look at the cloud shot and offered a vastly different direction to the many I had been chasing down on previous days.

I had suggested that it might be better for someone else to take the shot as nothing I had created seemed to be in the unclear direction that the client wanted. With quick turn around projects, it is important to make decisions to switch tasks, methods or even artists quickly to save time.

I spent the day redoing the shot several times. Each attempt involves recreating the many layers and reworking how they look based on each change of the camera or overall movement change.

I needed to create some clouds to fly through for a shot.

We head over to Hafeez Center to get a single cable to replace the cable with two adapters I was using. As usual, you walk to several shops, explain what you want, reexplain, and after a couple of minutes they tell you no, there is nothing like that in existence. Then they look away like you have disappeared.

To hear the challenges regarding work prospects and how people are trying to build their futures outside the country is sad and interesting.

Let’s see how many obstacles I need to get around to accomplish that.

It is sweet to see my relatives and enjoy a nice meal together. In the afternoon, we head over to Shalimar Gardens.

It was good to work on some more tests. Every round brings me closer to being able to work on the puppetry portion of the film.