That’s what they say:  Art is never truly finished, only abandoned.

Most movies aren’t generally considered art to mainstream folk* but the sentiment still applies.

The idea is that at some point, the amount of effort put into improving or making a piece of art (or movie) better, outweighs how much it will be improved. It becomes inefficient and not worth the time to continue “tinkering”.

Athenon confers with the Oracle.

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Sandy, Cindy, Mindy and Mandy - the Sexy Merceneries / Winged Monkeys

This post is a combo recap on Legend of Oz shooting day 20, as well as a Legend of Oz flashback post for SD 12.

August 29, 2009. Shooting Day 12. Three scenes to get done. Uncooperative weather. Cast and crew withdraw to an old brick house to wait for it to clear up a bit but that never happens. The day was lost.

The way scheduling worked out, the soonest we could reschedule that shooting day was August 22, 2010. One year less one week later. Welcome to shooting day 20.

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Some of the absolutely brilliant folks who worked on Untamed Lands.

Met up with Maura today. (One of our actors from Untamed Lands, who did some on set photography for Legend of Oz.) We chatted for a while (like an hour and a half – good times) then she was kind enough to come make-up shopping with me. I think I’ll leave writing about the “Great Dark Powder Hunt” to her, but the reason for the hunt was that, somehow, I’ve inherited make-up duties this weekend. ["Somehow." - I make it sound so mysterious when it really isn't.]

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