- 9:40 PM, Friday, May
9th, 2025:
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- Dude this week. Last
night at 7:15 they cancelled my flight for this morning.
Just up and said “sorry about this, but it
doesn’t exist now.” They rebook me for the
following day?!? So I’d get into Vegas Saturday at
4:15pm and leave Vegas Saturday at 8pm? What the fuck. So
I just book another flight (now out of LAX instead of
Burbank - wonderful) and hope to fight for a refund
later.
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- Then I didn’t
sleep because I’m just angry about all of this. The
entries are locked but long story short: the paid gig I
thought I had turned into simply: “hey, come up to
Vegas and show people the reel!”. And of course
I’m grateful for that, but now we’re just
repeating what I’ve been doing with teams for over a
year, except it’s $500 per meeting. I mean I keep
this to myself, I’m just laying in bed angry. Well
Cam’s bed because he’s sick and in our bed.
I’m hitting my knees cause I put Cam in a goddamned
crawlspace and THAT makes me angry. He should have his
own fucking room. I mean it’s a pretty cool room,
but the struggle is hitting me. I even say to myself:
“Adam you have to change your perspective quickly or
you’re gonna screw this up.” I do. I don’t
sleep but I get on the plane and I start playing out the
day in my head.
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- I get there and meet
my contact and start shooting B-roll of the field. Pete
finds me and we start talking about shots and then
practice starts. I get some great stuff (I think,
haven’t seen it) but it was crazy sunny, crazy hot
and difficult to shoot to say the least. I mean
you’re pretty blind when shooting this mobile (you
can’t add external monitors because of weight) but
in this sun? It’s actually blind. I’ll find out
if I nailed it tomorrow.
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- I then go out with
fellow VR filmmaker Carl McLarty (look him up) and my
friend Patrick who are both local and get to hang while
my files are processing. Patrick found me through Fastest
Delorean and then found the journey movies and has
followed this crazy story ever since. Carl of course
knows the ups and downs of the VR180 world so it was nice
to talk to someone about the trials and tribulations of
this format. He’s a world traveler (as is Patrick)
and we spent most of our time talking about
that.
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- Get back to my hotel
and figure I should probably make a journey video…
let’s post that here:
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- It's weird because,
for most people this would be an extraordinary day... but
because of what it was supposed to be - it just becomes
another free shoot, another great response, and another
few months of back and forths hoping THIS time Pete
being on my side will pay off. It has to, right?
I MEAN...
HOW DOES ANYTHING GET DONE?!?!?
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- Alright, I'm
fading... curious to see the footage but honestly just
ready to go home and put together the NEW reel for
whomever I’m meeting when I come back.
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- (sigh)
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- Adam
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