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This blog has been sleeping since October-November 2012 when I had to drop everything and return to Santa Fe for personal reasons. It's June of 2013. Life is coming back to where it once was. In the meantime the focus has changed from BETWEEN LIFETIMES to ECLECTING WITH ORREN & ROBERT. Funding is the measure of moving forward. We have had to make some adjustments. 

Back in the forest in Santa Fe (Click image)

Yesterday, 21 Paraguayan women, victims of the international human traffic were liberated in an operation through the State Police in Santa Catarina, Brazil.

Each of them is Maria in BETWEEN LIFETIMES / EL RIO DE LAS VIDAS. It is just amazing that this roller coaster keeps on moving as we live our parallel lives. We need to tell this story. And we will.

Far away at the edge of the world, our same world...

Today, we are searching for actors who can speak Spanish or Spanish speaking actors who speak English for the part of Jude. We found a few names and one surprise to me. 

One of Jude's lives

Yes there is a bit of German too, and Hebrew, and Arabic.

The quiet evenings in Montauk are such a contrast to the bustle of New York. It is evocative to step again in the ocean after having left Sayulita, Mexico in 2010, thousands of miles away, so far apart that as the season winds up here, it is about to start in Sayulita and Vallarta, at least 3000 miles fom Long Island. I was looking for locations in Sayulita for BETWEEN LIFETIMES, before I decided to film it in Paraguay. The two deciding factors were that I know people in Paraguay, and the escalating violence in Mexico.

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The sunrise in Montauk is... no need to explain. We were here on a private party to make the lighthouse part of the national monument registry. There were senators, socialites, and Montauk residents. Bill Clinton was mentioned, but he never appeared. The real treat was the lighthouse and the vastness beyond.

How can one explain a crazy afternoon? A very synergistic mayhem on 57th and 5th with Orren and Robert, right in front of Louis Vuitton and some happy fans. What a fantastic job by Yayoi Kusama!! The sparks of New York light up every inch of space... should anyone doubt which one is the best city in the world...

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Today, the experience at the Javits Center was just perfect. Orren and Robert were there with Alexis Bittar, the jewelry boy wonder from Brooklyn. Even Iris Apfel, the design and fashion maven came. Iris might just outlive all of us.People stopped for autographs. It was a little party within a party.

One happy get-together full of jewels...no pun intended

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The first leg of the trip to Paraguay started -Santa Fe to New York. Nothing lke a needed road trip to see the country and to feel the distance between the Southwest and the Northeast.

New Mexico of Course. Click on picture to enlarge

Had not seen that eastern fog in the early morning for a while. Click on picture to enlarge.

And of course Manhattan. 

And accomplishing several tasks every day as the countdown approaches for the Southamerican trek. 

Life is starting to fire up slowly again.  Mary and I went to the forest. For some reason I noticed the new growth. I guess it's reflective of new energy growing inside as well. I'm grateful.

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Quick trip and on my way back to Santa Fe from Miami, I made a quick stop in New Orleans. Where it all began, here in the United States, right on St. Charles Ave. It was good to see Jay at Loyola. I missed Claudio at the French Quarter. Another day perhaps. Just clearing out the residue from the Aztec saga. So, it felt good to later get lost in Louisiana, somewhere west of Lafayette.

Planing the rest of the year. Colorado in June. Paraguay in July/August, New York in September. We just bought another camera (Sony) and the slate arrived yesterday.

I emailed to a friend in Paraguay. She found a  wild life preserve that might come in really handy when we are on location there.


My move is coming to an end. I tossed many things away, found more pictures for locations, put many things away in boxes. It is time for a fresh reading of EL RIO DE LAS VIDAS.  But now, I am having a delicious dinner with my friend Gustav Alsina in his house in Cordova, NM., an old remodeled church --the perfect place to live for a set designer.