The Shifting Hours: A Scott Foley and Laura Horton Collaboration.

If you have an iPad, you should check out Katachi, an iPad magazine, and download the latest issue. Scott Foley and I have been working on a 12-part video series, The Shifting Hours, the first episode of which premiered this week (though I think the first three are actually available if you scroll through the feature).

Below is the promo that Scott did up (pretty bad-ass) -- get excited:

But We Emerge: A Scott Foley/Laura Horton Collaboration. Again.

Video by Scott Foley. Words by me!

Visions of ourselves find vigor in the calm of fresh air and fall colors. Enlivened senses stir us from our hiding spots -- inadequate havens in which we shelter ourselves from the malaise of ceaseless motion. Our everyday has left us haggard and barely breathing beneath an ever-growing layer of self-doubt. But we emerge.

When the world outside has become still, and our eyelids are not burdened by the weight of a slumber out-of-reach, we embrace our vitality once more. We find our moment. One moment to quietly reflect. One moment to allow our souls to float along the streams of the westerly winds and hover breathless in rays of afternoon sun.

I fantasize about this kind of paradise – the kind that breathes, the kind that cleanses, the kind that numbs our overheated nerves. I dream it takes our heartbeat back to an un-caffeinated pace and delivers the peace for which we so humbly pray.

You Are Here: Another Scott Foley/Laura Horton Collaboration.

Video work by Scott Foley. Words by me!

You’re not lost. You’ve simply forgotten it doesn’t matter what you’re looking for. All that matters is you’re here. Here because there, wherever you were that held whatever you’re getting away from, wasn’t enough for you or was too much for you. It let you down, or it tied you down, so you had to leave.

You’re not lost. You left aching to get away from something tired. Not thinking through the part about getting into something new. But you found something new. You found this. You found the ground you’re standing on. So you’re not lost. You are not misguided or mislead, not astray or wayward. You are here. With everything or nothing in front of you.

What do you choose?

Fading: A Laura Horton/Scott Foley Collaborative Effort.

Video by Scott Foley. Words by me!
--please excuse any grammatical errors... my Spanish skills are a bit lacking--

Cuartos vacios tienen una tendencia de causar una tendencia de insuficiencia en una persona: su felicidad no suficiente para borrar las sombras en los rincones, su imaginación no suficiente para pintar las paredes. Mientras les estiran sus pensamientos a alcanzar los rincones del cuarto para crear un ambiento menos amenazante, menos inmenso, destine, come si fuera una gota de sangre en un baño lleno de agua.

Pensamientos que usualmente pasan como el dolor de la piel después quitar una curita, ahora gotean en gotas coaguladas y se adhieran a las paredes y a los azulejos de techo como si fuera el moho negro.

Ella siente pequeña, mas pequeña que normal, mientra sus hombros se desploman a su cuerpo para escapar el escalo frío, y el resto de sus pensamientos se escapan a la carpeta para desparecer.


(Translation:)
Empty rooms have a way of making a person feel insufficient: her joy not enough to erase the shadows in the corners, her imagination not enough to paint the walls. As she stretches her thoughts to reach the corners of the room to try to make it feel less threatening, less massive, she fades like a drop of blood in a bathtub.

Thoughts that usually pass like the stinging of post=band-aid skin drip out of her in coagulated blobs and cling to the walls and ceiling tiles like black mold.

She feels small, smaller than usual. As her shoulders drop into themselves to avoid the chill, the rest of her thoughts spill out onto the carpet to disappear.