The Upcoming Attraction

Hello all,
I uploaded two new videos today, the prologue for my new series, Arranged To Be, and a music video the artist, The Wandering Endorphin, asked me to create for a song of his. It's taken me a few months, but I'm back.

I'm super glad others are excited about the new series. I was feeling kind of hesitant this afternoon when I uploaded it. I'm still very humbled and flattered by all the kind comments I recieve about Just One and I wasn't sure if there would be others out there interested in something new from me, but thanks to everyone for their kind words about this new project. I actually created half of the prologue back in 2007 and even created a first part to the series back in 2006. Obviously I've had this idea in waiting for a while! When I first got The Sims 2 I made stories using the in game camera and story book function. One of the stories I created was about an arranged marriage and I liked the idea so much that after I got into machinima, I always wanted to try it as a movie.

I'm excited about my characters and where this story will take me. The story is actually a way to challenge my thinking. Five years ago if I were to fill in the blank in this sentence: I'll be happy when I'm ____., the blank for me would be to be married. In the story of "Arranged to Be", Violet is a lot of me. I can't wait to fall in love and have a grand romantic story unfold before me. Years ago, that was everything to me. Marriage seemed like it would make my life perfect, I'd always be happy, and the things I don't like in myself would change. But as time passed and I matured, I took those rose colored glasses off and began thinking and dreaming beyond just being married. Yes, I still very much look forward to one day being a wife and having a family of my own. I often wonder what it will be like when I've finally found the guy I'm meant to be with, but until then I'm focusing on the bigger picture of my life and being the person I'm supposed to be. Those fluffy, sweet, romantic feelings won't last forever and there's a whole heck of a lot more to love and marriage than 'feeling happy'. That's emotion and it will pass. I want to experience love for what it truly is and that means selflessness, sacrifice, patience, compromise and so much more than most realize.

But I asked myself what would it be like to have your dreams of love and marriage crushed? To be forced into an arranged marriage and possibly never experience the kind of love you hoped for? Arranged marriages still happen today and I just can't imagine my husband being picked out for me. Maybe I'm just too much of a romantic, but I think that I'd have to be dragged kicking and screaming to that kind of wedding. Therein lies Violet's viewpoint. How will she react? The series will be more of novel, focusing on Violet and her thoughts. And maybe some have already figured out the general story from beginning to end, but I hope that it will be much more. I want viewers to come away with something from the series. You are after all giving me at least ten minutes out of your day.