I’ve been gone a long time.
I started graduate school and it just took over my life.
They really weren’t joking.

My last semester was super intense, 3 films is 3 months essentially.

Currently I am writing sketches and pilots with my school friend Courtlin, while I also am interning for Arad Productions.
Arad is run by the producers of The Amazing Spider-Man as well as other Marvel films and also are adapting a few video games. All top secret of course.

Tonight there is a special screening on the Sony lot for an upcoming film we are releasing so that will be pretty cool.

I’m also saving money to take classes at Upright Citizen Brigade, to try to hone my funny.

Next semester I will be a production designer on a quirky short about a kid too smart for his own good.

Now that it is summer time, I hopefully will be uploading more creative content. Let’s hope.

Awww yeah…

While during my undergrad studies at SAIC we’d always get really excited when one of the prints had a China Girl, so I was really excited when I stumbled across this entry at IRIS about 2 ladies making art about these women on film.

Check it out over at IRIS

I feel bad I haven’t been updating.
Grad school!

I just shot my second film: Back Door Man

So to treat myself and celebrate the new Harry Potter I got a manicure!

You go girl!

An assignment for class was to create 20 triggers for film ideas.
I got a little silly:

20 Triggers

1. A meth addict drugs wife’s food with the drug to not be on his high alone.
2. A dog runs away from home and joins a group of ragtag train hopping bandits.
3. A woman is haunted by ghosts killed by the gun that gave her, her fortune.
4. An old folk tale of a mermaid living in the lake comes to life as a group of teenagers are on a fishing trip.
5. A man moves into a new house and finds a skeleton in the attic, which comes to life and they fall in love.

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While Hayley and I were put up our Halloween decorations (pics, forthcoming) we met a neighbor who spoke of a loose chicken. After she left we saw said chicken.

What is funny is that Exal just commented on my neighbors building a chicken coop.

Loose Chicken in South Central from Kali Heitholt on Vimeo.

Most Morose Ice Cream Truck from Kali Heitholt on Vimeo.

Trying to be a good friend I have been making packages for Victoria. Since I was being so awesome she said she’d send me some stuff. I requested a Monster card, because she had this incredible Wolfman card in her apartment that I was really jealous of.

She came through:

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Almost every year I make a trip back to Columbia, Missouri.
One of the last years before many of my friends left was in 2007.
My friend Taylor told us about an abandoned military school (which I’ll post later on) and an abandoned silo, that now seem to be used as a party house and satanic temple. We decided to make a day trip out of it.

During the day the silo seemed like a remnant of hard-work in another time desecrated by graffiti and evil-doers. I imagine if we were there at night I would be scared out of my mind. The farmers in the field didn’t mind us, as if girls always came to this spot to take pictures.