a warm gun is the personal web site of multimedia artist and resident geek Ian Adams, based out of Seattle, WA. The page you’re seeing shows all posts in the “Personal” category.
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As you’re probably aware, a week or so ago I sent an email to Sen. Patty Murray asking her to endorse Barack Obama. I finally got a response today. Here it is:
Politics, Frustration, Personal 
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I wrote this email this morning to Senator Murray, who represents my state. I’m posting it here for posterity’s sake.
So they pulled my application for film school. At the 11th hour, an unpaid medical bill from 2002 was reported on my credit report (funny how they waited 5 years to report it, as I would have paid it earlier had I known of it), which dropped my credit score below the threshold needed to qualify for a student loan by myself. Without any means of paying tuition, my attempt to go to the Vancouver Film School has ultimately failed.
But I’m not giving up on my dream. I’m just having to rethink how I’m going to accomplish it. Increasingly, it’s looking like next year I’ll move down to Los Angeles to try to break in there. In the meantime, I’ll have to work on the skills I’d have learned in school and build a demo reel on my own. This is a somewhat daunting task, as I was looking forward to not having budget be as much of an issue, since equipment and expertise would be provided by the school. But I am determined, and while I may not be able to go to film school, I will nevertheless complete my career transition into film.
It is a long road, but one which I am determined to walk.
Canada, Frustration, Film, Personal Comments off
I went to a funeral today for my Uncle Stacey. I was very close with him, and so I had a lot of things I wanted to say. I said them, and it felt good to say them. Cathartic. I poured my heart into my eulogy, and I firmly believe every word I said.
As anyone who’s been reading my site for the past six months knows, I’ve got a serious case of iPhone fever. I’m totally obsessed with it, and plan on buying one as soon as I am able to. That said, I’m not in line today and I’m not buying one today.