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Metamorphosis
The only thing that's certain in life is change
This blog has been going for over 10 years and was my gateway to developing as an artist. I originally called it "Finding the Artist that Is..." as a play off my last name.
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New Music Video!
So proud and excited to share the news that the band Giant Kitty, featured in my short film ACID TEST, asked me to direct their music...
Jenny Waldo
Apr 15, 20161 min read
Book Review: Children of the Darkness
Review David Litwack’s Children of the Darkness offers a lyrical, well-structured, and well-written dystopian story about the power of...
Jenny Waldo
Dec 22, 20152 min read
Why this project? Why now?
There’s a lot of work that goes into making a movie – short or long – and I know it’s a choice I make to do it, especially when it’s...
Jenny Waldo
Dec 11, 20155 min read
Support Short Films! ACID TEST
We are producing the upcoming short film ACID TEST about a teenage girl who drops acid at a concert only to go home and confess to her...
Jenny Waldo
Nov 18, 20154 min read
To be or not to be…Casting
I’m currently casting for an upcoming short film that I’ve written and will direct. As a writer/director, I both love and hate the...
Jenny Waldo
Oct 12, 20153 min read
Girls and Their Dolls
When my daughter was around 3, she created what my father liked to call “Confederate Graveyards” (don’t ask me why) because she would...
Jenny Waldo
Sep 21, 20152 min read
Nightmares are Real
One winter when I was around 10, on the road back to DC from Montreal, the weather forced us to stop overnight. In a hotel room with a...
Jenny Waldo
Aug 31, 20151 min read
Book Review: Ruby
Ruby by Cynthia Bond is about Ephram Jennings who in his 40s finally finds the strength to go against the sister that raised him and the...
Jenny Waldo
Aug 26, 20153 min read
The Wonder of Harry Potter Land
It’s summer in Florida; people said not to go. But due to various scheduling restrictions, we had no choice. We had to go to Orlando at...
Jenny Waldo
Aug 6, 20152 min read
Love is Red Book Review
It’s one of the strongest openings I’ve ever read, a real shot of adrenaline straight to the heart. The serial killer feels emotions...
Jenny Waldo
Jun 1, 20154 min read
Movie Mondays: What I Learned at Cannes
I can only speak to my experience, and I hope to go again to build from this experience. I’m sure some of this info will change for the...
Jenny Waldo
Jun 1, 201515 min read
Double the Writing Wednesdays! Black Moon Review
Have you heard of this book Black Moon by Kenneth Calhoun? Go read it. Right now. Yes, I mean right now. It’s about how insomnia becomes...
Jenny Waldo
May 13, 20153 min read
Writing Wednesdays: The Last Book Ever Written Review
From the publisher: In a futuristic American society where all citizens have computerized chips in their brains and insert needles into...
Jenny Waldo
May 12, 20155 min read
Foto Friday: Words to Live By
Let us not look back in anger, not forward in fear, but around in awareness
Jenny Waldo
May 8, 20151 min read
Movie Mondays: The Importance of Intimacy
Instead of calling this a review of AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON, I want to talk about finding the HEART in PLOT. Yes, AGE OF ULTRON is a big...
Jenny Waldo
May 4, 20154 min read
Foto Friday! All Neon-Like
From my recent visit back home to DC. There’s this awesome old amusement park and they’ve redone a lot of their neon signs. Haven’t been...
Jenny Waldo
Apr 24, 20151 min read
Review: THE BALLAD OF A SMALL PLAYER
The Ballad of a Small Player is vivid in the way a dream is when you first wake up, before it disappears from consciousness. A novel...
Jenny Waldo
Apr 13, 20154 min read
Movie Mondays: NEWS! Cannes Short Film Corner
The short film I produced last year, NEXT EXIT, was accepted to the Cannes Short Film Corner! Organized by the Festival de Cannes, the...
Jenny Waldo
Apr 6, 20151 min read
Movie Mondays: THE ONE I LOVE review
I have a love/hate relationship with what is considered “indie” film. On the one hand, the fact that the tools to make films and to...
Jenny Waldo
Mar 30, 20158 min read
Foto Fridays: Going Meta
It’s a digital photograph of analog photography equipment…how meta. A couple of months ago, I was home in DC to visit my parents and was...
Jenny Waldo
Mar 27, 20152 min read
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