i applied for WK12 and this happened

Bummer. This letter arrived last night…

Rejection is hard. Writing a rejection letter isn’t as hard, but it’s still hard.
 
As you know we had over 600 applicants for WK12.8.
 
As you know you were one of the 100 finalists. 
 
Thank you for the hard work.
 
We could have put your names on a wall and thrown darts on a wall and picked any 12 of you and had an amazing class.
 
We seriously considered turning this into WK100.8.
 
But we didn’t.
 
We made some hard decisions. Really hard decisions.
 
And we’re very sorry to say you’re not coming to 24 weekend.
 
But you never know. Plans change. People drop out. So keep making great work. Keep in touch.
 
And maybe our paths will cross again sometime soon.
 

Round two of the application process just happened, and it happened really fast.

The current round of 100 received an email last Friday at 9pm:

Your homework is due by the end of the day Monday, September 12. 

Your homework assignments to choose from are:

1. What would Gadhafi’s application to W+K12.8 look like?
2. What should the role of United States government be?
3. Make your favorite vegetable America’s favorite food. 

I met for drinks with friends and my bosses Zack and Meghan Arias to bounce ideas around a bit.

An idea survived critique and I started writing the script, casting, sourcing props, and designing some collateral stuffs.

Zack decided around midnight that me producing this from Atlanta wasn’t going to work. So he purchased a plane ticket for me that Saturday morning for a Saturday flight, for another person, returning Monday, no checked baggage, on September 10th, 2011…

I’ll spare the internet the long-winded version of this adventure…

script was finished on the plane
casted Saturday night
worked on collateral Sunday morning
shopped props and wardrobe Sunday
actors canceled Sunday evening, because of scheduling
re-casted Sunday night
finished props and collateral Monday morning
first read-through at 10am
delivery at 11am

I’ll post the homework above.

Solid thanks: my bosses Zack  and Meg for the flight and day off; family members (we’re not sure if we’re cousins or not) John and Cathy Buckley for giving me a place to live on six hours notice; Portland friends Chris Hurt, Paul Ramey, Ward Jenkins, Julian Salyer; Ryan Artists and Jonni Armani; and my mother Charlene Buckley for driving down from Port Townsend to help her son deliver a pun.

Also, Ward Jenkins for this awesome sketch that I wasn’t able to put in the final edit because of time constraints.

For those of you that aren’t good at reading into art: The broccoli are celebrating their regularity.